Kids Crafts Ideas on a Budget

We all love crafts! They are a great way for kids to learn fine motor skills, and express themselves creatively, but being crafty can put a strain on your pocketbook at times. Going to the store to buy supplies for each and every craft project, just isn’t practical. Which is why, it’s important to learn [...]

Homemade Peanut Christmas Ornaments

How cute are these?!!! This crafty blogger strung up some peanuts, embroidered them a little felt scarf, gave them a face with a sharpie pen, and fitted them with a crown. Adorable! Visit What Makes Me Happy for instructions.

Crafty Kids Project – Rainsticks

What are rainsticks? According to Wikipedia a rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small baubles such as beads or beans and has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface. When the stick is upended, the beads fall to the other end of the tube, making a sound reminiscent of a [...]

Make an Easy Bird Cake from Table Scraps

Make an Easy Bird Cake from Table Scraps In some parts of the country, the mast – or nuts and fruits produced in the wild – is at a 40-year low. This means a lot of wild birds will be very hungry this winter. You can help feed them, save money (commercial bird food is [...]

Make Nifty Handmade Kites With Your Kids

Even in the winter, making and flying your own kite is an option. As long as the day is dry, there is wind, and you and your kids are bundled up appropriately for the cold, you can make and fly a kite. There are some really wonderful designs and ideas for home-made kites, and they [...]

Recycling Crayons

Have you ever been to a classroom, Sunday school room, or even in your own child’s room and found a box of crayon “bits”? Often without wrappers, these stubs are still technically useful, but they are hard to grip and no one knows what the colors are. Thus they tend to remain unused until they [...]