I am glad that my daughter is curious about science, nature and essentially how to make things – odd things. Her latest quest is to figure out how to make slime. In fact, she asked me to go on my computer and look it up. About.com had a video complete with the ingredients and steps [...]

Isn’t this one of the cutest pumpkin crafts you have ever seen! The rotund family caught my eye as soon as I saw it on the magazine stand in the grocery aisle. Before I knew they were called the Pumpkin family, I thought they were were Snowman Pumpkins. Regardless, we will be making them at [...]

My daughter and I had a wonderful time making the Nick Jr. Moose and Zee No-sew Snuggle Pillow craft. She saw a commercial for how to make it on TV and we decided to give it a try. Since I don’t have a printer, I had to draw the characters by hand instead of using [...]

Face painting is one of the favorite fun activities kids look forward to when they go to a fair or festival. With this complete Rainbow Face Painting Kit you can hold a fair of your own. It has enough paint for 50 faces. Being water based, they are easily applied with a damp brush and [...]

Whenever my daughter plays with Moon Sand, PlayDoh,  or something similar, I put a vinyl table covering on the floor – you know the kind that you would normally use for a kid’s birthday party. I set the Moon Sand on the covering then inform my daughter that this is her special play area for working with sand. When [...]