Made By Humans
I’m so excited to be with you today as part of the 28 Days of Hands-on STEM Activities for Kids series from Left Brain Craft Brain. This past week bloggers have been looking at the theme STEM goes green, and it was a lot of fun to pull this project right out of our recycling […]
I told you earlier about how we like to celebrate Chinese New Year. We attended the new year celebration at our local library over the weekend, which got me excited to make a Chinese New Year craft. It happened that Daria, of the blog Tiny Tapping Toes, a world music site for children, had sent […]
This is maybe the first one of these challenges that the average person might not have materials on hand for. I really want them to be accessible, easy things for people to try mostly with whatever they have on hand and that can be completed the day you read about them, but that’s not always […]
I’m a big fan of the idea of Advent. Looking forward to a season, anticipating what’s going to happen, making ready (in our case more for winter than for Christmas, but still), are all good things in a society that pushes instant gratification and rushing the holiday season. This may, in fact, be the only […]
Over the weekend we put up the Christmas tree, and I was a little surprised at the lack of homemade holiday ornaments. You’d think a crafty mama like me would have a tree teeming with kid-made adorableness, but other than a couple of things the girl made at school, it just isn’t so. This may […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you click on some of these and buy, I’ll get a little cash back. But all opinions are my own. I think we’re all inclined to want to buy fewer toys for our kids. Most of them have more than they need and probably don’t play much with […]
It’s always fun to make your own craft supplies, whether for your kids or your own use. I’m still enjoying the homemade gesso I made a few months ago and need to make a new batch soon. I decided to try making some paint, not because we need more paint, but because it’s fun to […]