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...]
Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey Snack for Kids
There are so many sugary treats out this time of year! Halloween brings non-stop sweets that last all the way through Valentine's Day. Fun food like this Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey get kids excited about eating some of the healthy stuff too! Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey Supplies: pear or apple for the body raisins carrot peanut butter grapes or favorite cut up fruit wooden skewers These turkeys are easy to make and great for … [Read more...]
Teach Kids to Follow Directions with Relay Races!
Kids need to learn how to follow directions just like they learn to do anything else--by practicing! A fun way to practice following directions is by turning it into a game or activity. We decided to turn relay races into an indoor following directions activity! Following Directions Activity To set up the activity I gathered a bunch of random items from the house and divided the kids into two lines. They had to walk across … [Read more...]
Candy Play Dough Sculptures
We all know candy is great to eat, but did you know how much fun it is to play with? We used some of our Halloween candy this year to make play dough sculptures! Playing and creating with play dough is a great after school activity for big kids too! Many times we only think to get it out for the little ones, but there are so many benefits to getting it out with your older kids also. That makes it a great activity for siblings to do … [Read more...]
