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.

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 […]

Sequin Lava Lamp

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 Pinparent Learning Tools autumn, experiments, fall, kids, lamp, lava, preschooler, science, sequins, toddler 1 Comment

*This post contains affiliate links* My daughter loves to help with the dishes. Every chance that she gets she jumps up on her safety stool and washes the dishes with me. She was washing a particularly greasy item the other day & was having a hard time getting it clean. We added more soap to […]

Thumbprint Monsters

September 24, 2016December 1, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Halloween, Holidays arts, crafts, easy, fingerprints, Halloween, kids, monsters, preschooler, thumbprints Leave a comment

*This post contains affiliate links* We are huge fans of hand, foot & finger printed projects. They are fun to make & some of those sweet little prints make for wonderful keepsakes to save & look back at later. My daughter is going through a little bit of a monster phase lately. She loves to […]

Toilet Paper Tube Scarecrows

September 20, 2016September 24, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, autumn, cardboard, crafts, fall, Halloween, kids, paper towel, preschooler, puppets, roll, scarecrow, toilet paper, tube Leave a comment

We began a little fall decorating this weekend. We bought a bale of hay to use both for a fun sensory bin for my daughter & to pretty up our front yard for the season. *This post contains affiliate links* We placed our hay in our front yard in anticipation of going to a local […]

Feather Process Art & Painting

September 20, 2016October 4, 2021 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, butterfly, crafts, feathers, kids, owls, paint, painting, preschoolers, process, stamping 2 Comments

I am certain I have mentioned this before, but owls are my favorite animal. They have been my favorite since I was a little girl. When I was a young artist, they were also my favorite art subject & they still are today.

Button In A Haystack Sensory Bin

September 19, 2016December 2, 2016 Pinparent Kid's activities activities, autumn, bins, buttons, colors, counting, fall, Halloween, hay, haystack, kids, play, preschooler, sensory 1 Comment

It has been Legomania in our house as of lately. My daughter is obsessed with building and has completed most of her instructional booklets. *This post contains affiliate links* It can be hard to find the pieces that you need while digging through a bucket of Legos.