Follow the Line through the House
Written and Illustrated by Laura Ljungkvist
Ages 3-9
See the little tail on the bottom of the ‘F’ up there? The one in ‘Follow’? That’s the beginning of the line, which carries you through the house, the kitchen, the toolbox, the toy box (to mention a few places), out into [...]

It’s my eternal struggle. I want the children to paint, I truly do, but it can just be so so messy…especially for a two year old who paints for two minutes then requires ten minutes worth of cleanup (and a bath to get it out of his hair). Often enough I bite the [...]

I was looking around for something totally unrelated and stumbled upon Let’s Explore, a blog serving up creative ideas for preschoolers. Today’s post on Ice Treasures really caught my attention since the weather’s heated up so much in the past few weeks and we’ve been spending as much time outside as possible (the better [...]

A few weeks ago we did some potato stamping and ever since Josie’s been into the idea of making prints ever since. She’ll watercolor a picture, then try to make a print onto a clean sheet (not entirely effective), and we tried making a print of a crayoned picture using our iron (even less [...]

The blog Unplug Your Kids posted a couple of fun ribbon bookmark ideas, one a wide ribbon with sequins and buttons glued on, the other woven with pipecleaners and ribbon, with beads on the end. (Josie, 5 has been into the weaving idea but most weaving projects are a little too big for her, [...]

What Knot posted a great idea for coloring playdough with beet cooking water. It came out a lovely color and wow, think of the possibilities! Spinach water? Blueberry juice?

I’m still feeling really into Mother’s Day, so I was excited to find this fun idea at Scrumdilly-do. I’m not nearly sure where I’m going to find strawberry baskets, but I love the idea of using them for weaving, and these turned into an absolutely charming necklace. I’ll make sure to hang mine [...]

The Rowdy Pea has a tutorial for making tissue paper flowers up. We’ve made these a number of times on our own and as a playgroup activity and it is so fun! We cut different shapes of flowers out to make poppies, cornflowers, daisies, etc, or just layer them randomly to make a [...]

Poking around on ohdeedoh this morning I loved the tutorial on recycling boxes and other packaging into cool building blocks and clicked through to a fun site:
Make Baby Stuff - Baby crafts tutorials, instructions for how to make baby clothes, how to make baby toys and tons of DIY crafty projects for all things [...]

Marie at Make and Takes has a great post up with egg carton crafts . Her flowers turned out to be way more interesting than mine, and I love the bugs! We go through a ton of eggs, so I’m stocked to try this neat idea.