Kids, especially 1-year-olds, typically enjoy the opportunity to get messy. Arts and crafts for little ones don’t have to be messy, though. There is no limit to the age when kids can start creating with paint, crayons, and other art supplies. Arts and crafts for kids develop the imagination, fine motor skills, and even boost your…
35 Adorable Christmas Angel Ornaments for Kids and Parents to Make Together
There is something about angels that my girls find irresistible! Every year, we end up crafting few new Christmas angels for our Christmas tree! And that’s fine! We love to include crafting into our Advent countdown! We even made 24 all different Christmas cards one year! Here, we are sharing some of our very favorite…
33 Ideas to Play, Learn and Create with Yarn
Yarn is one of our favorite mediums, I always keep scraps around, and not once, I have used recycled yarn for play. Here we share 33 different ideas to use yarn for play, learning, arts and crafts with kids. Make a start with our Yarn Minion Sensory Bin. Engineer a Yarn Wrapped Twirling Twig Mobile….
Easy to Make Torn Paper Christmas Wreath
Although you will not find many Christmas themed posts this year (unlike last year when we did Blank Christmas Cards Advent Calendar and 24 Days of Christmas Busy Bags), we are still doing daily activities to countdown our way to Christmas! Like this, very easy to create, collage Christmas wreath made of torn paper. I…
33 Ways to Play with Chestnuts this Fall
Fall is my favorite time of the year. It is always so beautiful outside to take a walk. There are Chestnuts (some also call them conkers or buckeyes) everywhere during this season and you would never even realize what all you could do with them. There are so many crafts and activities you and your…
150+ Tried and Tested Hands-On Activities for Kids to Learn with Play
You know how it’s hard to find that one book which contains ideas for hands-on learning through play for kids, and where ideas are “do-able”, tried and tested by someone you know you can trust? Well, not anymore! We are introducing a brand new book with over 150 ideas for kids of different age, from babies…
Pretend Play Blush
Having 2 little beauties at home can be very challenging! They want to put up a make-up like grown ups! Well, not going to happen! Instead, we made this simple fake blush they can use for their beauty salon pretend play. Have you seen other ideas where we turned things from recycle bin to new…
Recycled Easter Egg Card
With Easter coming up in a couple days, we created these simple Easter egg cards using things we had on hand – magazines! Today’s post is another in 60 Days Junk Play series and you’re welcome to see other #junkplay ideas both ours and created by number of other kid-friendly bloggers. You will need to…
Spring Accordion Wreath with Kid’s Artwork
Do you pile up heaps of your kid’s paintings, drawings and other artwork? Do you upcycle them in some way? Today we share how we used several paintings created by my daughters to create this colorful and cheerful Spring accordion wreath to welcome Spring and decorate our doors! Yesterday we played and learned with calendar…
Tin Foil Bangles
My daughters love to dress up, both toddler and older. For today’s play, we created shiny tin foil bangles using things either from our recycle bin or things we had on hand. In case you want to recreate these, keep in mind that you can reuse aluminium foil – simply wash it and put aside…