Learn how to make cinnamon applesauce ornaments as an easy family Christmas craft. Use them to decorate your tree, as festive gift toppers, or as air fresheners throughout your home during the holiday season. These naturally scented Christmas ornaments have been popular for years. Not only are they easy to make, but they also smell wonderful. Try this fun homemade ornament idea for your own tree or to give as…
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Mason Jar Night Light: DIY Unicorn Night Light for Unicorn Lovers
Mason jar night lights are an easy way to add conversation worthy home decor to any room on a budget. This tutorial shows you how to make a DIY mason jar night light for kids decorated with a unicorn and rainbow that’s perfect for a little girl’s room. You can also make this easy night light DIY to add a whimsical touch to your favorite reading nook! Keep reading to…
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DIY Plaster Aroma Stones for Essential Oils (That Double As Kids Sidewalk Chalk)
Learn how to make DIY plaster aroma stones for a quick and easy essential oil diffuser. This easy DIY craft project is perfect for the kids to make for Mother’s Day gifts. Plus they can create extras to use themselves. Turns out these essential oil aroma stones actually double as kids sidewalk chalk. So it’s the perfect 2-for-1 activity when you need things to do when bored, or are looking…
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Play Dough Soap DIY: A Fun Kids Activity That Encourages Hand Washing
Encourage hand washing and make bath time fun with this play dough soap recipe, made with liquid Castile soap. This DIY play dough bath soap is easy to make, and older kids can even make it themselves. Don’t have liquid Castile soap on hand? Try it with body wash or baby shampoo. You can even scent these with kid safe essential oils for aromatherapeutic bath time fun! A creative, kid-approved…
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Free Printable Valentines for Kids (And Kids At Heart!)
The cutest free printable valentines for kids (and kids at heart!) for Valentine’s Day. Get ready for Valentine’s Day with this adorable collection of free printable valentines featuring woodland creatures and magical delights for all ages. Read on to discover a number of printable valentines that you can download and print for free — both for kids and a few for adults as well! Free Printable Valentines for Kids Created…
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Rubber Ducky Soap Tutorial for Kids Who Love Sesame Street
Learn how to make fun DIY rubber ducky soaps for children’s gifts or party favors with this easy rubber ducky soap tutorial. They’re the perfect bath time treat for kids who love Sesame Street! Growing Up with Sesame Street I was born in the 70s. So, like many other Genexers, I grew up watching Sesame Street. My favorite character was always a toss up between Oscar the Grouch and Cookie…
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Tips for Staying Healthy As The Kids Head Back to School This Fall
Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent or work full time, back to school can be a challenge for every type of family. So when someone in your family gets sick, it makes it hard to stick to a routine that works. Following is my collection of tips for staying healthy (and organized!) as the kids head back to school this fall. So you, and your kids, can stay on top of…
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Kids Craft Projects for When You’ve Hit Your Limit
Are your kids driving you crazy? Retreat into some quiet time for yourself with this collection of 12 DIY kids craft projects for when you’ve hit your limit! (Plus a rockin’ printable chore chart with a rewards system for crafty prizes!) We’ve all been there. The weather’s been crap for days. The kids are going stir crazy and you, well you’re trying to contain yourself so you don’t scream at anyone…
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How to Throw a Unicorn Party for All Ages
How to Throw a Unicorn Party! Whether you’re planning a unicorn party for a child or simply a crazy fun cocktail party for adults, here’s how to throw a unicorn party that everyone will love! My friend Cathy and I have birthdays just three days apart. Cathy really wanted to have a birthday party for our 42nd birthdays. So I threw her a unicorn party! While unicorn cakes and other…
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Easy DIY Christmas Ornaments The Kids Can Make for the Holidays
Your family will love this easy Christmas decor idea for the holiday season. Learn how to craft these easy DIY Christmas ornaments with your kids for holiday inspired DIY Christmas decor this winter. These easy DIY Christmas ornaments are made from shrink plastic Shrinky Dink paper. Not only will these ornaments look great on your Christmas tree, they make fun necklaces for kids to wear! Or give them as DIY…
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DIY Goldfish in a Bag Soap for Kids: Melt and Pour Soap Tutorial
This melt and pour soap tutorial for making your own DIY goldfish in a bag soap not only makes a super cute gift for kids but is also perfect for DIY party favors. While they look easy to make, these soaps are actually a bit tricky to perfect. I recommend buying more materials than you think you’ll need and be prepared to exercise a bit of patience. It took me more than a few…
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DIY Homemade Goldfish Soaps for Kids
These cute homemade soaps have toy goldfish embedded inside to help make washing hands and even bath time more fun for kids. Plus they’re smaller guest sized soaps rather than full size soap bars making them perfect for small hands. Made from a crystal clear melt and pour soap base, these soaps are a snap to create so even the kids can get in on the crafting process. Due to…
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DIY Shrinky Dinks Magnets – Great Rainy Day Weekend Kids’ Craft Project
I was recently inspired by some lovely, handmade shrink film jewelry I discovered through Painting Bliss blog. It in turn led to my son and I crafting our own DIY shrinky dinks magnets for the fridge! Ashlie Blake, author of Painting Bliss blog (since defunct) is also the designer behind the lovely necklace pictured above. She makes a variety of beautiful, shrink film necklaces and earrings that I have just…
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Easy Kids Craft Project: DIY Handmade Soap for Mother’s Day
Happen to have lots of leftover soap slivers? Don’t throw them out! Use them to craft new soaps. Here’s an easy handmade soap project you do on a weekend afternoon with the kids with quick results from left over glycerin soap slivers and a bit of new melt and pour soap. These soaps are quick and easy and make a fun kids’ project or a simple Mother’s Day gift that…
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DIY Easter Chicks Mashed Potatoes for Easter Dinner with the Kids
Traditionally Easter is a time that families spend together celebrating family as well as the resurrection of Christ. But that doesn’t mean Easter has to be entirely a serious occasion. You can add an interesting twist to your Easter dinner this year by crafting these DIY Easter chicks mashed potatoes with the kids! These DIY Easter chicks are actually mashed potatoes. Crazy, right?! They are both fun to make and…
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Sewing made simple. A diy travel sewing kit for non-sewers to sew. Or something like that.
My friend Ben is a crafty seamstress – seamster? – who is on his way to becoming a sewist – “someone who creates sewn works of art, which can include clothing or other items made with sewn elements.” Currently he stitches backpacks together with a craftsmanship I doubt I could master with my current lack of patience. Recently, however, he informed me that he’s decided to make his own clothing.…
