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Aren't these melted crayon rocks beautiful?! This is something we've done a few times over the past few years and is one of our favorites. I could have sworn I…

I've seen a lot of great cardboard dollhouses around the web lately, and when a friend's birthday came up, we decided to create our own version as a gift. This…

I'm always up for trying out a new Artterro art kit. And I'm always surprised by just how much creative potential is packed into a deceptively compact cardboard box (which doubles…

My four-year-old and her friend Emily surprised me by playing for hours with some little wooden apple sand rainbow buckets. They sorted them, carried them, "ate" them, fed them to their (stuffed) animals, danced…

At the end of my post yesterday about theheart suncatchers, I promised to share what else we’ve done so far with the light table. THANK YOU FIRST THOUGH FOR YOUR…

I don’t have a big post for you today; just wanted to share some photos of the kids’ recent playdough creations and combine it with a list of more pretend…

When we built the Fort Magic igloo last week, the kids completed it by pimping out the place with some masking tape art. I promised a post about the tape art carpet “in…

We’ve had a lot of fun with a body tracing activity over the past week or so. WHAT STARTED AS A SIMPLE INVITATION TO WORK BIG TURNED INTO A WEEK-LONG EXPLORATION OF…

We’ve been doing lots of Easter arts and crafts these past couple of weeks! Here are two more Easter art activities that we’ve been working on this week: styrofoam printed Easter eggs…

We had such fun yesterday creating sculptures with pipe cleaners and styrofoam blocks. Plus buttons, beads, and feathers… There was no shortage of colorful craft materials on the table. This is yet…

TOOTHPICK SCULPTURES We started with a bowl full of grapes and a box of toothpicks. These grape and toothpick sculptures are much the same as the marshmallow and toothpick sculptures and the soap…

I cut out some felt pieces for Maia's new felt board yesterday. I thought I'd start with something seasonal so made a tree, some fall leaves, and a jack-o-lantern. I have so…