Northern Lights With Watercolors

January 26, 2016December 22, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Painting activities, art, arts, aurora borealis, crafts, Northern Lights, painting, preschool, preschooler, silhouette, watercolors 3 Comments

This week our family & I are heading to Iceland for vacation. My husband & I have been before & love it there. We are excited to take our daughter to see the geysers & walk the ice tunnel, but our main reason for going is to try our luck at seeing the Northern Lights. […]

Homemade Watercolor Paints

January 25, 2016September 27, 2021 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Painting art, arts, children, crafts, DIY, homemade, kids, painting, paints, preschool, preschooler, recipe, watercolor 7 Comments

Paper Plate Miss Spider Craft

January 24, 2016September 28, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Paper Plate Crafts arts, crafts, MIss Spider's, paper plate, preschool, preschooler, Tea Party 3 Comments

*This post contains affiliate links* Lately, we have been reading a larger than usual amount of books. My daughter has a lot of new books that she wants us to read together and then of course all of her old favorites that she still wants to hear every day. One of those favorites is Miss […]

Plastic Spoon Flowers

January 21, 2016May 18, 2018 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Painting art, arts, crafts, flowers, kids, painting, plastic, preschool, preschooler, spoons, spring 2 Comments

Painting With Droppers

January 16, 2016September 28, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Painting abstract, activities, art, arts, crafts, dropper, kids, painting, preschool, preschooler 1 Comment

We moved into our new house a few weeks ago. We are still trying to settle in & are unpacking those last weird random boxes. While unpacking one of these boxes of odds & ends, I came across a bag of old medicine droppers and plungers. I was getting ready to toss them, but thought […]

Kandinsky Inspired Clay Circles

January 14, 2016February 7, 2023 Pinparent Arts and Crafts art, arts, circles, clay, crafts, Kandinsky, kids, painting, preschool, preschooler 7 Comments

I look forward to the weekends. After working all week, I enjoy every second of time with my family. One of our favorite things to do on the weekends is to go to the library. We have discovered some of our favorite books from trips to the library. One of our favorites was a children’s […]

Melted Crayon Hearts

January 10, 2016September 28, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts activities, art, cardboard, crafts, crayons, hearts, kids, melting, ornament, preschool, preschooler, process, Valentine's Day, Valentines 4 Comments

*This post contains affiliate links* My daughter received a new book from her cousins on Christmas. It has since been promoted to her favorite book. ‘The Day The Crayons Quit‘ is a funny book about a group of frustrated crayons that air their grievances to their owner with individual letters to him. In only a short […]

Valentine’s Day Hand Print

January 5, 2016January 13, 2022 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Hand, foot & finger print art, Holidays, Valentine's Day arts, bee, crafts, hand, mine, preschool, print, toddler, Valentine's Day, Valentines 5 Comments

DIY Cardboard Cash Register

January 4, 2016September 28, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, ay, card board, cash register, crafts, DIY, kids, pl, preschool, preschooler, pretend, recyclables 1 Comment

We moved into a new house recently. We have been working on unpacking and setting up our home over the last couple of weeks. It is hard to believe that we have so much stuff. The boxes seem endless. Mai has been enjoying playing inside of the empty boxes and we have been having fun […]

Toilet Paper Roll Christmas Stamps

December 13, 2015September 28, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Christmas, Holidays, Toilet Paper Roll Crafts Christmas, glitter, Holidays, kids, ornament, preschool, preschooler, roll, stamp, toilet paper, tube 2 Comments

Last Christmas, we made Christmas ornament stamps out of potatoes. These were a big hit with my daughter. She loves stamping projects & we are a big fan of potato stamps. I have seen many people using toilet paper rolls as stamps by bending them into various shapes such as leaves, hearts & pumpkins and I […]