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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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Egg Splatter Painting for Easter

The boys made these eggs by doing splatter painting with a toothbrush. It was a new way for them to paint and they had fun with it!

Grab some old toothbrushes to splatter paint with! I always save our old ones for cleaning

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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

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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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4 Instruments for Kids to Make from Kiwi Crate

The Making Music activity kit from Kiwi Crate is full of instruments for kids to make! Time to make some music!

I got this chance to review a Kiwi Crate, they offer single crates, or activity kits, to order [instead of the

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A Rainbow of Circles Necklace

Rainbow activities are awesome for learning colors, but we added another learning element by making this a sort by size activity as well!

 

 

This one took a little prep work by me. I think you could include a preschooler in part of

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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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How to Make Play Dough: Recipe with Flour Substitute!

How to make play dough when you don’t have any flour on hand? I came up with a simple, on the spot play dough recipe for when you just don’t quite have the right ingredients.

 

 

The boys wanted play dough recently, and I

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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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Simple Valentine Craft: Make a Vase!

We are just about Valentine’d out after all this Valentine craftiness that we’ve been doing! But we just had to do a quick bottle craft to make vases to put some flowers in for Valentine’s Day! [ahem... hint hint hubby!]

These vases are