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Nothing gets us more excited for Christmas than heading to the library and picking out a big stack of holiday books. And then we pick our favorite and create a new ornament inspired by our book - the perfect addition to our Christmas tree. We started this tradition last year when we first participated in the 10 Days of a Kid Made Christmas and I think we will be doing it for a long time to come.

A creative gratitude activity for preschoolers inspired by Bear Says Thanks. "We're thankful for the food we eat... we'...

Make a Wild Island Map for a Family Dinner Book Club craft inspired by My Father's Dragon. This post contains affiliate links. Se...

A fun way to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day with a baseball shirt craft for kids. We're a big baseball family, and we are all anxio...

When I was 11, my grandpa moved to a nursing home, and my dad and I visited him nearly every day for the four years that he lived there. ...

" Every child is an artist." Pablo Picasso's quote hangs on the wall in our playroom right above our art table, and reminds...

We had some landscaping done this summer and one of the things they did was replace the grass under our heat pump with rocks to improve th...

Trick or Treating is one of the highlights of Halloween and this year my boys are old enough to look forward to it. I thought it wou...

Earlier this year we made a super cool DIY reusable coloring book  that my boys just love. It's really fun to be able to color, era...

"What do you see when you look outside?" This is the opening line for the children's book The Day is Waiting  by Don Free...

I love painting crafts. Since my boys are so little, most of our painting is about process and not necessarily a finished product. Last...

I'm excited to be joining over 25 other bloggers for the Tour the World by Flower Blog Hop ! Today we are all posting a craft inspi...

My boys love the DIY Coloring Book we made earlier this week and they are always asking to play with it! We had a doctor's appointme...

My boys love to color. But they are still pretty little, so sometimes "coloring" means drawing a few squiggles and then ask...

After a week of being stuck inside with colds, we needed to do some happy Valentine's Day decorating. I thought our mantle was th...