Spring

Jellybean Matzo House

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 This article was first shared in April 2011. We had more than our fair share of Easter sweets this weekend, but I had a plan all along to purge our house of all that extra sugar by “gluing” it to some sort of base, like a paper plate, and calling it art. As I talked [...]

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Vegetable-Dyed Easter Eggs

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This post was originally shared in April 2011. I’m trying to make a move away from synthetic food dyes and wanted to use natural, homemade dyes this year. Not only are these colors absolutely healthy for human consumption, but the process of making them is a wonderful lesson in creating art materials from scratch and [...]

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Painting Birdhouses

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The last time my in-laws visited, they left my girls with these cute little wooden birdhouses. I tucked them away to paint on their next visit, but my 3 year old couldn’t wait that long. In fact, about a month after I stored these, and an hour before leaving the house to meet friends in [...]

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Spring Art: How to Make a Bunny Garland

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Yesterday I shared how to make watercolor paintings with kids. And from those paintings, I cut out these cute little bunnies. This was all my daughter’s idea. She mapped out a plan for Spring decorating, and one of the things on her list was “a bunny garland, with bunnies that are the same shapes as the ones [...]

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How to Watercolor Bunnies with Kids

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Watercolor is a medium that can be as demanding and temperamental as those who choose to paint with it. But it is a colorful and exciting medium all the same – well suited to describing the many moods of the subject, as well as those of the artist wielding the brush. –Jean Burman Do your [...]

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Origami for Kids: Origami Rabbit

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We’ve been making and testing little floating boats (post coming soon) for the San Francisco Children’s Creativity Museum, and digging through a fun stack of origami paper (from Daiso) to make sails. While N was busy making a fleet of boats, I folded a family of origami rabbits. When I was in grade school, I [...]

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60 Egg Activities for Kids

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With Spring holidays right round the corner and Egg Week just behind us, this seemed like a good time to share the ginormous list of kid-friendly egg activities for Easter and Easter Egg Hunts. Because the list is so large, I’ve broken it down into these categories: Egg Decorating, Plastic Eggs, Games, Painting and Sculpture, Crafts, [...]

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Eggs Dyed with Vegetables

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I thought I’d wrap Egg Week up with a favorite egg project from last year: Decorating Eggs with Natural Dyes. In case you’re just popping in, my friend Melissa over at The Chocolate Muffin Tree and I are posting unique egg-related activities or experiments each day this week, and here’s what we’ve covered so far: Bleeding Tissue Easter [...]

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Egg Geodes Science Experiment

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Today I’m excited to talk with you about a cool science experiment: egg geodes. Because children will engage in steps of the scientific method, this could easily be a great science fair project. I was inspired by these egg geodes that I spotted on Martha Stewart and then followed this recipe by Melissa Howard who blogs at Those [...]

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