Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Kids Spring Fairy House Craft
Friday, February 17, 2017
Make a Simple Braille Slate and Stylus (inspired by Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille)
Friday, February 13, 2015
Preschool Weather Science: How can we stay dry?
I recently received a free copy to review and ear-marked several ideas that I'd like to try out with Chuck. Inspired by one activity in the book, here's a fun Preschool Science activity that we did to look at how we stay dry during the rain.
Easy Preschool Science: How can we stay dry during the rain?
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Free Printable Christmas Agamograph
Christmas is right around the corner! And while we've yet to decorate the house in Christmas decor, I've already started dreaming of fun Christmas crafts to do with the kids. If you're looking for an easy printable that kids can color and fold for the holidays, this agamograph is it! This would make the perfect quick after-school activity, library activity, or classroom activity. Download the free sheets below and enjoy!
Free Printable Christmas Agamographs
Friday, June 26, 2015
Make Your Own "Exploding" Chocolate Candy
Yup. You read that right. While eating these exploding chocolate treats, you'll definitely feel tiny fourth of July fireworks popping in your mouth. Curious? Read on!
How to Make "Exploding" Chocolate Candy!
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
DIY Outer Space Planet Ornaments for Christmas
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Easy and Spooky Shrunken Apple Heads!
Super Easy and Spooky Shrunken Apple Heads
Friday, June 5, 2015
Make Fun and Colorful Number Chart Sticker Math Art
Let's make Number Chart Art!
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Grow Crystal Geode Eggs with Kids
Do you love geodes? My kids adore sparkly rocks and for this Easter craft, we tried our hand and made sparkly geode Easter eggs. (Or maybe you could call them dragon eggs? Oooh, I love the sound of that.) Aren't they beautiful? Directions for making them are below!
How to Grow Crystal Eggs with Kids
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Sunday, November 6, 2016
Amazing 3D Paper Christmas Star Ornaments
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Make Borax Crystal Flowers
Boo, black thumb!
Last week our craft store had a sale on fake flowers. I was so tempted to buy them, but they looked kinda cheesy and screamed, "I'm fake and I attract dust."
But I ended up getting the flowers anyway, because I wanted to make something pretty with them. Here's what I came up with: Crystal Flowers
Make Crystal Flowers!
Yes. My fake flowers are covered with real crystals... that I grew from Borax. Lovely, aren't they?
Would you like to make your own frosted-looking flowers? Read on!
Friday, July 10, 2015
Make a Water Xylophone and start exploring Sound with kids!
DIY Water Xylophone!
Friday, April 15, 2016
Playful and Easy Mathematics with Building Toys (And our favorite math books!)
Now that my son is older, my husband (who is also a math lover) and I have been trying to help him to love math too. With a new baby at home, I just haven't had time lately to plan math crafts and activities. (Mucho props to all you homeschooling mamas out there... don't know how you do it!) But, I've been giving myself a bit of slack and telling myself that it's ok. We've still been learning math together... just in a more open-ended and playful way.
Playful Math Learning with Kids
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
How to Build a Paper Air Skimmer Sleigh (FREE Printable included)
Looking for a really neat winter STEAM activity to make with the kids? A few months ago, my eldest son came back with a really cool paper skimmer that he made at school. They followed this paper skimmer tutorial on YouTube. The directions were great for older kids, but my youngest wasn't able to make one easily. So I came up with an easy printable that we could print out, color, fold, and race. :) Both boys loved using it so much that I'm sharing it here! With it being so close to Christmas, we called them our paper skimmer sleighs.
Print, Fold, and Build a DIY Paper Air Skimmer Sleigh
Friday, September 18, 2015
Easiest cardboard Rainmakers ever!
Here's how we did it!
Shake! Shake! Make Your Own Rainmaker with Kids!
Friday, August 9, 2019
4 Kits to create your own DIY Summer STEM + Robotics Camp
A Review of 4 STEM and Robotics Kits
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Design a Paper Glider (Free printable included!)
Let's Design a Paper Glider!
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Op-Art Christmas Ornaments
Making Op-Art Ornaments with Kids
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Cardboard Ninja Throwing Stars
While I don't condone violence, I do realize that making toys that shoot, launch, or fly (like this pom pom shooter, car launcher, or this 1 sheet paper kite) are always crowd pleasers. (Plus, they're a great opportunity to slip in some STEAM learning.) So today I'm sharing this cute Ninja Throwing Star Craft. It was super easy to make and kept us relatively sane on a stuck-at-home-going-to-pull-my-hair-out-cleaning-the-pulled-out-puzzles-for-the-eight-time rainy day.
How To Make Cardboard Ninja Throwing Stars
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Gorgeous, Kid-Made Birthday Banner (And my dream job...)
What?
You read that right, friends. Our teacher's birthday was coming up and I invited the children to help me paint her birthday banner. Once the kids saw the papers and art supplies on our table... they got right to work, creating the beautiful birthday letters below.
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