We’re still using coffee filters to make some awesome tree decorations for our Handmade Kelso Christmas! This post is dedicated to our Coffee Filter Wreaths. See our Snowflakes HERE! And back to the main Coffee Filter Craft post HERE How to Make Coffee Filter Wreaths This go around we’re making WREATHS and Wyatt has a… Read More How to Make Coffee Filter Wreaths | DIY Christmas
As part of our Handmade Kelso Christmas this year we did several fun Coffee Filter Crafts to add color to the tree. See them all at the main post HERE. This post is about our Coffee Filter Snowflakes! How to Make Coffee Filter Snowflakes What you need:Coffee FiltersBlue Super Washable MarkersWater CupPaintbrushesDrying Rack {Same used for cookies}Scissors… Read More How to Make Coffee Filter Snowflakes | DIY Christmas
It was actually a little difficult to keep finding toddler and infant safe DIY Christmas Decorations to do for our Handmade Kelso Christmas Adventure… Until it hit me to work with COFFEE FILTERS! Cash had really enjoyed painting as this is really the most we’ve ever done it over such a short period of time.… Read More DIY Christmas Decorations with Coffee Filters | Toddler Crafting
Lots of awesome crafting today while working on our Handmade Kelso Christmas! Patterns: Using Pipe Cleaners and Beads we made candy canes galore and even snuck in some name spelling. You can get ALL of your supplies for these at the Dollar Tree. Shape Cutting: Paper Plate Snowman! Cash got some help with the glove… Read More Handmade Christmas Crafts {Patterns, Tracing and Cutting Shapes}
Toddlers are awesome to have around for Christmas for a few reasons: It may be their first ‘real’ Christmas where they know what is going on. They are excited about everything. We get to be reminded of the small things that make us happy. When thinking about my son’s stocking stuffers this year, since it… Read More Toddler Stocking Stuffers {Christmas Guide}
Decorating the tree one craft project at a time! This year we’re doing a Handmade Kelso Christmas! As you probably know if you have a toddler, ornaments don’t last long on your tree! The running joke I keep seeing in all of my online Mom Blogger groups is, “How many ornaments have you lost so… Read More Handmade Christmas {Toddler Craft Ornaments}
You ladies know what it’s like after you have a baby…. body = mush… and some other choice things that happen. {See my guest post about after baby body fun HERE} After you get yourself to a manageable place you’re going to want to start {slowly} building your body back up. Reasons include posture, overall… Read More Stuffed Animal Overboard! {Mommy Muscles Game}
I searched and searched the internet for an Octopus printable you could cut to give 8 legs, but alas, I had to make my own! For August we are doing a Pirate Theme in Toddler School and we’re focusing on the color purple, the number 8 and of course pirate things like an octopus! This… Read More Purple Octopus {Number 8 & Paper Cutting}
This is a really simplelesson that only requires 2 sets of Manipulatives from the Creativity Corner.We are using our magnet letters and flashcards to match letters! It’s prettysimple, yet so fun and effective. In honor of Pirate Month we are focusing on the letters H, R & Y but I went ahead and threw in the… Read More Letter Matching {Magnets & Flashcards}
This is a classic lesson that MANY teachers and educators use with toddlers. Toddlers LOVE stickers and they love the control they get when sticking something to another thing… feels a little rebellious I imagine so they dig it. Be warned though… Cash gets pretty upset when he puts a sticker in the wrong place, wants… Read More Pirate Sticker Letters for Fine Motor Skills