Kids Crafts

Kids Make Whip Cream

Alice and Arlo, hard at work and focused on the prize! I’m always amazed at how satisfying it is to beat your own whip cream, especially by hand, and for kids it’s no exception. I can rarely get either of my boys to hunker down in the kitchen with me for a real baking session, […]

Twister Blanket

Here’s a neat idea for a Twister bed spread. White fleece seems a bit dangerous to me, but you could always work the colored dots into a larger overall pattern or color scheme, too. Perfect for youngsters and teenagers alike, in my opinion.

Pocket Anti-Boredom Kit

Instructables user threadbare shows us how to make a kid’s anti-boredom kit that will fit in a pocket. I’m thinking of making an adult version for myself! There’s only so long I can spend playing solitaire on my phone, and those bubbles would really be fun in a waiting room.

Ideas for Traveling with Kids

My first idea for traveling by airplane with children involves a kindly mother or mother-in-law, whom your children adore, and who would like nothing more than to come stay at your house with your kids for 3 weeks while you and your hubby fly off to Tahiti. Sadly, we tried this one time, when our […]

How-To: Homemade Scratch Art

When I was a kid, we’d try to create our own version of “scratch art” by coloring all over a piece of paper in rainbow colors and then coloring over that with a thick coat of black crayon. But covering up the rainbow colors with the black crayon overlay was exhausting, and never quite filled […]