Make Napkins – with and for the kids

kid made napkins

I love homemade napkins, especially ones that are full of character and personality (i.e. the kinds that don’t show stains).  Thankfully, I also have kiddos who love art and painting, the bigger the better.  With a couple of yards of linen fabric, some elmer’s markers and acrylic paint we were set to decorate. . . [...]

Fun With Foil

Fun With Foil

We had been using aluminum foil for a school project.  Once we were done, my kids started playing with their leftover foil scraps. It really is fun to play with foil! Then they started asking for more.  And more. Aluminum foil is inexpensive and so much fun to create with that I let them use [...]

Make Your Own Marshmallow Shooter

cutting plastic cup

We had a blast today at the park playing with our homemade Marshmallow Shooters! They are very easy to make with some basic supplies.  Here is all that you need to make two shooters: Supplies: Plastic cup – I used a Glad disposable food storage cup. The tops had cracked but I couldn’t bear to [...]

File Folder Games

little hand working heart puzzle

I recently discovered some fun games and activities that I can make at home for my little girl. They are called File Folder Games. There are tons of free templates for File Folder Games on the Internet but this particular one I made is a pattern matching game. File Folder Games are so easy to [...]

Creative Kid Bloggers Plan for 2012

Creative Kids Bloggers

There are tons of great creative children’s blogs – and every month a bunch of us get together on twitter for a chat.  In last months chat, 57 bloggers discussed our playing schemes and dreams of what projects we think would most interest our kids or what we would love to do with them in [...]