I read that having your children work with clothes pins helps with their scissor skills and since that is one thing that I have been working with Zane on I decide to create this craft.

Creating these lions was so easy even Zarek, at 2 1/2, could help us!

Supplies:

• plate or card stock
• Elmer’s white glue
• craft paper (white, black, light brown) (Cut white eyes, pupils, nose & mouth)
• clothes pins
• markers (Red, Orange, and Yellow)

Step 1: Color the clothes pins with the markers.

Step 2:  Color plate (I trimmed ours as the lip didn’t work well with the clothes pins) or circle cut from card stock

Step 3: Glue white of eyes down (Zane went crazy with the glue!

Step 4: Glue pupils down

Step 5: Glue nose down

Step 6: Glue the mouth down

Step 7 : Let your child place the clothes pins around the outside edge like a main.

You can let your child play with this over and over.

This was such a fun project and it was really easy. Plus you can get all these items for $10 or less (You can find clothes pins at the dollar store).

Do you have any other crafts or activities that help your preschooler with their scissor skills?

On this new series, a Craft a Day, you will find five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

I will give you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some I may not but either way we are going to have some fun together.

Advent calendars are one of my all time favorite things as a child so this next week is dedicated to them.

1. Quick & Easy Advent Calendar – You can either use those neat tree doilies or have your little one cut out a tree. Or if you have a really young child have them paint it. And you will be ready to start your countdown!
2. Weekend Make and Takes Advents – I love this chain advent, you could help your child with this by using glue dots and showing them where the rings go. You can do it in the tree form or in a regular chain. Or for older children make it a scavenger hunt and put clues on the links.
3. Christmas Craft Stick Bookmarks – These could be turned into a fun advent. Help your child make 24 and use them by pulling each one out of a jar as you come closer to Christmas. What do you think, any ideas?
4. Advent Chains Easy Christmas Craft – Another chain advent but I love how you learn the true meaning of Christmas with this one!
5. Cookie Advent – This may be my favorite of all. Let your child help you make cookies. Zane love to help me dump measuring cups in and count the items (eggs, cups of sugar, etc). But then you can let them decorate their cookies also. I love it!

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

Welcome back to a new edition of A Craft A Day! If you joined me last week you may have made some cute turkeys with your little ones. I know we did!

If you are new to A Craft a Day, I will give you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some may not but either way we are going to have some fun together.

1. Messy Masterpeice – This may be a little messy but looks like lots of fun and I love her idea of throwing them in the tub afterwards.
2. Indian Corn Art – I’ve been wanting to start teaching Zane how to use scissors and I think this would be a great beginner project for that since it would be very forgiving.
3. Little Pumpkin Turkey – Your little one can help you make the faces and then you stick in the “feathers”. Uses: Kids Centerpiece for Thanksgiving, Daycare gift, Neighbor Gift (this may be what we do) and any other ideas.
4. Pressed Leaves Placemat – You can even do this with a 1 year old just lay the contact paper out and let them have fun placing the leaves.
5. Super Cute Thanksgiving Hats – I know another turkey craft, your going to be having turkey’s take over your house. But they are sooo cute!

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

On a Craft a Day, I will give you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some I may not but either way we are going to have some fun together. We are starting out this month with Turkeys. Gotta love turkeys!

1. Turkey Centerpieces – Eek, these are just so cute and you can even have your littlest ones do some of the decoupaging!
2. Turkey Handprints – I’m sure you remember doing these as a kid, now it’s your kids’ turn!
3. Turkey Tubes – Got to love toilet paper tube crafts. This one is great because you can just give the right color crayons to your children and let them scribble away.
4. Turkey Basket – You make the turkey and your kids’ make the feathers!
5. Counting Down to Turkey – This is very cute and fun. I love advent calendars so we may try this this year. I like the idea of writing what we are thankful for on the feathers. This year I will write them for the boys but maybe later we will have them do it!

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

On this new series, a Craft a Day, you will find five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some I may not but either way we are going to have some fun together. This week we are going to go outside and collect some leaves!

