Yesterday we made some green playdough using our usual recipe and one of the lemon-lime Kool-Aid packets we found. Now the strawberries can have leaves!
Today’s project is a good example of why you need to flexible when planning kids’ crafts. The plan was tissue paper flowers: I thought they would be pretty easy, and sort of an instant-gratification thing. But they were completely beyond Anna’s abilities, and Carolyn didn’t like how hers turned out compared the ones I made [...]
Our birdhouses, according to Anna, needed birdies. So I bought a big bag of assorted pompoms and pulled out a few other supplies: A little glue here, a little cutting there… …and we had fuzzy little googly-eyed birds! And then we made some name caterpillars because gluing pompoms is kind of addictive. After that, the [...]
This week’s theme is “In the Garden”. I spotted these cute little wooden birdhouses (I keep wanting to call them “dollhouses”!) at JoAnn’s for $1 apiece the other day and thought it might be fun to paint them. Conveniently enough, they were located right next to a display of Delta Soy Paint. I let the [...]
The one thing that was (slightly) disappointing to Carolyn about the beach we visited the other day was that there were no shells to collect. So, I bought a bag at the craft store. And I found this great recipe for sand dough. Luckily, we have a sandbox full of nice sand waiting to be [...]
Our second craft project of the day was starfish. I cut cardstock into starfish shapes, got some colored sequins, and broke out some more of that leftover colored sand. I watered down glue a bit so the girls could paint the starfish with it. Then they sprinkled colored sand on them. They dabbed on more [...]
My plan for yesterday’s craft project had to be postponed, so we did two today! The first one was heavily inspired by this fishing game, but at the last minute I discovered that none of the large collection of eyelets I’ve amassed are magnetic, and I inexplicably have no paper clips in the entire house. [...]
This week, the theme is “On the Beach”. What else is on the beach but lots and lots of sand? We had a lot of colored sand left over from a birthday party a couple of years ago, so I broke that out: …and let the kids go to town making layered sand bottles. Honestly, [...]
The strawberry playdough was such a hit last week, I thought I’d add blue playdough to the mix. The “Ice Blue Lemonade” Kool-Aid packet, however, didn’t really make blue. It really turned out more turquoise than blue. Note that this didn’t stop the girls from enjoying playing with it! And now I’ve had requests for [...]
This activity was the first one so far I’ve bought any specific supplies for. I was contemplating red, white & blue pony beads, but could only buy gigantic packages…and let’s face it, how many red, white & blue pony bead necklaces can two small girls make?!? So when I found somewhat smaller packages of red, [...]