Posted in Quick Crafts on Feb 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
I meant to put this up earlier… This was one of the homemade gifts I made for Christmas. It was fun and easy and something you could do with your kids depending on their ages.
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11565
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Posted in Quick Crafts, Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a new thing I’m trying this year. I bought a small scrapbook (maybe 20 pages, 8×8). I cut up an old Mary Engelbreit Christmas book and glued some of her cute pictures in the book. My plan is to write just a page or two about each Christmas starting with this year. I wrote […]
Posted in Quick Crafts on Jul 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
A girlfriend of mine told me about this fun activity… we tried it out this morning.
Need:
Vanilla Pudding (milk required to make instant pudding)
Food Coloring
Small containers for pudding
Basically, you just add food coloring to the pudding and let your little Picasso go to town. My son ate more than he painted, but it was fun nonetheless. […]
Posted in My Favorite Things..., Quick Crafts on Jun 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
My mom was nice (and organized) enough to save a lot of my childhood books. I have enjoyed reading them to my son, but I’m thinking about recycling some of them into art work. They are pretty old now and I’m not sure how well they will weather through my kids’ usage.
If you […]
Posted in My Favorite Things..., Quick Crafts, Shopping Savvy on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
If you have a bunch of baby books, albums, craft projects, etc. that can benefit from a beautiful picture of your child, this is a great little item to have:
The Epson PictureMate: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=53540922
It looks like with a rebate, this printer only costs about $70 (May 17, 07)
It may have some limitations (only prints up to […]
Posted in Quick Crafts on May 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Each day, there are certain things I expect to spend time on: feeding the kids, changing diapers, cleaning up, etc. However, I have also come to appreciate the surprise tasks that are not on the agenda that end up taking up some of my time. Not a bad thing, just an unexpected task.
Today’s task:
I looked […]
Posted in Quick Crafts on May 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Paper folding can be therapeutic. Who knew?
I wanted to create something to hang above my baby’s changing table… it needs to be safe (won’t hurt her if it falls down), cheap ($0 in the budget for this), and cute (for obvious reasons).
Here is the website I found for paper origami cranes: http://www.monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/
I just used some […]
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