play creatively
It’s been snow for days here. And while it’s pretty and lovely it’s keeping us indoors more than I’d like so to make things more playful inside we brought out table tent from my book Playful: Fun Projects to Make With and For Kids. Miss M has been playing picnic with her dolls and Little …
I wanted to share with you my theme for this year. I’ve had some loose ideas mulling around for a while but a concrete idea finally came after watching the beautiful French film Marie’s Story with my mother over Christmas. It’s a lovely story about a young girl who is deaf and blind and responds …
We made (yes another) set of wings for the nativity this year. I think it definitely has been the year of the wings for us. ;). This time we didn’t do cardboard but instead went for a pair of pillow wings. Perfect for her dress wardrobe gift this year. Merry Christmas friends!
This year we decided to do the three wise men gift tradition (the one where kids receive only three gifts similar to the three wise men bringing three gifts for the Christ child). So we’re doing one from Santa, one from mom and dad that could be from a store and one from mom and …
We’re doing some last minute Christmas crafts over here. I wanted to do a topper for a Christmas cake and came up with this little paper angel craft. It’s perfectly easy to put together and little ones will love putting on cupcake liner wings and a pipe cleaner halo. They can even color her or …
Miss Amelia and I did a fun craft this week. Together we made a fun snowman gift topper for Christmas presents. Using air dry clay she rolled up several balls of clay. We then inserted two twigs for arms and stuck a needle through the center of each of them so that we could string …
We started our Star of Wonder advent calendar today. The kids are so excited! I first introduced our idea here but I’ll fill you in a bit in this post as well. We have a sweet little clothe calendar the we usually use but I wanted to mix thing up a bit this year and …
I had a shoot last week for a Thanksgiving craft and thought I’d pop in a share a few of my favorite outtakes. Miss M was such a sweet little assistant. I’m really feeling the colors burgundy/wine, auburn browns and french blues for this time of year. I typically don’t get into the traditional colors of Thanksgiving …
We pulled out our little paper puppet turkey this year for Thanksgiving. Miss M is having lots of fun feeding him imaginary seeds from her pinafore pocket. I think this guy would be a great guest for the Thanksgiving table and maybe even be a pumpkin pie topper. Perhaps I’ll even make a few little …
Friends it was nearly impossible to pick the winners for the #playfulcardboardcostumes contest! I loved them all so much for different reasons (you seriously have to scroll through the gallery). Seeing these costumes trickle in made the entire month of October so magical for me. And I hope making them brought lots of playful moments and …