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Poppy flowers painting ideas for kids

Simple flower painting ideas – Poppy flowers

We made a beautiful poppy flowers art using milk jug to welcome spring. The weather is getting better. I could hear birds chirping.  What a right time to create poppy flowers?  I have shared many simple flower painting ideas like stamped flowers using cup or watercolor tulip. Even we had painted poppies using water balloons. …

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Christmas snowflakes decoration

Winter craft ideas: Painting paper snowflakes

As my preschooler enjoyed our other simple winter craft ideas like marker colored snowflakes and snowman painting, we painted snowflakes again using the plastic bags.  It is a very simple and mess free art idea. I love the result – painted snowflakes with marble painting effect Materials needed for this painting idea Tempera paint Paper snowflakes A …

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Crafts for Christmas

Homemade Christmas Ornaments : Shiny Candy cane

Homemade Christmas Ornaments are always special. My preschooler and I created these shiny candy cane ornaments with aluminium foil and yarn. We love to use Aluminium foil in our activities.  This simple activity improves her fine motor skill too. Affiliation links are used: Materials needed to make these homemade Christmas ornaments : Aluminium foil Cardboard box. …

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Simple Christmas Ornaments to make

Sparkly Christmas Ornament for Kids to make

Today’s post is about  simple but fun ornament made by my daughters . Aluminum foil and sequins are interesting factors in this ornament. This Sparkly Christmas ornament is simple enough for kids to make. Materials needed: Aluminum foil (US) or Aluminium foil (UK) A thick card stock ( We used Pasta box) Sequins Glue A …

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Christmas counting ideas for preschoolers

Christmas Math

I love to introduce math concepts through games and art. My preschooler and I decorated Christmas trees with tissue paper berries.  This simple Christmas math activity improves fine motor skills, teaches number recognition and counting. Let us see how I set up this activity and how we played! Materials Needed (Affiliation links used) Neenah Astrobrights Color …

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Christmas painting ideas for kids

Christmas light painting

Today I am going to share a very simple painting idea painted using a water bottle lid. I saw a finger printed Christmas light painting in Pinterest. Inspired by that, I tried the Christmas light painting with water bottle lid. It was very simple for my preschooler and she thoroughly enjoyed. Materials needed: White paper Tempera …

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Weaving ideas for kids

16 Weaving ideas for kids

Weaving is classic, simple and mess-free. We made a paper woven art inspired by the design in our straw mat. Along with that, I have collected 15 more simple awesome weaving projects. About our project : Materials needed: 1. Construction papers 2. Scissors Method:  We cut 13 strips of purple paper about 1/2 inch in …

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Back to school idea pencil topper

Back to school idea – Corn husk flower pencil topper

As I said in my Crepe paper pencil topper post, we are getting ready for school. We made another pencil topper flower and we made the flower with corn husk. Now corn husk has become a favorite medium for my nine year old to work with. She enjoys working with it. Materials needed: 1. Corn husk …

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