Arts and Craft Projects for Kids

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!

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!

Halloween Kid Crafts: Q-Tip Skeletons

April 8, 2016September 17, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Halloween brings about many activities for families to do together. Although we love attending Fall festivals, haunted houses, and corn mazes, doing Halloween Kid Crafts has to be on the top of the list as our favorite thing to do during this time of year. There is a long list of simple crafts to do with kids. However, I don’t think any get any easier than this Q-Tip Skeletons Craft.

Painting with Pinecones

April 8, 2016September 11, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Fall is by far one of my favorite seasons. It is just absolutely magical. The crisp air, changing leaves, scents of cinnamon and apples, and of course the pinecones. You can’t forget the pinecones. Painting with Pinecones is a fun way to unlock some of the magic of fall while exploring the uniqueness of pinecones!

Every day when we go on our walk whether it be to the park or to pick Livia up from school, Meatball goes on a hunt for pinecones. Every day – it never fails. So far we have found at least 4 different types of pinecones. He is absolutely fascinated with them. So I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to squeeze them into one of our afternoon activities!

Shaving Cream Clouds on a Mirror

April 8, 2016September 6, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Every day we head to the park, even if it is only for 10 minutes. It’s a simple ritual that I greatly enjoy. A brief time of silence as the kids run around and have fun. The other day while we were at the park Meatball noticed a couple grey clouds. Not being able to verbalize what he was seeing, he acted it out until I understood. Following his curiosity we decided on painting shaving cream clouds once we got home.

This activity turned out to be so much more fun than I expected. In the past we have had a ton of fun playing with shaving cream but, quite honestly I expected this activity to not hold his attention for that long being outside and all. If given the choice Meatball is not one to pick sedentary activities outdoors…but leave it to him, this one definitely was not what I expected it to be.

Painting with Water Beads!

April 8, 2016August 18, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Water Beads are by far one of my kids favorite sensory materials. The ways that you can play with water beads are endless and they are cheap! We have tried everything from adding scents to our water beads to freezing them! Our lesson this week had a craft that required Marbles and Paint to do it. While we had the paint, we did not have any marbles lying around. But…we did have water beads! We had an absolute blast with this substitution – Painting with Water Beads was a major hit!

What I loved about this activity is that while it was very messy, it was super adaptable to meet the needs of both of my kids!