Henry matched upper and lowercase letters to make a bracelet for Valentine’s Day using letter beads and Valentine’s Day words.
He often comes home from school with a bracelet that he made. He is always so incredibly proud of it, and wears it 
Match Upper & Lowercase Letters Bracelet
January 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
Building with Blocks & Technology
January 15, 2013 by 2 Comments
Using the iPad as a guide for building with blocks brings technology into a real hands on activity. Photos can be taken of any tower of blocks to rebuild!
What’s awesome is that once you get your child started with this activity, they’ll
Snowman Craft from Tin Cans!
January 9, 2013 by 8 Comments
This snowman craft [that's also a wind chime] was so fun. I’ve had this idea in my the entire fall and couldn’t wait to have the time to do it with the boys!
Things started rocky, for sure, but I do love the
Box Train made from Cardboard Boxes
December 31, 2012 by 6 Comments
A box train got made over the holidays with all the packaging and cardboard boxes!
This year I did almost all [probably 98%!] of my Christmas shopping online, so boxes were in plenty this year.
I didn’t let the boys play with them
Wrapping Paper Snowflakes
December 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Henry and I made some cool snowflakes from wrapping paper!
See how we did it over on Kiwi Crate’s The Studio!
Cutting snowflakes are great cutting practice for a preschooler and work their fine motor skills.
Yarn Wrapped Ornaments for Window
December 16, 2012 by 1 Comment
Ever since I shared my favorite 30 homemade ornaments for kids, I’ve been eyeing those adorable yarn wrapped ornaments by The Crafty Crow!
I decided
Tape Resist Candy Cane Painting
December 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
The boys made gorgeous candy canes together. Each taking a part in the creating process.
I’m not sure if its good to have one of my boys do one part of a project, and the other one finish it… but it seems to
Decorate a Snowscape Window
December 10, 2012 by 19 Comments
As part of the Creative Christmas Countdown, I’m sharing a way to decorate a window for the holidays!
There’s many ways to decorate windows, in fact, I even started a Pinterest board for that very thing… Its fun to
Christmas Tree Window Decorations!
December 4, 2012 by 3 Comments
Foam sheets can be so versatile. They can be cut down to any shape or size that you’d like to make whatever you like!
However, I have had these sticky foam sheets forever and I wasn’t
Christmas Tree & Presents Matching
December 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
I did this activity a couple years ago at Christmas with Henry. I found it on No Time for Flash Cards.
I reused some scrap wrapping paper pieces and cut out a Christmas tree shape in four different wrapping paper patterns. I
Countdown to Christmas: Wrapping Paper Chain
November 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
The boys are super excited for Christmas this year. So to keep their excitement contained and still keep them excited… we created one of the most timeless, old-fashioned, activity countdowns that there is… the paper chain.
Instead of the usual paper or card
Counting with Dice & Blocks
November 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
With just some blocks and a pair of dice, Henry practiced one to one correspondence counting, as well as building towers! And even a little bit of patterning, all on his own!
We did
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12 Halloween Activities for Kids
October 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
For Halloween not being one of the ‘major’ holidays like Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving [you know, where you get the entire family together for a feast], it sure does bring out some awesome activities to do with the kids!
There’s
Gingerbread Mummy Halloween Treats
October 23, 2012 by 6 Comments
As you may already know, we own a bakery. The boys spend a lot of time there with Dad and I. Dad does the baking, I decorate cakes.
It wasn’t too long ago that someone passed along a photo to me of these
Halloween Pumpkins: Monster Style
October 22, 2012 by 4 Comments
When we went pumpkin picking at my brother’s, the boys couldn’t help but pick a bunch of unripe, green pumpkins.
When I asked if they’d like to decorate some pumpkins for inside, Henry said only the green ones.
So we decorated those.
And they ended
How to Make Kid Size Scarecrows
October 15, 2012 by 4 Comments
Let the kids take part this Autumn and make their very own scarecrows, kid size!
Sugarsnips shows us how to make these easy scarecrows for the season!
So a few weeks ago we had multiple plumbing “issues” which resulted in not 1
Halloween Activity: A Sticky Spider Web
October 9, 2012 by 23 Comments
This sticky spider web activity can be done in any doorway, hallway or other somewhat narrow place that you have.
I have pocket doors that are about six feet wide and it worked perfectly.
I used painter’s tape and
