Every fall we are always doing some fun fall tree craft! It is one of our favorite activities. This year our washi tape fall tree activity was the idea of my 11-year-old. She picked out all the craft items for it, and we made it based on what you wanted us to do. Plus this…
I have been having fun getting rid of things in our house and my girls just wanted to have fun with the scrapbooking paper I bought and have never done anything with. I challenged them to come up with craft time with mom, that we could do after school. Their first craft is a torn…
My youngest and I have been doing crafts together all school year. It has been tons of fun to do the projects. We learned a lot about playing together without her sisters. Our last project we did was this Ocean themed Wreaths. We have been doing TONS of ocean activities this last month. They have…
We have been big into ocean crafts and activities the last month plus. We have just kept going with the activities. Today I have a great guest post over at Rainy Day Mum! She is doing a great summer book series. Click here to check about how to make a Dot Marker Rainbow Fish! This…
Flower crafts are always a big hit at our house. We love making and creating with them. We did a slight change from the Flower Wreath that we did two years ago. We took the felt buttons from our Flower Button Sensory Bin and made a wreath with them. This was a great way to…
Model magic is one of our favorite craft to do. We do something in it at least once a week. I love that it is such an easy thing to work with. We are on a snow and winter theme at our house. We have been reading a lot of snowmen books and doing some…
Every year we make some kind of window hanging that we put up. It changes every year what we will do. This year we made Tissue paper Christmas Wreaths. We just love having these sun catchers in the window to add more to the season. The Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath is a great addition to…
There are so many different feasts at this time of year. My girls love making placemats every year for Thanksgiving and using them through the Holiday seasons. There are so many different books that we read about feasts at this time of year. I posted about some of the in the introduction post for the…
We loved making these torn paper fall trees. They are fun to make and everyone has a different idea just how their tree should look. Plus, you get a lot of great fine motor while you are working on the trees. One of our favorite fall books is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. We just love…
We have been on a HUGE apple kick this week at our house. There are so many fun apple activities that you can do. Every year we do an apple theme. I have done it as an after-school activity. This year we made a fun tree with different punches. We had tons of fun doing…
We had a had time picking a book for this month’s book club. The girls and I read and watched several of the movies. We love the book Where the Wild Things Are and it was a fun movie and a fun book! We finally picked Where the Wild Things Are for the Books that…
This months theme is Caldecott Medal Books. There are so many different books to pick from! We really had a hard time just picking one book. There are so many books to pick from. You can see some of our favorites in the introduction post. We decided to pick one from the honor section. We…
A recent trip to an art museum left us with some fun ideas for crafts. My girls saw a piece in passing that they just wanted to try at home. The collage was made from cut outs. They wanted to try it with our butterfly punch! We have really enjoyed our butterfly punch. It has…
We have been loving studying butterflies at our house. It has been so much fun to learn about the and do several projects to go with all our learning. This model magic butterfly project is loads and fun and easy to do. We love model magic at our house. It is easy to use and…
We are always looking for new ways to use the printables that I make. We did this fun hands on model magic heart craft by doing just that. This is a great fine motor activity plus being creative with the materials that you have on hand. What I like best about this project is that…
We have been studying penguins at our house. It has been tons of fun. There are so many great books to read about penguins. We did this fun project as a part of our learning about penguins. Easy to set up activities are favorites at our house. You can make your own model magic penguin…
St. Patrick’s Day is coming really soon and we have been having fun with clovers. We talked about 3 and 4 leave clovers. We read the book Hooray for St. Patrick’s Day! (Lift-the-Flap, Puffin). I like this book because you can look for the leprechaun on every page. It gives you something to do besides…
I had a very hard time just picking one of Marcus Pfister books. He has so many great ones to pick from. We finally settled on Sun And Moon. The sun is looking for a friend. You get to see lots of fun weather and things on the earth. It is great story about being…