Easter Basket Craft

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Ness

Today I am thrilled to welcome Krissy of B-Inspired Mama to the blog. Krissy’s site is full of creative kids activities, fun family recipes and the hugely popular “Mouths of Moms” series where Moms share their real-life experiences and chat about everyday parenting issues. Today Krissy is sharing a fun Easter basket craft that incorporates fine motor skills practice with ribbon weaving. Thank you Krissy!

Easter Basket Craft

Are your kids ready for the big bunny to come? Why not let them make their own special Easter basket for the big day? Even the littlest can practice their fine motor skills and enjoy the sensory experience of this Easter basket craft. Here’s what we did…

Kids Ribbon Weaving Easter Basket Craft

Supplies:

open weave metal or wicker basket (We found ours at Dollar Tree.)
a variety of ribbon, string, and twine

Steps:

1. Cut the ribbon and string into various lengths about 2 feet long or so.

2. Leaving a few inch “tail” inside the basket, weave the ribbon/string in and out of the holes in the basket, working your way around the basket. When you come to an end, tie another ribbon/string on and keep weaving.

3. Secure any “tail” ends by tying or even with a dab of glue if necessary.

4. Set it out the Easter eve and wait for some treats!

We did this Easter basket craft when we had friends over for a long afternoon. Every kiddo, ages 4 through 10, loved it and was able to make a beautiful basket all their own.

Have you done any Easter crafts yet? Check out B-Inspired Mama if you’re looking for some Easter inspiration!

Krissy is a former art teacher turned full time mama of 3. Blogging at B-Inspired Mama allows her to connect other moms with simple ideas for kid-friendly crafts, easy recipes, learning fun, and creative parenting tips. Follow along through Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.

Looking for more Easter activities and crafts? Here are a few of our other fun Easter posts.

Easy Last Minute Valentine’s Day Craft for Kids

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Ness

We’ve been having fun with our Valentine’s Day countdown. It has been a wonderful way for R (4 yrs) to learn about kindness. I wanted to do something else in the lead up to Valentine’s Day which focused on why we loved each other. After seeing this super sweet Valentine’s Day idea at Skip To My Lou, I decided to do something similar for R. The idea is that beginning February first, you add a heart shaped note to your child’s door each day leading up to Valentine’s Day. The notes are filled with the reasons why you love them. How adorable is that?

Rather than stick the notes directly on R’s door, I attached a sheet of pink craft paper on his door and have been adding heart shaped love notes to that each day. I add the notes at random times of the day (each morning would be great but I just haven’t been that organised!) When I let him know that a new note has been added to his door he sprints to his door and asks me to read the next note. I’ve also been writing “xoxox” on the notes and when he learnt that these meant hugs and kisses and he gives me a kiss for every “x” I write and a hug for every “o” I write on each note. I’ve been writing notes such as “I love you because you are kind, because you give the best cuddles, you are helpful” etc If I’d been a bit more organised I would have written all fourteen notes ahead of time – maybe next year! I have however written out the very last note, the one R will receive on Valentine’s morning. It reads “I love you because you are YOU!” The very best reason of all.

If you love this idea as well, then it’s not too late!! Sure, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow but why not write out a few love notes today and pin them on your children’s doors over night so they wake up to see them on Valentine’s morning? We decided to make one for my husband and we didn’t start it until February 11. On that day we wrote out 11 reasons why R loves his Daddy and we’ve been adding a new heart each day since then. My husband LOVED it when he came home from work and read all the notes. So here’s what we did.

We cut out fourteen heart shapes from pink paper. R told me the reasons why he loves his Daddy and I wrote them out for him. R glued the first eleven hearts onto some pink craft paper – eleven because we made this on the 11th and wanted to add a new heart each day after that leading up to Valentines. If you are making this today to give to someone tomorrow just add all fourteen hearts at once, they’ll love it!

After he had glued on the hearts, R then decorated the page with metallic cut outs of hearts and other shapes – just some craft bits and pieces we had on hand. That’s it! Simple, quick and easy Valentine’s craft and a wonderful way to show someone how much they are loved!

