Arts and Crafts for Kids

Martin Luther King Jr. Crafts- Dream Card

March 6, 2025January 10, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day happening next Monday we have spent a good amount of time talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy. While Livia is beginning to grasp the concepts of segregation and the civil rights movement, we are mostly focusing on how we treat other people.

Martin Luther King Jr. Crafts — Front of Card

Before we started the Martin Luther King Jr. craft we talked about how everyone is different and how it is those differences that make the world a beautiful place. We brainstormed ideas on how we should treat people and labeled some of the differences found between us.

Holiday Felt Busy Tray

February 25, 2025December 23, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Christmas Eve is tomorrow and I still have so much to do. Please tell me I am not alone…because this to do list is daunting! With a house full of…love…and a million little helpers, reaching that last item on the to do list is going to be quite the challenge. This simple Holiday Felt Busy Tray is a fun way to keep little hands busy (and helping) while giving you a break from the chaos.

My Kids would LOVE to do this Holiday Felt Busy Tray for a Christmas crafts

My kids had a absolute blast with this invitation to create. Each busy tray took me about 15 minutes to throw together (I made two) and held the kids attention long enough for me to get a couple of gifts wrapped and lunch made…what can I say, I am a procrastinator 😉

It was super neat to watch my kids create stories about the little elves that were decorating the tree, work on creating patterns and sorting (color, size, shape). They did counting and experimented with different techniques such as what would happen if they twisted a color strand. But most importantly, they had fun.

Beaded Candy Cane Ornament

February 26, 2025December 20, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

The Beaded Candy Cane Ornament one of the easiest crafts you can make with your kids and one of my favorites that I remember making as a child. This Christmas ornament is great for teaching basic AB pattern along with building some of those fine motor skills. This is a super simple activity that your family is sure to love!

This beaded candy cane is SIMPLE enough for me to do with the kids!

Some of the things that I love about this beaded candy cane ornament is that it doesn’t require much. Set up is simple and once made these ornaments are pretty indestructible. Considering that my two year old has been at war with our Christmas tree since it went up (and after the three or four times it has gone back up…) Christmas ornaments that aren’t going to shatter glass everywhere are pretty important for us.

Salt Painted Spider Webs

November 8, 2025October 31, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Spiders are not something I am very fond of…ok not at all fond of. They make me cry. and cringe. and can always get a scream – ick. But for some reason that I cannot wrap my head around both kids LOVE spiders.

Save.Me.

This simple spider activity was a safe way for us to explore this strange fascination of theirs. Plus these Salt Spider Webs turned out stunning!

Am loving how beautiful these salt painted spider webs are!

As I write this my dashboard is suggesting all these spiders images and wikis to include in this post…so excuse how short and sweet this will be. My skin is crawling and I cannot stare at this too long…

I Want to Eat Your Books Bookmark!

April 8, 2016September 21, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

One of the things that I love about being a blogger is getting to explore the new kids books that are out there with my kids. It’s seriously one of my favorite perks. This week we were sent a book by Karin LeFranc and Tyler Parker called, “I Want to Eat Your Books“. This book was absolutely adorable and a fun conversation starter on how to properly treat books!

How cute is this I Want to Eat Your Books Bookmark?!

As we watched the book-ivore zombie tear through the pages of this delightful book Meatball laughed, cringed, and quite often shouted out “No! No!”. The illustrations were bright and fun and the overall feel of the book is very playful. In the end the zombie teaches yet another book destroying monster how to treat books. It was at this point that Meatball voluntarily got up to pick up his books on the floor!