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Rainbow Heart Clovers

February 20, 2022

Rainbow Heart Clovers

Are you looking for a simple St. Patrick’s Day craft for kids to do? Rainbow Heart Clovers give your kids practice with measuring and stapling, plus they’re just so colorful and fun! I have to be honest.  In the past couple of years I really scaled down the amount of crafts I do with my […]

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Recycled Shrinky Dink Ornaments

November 23, 2021

Recycled Shrinky Dink Ornaments

Making shrinky dinks is always a fun experiment!  And these Recycled Shrinky Dink Ornaments are such a cute way to give a piece of your child’s art as a gift! Shrinky Dink ornaments are a great low budget present.  They cost almost nothing.  You can typically find permanent markers for about $1 each, and if […]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Kid Crafts Tagged: Christmas Crafts

Free Printable Coloring Pages

March 6, 2021

Free Printable Coloring Pages

Fun, free printable coloring pages for you to print out and color however you’d like!  8 different designs. My kids love to color.  And I’ll admit it, I love to color too!  So when I was looking for a good place to get some coloring pages that dealt more with geometric designs, and I couldn’t […]

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DIY Wood Burned Ornaments

November 2, 2020

DIY Wood Burned Ornaments

DIY Wood Burned Ornaments made by my kids!  With some wood slices, and a wood burning kit, your kids can create anything they can dream up! My kids love making crafts, especially when it comes to Christmas.  They actually came up with the idea for these ornaments on their own.  They also decided what they […]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Kid Crafts Tagged: Christmas, Christmas Crafts, Rustic Crafts

Fruit Loops Rainbows for St. Patrick’s Day

March 12, 2020

Fruit Loops Rainbows for St. Patrick’s Day

It’s always fun to do hands on crafts to celebrate holidays.  It’s even more fun if those crafts are ones you can eat while you make them.  I’m pretty sure that’s why Fruit Loops Rainbows are always a big hit with my kids. I give the kids a couple of handfuls of Fruit Loops (I […]

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Keepsake Handprint Ornament

November 25, 2019

Keepsake Handprint Ornament

A fun handprint craft that makes a wonderful grandparent gift! Make a simple Keepsake Handprint Ornament today! DecoArt sent me paints to make this product.  Thanks to DecoArt for supplying the products! Welcome to the 5th annual 12 Days of Holiday Ideas event, hosted by Shirley of Intelligent Domestications  and  Erlene of My Pinterventures Between […]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Kid Crafts Tagged: Christmas Crafts

Develop Your Child’s Artistic Skills

August 22, 2019

Develop Your Child’s Artistic Skills

Find out how to develop your child’s artistic skills at home, to create well-rounded homeschool students. With approximately 1,770,000 students homeschooled in the United States, it’s clear that many agree children can get a quality education right from home. That being said, reading, writing, and arithmetic is pretty standard for each homeschooler, but what about art […]

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Homeschool Crafts are Great for the Brain

June 5, 2019

Homeschool Crafts are Great for the Brain

Find out why you should incorporate homeschool crafts into your lesson plan, plus ideas of how to do so. Crafting provides our brains with a natural antidepressant, so it only makes sense to weave it into your homeschooling lesson plans, somewhere between reading and discussing literature and memorizing the times tables. Introducing your children to different types […]

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DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks

December 17, 2018

DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks

Make your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks from garbage! There’s a reason this post is one of our top posts of all time!  Making your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks is so much fun, and it costs almost nothing! I’m going to show my age with this post.  I remember when I was in middle […]

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