Acorn and Cork Carolers

 My daughter and I gathered a bunch of acorns in the beginning of the fall for acorn crafts. While organizing our craft supplies, I stumbled across our last few. *This post contains affiliate links* With the kickoff to the holiday season just around the corner, I am feeling pretty spirited.  I have to admit, I even […]

40+ Gingerbread Crafts, Activities and Recipes

I’m sure that I have mentioned it before, but I love gingerbread. It is one of my absolute favorite things about this time of year. I look forward to baking it, smelling it, eating it and my daughter and I have fun doing arts and crafts projects inspired by it.  Here are some wonderful gingerbread inspired […]

Holiday Gift Ideas For Young Builders

Engineering activities are wonderful for improving your children’s fine motor skills, problem solving abilities and their imaginations. *This post contains affiliate links. I received product in exchange for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.* My daughter loves to build. She can and will construct out of anything. We build with recyclables. We build with […]

Holly and Mistletoe Arts and Crafts

My daughter and I had a lazy pajama day yesterday. We starting baking for our annual gingerbread project and we painted, crafted and drew. We made a lot of mess, but had a lot of fun. *This post contains affiliate links* We painted and crafted a ton, but we did get a bit carried away […]

Christmas Village Shape Craft

When I was young girl, I can remember my grandmother’s Christmas village. She always set it up at about this time each year. Her miniature houses sat on a blanket of cotton and were surrounded by little pine trees and Christmas carolers. I used to sit and look at them whenever I would visit during the holidays. Looking at them […]

Yarn Wrapped Paper Plate Christmas Wreath

My daughter and I went shopping the other day and found that the Christmas decor was already in full force. She was wide-eyed and excited to see all of the holiday items displayed. “Look mama, Christmas.” We saw a pretty sparkly wreath in the store that caught her eye. She oohed and aahed over it. […]