This awesome post was written by Shannon from Oh Creative Day. Sometimes I quietly sigh when my kids bring me our tattered copy of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to read for the eleventy billionth time. I almost automatically regret this sigh as I begin reading and am swept up in the deceptively simple brilliance of […]
Epicly Cool Stacked Cardboard Sculptures For Kids
Sometimes just painting with regular paint on regular flat paper is boring. Sometimes you want to create something different, something cool, something EPIC! That’s what my kids told me the other day. Boring old painting on boring old paper was out, they needed something way more interesting. I looked at the pile of cardboard we […]
Make an Easy Rolled Paper Snail – free printable
My 7 year old was struggling to follow the complicated steps to make an origami snail. He crumpled the paper he was working on in frustration saying, “I just want to make a snail, is that too much to ask?” While I tried to hide my giggles at his exasperated use of words, his big […]
Finger Leg Puppets – Free Printable Template
“I want to make a puppet” he said with conviction, “a finger leg puppet.” “Ok” I said, asking what sort of finger puppet my boy wanted to make. “No” he said with frustration, “not a finger puppet, a finger leg puppet!” It took me a while to comprehend that my boy wanted to make a […]
Design a Decoration – Free Printable Drawing Prompts
Road trips, school Christmas plays, waiting for relatives to arrive, waiting for Christmas dinner to be served… There is often a lot of waiting associated with Christmas if you are a kid. And waiting is boring, unless you have something fun to do. To make all the waiting a little more bearable for the kids […]
Monster Blow Painting
Make a cute, funny, or scary monster blow painting! This fun and easy process art activity is great for Halloween or any time of year, and kids of all ages will love giving it a try. We first had a go at blow painting a long time ago, when my girls were still small, my […]
Super Cool Straw Mosaic Art
I went to Ikea last week. I didn’t buy anything very exciting – a chopping board, some bag clips, a couple of rolls of paper, and some straws! I just couldn’t resist bring home the straws, even though we already had a huge tub of them at home already, but they were such bright, fun […]
Awesome Drawing Ideas and Activities
My kids love to draw, and we do a lot of drawing. We started out with 20 ideas, now there are more than 40 drawing ideas on this page for you to try! Drawing is also a great learning activity with lots of fine motor skill and development, problem solving, language development and social learning […]
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