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A Valentine’s Day Countdown: Messages of love and kindess

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Ness

I am excited to be taking part in the third annual 100 Acts of Kindness Project hosted by Toddler Approved. The project began January 21 and the idea is to perform 100 acts of kindness between then and February 14, when there will be a giant kindess celebration on Valentines Day. Pop over to Toddler Approved for all the details. It’s not too late to join in and there are weekly challenges and daily ideas to inspire you. Remember, no act of kindness is too small!

As part of our 100 acts of kindness, I created a Valentine’s Day countdown. Inspired by our easy DIY Advent Calendar that I made for Christmas, with all the surprise and anticipation of opening a new envelope each day, I thought a similar countdown to Valentine’s Day might be fun. Each morning beginning February 1st, R (4 yrs) will be greeted with a pink envelope. Inside will be a simple act of kindness that we will carry out together. Our acts of kindness will be simple gestures – daily reminders to love and appreciate the people in our life.

SUPPLIES:
* A pink or red envelope (you only need one, I explain why later in this post)
* Scissors
* Glue
* various scrapbook or craft paper
* pens or coloured markers
* notes (either hand written or printed, with acts of kindness)
*blu-tack (optional)

HOW TO MAKE A VALENTINES DAY COUNTDOWN:

This was really quick to put together because I only made one envelope. Even though we will be opening an envelope every morning for the two weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, I am going to use the same envelope each day. I plan to leave the envelope out each morning for R to find, and he can open it up to see which act of kindness we’ll be performing that day. If you wanted to, you could certainly make fourteen envelopes and display them all together. It might be fun to then select a random envelope each day, like a kindness lucky dip!

To make our Valentine’s Day countdown:

1. I began by cutting a heart shape from some scrapbook paper to co-ordinate with the colour of the envelope and then I glued it to the front of the envelope.

2. Next, I cut out fourteen heart shapes from plain white paper. I made these slightly smaller than the larger pink heart that I had already glued to the envelope.

3. On each of the fourteen white hearts I wrote the numbers 1 through 14.

4. I attached the white heart with the number 14 on it to the envelope using blue tack. This is so that I can remove it easily and use the same envelope for each day, simply changing the number on the white heart, counting down each day to Valentine’s Day.

5. I decided on fourteen simple acts of kindness, typed them out and printed them. I cut them into small notes and will insert one note each day into the envelope.

That’s it! A fun and simple way to count down to Valentine’s Day and spread a little kindness along the way.

Here’s our list of acts of kindness that will be in our Valentine’s Day countdown.

Call Daddy at Work to tell him you love him.

Write a thank you note for your teacher. (This will be for R’s daycare teachers where he attends two days a week)

Donate some art materials to daycare. (We’ll be gathering some recycled paper, egg cartons, boxes and making some home made play dough).

Make a meal and take it to our neighbour. (One of our neighbours is very ill and so we’ll take some food over to them to help his family while they are busy dealing with treatment and all the stress and worry they are going through).

Help Daddy by collecting the garbage bins after garbage night.

Paint a picture for Nanna and mail it to her.

Offer help without being asked. Ask Mummy and Daddy what you can do to help them today.

Hold open the door for other people today.

Donate some toys and clothing to goodwill.

Donate some books to our local library.

Make a “welcome home” sign to greet Daddy on the door when he gets home from work.

Pick up rubbish on the ground while we are playing at the park today.

Reach out to a friend at kindy and invite them to join in your games.

Donate food to our local food bank.

What would you add to the list? Let’s share some ideas in the comments below.

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How to Organise Christmas Ornaments

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Ness

I have dubbed 2013 “The Year of Getting Organised”. I have a long list of organisation goals that I plan to work through this year, and first on the list was sorting out my Christmas decorations. Until now, my “system” for Christmas decorations consisted of an array of cardboard boxes, paper bags, and general chaos….

This photo doesn’t even show the entire collection of craziness. It all took up so much space that it had to be stored in three different rooms – wherever I could fit a box, I threw it in there. As much as I love decorating our tree, the clean up afterwards was a nightmare. Boxes from one end of the living room to the other. So this year I decided – enough of this!

I began by clearing some space in the top shelf of one of our wardrobes. I measured the space that was available and purchased two plastic tubs to fit that space. Notice I worked out how much space I had to work with first, before buying the storage tubs. I have very limited space so I couldn’t just buy a whole lot of tubs and then find somewhere to put them. If your space is limited, determine your shelf size first, buy a tub to fit, and work from there.

