Spring Archive

10 Bird Feeders Kids Love To Make

We love to feed the birds outside in the backyard. It’s so much fun to sit back and watch all the wonderful birds come over to eat the seed. Making bird feeders with the kids is a great activity to get them outside and loving nature. My boys

Wind Chime for Kids to Make

    Last year we made Yogurt Cup Wind Chimes.  The kids loved helping to make the wind chime and it is still out in the tree a year later!  We set out to make a new wind chime this year out of another recycled material.

Bee Footprint Puppet

If you follow along here on our blog you know we LOVE print crafts!  I love that they can be fun keepsakes and the kids love painting their hands, feet…  Print art does not always have to be about keepsakes and decorations.  Today we

Rainbow Clean Mud

It is the final week of Spring Activities for Kids brought to you by Learn Play Imagine and Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails(FSPDT).  This week is Sensory Play!!  If you follow either of our blogs then you know we love SENSORY activities.

Kid Made Wind Chimes

The kids and I love finding fun ways to create beautiful wind chimes for outside.  We get to have fun making them and we have fun decorating outside with them too.  There are so many beautiful kid made wind chimes out here and I

Robot Juice Carton Bird Feeder

We love feeding the birds.  We also love making our own bird feeders.  Since I had robots on my mind and a juice carton sitting in my keep for project pile, it just seemed right to create a  Robot Juice Carton Bird Feeder with

Q-Tip Rainbow Craft for Kids

The kids had so much fun with our Q-tip heart paintings a few years ago I thought it was time to do it again.  With Spring on my mind we ended up trying a fun Q-tip Rainbow craft one afternoon.  This craft is also

Egg Painting

We had Jelly Bean Paints left and a bunch of hard boiled eggs we had decorated.  I had held on to them a few days too many and knew it was time for them to go to the trash.  We had a lot of

My Garden Bird Seed Sensory Bin

  Super excited to be taking part in  40 Sensory Bin Fillers Hosted by Little Bins for Little Hands.  What a great resource for sensory bin play from so many wonderful bloggers.  They are all in one place here on the home page .  A

Rose Petal Water Play

Once Spring arrives, the kids are always ready to start back to water play outside.  Water bins are one of our favorite ways to play outside when the weather is right!   Water play always seems to be a hit with my multi-aged kids.

Ladybug Cupcake Liner Craft

Spring is in full force here at our house.  The bees, the pollen, the rain showers, the warmer weather… We felt inspired to make some spring crafts one afternoon.  One of the first things we thought of was a ladybug or ladybird.  I set

Popsicle Stick Flower Craft

I love flower crafts that the kids can give me to set on my desk.  These are often better than real flowers for 2 reasons: they helped make them and they last longer.  This flower craft would be a great mother’s day gift idea

Bottle Cap Wind Chime

  I was so excited to hear about  a brand new line of craft supplies for Target called Creatify™!  Just another great reason for me to go to one of my favorite stores.  My husband already hates I take the first 10-15 minutes we are in this