Another Simple Project for Toddlers. We got a little felt tree cutout from the craft store. Buga used her fine motor skills to squeeze the glue from the bottle and place rainbow decorations on it : sequins, gem stones, pipe cleaners, and ribbon. She enjoyed decorating the tree – next time I will keep some […]

Buga and I recently did a craft project I found in a parenting magazine. Early Introduction to Paper Mache – using tissue paper and flour paste. What You’ll Need: 1/2 cup water 1 cup flour bowl old paint brushes tissue paper in 2″ squares 1. spray the bowl with cooking spray or oil 2. tightly […]

Oh the many faces you can create with a pumpkin…if only you don’t carve it! Because we picked our pumpkin from the farm so early this year, I decided we shouldn’t carve it if we wanted it to stay good until Halloween. Then I remembered I bought this “mr. potato head” like pumpkin set last […]

I a similar idea on one of my favorite blogs : Little Hands Big Work . I found this big shaker at the dollar store and used pipe cleaners and flower buttons to coordinate. It turned out to be a great “arrangement” – using fine motor skills to both thread the flowers onto their stems…and […]

I found these at the craft store on Clearance for under $2.00. In grade school I remember having to ever so gingerly scratch the surface without getting any oil from my hands onto the black “paper” and make each stroke count because we weren’t allowed to get another piece, so I wasn’t sure if Buga […]

We made these cute little Sesame Street Popsicle Stick Puppets to help with our colors. They are easy to bring with us and “match” things around the house, park, and store. I just copied pages from a coloring book to make the heads, colored them their respective colors and put a little piece of tape […]

I have had this project in queue for quite some time now. Maybe I am a little obsessive compulsive, but I hate having so many broken crayon nubs around. And don’t get me started on all those crayons that Layla has decided to peel the paper away from – these poor, nameless crayons! Needless to […]

I have been working on a new project for the shop – another Fiddle Fab type lovey – but the super duper deluxe version. It is quilted, has ribbons within the quilt, interactive squares within it’s body, texture squares, and ribbons around the periphery. It has a soft square, a bumpy square, a smooth square, […]