Next, I made divisions in the tub using scraps of cardboard. I recycled the boxes that our ornaments had been stored in previously. It was so much fun cutting up those headache-inducing boxes! Dividing the tub into sections keeps everything nice and ordered. You can buy tubs that come with the dividers in them already, but I chose to do it myself for two reasons. One, I was on a tight budget and buying a tub without built-in dividers was less expensive. Two, doing it myself meant that I could make it just right for my storage needs. I could make the sections exactly the size that I needed. A couple of tips – try to cut the strips of cardboard to exactly the width of the tub so they fit very snugly. You don’t want any gaps between the cardboard and the sides of the tub. I used adhesive tape to attach the cardboard to the sides of the tub and to adhere one cardboard strip to another. As for the height of the cardboard dividers – try to make them slightly lower than the height of the tub. This will give you an extra layer of storage space. I’ll explain about that a bit further down in this post.

After I had made my cardboard dividers, I started adding ornaments. I wrapped our fragile glass ornaments individually in tissue paper. The others I just put straight into the tub. How gorgeous is this? Organisation just makes me so happy! I could stare at this picture for hours. It is going to be SO much less work to decorate the tree next Christmas now that I’ve done this. But wait, this tub gets even better…

Next I got to work on our garlands. I took another piece of cardboard, again recycled from the boxes we had been using previously to store our ornaments. I cut a small slit on the top left corner as shown above and used this slit to hold the garland in place. I then wound the garland around the cardboard so I now have this….

This makes my heart sing! Really. I feel calm just looking at it. I cut another slit at the other end of the piece of cardboard to hold the end of the garland in place. Next Christmas – no more tangles, knots or chaos. Wonderful!

I stored our Christmas lights in the same way as the garland described above.

I added the garland and our Christmas stockings to the first tub. This is why it is a good idea to make the cardboard dividers slightly shorter than the height of the tub – so you have space to add another layer of items. The best part about this new storage system is that I can see at a glance what we have and it is so great to have it all in the one place.

I used the second tub to store our very fragile ornaments. The individual boxes with dividers were the ones they came in when I bought them many years ago. The baubles on the right are vintage mercury glass ornaments so I wrapped them in bubble wrap to keep them safe.

I gathered any other random, loose ornaments and sorted them into zip lock bags.

So much better!

And this is how the second tub looks. I put the lids onto the ornament boxes shown earlier, then on top of those I have stored the zip lock bags of loose ornaments and the hooks for hanging the ornaments (which I sorted into two plastic containers, one with small hooks and one with large hooks). I have also used this tub to store the paper bags from our Advent calendar.

So there you have it. From complete chaos and wasted space to two tubs that fit into a space that is only 30 in x 16 in (75cm x 40 cm). This project has not only saved on space, but time as well. Decorating the tree next Christmas (and putting it all away again) will be so much less work.

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Christmas Sensory Tub

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Ness

Today you’ll find me over at Kids Activities Blog where I’m sharing our festive winter sensory tub. Pop over to take a look at what we put in it and the games we played with it including fine motor skills practise and colour sorting games.

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Homemade Crayon Resist Gift Tags

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Ness

We’re trying as much as possible to give handmade gifts this year and that includes the wrapping paper and gift tags.

These crayon resist gift tags were very simple to make and they look lovely. The ‘surprise’ element of the crayon resist was lots of fun for R. Even though we’ve done crayon resist painting before, he still delighted in seeing the images appear before his eyes. It’s just one of those magic childhood crafts, isn’t it? I remember doing this as a child and loving it.

To make these DIY gift tags, we used:
A white crayon or white candle
Water colour paints
Paintbrush
Glue
Glitter
Ribbon
White card stock (I’m all for recycling and using what’s around the house. I actually used the centre of some paper plates. That sounds weird! Let me explain. We made some paper plate Christmas wreaths and we had the centre of the plates left over, so I used them to make gift tags. If you’re wondering what paper plate Christmas wreaths look like, The Pleasantest Thing has made some lovely ones.)

How to make crayon resist gift tags:

1.Cut the card stock into rectangles.

