Category: Easy Crafts to Make

  • February is Love Month

    February is Love Month

    “Mommy, February is Love Month!” I looked at my eight year old’s sparkling eyes directed at me waiting for an equally enthusiastic reply. I couldn’t think of any reason why we couldn’t celebrate all month long, so Love Month it was. With my watchful apprentice at hand, I cut out small pink and red hearts…

  • Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition

    Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition

    I love open-ended creative play. This year, for Christmas, instead of pulling out our plastic nativity set with the fat little people and animals, I pulled out the Lincoln Logs, a tray that has a lip (it’s really a tray you use to eat in bed!) and an assortment of stones, sand, and Douglas Fir…

  • Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create

    Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create

    We love to make art projects of all kinds around here. But I’ll be honest, sometimes I don’t want to deal with the clean up (and the set up) part. So I’ve made it a point to make art accessible—to create opportunities for my child to easily create all day long. Get a Clipboard Some…

  • Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame

    Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame

    This hand-painted quote frame was one I liked so much, I ended up making one for me too. (Don’t tell, :)) Christmas is just around the corner, so I’ve been pulling out all of my art supplies to make treasures for my family and friends. I originally purchased this blank frame from Target, but you…

  • How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas

    How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas

    Oh, how I love this ocean waves canvas painting! It is simple enough for a child or novice to make and it’s also quite therapeutic. 🙂 This painting idea came to me several years ago when I was working on some larger canvases. As I painted, I would swipe the extra paint off of my…

  • How to Make a Spa in a Box (Care Package 101)

    How to Make a Spa in a Box (Care Package 101)

    Want to make your friend’s day? Make her a spa in a box care package! Here’s how . . . Can I tell you how excited I am to share this DIY spa kit with you today? I recently bought a stack of small boxes to use this year for gifting and immediately thought how…

  • 10 Watermelon Craft Ideas

    10 Watermelon Craft Ideas

    It’s summertime and the watermelon craft ideas are popping up everywhere. I’ve noticed that many of these tutorials are for watermelon crafts for preschoolers, but I think we grownups can get into the summer watermelon fun too! I thought I’d put together a post of some of my favorites that I’ve had bookmarked. From homemade…

  • How to Make a Painted Candy Dish

    How to Make a Painted Candy Dish

    I received paint from DecoArt for this post on how to make a painted candy dish. The tutorial and opinions expressed are my own. This painted candy dish tutorial started off as a glass coaster tutorial. I thought it would be fun to use DecoArt’s glass enamel paint on the bottom of glass coasters but…

  • How to Make a Felt Bunny

    Learn how to make a felt bunny with felt scraps and thread! So cute! Why is it that the simplest of projects tend to make little kids the happiest? As I pulled out my felt stash to make this craft, my daughter bee-lined it over to my side and immediately began assembling the bits of…

  • How to Make a Simple Flower Barrette

    How to Make a Simple Flower Barrette

    Looking for a simple barrette for your flower girl? This DIY flower barrette is so sweet, and you can make it in just a couple of minutes. Win-win! When I was planning my wedding, I wanted to have DIY elements to it without the stress of making every single item. So we bought simple dresses…