You Are My Sunshine Paper Plate Mother’s Day Craft Idea

You Are My Sunshine Paper Plate Mother’s Day Craft Idea

I don’t have high expectations for Mother’s Day gifts. I feel, in some ways, that it’s becoming over commercialized and honestly? I don’t need the gifts. Is the acknowledgement nice? Of course it is. When I’m acknowledged by Kyle’s boys (with my unofficial role as the other mother in their lives), that made my day. Beyond that, I expect nothing and ask for nothing. I’ve still held on to all of the crafts and homemade gifts that Sweet B has brought home and will cherish anything that Squeaker brings home from school. In the meantime, we make our own crafts together and while we were making paper plate suns, I had the bright idea to turn it into a Mother’s Day craft. This post contains…

9 Awesome Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids

9 Awesome Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids

9 Awesome TP Roll Crafts Hello! I am so pleased to be visiting today to share some of our favourite crafts. I’m always on the look-out for simple, easy kids crafts ! We particularly enjoy toilet paper toll crafts as they are inexpensive, easy to come by and surprisingly versatile!! Not only can I cut down on my waste by recycling some everyday essential items, but they make the cutest creations. I also love seeing the independent and self-confident nature surge forth when the crafting is easy enough for me to turn my little artists loose. Below are some of my favorite ideas for you to try with your little artist. Your child will enjoy dancing, wiggling and jamming out with these adorable Dancing Giraffes….

Easy Cupcake Liner Snowflake Craft for Kids

Easy Cupcake Liner Snowflake Craft for Kids

It’s time do some baking around here. With Squeaker’s birthday being in early December, we try to plan a small party with family and close friends. This year is no exception and while we won’t be hosting; we will be bringing the cupcakes. Now, I’m not sure how or why this got started… but I just can’t seem to buy plain cupcake liners. So, for example, during Fall; I like to buy the ones with leaves or Halloween themed liners. Around this time of the year, I like to buy the Winter themed cupcake liners and Christmas themed cupcake liners. And while they do get used, I was also thinking of other ways to use them. I remember using white paper doilies in school to…

How to Make a Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

How to Make a Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

The weather hasn’t been quite cold enough for us to have a good amount of snow. Now, it’s still late November and I’m sure that will change once winter really settles in. Or, at least for my toddler’s sake, I hope it does. While we can make do with our sensory snow play, she is really looking forward to the snow. In the meantime though, we can make a toilet paper roll snowman. This adds to our (somewhat) growing collection of toilet paper roll crafts. This post contains affiliate links and while you are under no obligation to use them, by purchasing something through my affiliate link you are supporting this site, thanks! As my toddler has found out, the toilet paper roll crafts also…

How to Make a Foam Paintbrush Reindeer

How to Make a Foam Paintbrush Reindeer

We are approaching my favorite time of the year- Christmas! Though, I’ve been in the Christmas mood for quite some time already. Now it’s really time to dive in and make stuff. And decorate. And bake cookies. Lots and lots of cookies. But it’s also one of my favorite times to tap into my wannabe crafter side. Squeaker probably enjoys crafting and creating more than I do at this point. And that’s not a bad thing at all. If anything, her enthusiasm gets me motivated as well. One of our most recent crafts was a foam paintbrush reindeer. Pretty cute, huh? Supplies Needed for the Foam Paintbrush Reindeer Supplies Needed for the Foam Paintbrush Reindeer Your supply list is minimal for this and hopefully easy…

How to Make a Chalk Handprint Turkey for Thanksgiving

How to Make a Chalk Handprint Turkey for Thanksgiving

As Squeaker’s tolerance for craft and art time increases, I look for more ways to incorporate that into our day. We’re pretty relaxed when it comes to doing crafts and activities though on occasion, I don’t mind doing themed/holiday crafts. And while I’m more than ready to dive into Christmas, I also realize that we needed to do some stuff for Thanksgiving. This is our first year really celebrating Halloween with Squeaker and this year will be the first year that I really involve her with Christmas. So what do we do for Thanksgiving? Well, aside from having her help with a few cooking tasks, we can do decorations. We started with a simple chalk handprint turkey craft to go along with our K-Cup turkey….