2. Using the white crayon, or white candle, draw pictures on the card stock. I drew snowflakes and Christmas trees. Since the crayon and the card stock are both white, the picture won’t be visible just yet.

3. Brush water colour paint over the cards. The paint does not adhere to the crayon or candle wax, so as the colour is brushed over the card, the picture is magically revealed. I hadn’t told R that I had drawn on the tags, so he was excited to see the pictures appearing out of nowhere!

4. Once the paint is dry, apply glue around the outside edge of the tags and add some glitter. This is optional of course. We left some without glitter and they look just as lovely.

5. Use a hole punch or the pointed end of a pair of scissors to pierce a hole at one end of each tag. Thread some ribbon through the hole. Write “to” and “from” on the back of the cards and they’re done!

The muted shades of the water colour paints look so lovely. I think we might try using a similar technique to make some greeting cards next year.

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Easy DIY Advent Calendar

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Ness

Are you looking for a last minute Advent calendar idea? There’s still time to make one. Last year I didn’t get ours up on the wall until about the third of fourth of December – R didn’t mind at all and we had an entire month to have fun with it so what’s a few days, give or take? If you’re looking for some inspiration, there are lots of lovely ideas on my Advent calendar Pinterest board. Yes, I love Advent calendars that much that I have an entire board on Pinterest dedicated to them. There’s lots of inspiration on that board, not just for the design of Advent calendars, but also ways to make the calendars less about chocolate and more about the true spirit of the holidays. One of these days, I’ll make one that looks like this gorgeous one, but for now, I’m taking the easy and “done-in-under-an-hour” route. That’s the beauty of advent calendars, even the most simple design can look beautiful and really, when it comes down to it you could put 25 potato sacks around the place and the little ones are still going to get excited!

The Advent calendar I’m sharing today is actually the one I made last year. I’ll post next week about the one I’ve made for this year. (You can interpret that to mean it isn’t quite finished yet and I’m behind schedule for the second year running if you wish. I’m not saying anything!) Since this was last year’s calendar, that means it was done before I started this blog, so please excuse the quality of the pics of the calendar on the wall. Those photos were taken for posterity, not Pinterest! This is a really quick and simple way to make an Advent calendar and I put it together in about an hour. Read on for the how-to.

Supplies for a simple DIY Advent Calendar
Brown paper bags (I used plain old sandwich bags from the supermarket)
Wooden clothes pegs
Ribbon or string for hanging
A festive stamp (or whatever decoration you wish to use)
Numbers (I downloaded these lovely ones from Skip To My Lou )
Contents for the bags (It’s a personal choice as to what you put inside the bags. See below for some ideas)
Scissors
Glue
Two wall hooks (I used the removable ones with adhesive backing so that I wouldn’t have to drill holes in the wall)

How to make a simple DIY Advent Calendar

1. Prepare your bags. I folded my bags down to a smaller width. This was purely for design, and to be honest, it is entirely unnecessary. They just looked so much nicer that way. I’m a bit nuts like that sometimes. The next photo shows what I did to make them narrower – don’t miss it, it’s riveting stuff.

(This is quite possibly the most exciting photo I’ve ever shared on the blog.) I turned the bags over so the “seam” of the bag would be on the back and then folded about 1.5 inches in on each side. I glued down the flaps, and voila! A nice narrow bag that I had searched high and low for but couldn’t find anywhere.

2. Decorate your bags. I decorated my bags very simply. I used a stamp with a gorgeous Nordic Christmas image – oh how I love Nordic designs at Christmas time. I then printed the numbers see download link in supplies list above), cut them out, and glued them to the front of the bags. That’s it, done. You could decorate these as simply or elaborately as you wish ad use colours to match your Christmas decor. You could even paint or write the numbers on the bags.

3. Fill the bags. Our bags are a mixture of ornaments for the tree, small treats like chocolate or jelly beans, small gifts such as stickers or crayons, and notes with a suggested Christmas activity such as “stay up late and watch a Christmas movie” or “Buy a gift to be donated to a children’s charity”. I’ll share more ideas for the contents of the bag in the post for this year’s calendar and I’ll update this post with a link.

