December 22, 2011 in All Posts, Celebrate, Play, Toddler Activities
I’m so excited to be sharing with you the activity for Day 23 of the Creative Christmas Countdown: Play A Card Game! One of Jane’s favorite games is the iPhone Toy Story 3 Memory App. She’s already mastered the Easy Level and isn’t fazed at all by the Medium Level. To break her away [...]
December 22, 2011 in All Posts, Celebrate, Play, Toddler Activities
We’ve been having lots of fun making ornaments, like these Recycled Paper Ornaments, these Sequin Ornaments, and these sparkly, painted, and filled ornaments, and we’re still on a roll! I’m sure you’ve seen this stunning thumbtack wreath from Madigan Made Source: madiganmade.com via TheOutlawMom on Pinterest or these thumbtack trees around blogland. As an experiment, I wanted to see if Jane [...]
December 19, 2011 in All Posts, Fun With Food!, Play, Toddler Activities
Jane is too young to cut out intricate paper snowflakes (trust me, we tried). So we tried to have some snowflake fun another way: with marshmallows and toothpicks! Materials Mini-marshmallows Toothpicks How To This is similar to our Gumdrop Sculptures activity, except instead of standing the sculptures up on their own, we just made little [...]
December 14, 2011 in All Posts, Celebrate, Play, Toddler Activities
For some reason, even though we start out with full tubs of store bought Play Doh, we end up with only a tiny smidgen after a day’s play. Do the kids eat it? Is it stuck underneath the couch? I have no idea. But I do know that it’s a pain to keep going out [...]
December 12, 2011 in All Posts, Play, Toddler Activities
A few weeks back - before it turned really cold (well really cold to a Californian) - we gathered some pine needles and other winter leaves for a painting experiment. At first, Jane wasn’t quite sure what to do when I put out the paint and leaf collection, but she quickly realized she could [...]
December 8, 2011 in All Posts, Celebrate, Play, Toddler Activities
Here’s a super easy Hannukah gift that your child can make in just a few minutes. Jane made them as teacher’s gifts. Materials Blue and yellow paint (or any other colors you wish) Paper Step 1 Using the blue paint, have your toddler make a handprint with each of her hands, with the thumbs [...]
December 6, 2011 in All Posts, Celebrate, Play, Toddler Activities
We get so many holiday catalogs this time of year and I have so many back issues of every fashion magazine known to woman, we decided that turning the piles of paper sitting in our recycling bin into ornaments would be the perfect Sunday afternoon mother-daughter activity. And it was! We were inspired by Aleacia [...]
December 1, 2011 in All Posts, Play, Toddler Activities
It’s December 1st, can you believe it?! Starting today, you can find one awesome activity for your family to do each day until December 25th on the Creative Christmas Countdown hosted by the fabulous Alissa of Creative With Kids! It’s called the Creative Christmas Countdown, but you definitely do not need to celebrate Christmas to enjoy these activities with your children and [...]
November 29, 2011 in All Posts, Play, Toddler Activities
We’ve been indoors so much lately and the cabin fever is starting to set in. While it seems like Jane would love to color until the end of time, we seem to reach that point more quickly if that’s all we’re doing. So we grabbed our crayons and turned them into bowling pins! Materials Avocado [...]
November 14, 2011 in All Posts, Play, Toddler Activities
We have the biggest recycling heap. It’s not exactly something we should be proud of since even though the materials aren’t ending up in the trash, it means we are consuming and wasting a lot. Here’s how we give some of our waste a second life: animal masks! This Thanksgiving turkey mask is so easy [...]
