We have made these easy personalized holiday napkins every year since my first child was born. They make an adorable 1st Thanksgiving keepsake, although with a baby I'd advise doing footprint art rather than handprint. This year we have all of the younger children that are coming over for the holiday, making this craft for the grandparents. You can make these too with only a few simple … [Read more...]
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Color Matching Fine Motor Turkey Toddler Activity
I made this super easy turkey activity to work on color recognition and fine motor skills with my little guy this week. This was also great to practice the pincher grip and to identify patterns. It's important to practice fine motor skills at this age because without well-developed fine motor skills they may have difficulty learning to write when they start preschool and kindergarten. It also … [Read more...]
Spooky DIY Footprint Window Clings
When decorating for Halloween we prefer to use our homemade decorations like our Paper Plate Spider Wreath, that we shared the other week. Here's another super easy homemade decoration that any child can do, our Halloween Footprint Window Clings. You can really do any design that you'd like but this year we chose to do some fun footprint art! These would be great for any … [Read more...]
Watercolor Silhouette with Spooky Pasta Bats
After our spider web Halloween craft from the other week, the kids have been asking for another watercolor project to do. Being that the kids (my newphews and my son) range from 2-7 I wanted to do something that everyone could enjoy. Which is why we came up with a watercolor silhouette craft with spooky pasta bats! The older kids handled the water-coloring while my two year old tackled painting … [Read more...]
Cardboard Tube Spinning Bats Kids Craft
It's been a little quiet over here at I Heart Arts n Crafts, after almost two weeks off from the blogging world I am back with another adorable Halloween craft! I know... I know... we've done Halloween crafts for the last few posts, but I promise there's only one more. This is an easy cardboard tube craft that the kids can personalize, and then hang to watch their friendly cardboard bats swirl … [Read more...]