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Quarantine Crafts: Essential Craft Supplies for Making at Home

Sarah White July 16, 2020 Crafts / Kid Crafts and ActivitiesLeave a comment

I know a lot of places are starting to open up again but where I live and a lot of other place, numbers keep climbing and I think we’re going to be home as much as possible for the foreseeable future, so we’re still very much in quarantine crafts mode. …

Kid-Directed Softie Projects

Sarah White July 17, 2017 Kid Crafts and Activities / Sewing3 Comments

The girl is getting older and she’s less likely these days to accept creative prompts that I give her. So it always thrills me when she wants to make something I didn’t suggest. So it was with these kid-directed softie projects. I was thinking about what I was going to …

Notions: Pumpkin Crafts Edition

Sarah White September 21, 2015 Crafts / Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities / NotionsLeave a comment

I’ve skipped a couple of weeks of notions thanks to not actually working on Mondays. Such is life. But here were are on the cusp of fall and it’s the perfect time for crafting with or without kids. There are a ton of great craft tutorials out there with a …

Crafting for Kids: 6 Favorite Basic Supplies

Sarah White January 6, 2014 Home and Family LifeLeave a comment

Note: product links are affiliate links. I’ve already talked about the importance of taking time to create for yourself, but it’s just as important — maybe even more so — for your kids to have access to tools to express their creativity as well. Making things is a great way …

Places I’ve Been Lately

Sarah White June 29, 2013 Writing and BloggingLeave a comment

It seems like I’ve been doing nothing but writing guest posts lately, which is not exactly true, but there has been a bit more of it than usual this week. First, my pal Amanda, who shared her tips on subscription boxes earlier this week, hosted me at Let’s Talk Learning, …

Holiday Time is Catch-up Time

Sarah White December 30, 2012 Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities / LifeLeave a comment

When I decided to send the Bit to preschool, it was a difficult but really calculated decision. I knew that if I was going to continue working, if I ever wanted to make more of a name for myself or write a book ever again, I was going to need …

Halloween Craftiness, Part One: Pumpkins!

Sarah White November 1, 2011 Crafts / Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities / PaintingLeave a comment

Somehow I didn’t manage to get any of our Halloween crafty goodness blogged while it was still before Halloween, so I’m just putting this here for the record and will try to bring it up again next year before the actual holiday in question. (The reason behind the lack of …