January 2013

Creative Table on Instagram

Do you know about the Creative Table Project on Instagram? If you would like to see more creativity in your child’s life and if you’re interested in joining an inspiring community of creative parents who swap ideas, Creative Table can help! Last summer I invited my readers to share images of the creative things that [...]

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Kids Valentine Ideas – How to Set up a Self-serve Card Station

There are some adorable store-bought Valentine Card options for kids, but there’s nothing quite like making your own Valentine’s Day cards. One of my strongest Valentine’s Day memories is of cutting and pasting doilies with hand-cut hearts, and this is a tradition that I’m excited to pass along to my own children. One of the [...]

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30 Valentine Activities for Kids

My stats are telling me that a lot of you are searching my site for Valentine’s Day ideas, so I thought I’d pull together a mother-lode of kid-friendly Valentine activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and any other hands-on kids (grown-ups are welcome too). My 4-year old sort of tricked me into buying her a pack of [...]

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Art Tips: Clean up Your Paper Scraps

Does your child like to decimate beautiful rectangles of construction paper into oblivion? Of course they do! And then what do you do with all those paper scraps when the fun is done? Recycle them? Pitch them? Put them back in the paper sorter? After a marathon crown-making session, this is what remained after my [...]

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