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11 Rainbow Activities by Hands on Moms

Earlier this week I featured a bunch of simple spring crafts for kids to do since spring is right around the corner. As a part of that, there are 12 rainbow activities that make

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36 Simple Spring Crafts for Kids

I am seriously excited to share this collection of spring crafts for the kids. Why? Because that means spring is just about here! Goodbye snow!

As we’re not the craftiest kids around, we like to keep them as simple as possible.

What do you

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St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Wreath

We’ve been having some fun with St. Patrick’s Day crafts and decorating the house with plenty of rainbows and shamrocks! We added to the collection with a shamrock wreath to display.

Henry and I made a wreath

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St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Bubble Wrap Printed Shamrock

Get creative and paint some shamrocks as a St. Patrick’s Day craft using bubble wrap! Packaging almost always gets reused in this house before it gets recycled or trashed.

Before we made our Bubble

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Shamrock Window Craft for St Patrick’s Day

We made these shamrock suncatchers to hang in the window! So pretty and an easy toddler craft for St. Patrick’s Day.

 

 

Here’s how Henry and I made our shamrock craft for St. Patrick’s Day,

I laid out a piece of contact paper, sticky side up. Henry added

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Rainbow Scavenger Hunt with Clues

We love scavenger hunts! I took this rainbow one a step further than we usually do and made it a scavenger hunt with clues!

I even made the clues a printable for you to print off yourself to do your own rainbow

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Fruity O’s Rainbow Color Craft

This is a fun rainbow craft for kids to practice their colors. Use whatever colored cereal you have to make this colorful rainbow!

Rainbows are a great medium for kids to practice their colors, you could also go on

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25 Valentine’s Activities & Crafts for Kids

Valentine’s Day has got to be the funnest holiday for the kids to do crafts and activities! They always just love it and we always go overboard with all the hearts!

George cannot get enough hearts! Every day he wants to do something

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Conversation Heart Window Decorations

Today on G+ Red Ted ArtInspiration Laboratories and myself will be sharing a few fun conversation heart activities!

We made these conversation heart glue window clings [or maybe just window decorations]!

 

 

 

They’re super simple to make after some trial and

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33 Super Cute Kids Valentines for School

I’ve been on the lookout for some simple, and of course, cute Valentines for school. I’d love for Henry to be able to make the Valentines for his class this year.

As I’ve been browsing for ideas, I can’t help but find so

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Homemade Heart Bird Feeder

Make your very own homemade heart shaped bird feeder to feed the birds this February for Valentine’s Day and National Bird Feeding Month!

 

 

I’ve been seeing these a lot around blogs lately so I wasn’t sure if

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Valentine Letter Learning & Matching Activity

Match up Scrabble letter tiles to candy hearts for a letter learning activity that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day!

The boys have been begging for a water activity lately. And seriously, I am just blank lately!

This is what I came up with… though I

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Valentine Heart Button Craft for Kids

This heart button craft is a colorful and pretty Valentine craft and can be a fun learning activity for kids too!

I know I said the Valentine Tissue Wreath was one of my favorite Valentines craft, but this button craft is my favorite!

 

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Valentine Art for Toddlers: Scratch, Roll, Resist

A Valentine art project for toddlers includes three methods of painting! Pick one, or do all three with your toddler!

Since George keeps wanting to paint hearts, I’ve been trying to come up with different ways to make some Valentine art for toddlers that’s

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Valentine Window of Toddler Painted Hearts

I love it when the kids make something to decorate our windows, and a Valentine window just had to be done!

Since George has been asking non-stop to paint more and more hearts, I dug out some

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Match Upper & Lowercase Letters Bracelet

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

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Sponge Art Painting for Valentine’s Day

After a round of cookie cutter painting, George was still going strong and was in the mood to paint, so we moved onto sponge art for Valentine’s Day!

So simple to do too! Sponge art is