Crayons and Spice: Let’s Create Something Nice
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Recent ideas from Crayons and Spice:
Laminated Paper Doll Made to Look Like a Lovey
How did you spend your morning? I spent mine sneaking around our downstairs feeling like a fugitive. I started out in the laundry room. When I heard my daughter coming down the stairs, I frantically came out and tried to distract her. After I finally convinced her to go upstairs, I ran to the couch…
Your Toddler Needs You to Make Them a Lovey Backpack
Are there times you wish you could bring your child’s lovey somewhere, but you are afraid it will end up on the ground, in a puddle, or being hugged by a coughing friend? Or even worse….lost forever. I run into this problem ALL the time. My 2 1/2 year old daughter is very attached to…
All Aboard the Free Sticker Chart Train
My daughter has recently had a minor obsession with trains. It started when I told her she was going to go on a park train with her Grammy. Since then, she has got a few books about Thomas the Train and has checked out a few other train books at the library. I decided to…
Toddler Helping in the Kitchen: 5 Age Appropriate Tasks
When you think of creating with your kid, do you automatically think of crafts? Crafts are a great way to create, but creating can also happen in the kitchen. Cooking with your kid can be daunting and require a lot of patience, but it is also so rewarding. As long as you pick age appropriate…
Popsicle Stick Bird Feeder Made With a Toddler
My 2 1/2 year old loves watching birds and neighbors from our dining room table. She thinks I command them and asks me to make more of them show up. About a month ago she got to visit my husband’s work and got a plastic birdhouse. She was so excited about it that we hung…
Teach Your Toddler to Be a Bagel Pizza Chef
One of my daughter’s first words was “za” which meant pizza. Now that she is 2 1/2, she still answers pizza most of the time when I ask her what she wants to eat. Last week my extended family went and got a 3 foot across pizza. and my daughter ate her fair share of…
Reuse Wipe Lids to Overcome Your Toddler’s Shyness
My 2 1/2 year old daughter is bubbly, talkative, and silly…when she is around my husband and I. Put her in a room full of people and she wants held while she sucks on her hand and hides behind her lovey. We have been working with her on this and she has been doing better,…
Easily Create a Convenient Vacation Sticker Chart
Last week we had a family reunion of sorts. There were about 20 of us and a week packed full of fun adventures. With a toddler and a baby involved it also meant lots of interrupted naps, new people and strange toilets. I wanted a convenient way to continue to encourage my headstrong toddler to…