This is a super simple method for making a to-do list or a menu for the week. You can customize it with your paper and a darling frame to match your kitchen as well! Here’s how to make it… Wipe-Off Weekly Menu Board Tutorial Supplies: Picture frame with glass front – found here Piece of patterned scrapbook paper to fit in your frame (mine’s also 12×12) Dry-erase marker Black Marker or Stickers...
Flaky Pumpkin Biscuits with Maple Cinnamon Butter A little less milk and a good dose of pumpkin puree, a bit of spice from my favorites–cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Yum! These biscuits are flaky. Look at those layers! Could there be anything better than a hot biscuit slathered with butter? Yes. If it’s this maple cinnamon butter. It’s outrageously good. I don’t know if I’ll go back to honey butter after this....
This style of crochet is my new obsession. It’s addicting to keep crocheting in a round. Your edges always come out straight, or circle if that’s what style you’re going for. No edge is needed, they are stand alone beauties. Here is a great video series that I watched to get me started. Video 1 is below, it’s very basic for beginners. She shares this is a 5 part video series, so keep following along with each video to master the Granny!...
Planting and growing is one thing my kids love to do with me that doesn’t feel like a chore. I don’t know if it’s the dirt they get to put their hands in or watching our vegetables grow, but it’s something we all can do together. Gardening is one of the best ways to spend quality time outdoors with your children. It’s hands-on, educational, and surprisingly calming for little ones (and adults too!...
I’m giddy when the first signs of our seeds peek through the soil. This year’s radish sprouts did not disappoint and the peas are already poking their starts towards the heavens. Maybe you are experiencing this as well? Last month I challenged you to watch Food, Inc. And whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, enthused, motivated or unaffected, the journey continues. While there are a myriad of places to start or improve on your family’s “Journey to Green” (Practically Green has to be one of my favorite websites for sustainable living!...
Supplies for Paper Corsage: Cardstock leaf (one or two) We distressed our leaves so they would add texture to the corsage. Just wrinkle them up. Paper rose–use the Little Birdie Secret tutorial here to make yours floral wire in green buttons–we used those to make accents glue green floral tape corsage pin First, you want to put together each piece of the corsage. Glue the floral wire to the back of the leaves....
Supplies for heart counting activity: foam shaped hearts – I found mine at the dollar store little plastic hearts – also from dollar store sharpie markers small bowl Directions: This counting activity was so easy to put together. I placed the numbered foam hearts on the table with the small plastic hearts in a bowl. My child then sat down and called out the number to me on the heart....
I came up with some festive stenciled holiday treat jars, perfect as a gift to my sweet neighbors. And with this type of stencil, your surface doesn’t need to be flat. You can stick them onto a curvy surface like a round jar! So cool. Here’s how I made these fun little jars. Supplies for Stenciled Holiday Treat Jars: small glass jars – mine are from Ikea: Rajtan spice jars $1 each Martha Stewart adhesive stencils craft paint and paint brush candy ribbon – optional...
I started making my own bread crumbs when I felt bad that I was wasting the dry rubbery ends of store bought bread loaves. They have no taste and are not even worth the peanut butter that would get put on them. I felt wasteful throwing them away, so I decided to wrap them up and save them in my freezer. I collect a few, like 8 or so, and turn them into bread crumbs for recipes....
Make a Classic White Cake We are sharing all of our tips for making a white cake including how to make a white cake (instead of vanilla), which extract is best to use, and easy tips and tricks you can use. The difference between white and vanilla cake When making a vanilla cake you are using vanilla extract (which is colored), the whole egg, and sometimes oil (depending on your recipe)....
Painted Rainbow Doormat This rainbow doormat is so quick and easy to make and the perfect welcome mat for your home any time of year. Guests can walk over the rainbow into your home, or put it out for St. Patrick’s Day. Supplies Natural coir welcome mat Outdoor acrylic paint (or multi-purpose paint) Paintbrushes Painter’s tape (optional) Ruler (optional) Instructions The first step is to measure the center point along the long edge at the bottom of the coir mat....
Growing up, I remember feeling frustrated when my parents dragged me from service project to service project, forcing me to give up precious time with my friends and, let’s face it, even more invaluable time sitting on the couch watching tv LOL! I was convinced my parents were service-a-holics. And what that meant for their six children, especially me being the oldest, was a life of indentured servitude… or so I thought....
Supplies for Jingle Bell Painting: jingle bells paint (washable is best, since your bells might jump out of the box!) cups for paint spoons paper box or dish tub Choose your paint colors and put your paint in cups. You don’t need a lot of paint, just enough to get your jingle bell coated. Choose colors that will look good together when mixed – too much red and green together will make brown!...
Whether you are an avid crafter yourself or you are simply collecting supplies just for the kids, here are a few ways to organize what you’ve got. Here are more than 20 great ways to Organize Your Crafts!
Whatever toppings your family likes on pizza will work for these pizza pasta bowls. My girls tend to eat more veggies when they are diced up and served in pretty bowls, so that’s what I do! Being able to cover their meal in shredded cheese is always a plus, too. Ingredient ideas for Pizza Pasta Bowls: pasta of your choice pizza sauce or marinara shredded mozzarella cheese parmesan cheese pepperoni sausage sliced & sautéed mushrooms baby spinach sliced olives diced tomatoes diced bell pepper marinated artichoke hearts anything else you like on pizza!...
These minions from Despicable Me are our absolute favorite characters. We are so gaga for them right now. I personally think they stole the show. So I was happy to partner with Universal Pictures on a sponsored post for a quick and easy last minute Despicable Me Minion costume. It was fun for us to make and create this last minute costume, something you could put together in just a couple of hours, ready for a night of trick or treating....
Enter our friends: frozen puff pastry, cream cheese, goat cheese, and leeks. Puff pastry is that versatile, luscious, pastry dough that puffs up (hence the name) to epic heights in a hot oven and results in the flakiest crust you can imagine. I never make my own. It’s so easy to buy it and keep it on hand in your freezer. All it needs is a little time to thaw before you use it....
If your kids like miniature stuff as much as I do, uh mine do, they’ll love these mini ice cream sundae candies. They’d be a fun ending to a miniature food meal (make mini hamburgers, serve mini corns, and drinks in tiny plastic shot glasses or Dixie cups). Or just serve the mini ice cream candies as a fun treat – any occasion will do! Decorating these is the fun part, and kids of all ages can get in on the action!...
This origami wreath is made of 16 identically-folded pieces that interlock and create a cool starburst shape. Since there’s lots of folding to do, this is a great project for a few kids to work on together. Once you get the technique down, it goes pretty quickly! You need 16 pieces of 6″x6″ paper for each wreath. Use thin paper for this project – either special origami paper, copy paper, or thin scrapbook paper....
Supplies: 3-inch squares of heavy paper (card stock, watercolor paper, file folder) crayons or oil pastels watercolors marker (for writing names) craft knife From sturdy paper, cut 3-inch squares and fold each one in half. (We recycled some file folders for our place cards.) Unfold and draw a leaf shape, making sure part of the leaf goes above the fold. Draw freehand leaves, make a template, or even trace around a real leaf....
