Felt Food Crafting Kits

From LillyBean Market and Down to Earth Toys comes kids felt food kits.. they are great for play kitchens and tea parties! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Make Your Own Paper Dolls

This is a great project for bored kids. If they can do the whole project from tracing to painting/drawing it can keep them occupied for hours! For smaller children an adult may need to do the tracing and cutting part… To start I downloaded a paper doll template from Family Fun. I LOVE their magazine! [...]

Make a Natural Picture Frame

How to Make a Nature Themed Picture Frame with Sticks and Twigs Nature in all its beauty and glory offers us all sorts of art and craft supplies – all you have to do is find and collect them. One of the most functional items you can make with natural twigs and sticks is a [...]

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 [...]