These are so simple and make bathtime a particular treat.  That, and they’re perfect for using up our huge collection of hotel soaps.  You may have some too, but if you’re running low a bar of Ivory soap is perfect!

For each boat you need a bar of soap (just make sure that they’re the floating [...]

This one comes from the “because nothing is ever good enough the way it is” file, and comes to you courtesy of my oldest daughter Daisy, who came up with this by herself and insisted that I photograph it and informed me that it was unquestionably a ‘blogworthy’ project.  She learns quick, that one!

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I’m so glad you liked their little house!  Here’s a bigger picture, if that helps.  It began life as a house-shaped CD storage unit from Michaels, although I never exactly intended to keep CDs in it.  I painted the inside walls a cream color (outside is green with pink trim, Daisy’s choice), and I added [...]

We have plenty of craft supplies (that may be an understatement!), and most plentiful of all seem to be pipe cleaners (a.k.a. chenille stems), beads, and yarn (oh my, the yarn!).  Thankfully, this project uses all three (plus anything else you’d like to throw in!)  This is the family we made, the dad is the [...]

We go through paper like crazy in this house and, although I keep a lot of particularly special masterpieces, a lot of it goes into the trash recycle bin.  I can’t promise that we’ll be rescuing all of our crafty leftovers from the trash, but this was a fun way to turn some of [...]

Daisy seems to have inherited her parents’ packratting ways.  She saves every bit of leftover ribbon and scraps of other pretty remnants of our crafty projects, so we dipped into her stash to make these super-cute and beyond simple hair ties.  We’re making them for all of our summer birthday girlfriends.

To start, scrounge up a [...]

The past weekend brought snow and plenty of craft time.  We pulled out the stamp pads and went crazy coming up with silly bugs to doodle, improvising a bit on which part of our finger to stamp to get just the right shape.  Daisy struggles to break things down into smaller shapes to draw them [...]

We had a lovely Easter–no houseguests, no parties, just a quiet rainy day inside, stuffing ourselves with chocolates.  Of course, a rainy day calls for crafty goodness, so we came up with these silly little birds that stand up by themselves, but are a piece of cake to put together.

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Spring is such an enjoyable time of year with children and presents so many opportunities for having fun together! We all seem to be eager to escape our Winter cocoons, so I wasn’t terribly surprised that Chrissie and I got so many entries for this, our first Kid-Craft Jamboree!

Kate at Picklebums shares instructions for putting [...]