Crafts

Pretty Butterfly Made with a Sandwich Bag

Add a touch of spring by making your own sandwich bag butterflies. You can use any kind of material that you can fit into the bag. Each one can be different and fabulously unique. Add glitter, tissue paper, fabric and paper scraps. Whatever makes you happy, just have fun making these adorable butterflies with your [...]

Make a Cardboard Tube Bowling Game with Duck Tape

Make a mini bowling set with cardboard tubes and Duck tape

The next time you think of throwing away your empty cardboard tubes, think about saving them to make this super fun cardboard tube bowling game. You can decorate the tubes however you like. Encourage your preschooler to knock the “pins” down by rolling a small ball toward the tubes. Because they are cardboard, the pins [...]

Plastic Easter Eggs and Cute Tape

Decorating plastic Easter eggs with tape

I found the cutest mini patterned tape rolls at Michael’s over the weekend and we decided to decorate our plastic Easter eggs with them. The tape comes in packs of 6 in a few different sets. So super cute! We mixed and matched the patterns and played with paper and other fun project ideas. You [...]

Shamrock and 4 Leaf Clover Garland

Learn about circles and counting 3 and 4 while making this fun shamrock and clover garland. You preschooler can make their own shamrocks and clovers, decorate them how they’d like and then string them up to decorate the house with St. Patrick’s day fun. You can also talk about different shades of green or talk [...]

Happy Little Shamrock

Here’s a fun and easy project for St. Patrick’s Day. This little shamrock is great to practice coloring, cutting, gluing and even counting. Color the square on the printout and use it as your background, or grab your own large piece of paper. We chose to print out our shamrock project page on a piece [...]

Felt Leprechaun Finger Puppet

Finger puppets are always a favorite in my house because their quick and easy to make but also easy to store. The kids love to play with them, making up stories and songs and various pretend play scenarios. So, for St. Patrick’s day how about making a cute little leprechaun finger puppet using felt? You [...]

Make your own Valentine cards with free printable art

We love to make our own cards and gifts, so for Valentine’s Day we decided to make our own sweet cards. You can use store bought cards and add your own personal touch, or make cards from scratch. To help with the making, I’ve created some cute candy heart art that is free to download [...]

Sponge Painting Heart Art

Sponge printing is one of my favourite toddler activities. It’s a great way to create some lovely hearts by applying paint with sponges. The results will be quite unpredictable but that just adds more fun to it! Time needed: 10-15 minutes What you need: sponges acrylic paint white card scissors card to make the greeting cards [...]

Make Valentines with Sticky Sticks

I’m always on the look out for fun new craft supplies for preschoolers. Especially supplies that are less mess and more fun. So, when I came across Sticky Sticks, I was intregued. They are large craft sticks – and you know we love craft sticks!- with the adhesive already on the stick. It’s a peal [...]

Make Christmas Tree Art Cards with Yarn

Here’s a Christmas craft you can do with your preschooler that makes great gift tags or art cards you can gift as a gift. Yarn is a fun material for preschoolers, combine it with glue and they can create really neat art pieces that help practice fine motor skills and coordination. You can also use [...]

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