Looking for a super fun indoor boredom buster? Let your kids paint the windows! Yes. You read that correctly. Let them paint your windows! Window painting is so much fun and not as messy as you think! Our window paint recipe only has two ingredients and is easy to clean up. Really. Window Paint Recipe: washable tempera paint dish soap The second ingredient is soap, don't you feel better about trying it already? Squirt some … [Read more...]
Homemade Tissue Paper Vase Craft
Homemade Mother's Day gifts are my favorite to give and receive! This year we made these cool tissue paper vases to give to the kids' grandmothers. They are easy enough for younger kids to make, but fancy enough that big kids will enjoy making them too--which makes them perfect for siblings to make together. DIY Vase Craft Supplies tissue paper glue water empty jar (we used pickle jars) paintbrush Pour glue into a bowl … [Read more...]
DIY American Girl Doll Bed
For my second grader's Earth Day project she had to create something useful out of materials that were destined to be recycled or thrown away. She decided to make a doll bed for her American Girl. This DIY cardboard doll bed was easy to make and totally free since we used things we already had at home! Homemade Doll Bed Supplies: corrugated cardboard (ours was from a refrigerator box) hot glue old crib sheet or leftover … [Read more...]
Pink Lemonade Play Dough Recipe
Pink lemonade play dough is so much fun to play with and smells so good! This no cook recipe is also easy enough to throw together quickly so you can whip up a batch in no time. Pink Lemonade Play Dough Recipe 2 1/4 cups of flour 1/2 cup of salt 3 packages of Pink Lemonade Kool Aid mix 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar (optional to help it last longer) 2 tablespoons of oil 1 1/2 cups of boiling water Mix all the dry ingredients … [Read more...]
Bunny Paper Plate Puppet Craft
This paper plate bunny puppet is such a fun and easy preschool craft! Kids can use the puppet while they are singing Easter songs, retelling stories or just playing pretend. Paper Plate Bunny Craft Supplies: white paper plate free printable bunny ear template pink tissue paper (or whatever color or kind of paper you have on hand) popsicle stick googly eyes silver Sharpie scrap of pink paper cotton ball It seems like a long … [Read more...]
Plastic Egg Mini Planting Pots
Spring is here and we have been doing a lot of planting lately. The kids love to see their plants growing so I wasn't surprised when they decided to turn plastic eggs into little seed pots. DIY Plastic Egg Planters plastic Easter eggs hot glue soil seeds We were so excited to hear that Tinkerlab is starting up her Creative Challenges again. This month's theme is eggs and kids are invited to create, make and invent using eggs. I … [Read more...]
20+ Color Activities for Kids
There are so many ways to make learning colors fun for kids! Cooking, games, crafts and art activities can all be used to help kids explore and learn about colors. I'm thrilled to have Carolyn from The Pleasantest Thing here today with more than 20 color activities for kids! I'm so excited to be visiting Coffee Cups & Crayons today! This website always has such wonderful colorful activities, I thought I'd share a few of our favorite ways to … [Read more...]
Rainbow Lacing Busy Bag
Get ready for some fine motor fun! This rainbow lacing busy bag will keep preschool kids busy while sharpening their fine motor skills. Lacing Busy Bag Supplies: cereal box colored ribbon (stiff ribbon is harder to weave) screw driver hot glue gun markers For the base of the busy bag I used the front of a cereal box, but any type of no-corrugated cardboard would work. I originally tried making it with the thicker corrugated … [Read more...]
