Make bouncy balls at home. Kids love it because it’s fun science and your fingers get gooey and sticky! My youngest son loves to get quarters and buy those little rubber balls to bounce all over our house so I decided to find out how to make bouncy balls at home for fun and to […]
DIY Valentines Cards for Girls and Boys
DIY Valentines Cards can be lots of fun for you and your children to make and put together. Making your own Valentines cards are more personable and you can be certain that your cards will be original! This post contains affiliate links which help compensate me to continue bringing you all this great info at […]
Shrinky Dinks Jewelry How to Make a Heart Wrap Bracelet
Shrinky Dinks Jewelry will take you back to one of your childhood favorite crafts. Make your own Shrinky Dinks easily. Kids love them, and I made this heart wrap bracelet for Valentines for my friend Sarah out of a shrinky dink. The best thing is you can make anything you want, and the ideas are […]
How to Make Crayon Lipstick {A fun kids craft}
Have you ever wanted to know how to make crayon lipstick? It’s fun for kids and you can make it in all sorts of colors. I know it sounds crazy but hang with me for a minute. Lip balms are basically wax and oil, crayons are wax and are non-toxic so you’ve got your wax […]
Shrinky Dinks Star Wars Earrings
Do you remember making Shrinky Dinks as a kid? If not they were patterned pieces of plastic you would color and put in the oven to magically shrink up and become charms or sun catchers. It was one of those “as seen on TV” things you saw advertised during morning cartoons that you just had […]
Cricut Explore Air – Back to School Ideas
Cricut Explore Air is an all new Cricut product! Cricut sent me one to review for this post, and one to give away, but all opinions and crafts are 100% mine. I have been a long time fan of Cricut Craft Machines. There are so many things you can do any time at home with the […]
25+ St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Do you ever find that a holiday sometimes just creeps up on you? Saint Patrick’s Day is one of those holidays for me. This year, however, I’m prepared. {Be sure to check out the 50+ St. Patrick’s Day recipes I shared last week!} With only ten days left until the please-don’t-pinch-me-because-I-forgot-to-wear-green day, I’ve gathered over 25 […]
Printable Snowflake Memory Game
I’m all about fun printables for the kids, especially if it’s something that is educational, too. This Printable Snowflake Memory Game will help the kids with their short-term memory skills. And let’s face it, playing memory is just good fun! This is a great game to keep your kids busy when you are trying to […]
Split Pea Wreath Pin
My sister gave me one of these split pea wreath pins a few years ago and I really love to wear it during the holidays. I was so sad when it broke so called her for the recipe. Seriously Christmas Gifts don’t get any easier than this one and everyone I give them to loves […]
FREE Printable Thanksgiving BINGO Set
Despite all the planning and even cooking ahead, it seems like there is always a crush at the end to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table. This year, I’m keeping the kids busy with this fun Printable Thanksgiving BINGO Set. Instead of having them underfoot asking me when it will be time to eat, I […]
Tie Dye Spirit Wear
Thank you to Tulip for providing the dye for this project, the ideas and experiences with this product are all mine. It’s back to school time and that means team sports are getting ready to start. My kids are playing soccer and basketball this fall so we decided to take part in Tulip’s Tie Dye […]
Make A Snack Bucket with Sharpie Paint Pens
We spend a lot of time in the summer at our neighborhood pool. I decided to make a pool snack bucket for them and their best friends to take to the pool every week. We always take a cooler, pool toys, and towels and it’s cumbersome for me and the boys. This makes it easy […]
Fathers Day T-Shirt {Make your own}
Every year we give Daddy a Fathers Day T-shirt. Some years we make them and others we buy them. Here are a few of our past shirts. The top one was using craft paint mixed with fabric medium and the one on the bottom was printed on my printer using iron on transfer paper. This […]
{Copycat} Lush Bath Bombs
Do you love bath bombs? Those fizzy fun globes that release oils and smell good stuff into your bath after a long day. My kids love them and so I decided to make my version of Lush bath bombs to put in their Easter Baskets. I try to stay away from a lot of candy […]
Airplane Valentine Card for Boys
A Valentine card for boys can be hard to come by. I have 2 boys and every year it’s a struggle to find a unique valentine card for them to give to friends. We are not big candy eaters in our house so I wanted something different but boyish and came up with this airplane-themed […]
How To Make A Bag Tag In PicMonkey
Make your kids a personalized Bag Tag in Picmonkey for their school backpack or lunchbox. I’m going to show you just how to do it.PicMonkey is a free online software. It’s so easy and fun. Matthew will be starting kindergarten this year he wanted me to make a bag tag for his PackIt lunch box. We […]
Good Deed Basket Lenten Craft
This good deed basket is a great Lenten craft project to do with kids before Easter or any time of year. It gives children a chance to think about doing things for others. We made this basket at my son’s school during our Lenten retreat. Besides being Catholic, the biggest reason we send our child […]
Make Your Own Birdfeeder
Spring is here in the south and this weekend we had soccer games for both boys. We also took some time after chores on Sunday to go to the local park and have some fun family time.Today our county schools were out so Matthews preschool was closed. We ran errands together and then sat down […]
Kids Making Masterpieces
So this week has been trying. After a 2 day, 10 hour car ride back and forth to Pensacola Beach this weekend for a family reunion, we have all been on edge. It is my kids last week of summer they start back to school Monday. I would love to be one of THOSE […]
How to Make Dinosaur Eggs
Garrett had a friend over for a summer play date. We decided to make these dinosaur eggs we found when we were doing our Summer Bucket List Link Party. I found how to make dinosaur eggs over at The Kitchen is my Playground Ingredients: 2 c. sand 2 c. all-purpose flour 1 c. coffee grounds (leftover from […]
Tie Dye 4th of July T-Shirts
The boys usually buy some sort of 4th of July T-shirt, this year we decided to make our own. We found an inexpensive Tie Dye Kit at Walmart. First let me apologize for the quality of these pics, when we were on vacation Mattie broke my camera so while it is traveling to Nikon to […]
DIY Flowered Hair Bow
DIY your own Flowered Hair Clip from leftover fabric! Made with a glue gun so no sewing is involved! The credit for this cute hair clip is Sister See Sister Do, this is their full tutorial. I decided to give it a try with the intention of making it out of our school plaid for […]
My Kids Summer Bucket List
OK Summer is here! Today was Matthew’s last day of school and Garrett’s is next Wednesday. Now what? I am trying to come up with some fun stuff to do this summer. We have bought paint and canvas to do some art work and of course will be going to the pool but I am […]
Make a Waffle House Apron
So today was bitter sweet. It was Matthews last day at Mountain Park Baptist Preschool. Our family has been at that Preschool for 7 years. They have loved and supported us and have been such great teachers and friends. The thought of not having a kid there is unimaginable. Every year they have an end […]
