Winter

6 Kids Valentines Day Activities

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We’ve been crafting up a Valentine’s storm, which mostly means that three-year old N has been collaging all our self-serve bits and bobs of Valentine goodness into a taped-up, glued, and spackled hodge podge of Valentine craziness. In other words, we’ve been having fun, but it’s not something anyone else would likely take inspiration from or worth [...]

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Self-serve Valentines for Kids

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I’m working on a project with the San Francisco Children’s Creativity Museum, and one of the ideas we’re playing with is to create a buffet-style selection of materials for children to choose from in our DIY art zone. I’ll share some of our activities with you soon, but in the meantime I thought you might [...]

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Last Minute DIY Gifts To Make With Kids

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Okay, so we’re down to the last holiday minute, and if you’re in need of a little something for your lovely neighbors or visiting cousins, this might just do the trick. My 3.5 year old actually helped me make everything here (in various ways), you might already have all or most of the ingredients/materials, and [...]

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Rolled Paper Snowflakes

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When I saw this toilet paper tube star garland on Creative Jewish Mom, I knew my 3 year old would enjoy it. We didn’t have any toilet paper rolls on hand, so I improvised with what we had. We made them from a chipboard box (very sturdy, just like toilet paper/loo rolls) and from construction paper (not [...]

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Do-it-Yourself Clay Menorah

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We celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas in our home, so, as some might agree, our children get the best of both worlds! But it can also be a tricky mash-up of cultures, but I guess it makes sense to my kids who know nothing else. The other day we discovered a new-to-us A-mazing teacher supply [...]

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Seven Ways to Make a Gingerbread House

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Have you ever made a gingerbread house? Not me! Aside from making  a graham cracker gingerbread house with my 2-year old last year, this was new territory for me. And I wasn’t prepared for how much trouble I would have with it. After a few tears were shed and lessons learned, I thought I’d share [...]

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Hanging Holiday Stars

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I was invited by Elmer’s (the glue people) to join in their Look for Less challenge. If you know me, you probably know that I like a good challenge, and I’m a huge fan of Elmer’s, so I said YES! The challenge was to create a magazine-worthy product with Elmer’s products, for a fraction of [...]

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Salt Dough Ornaments: Part 2

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We painted out salt dough ornaments (recipe and instructions can be found here) and just wrapped most of them up for gifting to my daughter’s playmates. I love how they turned out, and how my 3 year old can proudly share gifts from her heart with her friends. Less you think everything comes together like [...]

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Salt Dough Ornaments: Part 1

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Raise your hand if you’ve made or plan to make salt dough ornaments this season! Yep, I see a lot of you out there. It seems we’re not the only ones, but in case you haven’t committed to this yet, I have one piece of advice for you: Give yourself some time! I used this [...]

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