We haven’t been doing as many actual projects these days, but we still try to do arts and crafts several times a week. We’ve been keeping it simple with some favorite stand-bys:
Painting with Glue
Always one of our favorites, the girls love to paint glue onto a piece of paper and stick whatever random embellishments I [...]

There’s nothing my girls love more than gluing. It’s the one activity that is guaranteed to keep them busy for the longest, and I love to watch their intense concentration when they’re working on a project. I’ve shared before that my secret to success when it comes to glue is pouring the glue into a [...]

Pumpkin Doodle is really getting into this “Something Old…Something New” mindset. As I was putting away the groceries on Monday evening, she kept snatching up the boxes and excitedly stashing them in the laundry room for a “project”. I had no idea what we were going to do with them, but she was insistent!
Tuesday morning, [...]

Last year someone introduced me cucumber water, and I still love this stuff. It’s amazingly refreshing, and it’s a great way to up my water intake when I notice I haven’t been drinking enough.

To make, simply cut a couple chunks, slices, circles – whatever you want! – and drop them in your water bottle or [...]

I first saw this great project over at Polliwog’s Cakewalk, and I couldn’t wait to get everything together to do it with the girls. Today was the perfect day to sit outside and make our styrofoam monsters. The girls chose their own materials from Daddy’s jar of “extras.” I did have to help them with [...]

Here’s an easy and fun Mother’s Day craft, although, admittedly, it’s probably only easy if you have the supplies on hand.
To start, it involves one of my all-time favorite craft supplies: tissue paper squares. I’m addicted to these and have to refrain from buying every color variety that Oriental Trading Company (my favorite source for [...]