If your family has cellphones and smart watches that need to be charged each evening, create this central charging station. We created a charging station for our kitchen countertop so the kids could easily charge their devices at night and have them accessible in the morning before school. I knew I needed a 2-tiered shelf…
Pinewood Derby has been a significant learning process for us over the years. We’ve finally got basic shapes and understand the weights, but we’ve really got to get creative with our paint. This year, we decided to try a technique called hydro dip. When you have to cut, sand, paint, weigh, and assemble 3 cars…
Families have many devices, and of course, everything needs to be charged at all times. Instead of having charging cables floating around the house, create a charging station. A charging station helps keep all devices charged and makes it easy for kids to find the devices they need. How to Create A Hanging Charging Station…
Since staying home all day, we’ve taken to doing different family-friendly crafts every week. One of the things we like to do is decorate the front of our house for people out on their daily walks to enjoy. We’ve decorated our home with paper hearts and colorfully decorated paper Easter eggs. Right now, we have…
Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. My kids always want to make crafts and gifts for Valentine’s day and I love spending time with them cutting, coloring and gluing all the hearts. You don’t have to be super crafty or creative to do a few Valentine’s day crafts with your kids. A lot…
One of my favorite hobbies is creating art with alcohol ink. Last Christmas the boys and I made Alcohol Ink Ornaments. They were super easy and fun to make. But I also like to make artwork for my home using alcohol ink. It’s super easy and the results are always unique. The key to creating…
In the hot summer afternoons we like to do at-home activities together like arts and crafts. My boys love the idea of clouds puking rainbows. They’re elementary aged boys, they love gross stuff. So I grabbed some construction paper, scissors, markers and glue sticks and we made our own rainbow clouds. I made my rainbow…
