To introduce children to maps, use your home as a starting point. What you’ll need: Paper (graph or plain) Pencils Crayons This activity is designed to practice beginning mapping skills. Children will learn that a map is a representation of an area. Here’s How to Do It Use the graph paper and draw an outline [...]

I love Oriental Trading Company. I bought this set to make ornaments with my kids. Before I sit down to make anything with my kids, I try to do a test. Glue projects have not been so successful in the past. Hot glue guns are dangerous to small children; heck, I really burned myself with [...]

Gather cat shaped pumpkins. Body – long or pear shaped. Head – small, round. Pumpkins for the body should be stable, no wobbling. Feet – mini pumpkins, 2/cat. Tail – cucumber or skinny gourd. Ears – cardstock or felt. Other Supplies: Black floral spray. Wooden floral picks – 5 or 6/cat. Poster putty. Clean small [...]

So what am I working on? Pants from Burda Plus Spring 2007, pattern #402 – Julia’s version The pattern has been fit (I hope). I added an inch to center back, and that was it. I hope it’s enough, and I hope that I wasn’t overly optimistic when I decided to not lower center front. [...]

I think this is so clever.

Binky’s Barn had a fantastic booth at .

Toucan from from At the Zoo!: Explore the Animal World With Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series) Pulguito had Ariel over for a playdate, and I made toucan’s with them. I highly recommend At the Zoo!: Explore the Animal World With Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series). We’ve had several successful art projects from this [...]

Pulguito creating. This project is from At the Zoo!: Explore the Animal World With Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series). The book says it is for children ages 3-8, but I think this is a fantastic resource for anyone who is starting out with art. I do the projects, too, and while I can’t say [...]

I don’t know about your kids, but I can’t get my kids to do a craft or other creative activity unless I do it with them. Pulguito wanted to work with wood, and he dug out of the craft storage cabinet a little bucket with popsicle sticks and little bits of wood in it. What’s [...]