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What is your favorite game to play with your child? Have you thought about trying to make your own game based on holiday theme or simply something your child is really interested in? Here is a great explanation on how to make a file folder game that your child will love. We at Kids Activities Blog [...]
You’ll love this egg tutorial for making a super cute filled egg for Easter. Easter treats like these will definitely be a favorite for your kids over the regular candy filled plastic Easter eggs. Kids Activities Blog loves this simple project that puts a new spin on Easter eggs. Egg Tutorial What’s more fun than [...]
Valentine cards from friends are such a special treat, especially when they are made by hand. Here are some cute home made cards that your kids can make. ”Owl Love” to hear what cute owl phrases your child comes up with for their cards. Please come back to Kids Activities Blog and share their ideas [...]
Puzzles are super easy to make. Do you still have any valentines or old Christmas cards left at your house? We have a bunch leftover from our holiday season. My son loves his valentines and won’t let me dump them into the recycling bin yet, so we’ve decided to reuse them in a variety of [...]
We like toys and we like anything DIY! These are a fun collection of toys that you can make for your kids. All have been kid-tested and approved. If you like these, you might also like our list of 101 Homemade Gifts that your kids can make or enjoy. Look for items that can be [...]
I love giving a homemade Christmas gift to my friends and relatives, but being that I am not the crafti-est of mommas, I always struggle with making something adorable and “Pinterest-worthy”. I finally learned to take something you are interested in or good at and figure out a way to use that gift, for others. [...]
It’s about time for the kids to start making Thanksgiving crafts! Here is a simple way to make some colorful craft trees to decorate your home for the holidays and display the things that your family is thankful for. We hope you love hand print art as much as we do at Kids Activities Blog. [...]
As my little one gets older, I am looking for ways to “measure his growth”. One of the best ways I have found has been by using his hands & feet to make art! There are so many amazing ideas using littles ones fingers, handprints, and footprints to commemorate the seasons throughout the year. We [...]
Trail mix is one of those snack foods that can be made for any occasion. Does your family have a favorite trail mix recipe? Kids Activities Blog loves projects like this to let kids get creative and to build their independence. We hope you get some new ideas with this home made trail mix and [...]
Looking for a great Halloween game to play with your kids? Check out this idea for some Halloween fun as a family with the Mummy Game. We love family fun and silliness here at Kids Activities Blog! Ah… the lure of the toilet paper roll. I don’t know about you, but I have followed my [...]
Would your LEGO enthusiast love to wear a giant LEGO costume for Halloween this year? Let us help you with this fun idea – just one of our many homemade Halloween costumes. We at Kids Activities Blog just love costumes like this that are cheap and easy to make! LEGO Costume We try to make [...]
I love homemade Halloween costumes! I love being crafty, and my kids love to play pretend, so a home made costume is just an extension of our personalities. Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas to Kids Activities Blog and told us about your kids costumes. These ideas are so great we just had to share [...]
We love doing fall crafts with our preschoolers. Thank you!!! In our weekly Wednesday afternoon Kid’s Meme, It’s Playtime, there have been dozens of autumn activities linked up over the years!! There are tons of great activities for kids linked up each week. With the deepening days and the crisper temps – it’s the perfect [...]
Crayon art goes beyond just coloring! Wax crayons are fun to color with – a staple of preschooler craft times everywhere. In addition to coloring and crafting with crayons, we have collected the best art projects from around the web for you to enjoy with your kids! Kids Activities Blog hopes that you will be [...]
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups I love to cook and bake as much as possible, and I love that Rory enjoys doing it with me! The only problem… is that it’s hard to bake with a toddler. I have quickly learned that Rory is just like her mom and her aunts; she loves to pick at [...]
Dinosaur Pasta Craft My boys adore dinosaurs. They love they way dinosaurs look. They love dinosaur names. They love playing with their dinosaur toys. They love pretending to be dinosaurs. As I do our weekly grocery shopping, I spot dinosaur pasta. How could I resist? With so many varieties of pasta, the pasta craft possibilities seem endless. Make [...]
At age 2 or 3, young children begin engaging in pretend play. Pretend play can instantly transform a child into a princess at a ball or a super hero fighting bad guys with a stick that they call their magic sword. I try to encourage my children’s pretend play as often as I can. It [...]
Long-distance family. sigh. My kids grandparents and aunts live far, far away. And as much as we hate living 15 hours away from one side of our family, we have tried many different things to keep us close together at heart. One of the more successful ideas we loved was creating our Traveling Family Journal. [...]
Hi there, I am Mari Hernandez-Tuten and I’m over at Inspired by Family Magazine. It’s so exciting to be here on the Quirky Momma team! I am also looking forward to getting to know you all, so stop by below and leave a comment. One of the things we have been focusing on this summer [...]
It is another week of, It’s Playtime. Each Wednesday afternoon you join us in featuring sweet and simple things that inspire us to enjoy our kids. Wowsers! There were over 200 great ideas of activities and games that you can make and play with the kids in your life linked up last week. We love [...]
Pancakes are part of a family tradition. We love our family traditions!! We love our bucket lists and Activities for Autumn. These pancake activities are on our list of favorite activities. The kids enjoyed reading the book, If you Give a Pig a Pancake. When my hubs is working late we have a pancake night, [...]
. I love making things that the kids absolutely LOVE and that are good for them! I discovered the recipe for chick pea cookie dough dip from Chocolate Covered Katie. The recipe is super simple (go to her site for quantities if you are an exact person, or if you are like me and “wing [...]
Last year I saw this post that showed how to create a Fathers Day stepping stone. So this year when my children said that wanted a homemade gift to give to Daddy for Fathers Day I knew just what to do. We made our own Fathers Day stepping stone! I was very intimidated to work [...]
Want some ideas for homemade, personalized gifts? Something from this list should inspire or help you! Have any ideas that were not listed? Lets see if we can come up with more! Leave a comment with one of the gifts you have made in the past (or one you hope to make) or feel free [...]
My son’s preschool celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week a little bit ago. I told him that teachers love to be pampered, so we decided to make some bath bombs (because with a name like that, who wouldn’t want to make them?) and some homemade sugar scrub. This week I am going to share our simple kid-made [...]
Making butter used to be a hard, time-consuming job. But of course, for centuries, almost everyone did it. When my kids and I read a story book about life in old Appalachia recently and saw the pictures of a butter churn and children pumping away at it, we decided that we wanted to give making [...]
The latest craze in our house is DIY placemats, using the children’s art to create unique place settings for our table. When the children have a friend coming to tea they like to make a special placemat just for the guest, to welcome them to the meal and for them to take home with them [...]
I like finding ways to involve kids in blessing others. Even if its something as simple as sending a birthday or thank you card to a friend, it’s nice to share the experience with them. Ever since I saw this idea for converting toddler scribbles into silhouette cards, I’ve been using art from my two and [...]
Some of the best toys are the free ones. Pasta became one of those unexpected “play supplies” in our house. Please tell me I am not the only parent who discovered a box of pasta – far past it’s expiration date – in the back of my pantry! Time to put that pasta to use! [...]
We recently had fun learning with this LEGO Unit Study & Lapbook, and my son declared that this was his favorite week of school we have ever done. A lapbook is made to be looked at over and over, & your child adds little snippets of information they learn throughout a unit of study. It [...]
