Showing posts with label Child Made / Arts & Crafts.
We are blessed to have wonderful family and friends surround us! Eliana was showered with love and presents for her birthday. We wanted to show our appreciation, but Eliana isn’t old enough to write her own thank you cards yet. So we did the next best thing – she decorated the cards and I wrote… Continue reading DIY Toddler Made Thank You Cards
We decorated Easter eggs last night by melting crayons! I stumbled upon a cool new way to decorate Easter eggs by using crayons while the eggs are still hot when perusing Pinterest. It was very simple and also not very messy. We decorated them this way with a 9 year old (my cousin Mindi) and… Continue reading Melted Crayon Easter Eggs – Dye Free Easter Eggs
Today we hosted a Toddler St. Patrick’s Day Party. This group of parents and children get together frequently, but today we decided to embrace the upcoming holiday and eat a lot of green (and rainbow) colored foods, craft with green paints and wear as much green as our wardrobes allowed. It has been such a… Continue reading Toddler St. Patrick’s Day Party With Crafts Food and Favors
Our homemade, or better yet, “Child Made” wrapping paper looks a little bit like modern art – freeform shapes and lines that intersect in beautiful disarray! It looks a little bit like our Child Made Thank You Cards except we only used red white and green paint for this art project. It is a fun… Continue reading DIY Wrapping Paper
Christmas Artwork After taking our painted pumpkin down with our Fall Decorations, we decided we needed some Christmas artwork to replace it. So now we have Eliana’s newest masterpiece on display in our house. It was a fun process. I found a recipe for homemade edible fingerpaint online at: The Imagination Tree – I love… Continue reading Edible Fingerpaint
Instead of the traditional Gingerbread House this year we opted for a Gingerbread Man. Mostly because I think a gingerbread house would look like a tornado hit it after we decorated it with a 1 year old. 🙂 We got all of our supplies together. We made it pretty simple – since we weren’t eating… Continue reading Gingerbread Man Decorating
Painting a Pumpkin – A New Autumn TraditionThis year we decided a painted pumpkin was more appropriate than a carved pumpkin.Eliana wouldn’t have been able to participate as much with carving a pumpkin. This way she enjoyed it and we had fun watching and helping! First we had to pick out our pumpkin. So we… Continue reading Pumpkin Painting
A Toddler Halloween Party:Costume WearingPumpkin PaintingGood Food EatingFun Friends Playing All of them in costumes and painting!We had good friends over on Halloween for a fun filled get together. This group of friends meets frequently at either someone’s house, the zoo or a park. Because this day happened to also be Halloween we filled… Continue reading Toddlers Costumes and Pumpkins
