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Button Christmas Tree Card
Make a Christmas tree with buttons! This button Christmas card is so easy that even a toddler can make one. We have a lot of relatives and friends who live far away, so we like to start working on Christmas cards early to ensure they are delivered in time....
DIY Magical Christmas Lanterns from Mason Jars
If the Christmas season makes you feel like crafting, add these DIY Christmas lanterns to your holiday display. Made from mason jars, these Christmas lanterns are simple but so magical! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. This week, we...
DIY Wooden Toys to Make Yourself
Are you thinking of giving a special gift to your kid and making a personalized wooden toy? Here is the list of our favourite DIY wooden toy projects! I have always enjoyed working with wood, and my partiality grew when Budster was born. Like many parents, I was...
Mirror Wooden Blocks
There is always a place for a set of wooden blocks in a playroom, and we like playing with them. Specialty blocks - with transparent windows, sand and water in them - add a new dimension to the play, and for a Christmas gift this year, I have prepared a handmade...
Best Toys for One-Year-Olds
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. There is a bit of irony in the fact that while pondering what will make the best gift for our two-year-old son, I decided to work on an article about gift ideas for one-year-olds. It certainly brings...
Make a Countdown Calendar with Wooden Blocks
Christmas is still many days away, but if you are an excited kid, it may be time to start counting them! Using old wooden blocks, help children to make a countdown calendar. After the holiday season is over, it can also be used to count days to birthdays and other...
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Box Set Review
If you have never read Calvin and Hobbes, it requires a short introduction. It was a comic strip written by Bill Watterson and published daily in the newspapers from 1985 until 1995. The comic features the daily life and philosophical observations of a six-year-old,...
How to Make House Blocks for the Railroad
Make a set of DIY house wooden blocks for kids. It's a great addition to railroads, cars and other imaginary play activities! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Railroads have stretched across our playroom, and along them run the trains,...
Baby’s First Christmas Craft: the Gingerbread Man Ornament
Involving every member of the family in preparation for the holiday season can be challenging if one of them is a well-meaning but little baby, not yet one-year-old. That's why a year ago I felt particularly happy whenever I could think of a Christmas activity for my...
Make the Shadow Puppets for The Gingerbread Man
In the winter, evenings are longer, so our family shadow puppet theatre opens more frequently. We decided to start the holiday season by staging a familiar fairy-tale - The Gingerbread Man. The Gingerbread Man and Its Modern Interpretation...
The Tiger Who Came to Tea: Storytelling with Lego
We love reading books and playing with Lego! Two of our favourite activities combined; we are very fond of storytelling with Lego. This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr is a British classic,...
Make a Dollhouse in a Box: Simple, Portable and Fun
I have a particular regard for dollhouses. In my childhood, the two shelves in my room that served as a dollhouse held as much drama as the four volumes of War and Peace. When I got older, I was fascinated with the art of building miniature houses and expressing the...
How to Make a Simple Fireplace for a Dollhouse
Lately, we have been submerged in the world of dollhouses. One is finished, and a couple more are planned, so I am eager to share our experience and ideas. In this article, I would like to tell you how to make a simple fireplace for a dollhouse. A fireplace is a very...
How to Make Shadow Puppets
Learn how to make shadow puppets and start your own shadow puppet theatre at home! Children are quick to learn the art of creating shadows on the walls with their hands. They fall in love with this activity that is both full of innocent magic and pushes bedtime off a...
Enchanting Halloween Lanterns
In the long, dark autumn evenings, we often find ourselves playing with light: puppet theatre performances, glow-in-the dark toys, lamps and lanterns occupy our rooms. We worked on these easy-to-make lamps over the last couple of days to decorate the house for...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Delicious Sensory Bin!
Last time you heard about our new caterpillar friend, he was freshly made and very hungry. So we explored our pantry in search of things to feed the very hungry caterpillar. Good thing we just did our shopping! The pantry was full, so we went right on making our very...
Picture Books that Make the Best Gifts
We love books, and have pretty much set a monthly fund for “growing the library”. It has been growing so well that the books are now everywhere. They are spilling off the shelves, and can be found in the baskets by our beds, on the kitchen table, and in the car. It...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft
Make the very hungry caterpillar from polymer clay! It's a suitable craft for older kids and adults who would like to get a feel of polymer clay. The good old Very Hungry Caterpillar... Like other children over the last forty-five years, my son made the caterpillar...
Turn a Book Dust Jacket into a Jigsaw Puzzle
I have never minded dust jackets on books, but as Budster made the gradual switch from board books to picture books, I started noticing that they got in his way as he read. So, I made a habit of taking them off his books. This was wholeheartedly celebrated by my...
31 DIY Toys to Make in the Fall
We started making handmade toys for our son before he was even born. We wanted to fill his toy box with special friends that Mommy and Daddy sewed and carved. Nine months were long enough to do the job! Soon strange little creatures with button eyes and wooden rattles...
31 Fall Art Projects for Children
We like to celebrate the change of seasons. Autumn is so bright, colourful and inspiring when it comes to making art. I collected a few art projects and crafts that we would like to try this fall. There are thirty-one of them, which means that if we do one every day,...
Easy Button Pumpkin Craft
Make an easy button pumpkin craft to add vibrant fall decor to your house! It's so easy that a child can make it. When pumpkins fill the fields, autumn is here. This time of the year, pumpkins also fill our garden and the local farmer's market. A couple of pumpkins...
Halloween Party for Babies and Toddlers
Last year, for Halloween, my son and his friends were about a year old, and we wanted to throw a little Halloween party for babies. Nothing too sweet or scary, just a lot of sensory play, cuddly monsters and friends. When I think about a party, in my head,...
How to Make a Personalized Name Puzzle
What can be more personalized than a name toy? Especially if your child is a bearer of a rare name! I remember being a girl and looking through the piles of name keychains in the store. It was always a disappointment when I couldn't find one with my name. You can...
How to Sew a Cute Plush Ghost
Imagining a future nursery is one of the pleasant pastimes of a pregnant women. I was thinking of a castle-themed nursery, but I could not work on it at the time because we were about to make a big move across the country. So, to keep my hands busy I made a bunch of...
How to Make Wooden Monster Blocks
Last year, we had a little Halloween party for the babies we knew. All of my son's friends were under one year old, like him, so sweets were not the best option for the party favour bags. Yet, I wanted them to have something special to remember their...
Little House in the Pumpkin: Autumn Craft & Sensory Bin
Carve a pumpkin to make a nature doll house for your kids and all of of their toys! UPDATE: Four years later, my son built a pumpkin house of his own. Read how to set up a fun engineering challenge with pumpkins! After seeing how much fun my baby had a year ago with...
How to Make Waldorf-Inspired Nature Blocks
Would you like to add a touch of nature to your playroom? Here is our DIY tutorial on how to make a set of Waldorf-inspired nature blocks that are great for imaginative play with animals! This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. We do not...
DIY Gnome Costume
DIY gnome costume is one of the easiest to put together! With all the right materials available, you can throw it together in a matter of an hour. The post contains Amazon affiliate links. Truth to tell, when we start talking costumes, my husband and I often get...
20 Crafts to Build the Night Sky || Creative Challenge Results
For studying space and planets with children, build you own night sky: make planets, moons, rockets and don't forget aliens! Paint Space Beautiful abstract paintings of space created by kids can decorate the room - or become backgrounds for further art projects...