Sewing My Favorite Simple Kids' Knit Sewing Pattern: The Magnolia Are you looking for a super simple knit garment to make for your child? The Magnolia top and dress is my absolute favorite simple pattern for my girls and I wanted to share it with you.
Craftiness Create a Simple Double-Sided Printable PDF From Free Images Online Are you trying to create an easy worksheet for your kids? Why not take those images online and turn them into a PDF so you can easily print them off double-sided and whenever you want?
Craftiness Simple School Paper Organizer Are you remembering having a pile of your child's schoolwork on the kitchen counter last year? Do you already have paper clutter for this upcoming school year? Why not use a simple cereal box to help organize your papers? Optionally make it look fancier!
Food & Dessert Simple Create Your Own Pizza Looking for a way to change up your meals? Trying to come up with more ideas to entertain your kids? Why not solve both issues by having them make simple personal pizzas themselves?
Science & Sensory Play Ideas For When It's Hot Outside Are you worried about what you can do with your kids when it gets hot out? Are you looking for cool snacks and drinks? Are you currently experiencing a heat wave? Why not check out my ideas for when it gets hot outside?
Sewing Even More Peppermint Swirl Dresses Are you looking to sew an easy pattern? Are you looking for a dress that wows? Whether you want to make a skirt or a dress this Peppermint Swirl pattern from Candy Castle patterns blows you away with the gorgeousness and twirliness. Have fun sewing it up.
Science & Sensory Play Simple Water Play Are you looking for easy ways to entertain your kids? Why not use simple water? My girls love playing with water sensory bins as they grew. And you can keep it novel by changing out the toys, adding bubbles, or dying the water. For such a crazy time water play is a simple solution.
Craftiness Create Cardboard Shelving For Your Kitchen Set Create a quick and custom shelving using cardboard boxes for your kids play area. This shelf was the perfect extension to our kitchen set that lasted for quite awhile.
Science & Sensory Play Random Things That May Make My Days Better I'm powering through this time with a bit too much Viola's Quest on my phone and a Costco-sized container of peanut M&Ms... or two so far. How are you doing? Hope these simple ideas that help me can also help you regardless of what you're going through.
Sewing Theater or Concert Play Curtain Does your child love putting on concerts or plays? Why not make a curtain that easily fits in their doorway! Works with the door open or closed, easily portable, and shouldn't leave marks if they grow out of it or you have to move out of your home.
Science & Sensory Play Practice 'Erasable' Sight Words Are you looking for a way to get your kids more interested in their sight words? Or do you want them to try to write letters or numbers? Do you have salt or sand? Why not make an erasable tray so they can write them again and again.
Sewing Simple and Washable Name Tags For Your Kitchen Table Are you worried about your kids drinking out of the wrong glass? Why not create name tags so they can tell their glasses apart and you can easily move them around at will? Love that the kids helped design their own so they’re super excited to use them!
Science & Sensory Play Ideas For When You're Home With Kids An umbrella post containing all the fun kid activities listed on my blog up to March 2020. I've also included some external resources available over March and April and maybe beyond.
BreadIn5 Sausage in a Blanket (a.k.a. Hot Dogs) with BreadIn5 Dough Have you dabbled with bread dough and are looking for a new recipe? Are you wanting something simple to make with your dough?These taste incredible hot from the oven and amazing cold the next day for lunch.
Craftiness Footprint and Fingerprint Christmas Cards Are you looking for some way to include your child's foot or hand prints in your annual Christmas card? I made pretty adorable Christmas cards with footprints (tree) and fingerprints (snowmen). If you're feeling adventurous you could even add a hand print reindeer.
Sewing Ragamuffin's Unisex Kaboom Hoodie Are you looking for a great hoodie pattern? Are you looking for a top that you can use as a tshirt, long sleeved shirt, or hoodie once you perfect it to your perfect fit? Why not the Ragamuffin Kaboom? Here's the Halloween and Christmas top I made my kids and the lightweight cozy top I made myself.
Craftiness Simple Toddler Started Christmas Tree Cards Does your child enjoy stamps or do they smear instead of lift? Did you attempt to make Christmas cards and aren't sure how to continue? Why not turn your child's smears into something more deliberate by turning their art into a Christmas tree?
Craftiness Dinosaur Themed Crazy Hair Day Are you looking for ideas for a crazy hair day? Did your child ask you to put their beloved toy on their head? Are you looking for props to make the hairstyle different? Why not try something like this? Click to find out how I did it!
Sewing Dolly Sleeping Bags Did you want something a little bit extra when traveling to a hotel or camping out? Does your child have a doll they love to carry around and change? I created simple sleeping bags for my daughters' favorite bedtime dolls.
Sewing Hand Sew a Stretch Stitch Is your seam allowance in your pants bugging you? I fixed my daughter's leggings by hand stitching a stretch stitch. Perfect when you can't get your sewing machine into the finished seams.
Sewing Custom Pop Snap Bead Unicorn Pendants Does your child love pop snap beads? Do they love something that's hard to find in jewelry? Why not make your own custom pop snap beads using fabric markers, fabric, and a glue gun? Easily customizable to whatever your child loves right now.
Sewing Patch Your Lightweight Fabric With Embroidery Is there a hole in your child's favorite lightweight knit item? Why not patch it with some simple embroidery flowers.
Science & Sensory Play Dried Out Oobleck (Oobleck Sand) Our oobleck lasts for days by drying it out and re-hyrdating it repeatedly! The kids love it!
Children Kids' Swimming Suits - Second round with an extra year of experience. An update to my swimming suits! This includes everything I learned from the last time. Simpler than I expected!
Food & Dessert Zoey's Third Birthday - Orange DUPLO®/LEGO® Theme Overview of our orange LEGO® themed 3rd birthday party.