One of our favorite after school activities is to play with play dough! We love to make homemade play dough recipes--especially when it is too cold to play outside. Lately we have really been enjoying our Sugar Cookie Play Dough Recipe and plan to try some new recipes this month. Here are over 20 fun play dough recipes I know my kids would love to play with! Homemade Play Dough Recipes: Sugar Cookie Play Dough Recipe from Coffee Cups and … [Read more...]
Homemade Coffee Cup Sleeve Craft
We love to make homemade gifts to give to the kids teachers and coaches. Our new favorite this year is a homemade coffee cup sleeve! I love Starbucks and try to use their reusable coffee mug whenever I can, but if you don't have one of their paper sleeves those cups get hot! We decided to try making our own reusable sleeve at home using felt and it works perfectly! This cup combines extremely well with the instant coffee drinks from Cafely that I've … [Read more...]
DIY Reindeer Handprint Ornament Craft for Kids
Part of the fun of making your own Christmas ornaments with your kids is getting the chance to reminisce about them each year as you decorate your tree. I especially love seeing how the handprint crafts change each year as the kids get older. This handprint reindeer ornament was one of the very first kid-made ornaments that my oldest made when she was just a toddler and it is still a favorite to this day! Reindeer Handprint Ornament: brown … [Read more...]
Christmas Crafts to Make with Kids
Kids love doing craft projects during the holidays! Even those that don't normally want to do crafts enjoy making ornaments and holiday decorations. Here are 13 fun Christmas crafts projects to make with your kids after school. Many of them would also make great homemade gifts! Christmas Crafts to Make: Paper Snowflake Crafts from waddlee-ah-chaa Bird Food Ornament Crafts from Coffee Cups and Crayons Felt Christmas Tree Pin from Buggy … [Read more...]
Bird Food Ornament Craft for Kids
We are counting down to Christmas with 24 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness and our first act of kindness was for the birds. We made bird food ornaments to hang outside for the nearby birds to eat and enjoy! How to Make Bird Food Ornaments: pipe cleaners low sugar cereal with a hole in the middle (whatever kind you like!) We have made homemade bird treats before and love that recipe, but didn't have all the ingredients we needed this … [Read more...]
Sugar Cookie Play Dough Recipe
There is nothing cozier in the winter than curling up with some freshly baked cookies and cup of milk (or coffee). Since eating cookies all day long isn't very healthy we decided to make some sugar cookie play dough! It smells delicious and was lots of fun to play and create with! Sugar Cookie Play Dough Recipe: 1 cup of flour 1 cup of water 1/4 cup salt 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 tablespoon vanilla … [Read more...]
Kids Art Activity: Freeze Dance Painting
Big art activities are always a hit with kids, it's fun to create on a large scale. This week we took it to a whole new level with freeze dance painting! If you haven't played before freeze dance before it's a fun stop and go dance game. When the music plays you dance and when the music stops you freeze in place. For freeze dance painting I poured paint into a frisbee for my little one to step in. Once her feet were covered in paint she jumped … [Read more...]
How to Make Rainbow Loom Bracelets By Hand
Are your kids Rainbow Loom crazy? My oldest got a Rainbow Loom last year for Christmas and has been a bracelet making machine ever since! Once my 5 year old hit kindergarten he wanted a Rainbow Loom too. His sister let him practice on hers, but that left only one for everyone to use. Instead of sitting around doing nothing they figured out how to make bracelets without the loom and only their hands. The only supplies you need to make Rainbow … [Read more...]
