Handcrafted fun and fast ways to love your kids to bitty-bits!
Merry Christmas! We’re already almost half way through December! As the Grinch would say, “It’s practically here!” This week we made more neighbor gifts for our mailman and others. We made Scrabble tile ornaments, which Bean helped with by having a blast spelling different words with the letters. Think we’ll make a Scrabble lover of […]
Merry Christmas! The season has begun! One of the first things we did this year is this Christmas tree window decoration. I started by taping contact paper to the window, sticky side facing me. Then I outlined a Christmas tree using some green paper scraps I’d saved from cutting out another project. Next came the […]
“I love trash! Anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty! Yes, I love trash!” -Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch One of the lessons I’ve learned from Sesame Street sticks in my head because of this song: Happiness is not found in the object but in the perception of the object. […]
I promised I’d share pictures of trunk-or-treat but I’m afraid I didn’t get a lot of pictures since of course it ended up being a little chaotic getting out the door! I do want to say I just love this growing tradition of trunk-or-treats since it gives kids a safe place to get quite a […]
“Father Abraham had many sons, oh, many sons had Father Abraham. I am one of them, and so are you, so let’s all praise the Lord!” I’ve had this song stuck in my head for weeks now thanks to planning this Abraham lesson. It’s the only song I could think of to go along with […]
Chalkboard paint is all over Pinterest right now; I’ve been pinning ideas for a year and only just finally got around to doing some! I bought a can of chalkboard paint ages ago at Hobby Lobby. I actually bought it to paint a table top, but there’s so much and now that I’ve opened it, […]
We’ve been busy decorating the house for my favorite season: FALL! I could hardly wait to break out the fall decor, pumpkin spice (see our early fall cookies post!), sweaters, and pants. September is the beginning of fall to me, and I keep the decorations up till Christmas, which I decorate Thanksgiving Day because I […]
I am thrilled to have started leading the preschool class at our church once a month! I get to craft and teach with Bean, and see first-hand what he’s like with his friends (a little more rambunctious than I would have thought but he IS a boy 😉 ). Our church is going through the […]
Although this post is a year old, it’s never too late to share more fun birthday ideas! For Bean’s second birthday, we chose a theme in line with his all-time favorite book: The Little Blue Truck. For invites, I used Facebook and uploaded a fun photo of Bean: I made the cake myself! Not as […]
The prompt: simple. The experiment: worthwhile. The outcome: pretty incredible. I was looking for something to keep the kids busy that wouldn’t be too messy. I thought it was about time to finally try the Pinterest craft of painting in a bag, thereby creating a mess-free work of art. The idea is to put a […]