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Paper Pinwheels Gather your materials. Cut your paper into a 6x6 inch square. Using markers decorate your paper with shapes, flowers, letters, rainbows...the sky is the limit! When you are…

Fill an empty milk carton with water and then freeze the water. Place the ice block on a baking pan. Have the children sprinkle salt on top of the block.…

Start by gathering all your objects. V loved sorting all the objects by type, but you could also have your kids sort the objects by color too. Next remove about…

Gather your materials. For very young children, you may also want to cover your work area to protect it from sticky peanut butter and bird seeds. With your child, prepare…

To create the frog, tape two construction paper eyes to the top of a tissue box. Cut out the plastic for the mouth opening. We used plastic spider rings with…

I precut some of the cupcake liners for the younger children and showed the older children how to cut in different styles. You can draw on the cupcake wrapper first…

Gather your materials. We used a homemade Mod-Podge by mixing a solution of half water and half Elmer's glue in a pint-size jar. The kids had a great time pouring…

The toddler art group was held at Iver's house yesterday. It was just the two babes again, so feels a little funny calling it a "group", but one family was…

This version of invisible ink was so much easier and more rewarding than our lemon juice flop. Although I realize we ought to give the lemon juice another try now that…

We made some beautiful flower crowns yesterday. Necklaces, too. So easy and yet really quite stunning. It seems the perfect lazy summer activity as well—to celebrate summer, for pretend play…

I wrote about Fort Magic a few weeks ago. About a fort kit for kids that has turned our house into a creative construction zone—in such a good way. It has added a new level…