Wooden Spoon Mermaid Craft

This past Christmas I bought my daughter a mermaid tail blanket. She can hardly leave anywhere without it. She loves sleeping in it and wearing it around the house, pretending to be a mermaid. I knew with her love of mermaids she would adore this wooden spoon mermaid craft. Now she has some little mermaid friends to play pretend with and put on fun puppet shows for me. If you have mermaid fans at your house, they are going to love this simple mermaid craft too!

How to Make a Cute Bee DIY Teacher Gift Bag

Since the school year is almost over you might be starting to think about fun teacher appreciation gifts to give to your child's teacher to say thank you for a great year. I was looking at some fun yellow party favor bags in my craft closet and decided they would be perfect for holding candy or a gift card for a teacher gift. For a special twist, we turned them into a cute bee DIY teacher gift bag that is super simple to make and is just perfect for a simple candy gift or a gift card. I've also including a printable label that reads Thank you for "BEE-ING "a great teacher to complete this adorable teacher gift.

12 Colorful Snail Crafts for Kids

Snails are such a fun craft for spring time and it's amazing how many different mediums you can use to make them. I am in love with all of the colorful snail crafts we have seen popping up on some of my favorite blogs lately so I thought it would be fun to make a round up of some of my favorites. Below are 12 colorful snail crafts for kids that you are going to love!

Ladybug Stick Craft for Kids

We've been looking for fun ways to use up all of our extra sticks after making our cute owl craft the other day. My daughter picked up one stick we had gathered that had a Y-shape on the end and she observed "Hey, this looks like ladybug antennae." She is so clever! So we used up some of our leftover sticks and made this adorable ladybug stick craft for kids. The stick antennae add such a fun touch to the ladybug craft. Your kids are going to have so much fun hunting for special Y-shaped sticks and then making this cute ladybug!

Stick Owl Craft for Kids

Some people are ridiculously in love with cats or shoes, but me...you can call me the crazy owl lady. I love, love owls and owl crafts! The kids craft stars challenge this month is all about sticks so after collecting a few handfuls we turned them into my most favorite thing of course, an owl. This stick owl craft for kids is so fun since it is made almost entirely of nature elements. You can create an entire afternoon full of fun by going on a nature walk to collect all of your supplies and then come home to make this adorable owl craft. 

Super Cute Foam Cup Bee Craft

I feel the same way about foam cups as I do about paper plates. You can pretty much make any kind of animal you can think of out of them. Our collection of foam cup crafts keeps growing and our latest is this super cute foam cup bee craft. It makes a perfect kids craft for spring or summer time or when learning all about bees.

Painted Newspaper Butterfly Craft

This past weekend we shared a tip on Instagram for how we paint with liquid watercolors and after painting two sheets of newspaper we've had so much fun all week making colorful newspaper crafts that are perfect for spring time. Our latest is this cute painted newspaper butterfly craft. It's so simple and so fun. Your kids are going to love it!  

Bumblebee Preschool Math Printable

My preschooler recently had her Kindergarten orientation. She beamed from ear to ear as she entered the Kindergarten room, so excited about getting to be a big Kindergartner. At the orientation the teacher talked about all the things they would be learning in Kindergarten and what things they should be working on at home to get ready for Kindergarten. My daughter came home and expressed how she wanted to work on math "so she could be extra smart for Kindergarten." I just love her! I combined my daughter's love for stickers with cute bees and addition facts and put together this fun bumblebee preschool math printable for my daughter to work on her simple addition facts.

Newspaper Hot Air Balloon Craft for Kids

Have you ever been up in a hot air balloon? Although I'm not sure I could handle the heights, I've always dreamed of how fascinating the experience would be. We have been going crazy lately with watercolor painted newspaper crafts and our latest hot air balloon craft for kids is so cute and perfect for spring. Kids will love getting creative by drawing unique and special designs on their hot air balloon craft. 

Colorful Newspaper Snail Craft

Ever since we made our colorful owl craft last month, we simply cannot get enough of watercolor painted newspaper. I love how I can set out the newspaper and watercolors for my daughter one afternoon for creative play and then the next day we can turn her pretty colored newspaper into something creative like this colorful newspaper snail craft. It is such a happy and cheerful craft, perfect for beautiful spring time!

