Making art with babies and toddlers can be engaging, kid-friendly and fun with an Art Crawl. If you’ve been reading The Artful Parent for any length of time, you know how much I love to introduce kids to new-to-them art materials, even at a really early age. The joy and wonder that the littlest ones […]
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Making Art with Babies and Toddlers: Host an Art Crawl!
5 Fun Fluffy Slime Recipes to Try
These 5 fluffy slime recipes are fun variations of the popular fluffy slime with shaving cream. I don’t know about in your household, but many slime recipes have been tried and tweaked in ours over the past year. And Maia’s fluffy slime recipe was one of our most popular posts of the year. I suspect […]
A Fluffy Slime Recipe to Make Yourself!
Below: This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home with shaving cream and glue! Maia found a fluffy slime recipe on YouTube recently and our studio has been turned into a laboratory for making and experimenting with slimes. She and Daphne have made about a dozen batches between them in a rainbow of […]
How to Set Up a Kid Friendly Backyard for Active Play
A kid friendly backyard encourages active outdoor play. Here’s how to set one up plus 11 key elements to consider for your outdoor play space, such as sand & water, privacy, toys, and plants. I’ve been working on making the backyard at our new house enticing for the whole family, but especially turning it into […]
Hearts and Lace Prints in Playdough
I’ve had playdough lace prints on my mind for a while now. Years, in fact. I’d seen a photo of lace printing in cookies via pinterest and the idea of using lace to print in dough has lingered. So, this week, when I got my fabric stash out to make heart pillows as Valentine’s Day gifts and came […]
15+ Creative Playdough Ideas for Kids (with Video)
Looking for creative playdough ideas for kids? Here are more than 15 (with a video showing the ideas in action), including making fantastical creatures, using poke-ins, trying playdough mats, forming letters, and pretend play. Playdough is a big-time standby for us and has been since Maia was a toddler. A big batch of homemade playdough will […]
DIY Puffy Paint for Kids
How to make DIY puffy paint for kids that is actually puffy! Here’s a simple recipe, a step-by-step tutorial, and photos. Homemade puffy paint is easy to make and lots of fun! We’ve made homemade puffy paint many times over the years. Only, what we have called puffy paint is not actually puffy at all, […]
Using A Pottery Wheel for Kids
We have a new pottery wheel for kids. Maia set it up yesterday along with all the pottery tools (that came with the wheel) out on a table in the studio and started throwing a vase. Daphne watched for a while with Daine, the guinea pig, and then started playing with the old pottery wheel. After […]