4. Hang the bags. I folded over the top of the bags and then used wooden pegs to hang them up. I placed two hooks on the wall and hung two lengths of ribbon between the hooks. One of the strands of ribbon was slightly longer than the other so that one hung lower than the other. We needed two rows to fit all 25 bags. You could use ribbon like I did, or string, baker’s twine, fishing wire, anything at all that you have on hand. The picture below shows how I hung them - a simple removable clear plastic hook, with the ribbon tied around it.

So simple and lovely to look at. I always have so much fun deciding what to put inside the bags, and watching R literally RUN to the calendar each morning is just precious. The beauty of this calendar is that it’s recyclable. I kept everything from last year and we’ve been using the same bags again this year just for the first few days of December – just until I finish this year’s calendar.

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Play Dough fun with Christmas Cookie Cutters

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Ness

Christmas is just around the corner. No really, it is! Actually I’ve been saying that since, oh, July. I adore Christmas. Some might even say I’m Christmas crazy, just a little. So it’s actually a bit of a surprise that it’s taken me this long to start our Christmas crafts and activities. I’ll have LOTS to share with you over the coming weeks – kid’s crafts, cooking with kids, a DIY advent calendar, homemade gifts, and some reflections on my attempts to simplify Christmas this year and teach R what it’s really all about.

Today I made some of our home made play dough – five batches in fact! Seriously, this stuff is EASY to make and takes no time at all so five batches wasn’t nearly as much work as it sounds. If you haven’t tried making play dough at home before, check out my earlier post for the super simple how-to.

I set out the play dough for R, along with some Christmas themed cookie cutters and some embellishments to decorate the play dough. I tried to pick items which might be good as decorations on the play dough Christmas trees. I put out:
pom poms
buttons
coloured toothpicks
beads
sequins

Although I made five batches of play dough, some of them were actually for a Star Wars play dough activity which I’ll share in a future post. R rquested that I make black for Darth Vader and blue for R2D2 (which was an interesting choice since R2D2 is white, but I digress). We used blue, white and green play dough for our Christmas theme – all of these colours were R’s choice. He thought the white would look like snow for our snow flake cookie cutters. To make the white play dough, follow my recipe as usual, but don’t add any food colouring. We decided to add some gold glitter to the white play dough for a bit of sparkle. Now, when I say “some” gold glitter, I mean an entire bottle! This was in part because I spilled the bottle of glitter on the dining table and the ball of play dough was the perfect tool for picking up all that glitter. Worked a treat! It actually needed the entire bottle of glitter for the sparkle to show up at all.

After rolling out the play dough and using the cookie cutters to cut out the shapes, R set to work decorating his trees. He said these beads were the lights on the Christmas tree.

He used round cookie cutters to make Christmas baubles.

H also made a green gingerbread man. So cute! We also made a batch of gingerbread play dough (scented with cinnamon and nutmeg, so yummy!) and we used it to make more cute gingerbread men. I’ll be sharing that activity on an upcoming post at KidsActivitiesBlog.com When the post is published over there, I’ll update this post with the link.

So lovely and bright and colourful!

Love that snowflake!

I’m hoping to make our Advent calendar this weekend so I’ll share that with you all next week. I’m still undecided what I’m going to make this year. There’s so many gorgeous ideas on my Advent Calendar Pinterest Board. Yes, I have a board devoted entirely to Advent Calendars. I saw this beautiful Autumn leaf tree over at Julia’s Bookbag last week and I think it might just become the inspiration for my Advent Calendar this year. We shall see…

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40 Thanksgiving crafts and activities for kids

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Ness

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and many of you have requested some ideas for Thanksgiving crafts. Here is a collection of crafts and activities from around the web. Thank you to all of the bloggers who shared their ideas with me to create this fabulous round up. There are ideas for art, craft, sensory and fine motor play, cooking with kids, educational activities and ideas for teaching kids about gratitude. I hope you find a few ideas to do with your children or students this Thanksgiving season. Have fun!

