For some reason I can’t explain, I have never bought the bit playdough. I made her some a long time ago that she was mostly interested in eating. When we moved to our new house I gave it to her to play with and it was really crumbly and made a mess all over […]
Adult Sleeves to Kid Legwarmers
When it first started getting cold, the Bit went through a brief legwarmer phase. She wanted to wear them to bed (which was great, because she never wants to wear socks, and is sketchy about using a blanket, so any little extra warmth she can get is fine by me) and occasionally wanted to wear […]
30-Minute Make Do: Simple Toddler Bedding
My daughter has never had a matching set of bedding. I made her crib bumper, and she mostly had plain white or thrift-store-vintage fitted crib sheets, with a couple of random printed ones from Target thrown in. She’s never had flat sheets (well, I guess I did buy one once, but we hardly used it) […]
30 Minute Crafts: Play Dough
This one is another bit of crafty plagiarism, thanks to a mom in my playgroup who recently shared a recipe for play dough that’s really crazy easy. Of course it doesn’t take anywhere near 30 minutes, unless you count the time it takes the dough to cool down so you can play with it, which […]
30 Minute Crafty Plagiarism: Water Bottle Shaker
I have to admit that the last super-quick craft I made was not even my idea. It was Stephanie’s, and I’m pretty sure she stole it from somewhere on the interwebs, too. But it’s too cute not to share. This was a craft for a new year’s party, but kids love to make noise any […]
Simple Shaker
I’ve long wanted to do a website or write a column for a publication that’s all about 30 minute crafts: things you can do when you have almost no time, like I have right now. It occurs to me that that’s a fine addition to this site, so here is the first installment in the […]