It seems like everyone has been posting their best ofs in the past few days, and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of my most popular posts, too. None of the favorites surprised me, because they’ve been consistently popular and are the sorts of articles you’d expect to […]
Preaching the Gospel According to Craft
Yesterday I spent some time talking to my local MOPS group (which I’ve been a part of since it was founded, basically) about the same things I talk about on this site: crafting with kids, crafting for kids, the importance of creativity and patience and a sense of fun when it comes to doing creative […]
Toddler Busy Bag Swap, Part Five
We’ve now reached the lightning round, because most of these busy bag ideas are super fast, easy and don’t require attribution or even much explanation. To see all the previous busy bag swap ideas posts, check out the links at the bottom of this post. Make Cupcakes These really cute little craft foam cupcakes are […]
Toddler Busy Bag Swap, Part Four
Here we go again! This post should be a lot briefer than the others so far because it’s almost just a list of some great busy bag options that were shared at the swap. Pompom Patterns Here’s a cute and easy one (well, easy if your color printer is working; our sweet mom had to […]
Toddler Busy Bag Swap, Part Three
Welcome to part three of five of the great toddler busy bag swap roundup! These posts are about to get much shorter as today I’m getting to the bags that we don’t actually have in our possession, so I’ll have a lot less to say about them. Clothesline Busy Bag We did get one of […]
Toddler Busy Bag Swap, Part Two
In the first part of this series I looked at some of the busy bags that we received as part of a toddler busy bag swap and gauged my daughter’s reaction to them. Since we managed to play with a few more of them last night, I’ll be doing the same today, then I’ll move […]
Toddler Busy Bag Swap, Part One
I figured out when I was going through the pictures from our toddler busy bag swap that we actually had 25 different bags, other than my own. So I’m going to spend this week explaining all of them, five at a time. I will provide links to somewhere with instructions on how to make each […]