Here’s some of the great crafts for kids that Mitch and I have done! Maybe you want to try to make our Minecraft Spawn Eggs, Milk Carton Fairy Houses or a big batch of Electric Play Dough?
Craft classes are a great summer activity for the art loving child. Cheaper than a whole week of art camp, a class offers an afternoon of craftiness on the cheap. Our favorite creative toy store, Circle of Knowledge in Sunset Hills, is offering craft classes all summer long–so RSVP now! If you didn’t get one of …
I don’t know who manages to keep their crayons in the original boxes–the darn things just end up jumbled in a box. Or is that just at my house? It’s time to round up those crayons! We found this crayon caddy idea somewhere a few years back and blogged about it on the old St. …
It’s more Pintastic goodness for your kids! Here’s a simple way to turn an old ring style Frisbee into a trendy Clothes Pin Wreath! Or rather, how to turn cheesy convention SWAG into something you want to hang on your door… Last winter we went to the big Boat Show at the St. Louis convention …
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I’ve got an artsy kid. He’s five and he loves to draw, paint, tape and cut out little jibs of paper all over the house. My kitchen is a museum of kindergarten art and I can’t even use the wipe board to jot down phone numbers anymore because it’s covered in trains or flaming planes. …
One day my son told me we had to do something “interesting” over the weekend so that he could draw about it at school. See, my little dude is in kindergarten and every Monday they have to draw a picture of what they did over the weekend. At the bottom they write a sentence explaining …
I have boys, so as you can imagine, I’m pretty good at making a basic paper airplane. It’s a necessary skill when you have boys, allowing you to transform any scrap of paper into a quick, easy and free toy. I’ve entertained my kids on numerous occasions with this skill, sometimes by folding an old …