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Homemade Snickers Bars: Don’t these homemade Snickers bars look dreamy? Find the tutorial over at How Sweet It Is. Homemade Butterfingers: Yes, you can make a Butterfingers bar at home! Find the tutorial over at Plain Chicken. DIY Peppermint Patties and Junior Mints: There’s something special about the combination of creamy mint filling and chocolate! Find the tutorial over at Instructables. Homemade Candy Corn: I never would have thought to make my own candy corn, but these are just adorable!...

DIY Marble Dipped Mugs: You’d never guess that these mugs are just as easy to make as they are beautiful! Use colorful and inexpensive nail polish for the marble effect. (via The Sweetest Occasion) Mother’s Day Photo Box: Gather your favorite family photos to make these memorable photo boxes. Any mom would think this is the most thoughtful gift! (via Make and Takes) “Mom’s the Bomb” Cake: This cake is delicious, super creative, and simple to make....

To help us in our travels, we’re partnering with Safeway and their #FuelURAdventure grocery gift card giveaway! They are the one-stop-shop to fuel up for all of the adventures summer has to offer. To celebrate, they’re giving store shoppers the chance to win a $500 grocery gift card! Simply show how YOU #FuelURAdventure with Safeway Albertsons and participating PepsiCo products this summer. See the entry guidelines below! 1. Choose your destination: Each year we put together a summer bucket list to make sure we are adventuring all summer long....

Supplies: Paper Plates Paint Paint Brush Construction Paper Elastic Cord Glue (or Tape) Scissors Round up your supplies for this patriotic paper plate craft and let’s make it! Instructions: Begin this craft by cutting a paper plate in half. Paint one half of the paper plate with blue paint. While the paint dries cut triangles from red construction paper. We cut out both small and large triangles. Younger preschoolers may need help with this if they are still learning to master scissor skills, an adult can help them by drawing out the lines of the triangles for them to follow with scissors or by cutting out the triangles for them....

Digital scrapbooking is a really fun and rewarding hobby, especially if you enjoy working with computers. There are a lot of things about digital scrapbooking that are pretty convenient, such as being easily transportable (I have scrapped in the car, on an airplane, at McDonald’s, in a hotel lobby, and on my back porch while enjoying some sunshine), being less messy (no clean up afterward and I can leave a layout open on my computer for days without anyone messing with it), and I can find products to match anything and download them without going out (or I can even make my own products to match my photos)....

Tinker Lab: Lots of tinkering going on. These are the good and messy kind, really diving in to projects. I Can Teach My Child: All kinds of educational activities. There’s categories by age too. The Chocolate Muffin Tree: It’s all in the name, Chocolate Muffin Tree. So many fun exploratory activities! Chalk in my Pocket: Play and discovery. Celebrating those moments that pop up in the everyday. Naturally Educational: This former teacher is crafting up all kinds of fun and creative ideas....

Inspired by Curious George, we’re having fun counting and measuring in bananas with this darling free printable by our designer Juliann Law! Kids can mark how many bananas each object uses to measure up. Be sure to end your math activity with a sweet banana snack! Start by printing out the free printable: Curious George Measuring Printable It’s also available in black and white for kids to color it all in: Curious George Measuring Printable b/w...

Breakfast for dinner I’m not a huge fan of eating breakfast for dinner, however, a couple of my kids love it. They’ve occasionally opted for a bowl of cereal if they don’t like what we’ve cooked for dinner. My daughter’s favorite meal though is fried chicken and waffles, and it’s the one breakfast for dinner meal that I can get on board with. The best part about this easy meal is we make a gluten-free version for my son which he absolutely loves too....

Here is a classic and fun way to enjoy the snow inside your house too. Or if you live in a warmer climate, you can still act like it’s winter where ever you are. Supplies: paper scissors crayons or markers (if you wanted to color the snowflakes) tape (to hang them on the wall, windows, or refrigerator) Instructions: For the paper to be a 6-point snowflake, start with a square piece of paper....

wash fruit and let dry melt chocolate – in the microwave, 30 seconds at a time and stir Dip Deeeeelish!! I promise they are a crowd pleaser, and when strawberries are in season, it is a great treat for a small price. For the chocolate, you can use anything that you have. I tend to use semi-sweet chocolate chips because that is what I have. But for a really good chocolate: Trader Joe’s milk chocolate bars!...

We designed our own hot air balloons with watercolors, coffee filters, and markers. Coffee filters are such fun to paint, and this is a simple project that preschoolers and up can enjoy. Perfect for summer crafting. Supplies for Coffee Filter Hot Air Balloons: coffee filters (we used jumbo ones like these, but regular-sized ones work, too) watercolors & brush colored construction paper for background black marker or crayon glue stick scissors...

Here are Lucy and I crafting a Wintery Wonderland. We will be showcasing our Craftspiration videos all year long to celebrate holidays and events throughout the year. Yippee!

We’re partnering with Lionsgate in celebration of this movie and today I’m sharing an adorable Paper Bag Cupcake Liner Parrot kid craft idea! Not only is it super simple and really inexpensive, but it’s the perfect DIY craft activity to make with the kids to celebrate the upcoming movie release! Display your finished piece as is or use it for a fun pretend play! Let’s flap our feathers together, gather our craft supplies, and make a one-of-a-kind piece today!...

Bath bomb cupcakes are made up of a few simple ingredients, along with essential oil for aromatherapy and almond oil to soften the skin. They fizz when you drop them in water and create a luxurious bath experience. But these are extra sweet because we added frosting with real powdered sugar. The sugar should not hurt you in this small amount. It is no different than using a nice warm sugar scrub in the bath....

There are times I really do not have anything I want to write about on my journal pages. Nor do I believe every single page has to have writing on it. Lately, my pages have been following a familiar theme. They have images of tranquility and peace. For this page, I found an image of a woman drinking tea and I knew it had to go in my journal....

These simple, yet elegant gift tags, will give a little extra handmade love to your gift! Supplies for Embroidery Gift Tags: cardstock paper in 2 colors awl or push pin and cork trivet embroidery floss – I LOVE Sublime Stitching floss cross-stitch needle scissors glue hole punch To Stitch the Design: (see our basic stitching instruction post for greeting cards) Cut a small piece of cardstock into a 2×3 inch piece....

Handprint Turkey Cards It’s so simple YOU have NO excuse NOT to do it {promise!} So set up shop on the kitchen table with your paper supplies and let your child craft the afternoon away with our simple tutorial below! Then place their beautiful finished pieces in an envelope and send them on their way to their lucky receivers! Don’t delay – “flap those wings” together and craft these up today!...

First, wash and DRY your fruit. You need to make sure it’s patted as dry as possible with paper towels or even left out for a while to dry. If you wash and immediately freeze your fruit, it can harden together, leaving them stuck together in a juice, unable to separate after. It’s best to have your fruit frozen individually and as fresh as possible. Once you add water to it, it can change the flavor....

And it doubles as a regular towel they can lay on the floor. I promise, this is an even easier project than this hooded bath towel! Supplies for a Beach Towel Cover Up: 1 regular beach towel (will make 2 small cover ups) scissors sewing machine pins optional sew-on velcro Cut your towel to the length of your child, horizontally. Mine is cut right in half for my daughter. The other half is for my 2 year old....

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