Marbled Art Earth Day Craft for Kids

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Huggies® because “Kids Outgrow Diapers, Not Messes™”. As always, all opinions are my own. We hope you enjoy celebrating Earth Day with your kids by making this Marbled Art Earth Day Craft.

If I had to choose a favorite type of mess it would definitely be the kind that comes along with crafting. I figure if we’re going to make a mess, why not create a piece of artwork and some fun family memories while we’re doing it, right? One of my favorite messy art activities is marbled shaving cream painting. Have you tried it? Since Earth Day is just around the corner, we decided to hug the messy side of crafting this week and made this gorgeous marbled art Earth Day craft. Don’t worry about the mess though because we have Huggies®Wipes on our side today, so I’m going to show you how to help contain the mess while making this fun family art activity! 

Incredibly Cute Bee Finger Puppets Craft

It's clear we have a new favorite kind of craft in our house...finger puppets! Each new day brings new ideas for fun critters we want to make and our latest bee finger puppets are soooo super adorable that you are going to want to immediately turn off your computer and go make them with your kids. They scream spring time and cuteness and what can I say, they need to go on your very immediate to-do list. ;) Keep reading for an overdose of adorableness when you see our ladybug finger puppets. 

Crafting it Forward with Butterfly Finger Puppets

I've been working on something special this past month...Something that has been so hard to keep secret because my heart is bursting with excitement over it. Along with my passion to be creative and crafty with my children, I also feel passionate about teaching my children how important service is and how they can feel joy in giving to others. How do kid crafts fit in to all of this? Well, today I'm sharing how you can craft it forward with these beautiful, colorful butterfly finger puppets. 

Colorful Wood Peg Doll Butterfly Craft

If you've been looking for a fun and colorful craft to make for spring, this pretty butterfly craft definitely needs to be on your to-do list! In fact, I've been so excited to share it with you ever since we made it. My daughter and I had an afternoon full of fun making our colorful wood peg doll butterfly craft and they've been such a delight for my daughter to fly and play around with.

My Five Senses and Popcorn- Preschool Observation Mini Book Printable

Preschoolers are naturally curious and I think that makes them awesome at making observations. That's why when I found out our creative preschool theme this week is learning all about our five senses I was super excited to create a hands on experience for my preschooler to be able to observe all of her five senses.  Using our My Five Senses preschool mini book and some popped popcorn, you have a great activity to help youngsters learn all about sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Make sure to check out more five senses preschool activities near the end of this post.  

Puffy Newspaper Tree Craft for Earth Day

One of my favorite ways to celebrate Earth Day is to spend the week making crafts from recyclable materials like newspaper and cardboard that we have on hand at home. With a little bit of creativity it's amazing what you can make with these simple materials. This puffy newspaper tree craft is simple, fun and absolutely gorgeous! The best part is you probably already have all of the materials you need right on hand. Win-win!

Yarn Wrapped Blossoming Spring Tree Craft

Oh how I love spring time and watching mother nature spring to life! One of my favorites is seeing trees start throwing out pretty pink and white blossoms. To celebrate the beautiful season of spring we made this pretty yarn wrapped blossoming spring tree craft. It is perfect for spring time and the yarn wrapping and crunching tissue paper squares works those important fine motor muscles. Did I mention how pretty it is?! 

Balloon Print Ladybug Craft

When I hear the word spring one of the first things I think of is ladybugs. We love, love ladybugs! Last year I shared this adorable balloon print ladybug craft over at Cooking with Ruthie and I'm excited to share the full tutorial with you here now. What makes this craft extra fun is getting to paint with balloons. Who wouldn't think that was fun, right?!

Simple Wooden Spoon Dragonfly Craft

Spring temperatures have started to arrive and we are starting to look forward to seeing all of the insects come back to life like ladybugs, butterflies and dragonflies. This simple wooden spoon dragonfly craft will get you even more excited to observe all of your favorite insects in nature. These are easy to make and the kids will love flying them around and playing with them after creating them.

How to Make Adorable Chick Finger Puppets

I know, I know...We are obsessed with puppet crafts at my house. Can you blame me though?! Not only are they a cute craft for kids to make but they are incredibly fun to play with afterwards. After we made our bunny yesterday my preschooler pointed out that with Easter coming up this weekend we just had to make a chick too. It was such a genius idea since now our cute bunnies have new friends to play with.