Do you speak for the trees? The Lorax does! I love the message both the movie and the book give about taking care of our Earth. To celebrate Read Across America and the birthday of Dr Seuss, we made a recycled k cup Lorax craft. It also makes a fun craft for Earth Day. You…
Have you been following along with our paper plate Valentine’s Day crafts? Today’s post adds another one to the series. My daughter is obsessed with owls and absolutely adores this paper plate Valentine’s Day owl craft. Pair it with one of the owl-dorable books listed below to make craft time even more fun! How to…
How cute is this is the paper plate fish craft!? And it is so easy to do! Imagine your kids making this Valentine’s Day craft idea to give to their closest friends as Valentines. In this post, we will share with you just how fun and easy it is to recreate this adorable Valentine’s Day fish…
Ever try crafting with spoons before? We recently crafted with plastic ones as part of a spoons craft challenge. We have made 3 spoon animals so far with this adorable plastic spoon mouse reading pointer craft being the 1st. It goes along with the kids book, Little Babymouse and the Christmas Cupcakes. Little Babymouse and…
Do you ever save bottle caps for future use in craft projects? In today’s post, I am sharing how to use some of them to create bottle cap winter animal ornaments. You can also see what a couple of our crafty friends made by recycling plastic lids into a creative holiday craft at the end…
It is exciting to be a kid. And it is so much fun to get gifts, but you know what is the VERY best? To get a gift that you really wanted. In this gift guide for kids, I will share with you some awesome active toys for ages 6-10 that they simply will love to play…
This week’s Virtual Book Club for Kids theme is spiders.  The featured book is a favorite, The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. To go along with the book, we are sharing a fun printable spider web letter match activity. This hands-on alphabet activity will have kids matching uppercase letters with lowercase letter. Then, be sure…
One of the thing that we love to do together since starting this blog is book-inspired activities. Not only is it the perfect way to spend mommy and me time (or daddy, grandma, big brother….), it’s also a great way to expand a child’s vocabulary. It’s important to expose babies and toddlers to as many words as…
Don’t you just love how children are adventurous? They love to read and listen to stories of incredible adventures, with heroes and villains and extraordinary circumstances. These kinds of stories awaken our imagination and keep alive our sense of wonder. I love reading adventure books with my children because, no matter how young or old…
Do you and your children love Pete the Cat books? We do! There are so many great stories, but this time, we are focusing on five “Back to School” books and games, activities and crafts that go along with them. From making a simple letter sound muncher to getting an awesome book-inspired printable pack, your children will…
In need of a fun, boredom buster that needs little direction from you and allows kids to be creative by themselves or with a couple other kids? This erasable wall decal from Plaeful is a great choice! It’s perfect for a rainy, hot, cold or windy day and even for days when the kids are a little…
Today we are crafting with our blog friends for another kids craft star challenge – pasta! The kids and I made colored pasta and clay crafts over the weekend. It was nice because we were using two materials that we normally don’t craft with. We made clay necklaces, pretend candy, butterflies, and other random clay items….