Bake some super cute Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies (Play Dr Mom)

Create a cute (and edible!) centerpiece with this Thanksgiving Popcorn Turkey Craft (Two Big Two Little)

Be inspired by some yummy Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes (Living Life Intentionally)

Have fun creating a turkey with this math based turkey craft (Blog Me Mom)

Practise shape recognition with these adorable Shape Turkeys (Housing a Forest)

Use Thanksgiving symbols to create Thanksgiving stories (Teach Preschool)

More shape recognition with this colorful Geometric Turkey Toddler Craft (Blog Me Mom)

Here is a great round up of Montessori Inspired Thanksgiving Activities (Living Montessori Now)

This FREE printable Thanksgiving math pack will add some fun to learning Math (Royal Baloo)

Here is another FREE printable Thanksgiving pack for 2 – 8 year olds with over 120 pages of fun activities. (3Dinosaurs)

Get the kids thinking about gratitude with this lovely Thankful Thanksgiving Tree (Mama Smiles)

Here is another beautiful Thankfulness Tree. I love the creative way that Megan displayed her tree (Coffe Cups and Crayons)

Love this gorgeous (and simple) Fall Leaf Gratitude Chain (Mama Smiles)

Short on time? How about this beautiful, simple and thoughtful craft Thankful Hands (Mama Smiles)

Teach kids about gratitude with this adorable Thankful Turkey Craft (Train Up A Child As We Grow)

Another idea for teaching gratitude is this cute and simple to make Thankful Heart Turkey (Craft to Art)

Remember what you are grateful for with this elegant Thankful Tree (Make: Craft)

Help kids learn the meaning of gratitude with a Journey To The Gratitude Garden (All Done Monkey)

This beautiful post is full of ideas for teaching kids about gratitude through acts of kindess. (Kindergarten and Preschool for Parents and Teachers)

Decorate a pumpkin with Indian corn (Craft to Art)

Make your own Indian corn (Boy Mama Teach Mama)

There are lots of ideas in this post from The Educator’s Spin On It. I particularly adore the turkey finger puppets and the Coffee Filter Turkeys.

Adorable, simple, and quick – just my type of craft! Paper Roll Turkey (Mess For Less)

Go on a nature walk and use fall leaves to make a turkey (Domestic Goddesque)

Make a bright and colorful Paper Plate Turkey (My Buddies and I)

Make this adorable Turkey Handprint Apron (Kids Activities Blog)

Get the whole family involved with a Turkey Hand Print Family Portrait (Blog Me Mom)

Why stop at hand prints? Get your kids’ feet involved too! Turkey Hand and Foot Print Craft (Two Big Two Little)

Another oh-so-cute and colorful Turkey Footprint Craft (Royal Baloo)

Here’s a classic Hand Print Turkey with feathers for the tail. (Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails)

Have fun mixing fall colors with this Spin Art Thanksgiving Turkey (Two Big Two Little)

Recycle your water bottles and make this Bottled Turkey Craft (The Iowa Farmer’s Wife)

Make a turkey using play dough and a pumpkin (Craft to Art)

Get your craft on and make this gorgeous Turkey Hand Print T-Shirt (See Vanessa Craft)

I love the tissue paper turkey in this Thanksgiving Preschool Crafts post (Mama Smiles)

If you have some do-a-dot markers, download and color these Thanksgiving Mosaics (This Reading Mama)

Make a Handprint Turkey using Thanksgiving spices. (Two Big Two Little)

Make a Thanksgiving sensory tub (Counting Coconuts)

Dye some pasta in fall colors and have some Sensory Fall Pasta Play (Living Life Intentionally)

Have fun creating and learning with Corn Fun Crafts and Sensory Play (We Can Do All Things)

Make a batch of Pumpkin Pie Playdough (Two Big Two Little)

More play dough fun with Turkey and Stuff’n Play Dough (My Buddies and I)

I hope you find something here to inspire you. If that’s not enough to keep you busy this Thanksgiving, Two Big Two Little has another brilliant round up of Thanksgiving ideas. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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4th of July Sparkling Fireworks ~ Kid’s Art Activity

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Ness

With the 4th of July just around the corner, I thought it would be fun for R(3) to create a craft to celebrate the holiday. Although we’re not in the US, R is always keen to learn about other countries. First we located the US on his globe and then we spent some time discussing Independence Day, why it is so significant, and some of the ways it is traditionally celebrated. When I suggested we create fireworks for our craft project, R couldn’t get into our paint supplies fast enough!

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