Crayons and Spice: Let’s Create Something Nice
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G is for Giraffe Craft: Glitter, Glitter Glue, and Googly Eyes
While I prepped this craft, my three year old daughter “read” to her stuffed elephant lovey named Lumpy. She has used glitter glue a lot, but has only used normal glitter once when we made window clings. When I was ready to get started, my daughter said she needed to finish Lumpy’s book first. Well,…
Simple Magnetic Alphabet Activity for Preschoolers
My three year old daughter is very interested in letters and what letters are in each word. She loves when my husband and I help her spell words with her magnets on the fridge. I made these colorful word mats to stick on the fridge as a simple alphabet activity for her. Now she can…
F is for Fish Craft: Foam Sheets and Food Coloring
After our E is for elephant craft, it was time to do an alphabet craft that was a little more recognizable. This foam F is for fish craft was simple to make into a recognizable letter and animal. It was also something my three year old daughter could help with. It was so simple in…
Simple DIY Toy Boat: Bath Toy or Buoyancy Lesson?
If you work in any project based industry you have probably heard the term “scope creep”. If not, it is when a customer keeps adding more and more to the initial request that you agreed to. My three year old had my husband and I cracking up with her extreme scope creep. She initially asked…
E is for Elephant Craft: Egg Meringue and Edible Paint
Yes, that is supposed to be an E shaped elephant. While, this E is for elephant craft didn’t turn out in the looks department, it was still a lot of fun. E is a hard letter to come up with crafts for. I found these cute egg carton elephants, but I couldn’t quite figure out…
D is for Dinosaur Craft: Duct Tape and Dot Markers
We just started reading the Magic Tree House books to my three year old daughter a chapter at a time. The first one got her interested in dinosaurs. So, I decided to do a dinosaur for our D craft. To stick with the D theme, we used duct tape to make the D shaped dinosaur…
DIY Dot Markers: Colorful Fun For The Whole Family
I have heard a lot of great things about dot markers. My three year old daughter has used them in Bible class and thinks they are a lot of fun. I kept meaning to get some, but never got around to it. So, when I was looking for something crafty starting with D for my…
C is for Cat Craft: Chocolate Chip Cookie
What comes to mind when you think of crafts materials or mediums that start with C? Crayons, colored pencils, chalk, cardboard, or construction paper? What about chocolate chip cookies? Once again, I wanted us to make our alphabet craft out of something that starts with the same letter. I decided to skip right over all…