Science & Sensory Play Coloring On Playdough Change up your playdough with washable markers. You can easily color on your newly made creations. Or you could roll out your dough, color it, and then cut it out!
Sewing Hacking The Passport Wallet - Resizing It For Two Do you need a passport holder for one or two people? Are you okay losing the entire width of the boarding pass space? I shortened the free Rebecca Page family passport wallet so you have something smaller to hold your passport while traveling.
Sewing Hacking The Passport Wallet - Using Different Fabrics On Either Side Of The Pockets Hacked a passport wallet sewing pattern with different designs on the outside and inside.
Science & Sensory Play Ada's 4th Birthday Party Overview post going over our science-themed 4th birthday party. Links to all the related science-themed food and sensory activities we had.
Sewing Our Dinosaur Pillows I let the kids go to town designing their own dinosaurs using Rebecca Page's newly released free Dino Dragon Pillow sewing pattern. It's a fun pattern that lets you easily customize the pillow based on what you or your child desires!
Sewing Custom Sheets For Your Travel Cot We bought a portable toddler bed for the girls while we travel and I ended up sewing up a fitted sheet and top sheet for them. Here's how I made it!
Science & Sensory Play Science Birthday Party Favor Bags I extended our science birthday party theme to our favor bags. I made playdough in the three primary colors for color-mixing and then left the rest simple by buying food-safe test tubes to contain some Canadian smarties and sour candy.
Science & Sensory Play Flower Dissection - Science Sensory Bin Do you have flowers hanging around that may wilt soon? Why not have some fun and have your kids dissect them. They can learn how flowers are formed, look up how they work, and have some sensory fun while they're at it!
Science & Sensory Play Frozen Oobleck Color Mixing Sensory Play Are you hosting a playdate or birthday party and want a fun sensory activity? Do you want a fun color mixing activity for you and your kids? I froze colored oobleck and mixed a plain batch of oobleck for my daughter's birthday party for color mixing experiments.
Sewing Quiet Book Page - Learn to Tie Your Shoes Does your child still need to learn to tie his or her shoes? Get one step closer by sewing a quiet book page so they can learn. Includes a pop out instructional diagram.
Sewing A Simple Solution When Your Child's Halter Top Is Too Small Have you ever had a halter top or halter dress that you wondered might be a tad bit too small or large for you kids? Why not fix it with a simple shirt?
Science & Sensory Play Making Frozen Oobleck Create oobleck and if that gets old change it up by adding food dye and/or freeze it before playing.
Sewing Sleepy Gowns - Patsy Party Dress Hacked or Mashed I hacked the free Patsy Party dress to make a simple nightgown. I couldn't stop there and had to see what the Patsy skirt would look like mashed with the Olivia top. Love how both turned out.
Sewing Outfits For LEGOLAND® Are you heading to LEGOLAND® anytime soon? Do you sew? We recently went on a trip and I wanted my kids to wear something special for their first visit. These are the sewing patterns I made.
Science & Sensory Play Color Changing Flowers Do you have extra flowers lying around? Why not use them to see how dye changes the flower petals and shows exactly where the water goes.
Craftiness Creating Your Own Woven Panels With Fabric Markers When you can't find what you want in store why not create it yourself? I used coloring pages to sketch out LEGO® images on white woven fabric and later colored them in. The perfect custom fabric to use with your sewing patterns.
Science & Sensory Play Simple Buckle Play Have some fun with your buckles! Both my kids went through stages where they loved any and all buckles.
Science & Sensory Play Color Mixing Explosion Sensory Play Experiment with cause and effect with explosions! Keep it safe by using vinegar and baking soda. Bring in color mixing by dying the vinegar first. So much fun!
Sewing The Olivia Top I found a great pattern that works with quilting cotton all the way to light-weight knits! Truly a costume shirt depending on the kids' favorite characters!
Sewing The Patsy Party Dress The Patsy Party dress was a fun sew that creates an epic party dress with clean hidden seams. This was an incredibly fun dress to sew up.
Sewing Quiet Book Page - Buckled Peek-a-Boo Upcycled Butterfly How I upcycled a favorite shirt to create a fully custom peek-a-book quiet book page.
Sewing Toddler Blanket Topper to Comfy Couch Afghan Take a simple toddler blanket topper and easily turn it into a larger kid blanket... or a comfy afghan for couch. So easy that the hardest part is not letting your family steal it.
Sewing 52 Weeks of Sewing Thanks to the 52 Week Sewing Challenge on Facebook I was able to constantly keep creating this year. This was a perfect reason to create a recap post of 2018. I've included links for all fabric and patterns I used (that weren't forgotten in my stash).
Craftiness Ornament Storage As we're starting to think about putting all our Christmas decorations away we also have to think about how to store them. Here's a solution I tried that didn't quite work for me and what we're now using now if you're interested.
Craftiness Wooden Nativity Are you looking for a new nativity scene. I bought an unfinished wooden one from Etsy and finished it off myself. There's so many different ways you could finish your nativity.
