I love doing new space projects. We love adding them to our growing collection. And today we are adding Mars to the list. This is a great mix art project which we love. You have watercolors and oil pastels together to make this a fun painting project. These planet projects have been one of the…
Ocean animals are always a summer favorite theme. We love having different activities with them. And sea turtles happen to be my youngest favorite ocean animal. They are so much fun to watch them swim. Sea turtles are always loads of fun to learn about. This is a simple way to make an ocean painting…
I think shark week has been a favorite of ours for years! We always watch it. And it is a fun one to do activities with as well. Today I have a super simple but fun painting project for kids to with sharks! You can have fun painting with watercolors and q-tips and have a…
I love colorful fireworks. They are so much fun to see in the sky. And today I have a fun simple finger painted fireworks with glitter paints! Super smiple fun and easy to do a finger painting project that takes very little time to set up and do. Plus easy to do with preschool and…
After building our volcano for our Magic Tree House activity. We decided we would do a little more study about volcanoes. We looked into the shapes and sizes of volcanoes and where you can see them today. After that, we deiced we would paint our own volcanoes erupting! The Volcano: Watercolor & Q-Tip Painting is…
The beach and collecting shells is a favorite activity but some times you can’t visit the beach but you can remember the memories with this fun beach watercolor and q-tip shell painting. You can create a fun beach scene with these easy to do painting activity. I know so many people love these because different…
A campfire is a great summer theme for camping. It is always fun to add crafts and activities with printables for each theme. I also love it when you can let kids decide what a project should look like and how you do it. I love this watercolor process idea. It gives kids a great…
I love flowers! They are always one of my favorite parts of looking forward to spring! I love the different flowers you see on the trees as they bloom. And of my favorite flowers are daisies! They come in so many fun colors. But I love the white ones. This is a great spring activity…
There are many different books we read during our yearly Dr. Seuss Week. And there are so many books it is hard to pick just one. But But we love a few books edited by him and so we are adding this into our activities this year. We had fun coloring and painting with oil…
We have so man fun Dr Seuss ideas that we have done. But I think The Truffula Tree has always been one of our favorites. I think we have done several activities with it now. I love how fun making truffula trees can be! You can make these simple tree ideas with a few easy…
I love seasonal activities. It is fun to have changes in my house and plus it is great for kids to have fun things to do. Today I have a great heart painting activity. It is a bit of a mix medium art project and we love these. They are super simple and easy to…
Penguins have always been a favorite theme for us in the winter. We love doing activities with them. They are loads of fun for kids to learn about. Today I have a simple and easy penguin watercolor painting that many different ages can do. It is simple and easy. You will have a blast making…
I’m always excited about Christmas projects and I love doing them with my girls. Today I’m doing a great activity with cookie cutters, watercolors, and oil pastels. This is a great quick and easy activity you can do last minute! I’m so excited to once again be apart of Rain Day Mums Christmas Advent. It…
History can be loads of fun to learn about. Each part of history teaches you something. This is one thing I love about the Magic Tree House books. They are always teaching you some small part about history. This time we are in the ice age and see so many fun ways of life and…
I love getting creative with our art projects. We have done so many fun ones over the years. And we have always had a blast with the fall ones. Apples seem to be a favorite for us. I like that apples come in many colors and sizes. It allows kids to be creative in how…
I wanted to try a new moon project and watercolors have been a favorite for us the last little while. So today I have a process art watercolor moon that is super easy for all ages to make. The moon is a big theme this summer with the anniversary of the moon landing. I love…
Space has always been one of our favorite activities over the year. We are always doing something for it. I’m always happy to get a chance to guest post on other blogs. Today I have a great post on a mixed art project with a great space theme! It is a change up on an…
I think a favorite activity for us during the summer is looking at the night sky. We do it a lot. Plus we try and keep track of any space activity we can check out as well. We decide to make our own night sky with stars and a moon and have some fun with…
Abhor day is always in the spring. It is a great time to learn about trees. There are so many trees in the world and they are all different shapes and sizes. The last few months we have been having a blast just doing fun watercolor paintings. They are always fun to make and it…
We have been loving playing with watercolors and oil pastels. They are fun to mix in how you paint and coloring with them. The theme of flowers has always been one that I have loved. A year does not go by that we don’t do something with flowers. Today’s watercolor flower process art is a…
I love it when the blossoms come out in spring. We have had a long winter and suddenly it is spring and there is color all over. We love looking at all the signs of spring. We have been seeing robins outside more and more. Plus a few of the flowers are starting to grow….
There are always themes we do for spring and that is rainbows! I think the one sign of spring for me has always been rainbows. I love to look for them everywhere! This past summer we saw a wonderful double rainbow while we drove cross country. It was amazing to see how wonderful they look…
I have always loved reading The Lorax (Classic Seuss). I think we have read this book every year since my girls were litte. Now my girls read it to me and we still have a great time with our picture book and crafts. Today I have a fun process art craft that kids can do….
I have always loved doing Valentine’s Day activities with my girls. We talk about the themes of the seasons a lot. One of those themes has always been hearts. We have done tons of heart activities and love them. Today I have a fun new heart tree watercolor painting using textures. This was a blast…
We love doing panting activities. We enjoy mixing the oil pastels and watercolors. I love that doing this type of process art each of us can do something different. This is an easy painting activity to do at any time of the year. But with our heart-themed works great for Valentines. We had a blast…
Winter is always such fun to do activities for. There are so many great winter themes. We have been enjoying doing our fun winter activities. It has not been as snowy for us this year. We have been having fun doing snow painting and craft projects. It is fun to bring winter inside when you…
Fireworks are always a big of many celebrations. We always love to watch the ones go off at the start of the New Year! They are always so bright in the sky and full of color and wonder. I love to look at them as they go off. Today we have a fun watercolor &…
We love doing watercolor paintings. I’m always looking for something different and fun to do them. Christmas it a favorite time of year for us. We are always doing crafts and activities. Today I have out watercolor Christmas Trees! These were fun to make and one that many can do and enjoy. It is a…
Christmas is our favorite time of the year. We are always doing activities for it. This year we are doing another book count down. We have been doing a craft with a lot of our books. Every day we are picking out a new book to read and trying to match up crafts with the…
Bats are one of our favorite subjects at this time of the year. We are always watching movies, reading books and learning about them. Plus they are always cool to see at night as well. We wanted to have some fun with bats this year for Halloween. So we picked out our favorite bat book…