“Moms are Like Buttons, They Hold Everything Together” Mother’s Day Card
May 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
The 7-year-old in my care found this phrase to use to make a Mother’s Day card. Allow the children in your care to make any design they want with buttons while using this phrase. This is how the little one I care for made flowers out of buttons for her Mother’s Day Card. You Will […]
Life-Size Self-Portraits
April 27, 2022 Leave a Comment
This project is from Collage Workshop For Kids by Shannin Merenstein Rip. Snip, Cut, and Create with Inspiration From The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. I borrowed Collage Workshop For Kids by Shannin Merenstein Rip. Snip, Cut, and Create with Inspiration From The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art from the library […]
Perler Beads
March 23, 2022 Leave a Comment
As this photo shows, one of my Nanny Kids loves Perler Beads. She spends hours and hours making beautiful patterns. For children with great fine motor skills Perler Beads are the best boredom buster ever. The girl in my care used the Sunny Days Perler Beads Kit and Perler Beads Flower Madness to make these […]
Make Collages with “Perfect Square” by Michael Hall
March 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
Perfect Square is a square book about a square that undergoes many changes of shape and of color. The square starts out as a red, four cornered shape. However, in the pages it is cut into tiny pieces, ripped into strips, and painted a variety of colors. With each new challenge from the unseen force, […]
Cardboard Roll Heart Garland and Wreath
February 2, 2022 Leave a Comment
I found this cute idea by Jackie Currie on the cbc.ca web site. For young children you will need to do use the hot glue gun. But older children that are allowed to use a low heat glue gun can make the garland and wreath themselves. The kids can make the garland as short or […]
Sewing Paper Plate Snowflakes
January 26, 2022 Leave a Comment
My 8-year-old Nanny Kid constantly asks me to find her lacing projects to do. I found this lacing snowflake activity on the iheartcraftythings web site for beginner sewers. I love how creative Caroline from the web site was by finding this design on a paper plate at Target and thought to make into a sewing […]
Beaded Snowflake Craft
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
I had leftover white beads from Christmas crafts to make this easy snowflake craft. But you can let the children use blue, silver, and clear beads to make their own patterns to make this snowflake. It’s great activity to encourage fine motor skills, counting, and pattens. Don’t forget to check out how to make snowflakes […]
Halloween Spider Web Craft
October 27, 2021 3 Comments
While many people decorate the outside of their homes with stretched cotton to look like spider webs on their bushes I like making this easy spider web craft with my Nanny Kids to decorate the inside their house for Halloween. Let the children help with every step of making this easy project. Preschoolers may not […]
Cardboard Tube Shape Matching
February 24, 2021 Leave a Comment
Creative Wednesdays I save toilet paper and paper towel cardboard tubes to make free, quick, and easy projects for my Nanny Kids. This is an easy activity to let older siblings help make for their younger siblings. The shapes pictured might not look perfect because my Nanny Kid’s brother enjoyed drawing the shapes for his […]
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