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.
Sewing Create a Fabric Name Tag Are you looking to create a simple and adorable name tag? I took knit scraps and turned them into adorable labels for our Christmas stockings!
Sewing Easy Quilted Christmas Stockings Are you looking at upgrading your Christmas stocking this year? I love these stockings. They look difficult and quilted and were so easy to sew up.
Science & Sensory Play Splitting Up a Large Toy For Your Advent Calendar Are you wanting to add small gifts to an advent calendar but don't want all those small items hanging around the house afterwards? Why not buy one large toy and split it up over the month. You end up with one toy and your child had several days of opening joy.
Science & Sensory Play Sensory Activity Ideas For Your Advent Calendar Some of our Christmas Advent Calendar related toys and activities.
Sewing Getting Comfortable with Rebecca Page Overview of several of the comfortable patterns offered through Rebecca Page. Part of a blog tour so there's links to other people's definition of comfortable.
Science & Sensory Play Streaming Animal Cameras Is your child interested in learning about animals? I've found a bunch of free resources you can stream online to watch penguins, stingrays, jellyfish, the ocean, sea otters, sharks, and more.
Craftiness Create a Simple Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Are you looking for ways to be thankful? Why not create a Thankful Tree. We treated this similar to a Christmas advent calendar as we added what we were thankful for each day on November until Thanksgiving. If you have a large gathering this Thanksgiving you could make it one leaf per too.
