The Mom I Want to Be

  ½ cup liquid starch 2 cups rock salt ½ cup glue with food color   Mix and create 3D structures on cardboard.

¾ cup flour ½ cup corn flour ½ cup salt Powder Paint 3/8 cup warm water   Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Add water gradually until mix. Can be kneaded into a stiff dough. To reduce stickiness dust with dry flour. Pierce each bead with a tooth pick or large blunt needle and allow […]

  Cut three bumps in a row from a cardboard egg carton, leaving them attached. This will be the snowman. Paint the entire outside of the three bumps white. Glue the snowman to blue paper.  Cut facial features, buttons, boots, stick arms and a hat for the snowman from colored construction paper. Glue them all […]

Construction paper (white, black, red, orange, green and brown) Contact paper Ribbon Glue stick Winter-theme sequins and/or glitter, various blue / silver bits of paper, feathers, etc   Trace three circles onto white construction paper; small, medium and large. On largest circle, cut a round opening in the middle the size of the medium circle. […]

  Baby food jar (I made larger ones with mayo & olive jars:  very cute!) White tissue paper (or you can use white acrylic paint) Small orange pompom or small tube made from paper Small black pompom or circles punched from fun foam Thin ribbon for scarf Black acrylic paint for lid  Glue   Glue […]

Blue construction paper White crayons Epsom salts Hot water Give each child a piece of paper and a crayon. Invite children to create snow scenes on their blue paper. Set drawings aside. Dissolve 16 ounces of Epsom salts in 4 ounces of hot water.  Paint the mixture over each picture.  When the mixture is dry, […]

Show your gratitude this holiday season with photos! Photo Thank You Cards are fun and easy to make. Before you know it, you will have a personal and creative thank you card ready for that special occasion. You’ll need a few things to get this simple project completed.   Magnetic Alphabet Letters Digital Camera Photo […]

Children love to build a snowman out of snow, but they are also fun to build out of paper, especially if you live in a warm climate, or it is way too cold to go outside. This is a great way to teach children different shapes, sizes and color contrast.               Dark construction […]