What Do You Want to Make Today?
Frozen paint is a fun sensory experience that comes out more like chalk than paint — at least when you freeze it for years. Affiliate links included for your convenience. Years ago I started making liquid watercolors for the girl, and sometimes I will freeze liquid watercolors for a fun summer sensory experience that’s perfect […]
I was cleaning up the girl’s room the other day and happened across this sheet from an atlas that I’d given her last year when we did her dragon egg hunt. She won’t miss it, so I decided to use it as a background for a project. You can paint on a map or draw […]
This is a project that takes more than one day to complete, but the active part of it is only a few minutes. I was inspired by some paint that I accidentally left in the bottom of a bowl recently. When it was dry it peeled up in a cool way and I wanted to […]
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 […]
Note: link is affiliate link I had every intention of making the girl some peg dolls for Christmas. I actually started them, getting so far as painting the heads, drawing on faces and making/painting hair onto them. Then the girl noticed them on my desk, said she thought they needed arms, and that was the […]
The Iron Craft challenge for this week was white, and I’m not really ready to contemplate snow, but I did have a lot of craft sticks lying around the house so I thought why not make some classic craft stick snowflakes? We actually made several of these — the girl helped — but this is […]
If you’re one of those people who lives on Pinterest like I do (and if you are, won’t you follow me?) you’ve probably seen the pin for the Easy Abstract Painting DIY from Craft Pond a few hundred times. It’s a really cute and easy idea: just take a canvas, put little dots of paint […]