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Crafts

Cute tulip clothespin magnet

Have you ever seen those cute clothespin frige magnets and wondered how they are made? Here’s a great tutorial to show you how your preschooler can help you make a tulip clothespin magnet. You can use the project sheet as it is to color and cut out or you can use it as a template ...

Plastic lid ornaments

Use plastic lids from all that holiday entertaining food to make ornaments and play with glitter glue. Plastic does not work well with washable markers, so be prepared to use a permanent marker set for this project. Definitely a project for older preschoolers. Make sure, if you use glitter glue, it isn’t layered on too ...

Paper Cone Christmas Trees

Get out the construction paper, glue and piles of embellishments and make paper cone Christmas trees with your preschooler to decorate this holiday season. You can decorate these trees however you like and with whatever you like. Use green construction paper or get creative and use something completely different. These cute paper trees are fun ...

Handprint Autumn wreath

Here’s a quick craft you can create for your Autumn decor or Thanksgiving festivities. Using hand print cut outs, create a wreath with your preschooler that you can hangup to display or use as party of your table center piece. The handprints are easy to make if you have a hand print template, trace your ...

Make hand-print turkeys from colored paper

Hand-print turkey made with colored paper

There are a number of ways to make handprint projects and hand-print turkeys are always a favorite in November. Sometimes preschoolers don’t like the feeling of paint on their hands or aren’t well skilled in using scissors just yet, so this version of the classic hand-print turkey is a perfect solution. For this project you ...

Make greeting cards with kids art

Hand made greeting cards with scanned kids art

I love making cards and gifts featuring my kids art and creations, however it can be a daunting task to hand make every card if you want to send to the whole family. Not to mention, keeping little ones focused to make all those greetings is a challenge in itself. Instead of creating an entirely ...

Cute glowing ghost for Halloween

Here’s a quick Halloween project idea you can do with your preschooler in no time at all. This also makes a great Halloween party activity because kids of all ages can make these glowing ghosts and they are very inexpensive to make. You can make any ghost faces you’d like and even use different marker ...

Egg carton monsters

Get out all the craft scraps and a cardboard egg carton and have some monster making fun! These cute critters are so much fun to make because there is no set design. Your preschooler can use their imagination and make anything they’d like. Mix stripes and sparkles and googly eyes and paint. These little monsters ...

Making carved pumpkin prints

Cute pumpkin picture made with a real pumpkin for printing

Make a fun pumpkin print using a slice off the side of a pumpkin. We found some cute small pumpkins and decided to use them for a few projects. One was making a pumpkin print. If you slice off the side of the pumpkin, the inside remaining hole is in the shape of a pumpkin ...

Recycled plastic sun catcher

Make a sun catcher using recycled plastic. All those take out containers, fruit boxes and other plastic from produce or products can be made into beautiful sun catchers. Just cut the plastic into shapes,paint, punch holes using a standard hole punch and string together. You can add beads, glitter or gem stickers for more sparkle.

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