Wooden Bangles for Animal Lovers
If you look around my blog, you will find out that wood is one of my favourite materials to paint on. I like how absorbent it is, yet how smoothly paint goes onto the wooden surface, and how well it bonds. Because it is more interesting than painting on a rectangular...
Make Rainbow Sand Blocks
Adding unique wooden blocks to our collection is always fun. Who knows what will become of them! They may act as stained-glass windows in a three-story palace, or as sun-catchers on our windowsill. I wanted to get some new specialty blocks for my son, and a couple of...
Best Board Games for Nurturing Creativity
Board games did not come into my life until I was in my early twenties. I had some experience playing Monopoly when I was a little girl, and there were a few versions of Snakes and Ladders, but I did not discover the variety of board games available until my best...
Make a Lantern Card: “You’re the Light of My Life”
There are plenty of stereotypical images that can be used to good effect when making a card to celebrate an event, but a handmade card to celebrate your love for someone may require something more personal. When creating a card for my husband, I cut our silhouettes...
Make a Set of Wooden Coasters with Family Silhouette Portaits
Make a set of wooden coasters with portraits of your family members, and never forget which cup was whose again! Sadly, I was looking at the row of glasses and cups that once again lined up next to the sink. It seemed like for every plate in the house, I washed at...
How to Make a Balance Bench: DIY tutorial
We are adamant supporters of active play and development of gross motor skills! For children, they are linked with brain development, healthy habits, growing self-esteem and physical strength. In other words, running around is just as important as sitting down with...
Best Handmade Toys from Adventure in a Box – 2014
These are a few things that happened to me for the first time in 2014: I was called "mama" by my son, tried fried ice-cream, grew ground cherries in my garden, learnt to use an angle grinder, broke my laptop's screen by simply pushing my thumb into it, and started my...
Wooden Road Tracks and Ramps: DIY Tutorial
I never thought that vehicles would take over our household, but as Budster's interest in all things wheeled continues, garages, bridges, tracks and roads spread from wall to wall. This handmade set of wooden road tracks and ramps was among the birthday gifts for our...
Colour Exploration in the Snow
Snow and ice have become our seasonal favourite for filling sensory bins. We may get tired of them by February, but right now they seem so exciting. One cannot overlook the fact that they are also free and pretty easy to clean, since everything melts in the end. So...
Bath Bomb Christmas Ornaments with Surprise Inside!
You can throw together these bath bomb Christmas ornaments either as handmade stocking stuffer gifts for kids or together with them as kid-made gifts for teachers, friends and relatives. They're easy and fun! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your...
Festive Spice Mix: Kid-made Gift
If you are looking for a kid-made gift idea, here is our favourite from this week. Did we ever have fun, creating these rainbow spice mixes. Caution: very spicy! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Toddlers have a stage when they cannot get...
DIY Toys for Kids from Recyclable Materials
When children are bored, there is nothing like contents of a recycling bin to quickly stir up some fun easy projects! ...Or some elaborate ones. It depends on how carried away you get. Just today, my husband and son spent their evening, pretending that a cardboard box...