DIY Space Christmas Ornaments
One of my favourite family traditions for Christmas is making a handmade ornament with the kids to add to our tree. This year's craft is space ornaments with swirling nebulae and twinkling stars! If our handmade ornament is supposed to represent the year, the space...
Nativity Myth Shadow Puppets
Stage a Nativity myth shadow puppet play with kids! When I held a poll among my readers, I asked what shadow puppet set they'd like to see me create, and I got a lot of interesting answers. The one that popped up often was a Nativity scene. While Nativity scenes were...
Unique Art Gift Ideas for Creative Kids
Are you choosing a gift for a kid who likes drawing, painting or sculpting? Read about our favourite art supplies and art projects we did with them! The post contains Amazon affiliate links for your convenience. I like working on art and craft projects -always have...
Winter Art Projects with Printable Prompts for Kids
Need a winter boredom buster or a gift for kids who like making art? Try these printable art activities, which prompt kids to finish them with crayons, paints or play-dough! Making art is fun, and children like to draw and paint. It is important for them, as making...
DIY Christmas Advent Calendar: Cut, Colour and Create a Story!
Are you thinking about having a homemade advent calendar this year? Our silhouette advent calendar is full of enchanting characters for kids to cut, colour and paste onto windows, creating a magical Christmas story! While we were decorating our windows with the...
Make Miniature Pies with Kids: Bottle Caps & Polymer Clay Craft
Do you want to make food for your doll house inhabitants? Produce a batch of homemade party favours? Or simply looking for a new crafting challenge to work on together for kids? These miniature pies, made with bottle caps and polymer clay, would be a blast! I have...
Christmas Window Silhouettes
Cut our printable templates to make Christmas window silhouettes and turn your windowsills into a winter wonderland! When do you begin preparations for the winter holiday season? My son maintains the opinion that it can never be too early to start, and his enthusiasm...
24 Free Printable Thanksgiving Ice Breaker Questions
Want to include children in the conversation during Thanksgiving dinner? Try these free printable Thanksgiving ice breaker questions! Over the last four years, we lived far from the rest of our relatives and so celebrated Thanksgiving with just the three of...
DIY Seasonal Garlands for Kids’ Rooms
It seems that time moves slower for children than for adults. I feel like I haven't gotten enough of summer, as if it had zoomed past with a terrible speed, but my son is looking forward to snow and winter. He's positively celebrating it! And when there is...
Colour Mixing in the Snow
When October suddenly dumps fifteen centimetres of snow on your lawn, you might as well enjoy it the best as you can! We started by wallowing in snow and finished by painting it. In the mind of a four-year-old, the morning of the first snow seems to be akin to...
Black and White Baby Name Garland
When Faye turned one month, we had a small family party for her. There we made a black-and-white name garland for our baby as her first month birthday present. All of us participated, including her two-year-old cousin, and since then it has been pleasant to look at it...
How to Make a Musketeer Costume for Halloween
We have a longstanding Halloween tradition - never get a decent photo of the costumes we make. That happened on Budster's first year when he was a garden gnome. For his second year, we dressed him in a grand musketeer's costume, but we only managed...