Hands on Kids Activities for Hands on Moms.

Holidays Crafts & Activities

Holiday crafts and activities are so much fun to do with every holiday! Browse through each of the holidays! You'll find Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas!

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Mother’s Day Craft for Kids to Make: Flower Cards

I am totally loving these flower cards the kids made for a Mother’s Day craft and gift for Grandma [and myself!].

In previous years, we’ve made bouquets of flowers for Grandma, and could have totally made these into a bouquet too. Instead

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Mother’s Day Craft for Kids to Make: Tissue Paper Flowers

Henry and I had a little fun making some tissue paper flowers! We made two different types of tissue paper flowers for my mom’s Mother’s Day craft that kids can make!

Tissue Paper Flowers on Contact Paper:

Henry got to work cutting up different

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Birch Tree Art & Help Reforest for Arbor Day

Since it’s too cold still in Iowa to plant a tree for Arbor Day, we’re making tree art by painting a tree!

Also for Arbor Day, Murphy’s Oil Soap is sponsoring this post and doing a fun repinning contest on Pinterest! The details

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26 New Ways to Decorate Those Easter Eggs!

Holy cow there are a lot of ways to decorate Easter eggs! From homemade natural dyes to decoupaging to using your hot glue gun!

Branch out your ways of decorating Easter Eggs with one of these 26 new creative ideas!

 

We’ve tried a couple of these methods you

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How to Paper Mache: Make a Bunny Easter Craft

How to paper mache and make a Bunny for an Easter craft from Spanish4Kiddos!

I’ve never paper mache’d with the kids, so I’m excited for this tutorial! And what a fun Easter craft to do!

 

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9+ St. Patrick’s Day Kids Activities

It’s the week of St. Patrick’s Day and we’ve got some kids activities that we’ve done for it!

Rainbows and Shamrocks seem to be what we like around here…

 

What do you think of when you think of St. Patrick’s Day?

 

Rainbow Activities &

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Painting with Eggs & Rolling Balls

Gets the kids moving and creative at the same time while painting with eggs. Just the plastic Easter egg kind, not real ones! [Though that brings an idea...]

It’s sometimes hard to do a toddler art activity when all they do is just sit