Silhouettes and Hand Prints

October 12, 2016December 22, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, crafts, drawing, hand, kids, mittens, painting, preschooler, prints, process, silhouette, toddler, watercolor, yarn Leave a comment

My daughter loves to trace her hand prints and then cut them out. She will cut them out and draw little pictures on them and then use a hole punch to poke holes in them and string them up with yarn.

Easy Halloween Paintings

October 10, 2016September 2, 2021 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Halloween, Holidays arts, blob, cat, crafts, easy, ghost, Halloween, mummy, paint, painting, preschooler, pumpkin, simple, splat, splatter, toddler 1 Comment

Yarn Wrapped Broomsticks

October 9, 2016September 2, 2021 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Halloween, Holidays activity, arts, broom, broomsticks, crafts, fine, Halloween, kids, motor, preschooler, skills, witches, yarn 4 Comments

Halloween is a favorite holiday in our house. My daughter is very theatrical and loves to play dress up and, of course, she loves the candy as well. Last year, my daughter was a witch and while she outgrew her costume, she still uses her witch’s broom and hat all of the time. As she […]

Nature Crafting With Clay

October 6, 2016November 22, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts acorns, arts, child, crafts, fairy, flowers, houses, kids, leaves, log cabin, mother, nature, preschooler, sticks, twigs 2 Comments

I am beginning to think more and more that my four year old and my husband are the real writers of this blog, especially my little girl. She has been coming up with so many amazing ideas on her own lately, that I cannot help but beam with pride. Both of the crafts here today […]

Autumn Road Painting Tutorial

October 3, 2016September 1, 2017 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, artwork, autumn, crafts, fall, kids, painting Leave a comment

My 4 year old daughter loves to play pretend. One of her favorite things is to play school. This usually works pretty good for me because when I am teacher, she is attentive and listens. We had a geography lesson first, which went pretty well and then we went on to an art lesson. *This post […]

Cardboard Tube Haunted House

October 1, 2016August 25, 2018 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Halloween, Holidays arts, cardboard, crafts, Halloween, haunted house, kids, paper towel, roll, toilet paper, tube Leave a comment

Recyclables make perfect craft materials. For one, they are free and you just cannot beat that. The other thing is that they are always readily available. I have a huge bin filled with egg cartons and assorted cardboard tubes that I save. I had collected so many tubes, that I had to make something with […]