I’m a married mom of 3 and a pre-school teacher who uses arts and crafts activities to engage children creatively and have some wholesome fun. I love to share arts and crafts ideas with parents, homeschoolers and educators as a springboard for creative learning and development. Experimenting with specialty paper, foam, wood and other craft materials, I like to help kids create an end result that they are excited to not only display but play and interact with as well.
Springtime is here, and with it come bugs of all shapes and sizes: bees, mosquitoes, ants and ladybugs – as well as spring craft projects. At home my kids and I have been reading a great book about living creatures and we just finished the section about insects. We decided to celebrate one of our [...]
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With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we have launched the “Craft with Mom Sweepstakes”. Win a Hygloss Super Huge Activity Kit worth $69.99! The Super Huge Activity Kit has everything you need for a wide variety of crafts and includes: Metallic, Embossed, Vellum, Parchment, & Holographic Papers, Bright Sheets & Tag, Cello Sheets, Glitter, Balloons, Colored Bags, Colored [...]
May begins next week, and with it the end (hopefully!) of April showers and the appearance of May flowers. I’ve been thinking about May Day activities for May 1 and spring craft projects in general. Because Earth Day was just a few days ago, we’re still in recycling mode and we have a big box [...]
I remember very clearly when I was about 12 years old, going for a walk with my younger cousins who were five and seven. The five-year-old dropped a candy wrapper on the ground and I pointed and said “a litterbug, a litterbug!” He jumped and looked around him frantically, asking “where? where?” I used the [...]
A traditional matza cover has three pockets, one for each of the three matzas that are eaten at the seder. To make a three-pocketed matza cover, you can take four squares of fabric, one on top of the other, and sew them together on three sides. Then one matza can be slipped [...]
Around Easter time we go through so many cartons of eggs, between decorating and searching for them (never mind the ones we eat) that I always end up with a house full of egg cartons. Not wanting to waste them, I’m constantly on the lookout for good egg carton craft ideas. When I came across [...]
Easter baskets are filled with entirely too much junk food if you ask me. Jelly beans, chocolates, marshmallow Peeps. When did this holiday turn into a candy-fest? While my kids are inevitably going to have some candy on Easter, I see to it that we also do fun childrens Easter crafts and include cute, non-edible [...]
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Do you know what holiday is coming up this Friday? It’s Dr. Seuss Day! That’s right, D.r Seuss’s birthday is on March 2. If he were alive today, Theodore Geisel (the venerable Dr. Seuss) would be turning 108. In my classroom, we celebrate Dr. Seuss day by reading his books and by making Dr. [...]
In case you haven’t mentioned it to your students yet, 2012 is a leap year. That means is has 366 days instead of 365, and Leap Day is coming up next week. February 29 only comes around once in four years, which makes it a special occasion in my book! If your kids are [...]