1. Autumn Maple Leaf Crowns – These are just lovely!! I knew how to make daisy chains but this is even better!
2. Fall Leaf Puppets – These are so simple yet lots of fun.
3. Leaf Prints – You can change this for all ages and the outcome is always lovely and unique. You can also do this paint free. Place the leaf on your material (paper, fabric etc) and place wax paper on it and let your kids hammer away on it with a hammer or mallet. You may be surprised at the print. Or you could try Leaf Rubbings.
4. Crunchy Leaves – I have been saving this craft for a while to do with the boys. I love the simplicity of it yet it turns out great!
5. Plaster of Paris Leaves – You can either have your little ones try making these or make them beforehand and have them paint them.

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

I want to start sharing some of the great and wonderful activities on the internet you can find to do with your kids. The internet is an amazing tool to help you keep your kids busy and help them learn. This is another fun week to join in, so I hope you will!!

I will give you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some I may not but either way we are going to have some fun together.

This week is all about Halloween. Hope you have a fun, crafty and safe Halloween! And don’t forget to share what your little ones are going to be for halloween!!

1. Pumpkin Painting – If you missed out on this fun and easy activity you have to try it. This is great for even as young as one. Just make sure the paint is non-toxic. LOL
2. Hanging Spider Webs – Imagine hanging these in your windows! This may be fun to try with a little one and see what it looks like with just scribbles all over the lines.
3. Pumpkin Faces – I love doing these kind of crafts – there is a little work for you beforehand but afterwards you have a great fun!
4. Ghost Prints – These are cute, easy and you can hang them up with pride for Halloween!
5. Tangled Pumpkins – These are fun and easy and can be used all fall.

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

Happy Halloween!!

We went to the dentist for the first time this week. One of the fun little things they had for the boys was a beanbag toss where they won little pumpkins!

So this week I pulled out some paint brushes and paint and let the boys paint them.

I took a food tray from the store and placed them under the pumpkins or you could use newspaper if you want.

I highly recommend non-toxic paint for your little ones because as you can see Zarek thought we were eating at first. But he got the hang of it. But he did still try each color every time I turned my back.

And as you can see he loved this so much he decided to paint his hand too!

Zane loved painting his, almost a little too much, his pumpkin took a full day to dry.

This is a fun and easy and safe way for the boys to decorate their pumpkins. How did your pumpkins turn out this year? How do you decorate them?

I will give you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. I will be posting them on Saturdays so that you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either, but hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one and you don’t even have to do it this week. I just hope to give a resource for some great fun!

Some weeks I may have a theme and some I may not but either way we are going to have some fun together.

1. Fall Wreath Tutorial – You may have seen my Fall Wreath but this tutorial is even better you can do it with your kids! I really want to try this one with the boys.
2. Autumn Window Displays – Younger children can have fun  just painting the coffee filters for the leaves and you can do the rest or older kids can do the cutting and placing on the windows.
3. Kid’s Fall Tree Art – I love how she broke this into multiple projects for younger ones this is a great example what you can do breaking big projects up into little steps for your little ones.
4. Apple Print Notecards – Apples are in season right now and if you have never done apple prints before today is the day! So easy and so fun!
5. Apple Wreaths - Another Apple Print Project. Make some extra apple prints when making the notecards, cut them out in the evening and you are ready for the next day!

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on next weeks post!

I created this wreath today I got everything I needed from the Dollar Tree. For everything it cost $7. Here are the supplies you would need to make this:

• $1 Wreath
• $1 to $5 Bundles of flowers (I used 4)
• $1 Wood Sign
• $1 Wreath Hanger
• Hot Glue Gun & Glue

Instructions >>

Start with a wreath.

My Wood Sign had a wire to hang it so I just wired it on, you could also glue it on.

Pop all the flowers off the stems.

Strategically place your flowers in bunches of 3 or 5. You can either leave it like this or…

… fill in the rest of the blank areas with your flowers.

And you will end up with something like this.

(Of course mine is hung up with ribbon because I forgot to buy my hanger. Next Dollar Tree stop.)

I hope you enjoyed this crafty tutorial. Have you ever made your own wreath? Do you hang wreaths for any season but Christmas?

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