I love Valentine's Day! A day full of hearts, love and showing appreciation for one another is a wonderful thing. It's fun to do crafts with toddlers leading up to Valentine's Day. Today I'm sharing with you my favorite Valentine crafts for toddlers. These ten crafts are simple, engaging, and create beautiful products! Click on the links below to take you to the directions for each craft. Rainbow Heart Suncatchers from Fireflies and Mud Pies Heart Stamps from Rust and Sunshine You … [Read more...]
Love Craft for Preschoolers
Teaching children to love is so important. Love comes naturally to most, but reminding children they are loved and to love others is invaluable. Today I'm sharing with you a love craft for preschoolers. This craft is so fun to make because you use shaving cream! Here's what you need: card stock paper shaving cream food coloring knife love printable (download at the end of the post) cookie sheet lined with tin foil scraper scissors and glue Begin by lining a … [Read more...]
Candy Cane Ornament
Have you read the book "The Legend of the Candy Cane"? It is such a great Christmas story! This inspiring book reveals what the candy cane is all about! Today I'm sharing a fun candy cane ornament idea to go along with this book. In this story, the little girl learns that the candy cane represents three things: It looks like the letter J, which stands for Jesus. It also looks like a shepherd's staff, and the shepherds were the first people to find out that Jesus had been born. … [Read more...]
Thankful Jar Activity
I love that Thanksgiving is just around the corner. It is one of my favorite holidays. It's such a neat time to reflect on life and the past year's blessings. Today I'm sharing with you a thankful jar idea that is great to do with families, or even in a classroom! This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure for details. I love ways to concretely display what we are grateful for. It means more to me to write it down and share it with others. That's why I came up with this thankful … [Read more...]
Heart Sensory Cube
I love that Valentine's Day is coming up! Here's a fun Heart Sensory Cube to make for your baby or toddler! It's a great way your child to feel different textures.This cube is easy to make and took me about 20 minutes to put together. Here's what you need for the heart sensory cube: cube-shaped box hot glue gun different hearts with various textures glitter heart (from The Dollar Tree) shiny heart stickers (from Hobby Lobby) rippled textured heart (from Hobby Lobby) … [Read more...]
Star Noisemaker for New Year’s Eve
I can't believe we'll be celebrating New Year's Eve this week! I've got a super fun star noisemaker craft to share with you today. The kids will LOVE shaking these cute stars to ring in the new year! This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. You just need a few supplies to make these easy stars. For each star, you'll need the following: wooden dowel rod 2 foam stars (mine are from Michael's) 1 small bell hot glue gun number stickers (optional) Here's how to make the … [Read more...]
New Year’s Eve Noisemaker Craft
We are nearing the end of the year and so today, I thought I'd share a festive New Year's Eve craft. This one was SO much fun to create and my kids really enjoyed shaking and making lots of noise with them! This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. Here's what we used for this craft: 2 sturdy paper plates wax paper confetti, glitter, small bells, or anything that is festive and/or makes noise hot glue gun Star Template x-acto knife number stickers (mine a-re from Hobby … [Read more...]
Washi Tape Gold Star Ornament
Last week, I shared our twig star ornaments made by my kids. While we were crafting, I came up with another ornament idea. These washi tape gold star ornaments were created and I love them! They are easy to make and look so great on our Christmas tree! Here's what we used: Glitter Gold Washi Tape thin wooden sticks (we found ours at Hobby Lobby, but here is something similar) hot glue gun To make these, start by wrapping the gold washi tape around 5 wooden sticks. Then … [Read more...]
Twig Star Ornaments
My kids and I had so much fun crafting these twig star ornaments for our Christmas tree this year! It's always so nice to have the kids help with decorating the tree and they feel so special when have homemade ornaments to put up. This is a really simple craft that your child will take great pride in! Here's what you need: 5 twigs (about 5 inches long) paint and paintbrushes hot glue gun (or something similar) Start by having the kids collect twigs around the yard. Then cut or … [Read more...]
10 Rainy Day Crafts
It's April, which means lots of rain where we live! To keep my kids busy on rainy days, we like to do crafts. Here are 10 rainy day crafts that we love! Umbrellas make an adorable craft! Here are some of my favorites. Looks Like Rain Craft from Cutting Tiny Bites Umbrella Craft Coffee Filter Umbrella Craft from B-Inspired Mama 3D Umbrella Card from Crafty Morning Rainy Day Collage from Artsy Craftsy Mom Tissue Paper Umbrella from Mama's Little Muse Rainy … [Read more...]