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Awesome Kids Crafts Website
Looking for a great source for kids crafts? Check out CraftClub! The site has easy to follow instructions for each craft and oodles to choose from. Each craft features step-by-step photos and short, video clips to help kids create their masterpieces. Craft Club also has full-length webisodes that feature two funny hosts so kids can [...]
7 Activities to Keep Your Kids Busy Indoors
When times are tough or fast-paced, it’s tempting even for vehemently anti-TV parents to give in. These are some of the lowest-maintenance activities for your kids to do on rainy days or otherwise when you can’t get outside. Join in on the fun if you’ve made the time! Make a tent. Or a fort. Every [...]
Three Crafts Using Leftover Halloween Candy
That huge pile of leftover candy on your dining room table, the one taking up space whenever your family sits down to eat, serves as a reminder of all the fuss that goes into Halloween and how quickly the fuss fizzes away. You’re left with a dumpster full of candy wrappers you can’t recycle (unless [...]
Print, Color and Build Your Own Nativity Scene
The year has flown by and it won’t be long until Christmas. I found this great print, color and build Nativity scene today to share with you. After printing and coloring the pieces, they’re wrapped around toilet paper rolls and it makes the cutest nativity set. The kids will love having their artwork displayed as [...]
A Great Use for Extra Halloween Goodies: Candy Experiments
Wondering what do with all that leftover Halloween candy, besides eat it of course?! How about doing some delicious science experiments with it? Candy Experiments is a great site with ideas for experimenting with all kinds of candy, including floating the S right off the Skittles, doing acid tests, color separation and lots of other [...]
Funniest, Goofiest Kids Halloween Costumes
Halloween is a great opportunity for the kids to have fun dressing up, but there are times when you see a kid dressed up in something particularly dorky, that you wonder if the parent did that to their child just have some blackmail fodder for later in life. On that note, here are the goofiest, [...]
NASA will put your child’s face in space
If you have kids who love outer space, space shuttles, rockets, and all things NASA, check out their Face in Space program. You submit your child’s picture and name, and it will be taken to space on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions. After the mission, you can log back in and get [...]
How to keep early waking kids in bed
I have early rising kids and though I am an early riser myself, 6am is just earlier than I want to be up. With my older son we used a CD alarm clock with the volume set very low to tell him when we could wake up, and while it worked well, the volume kept [...]
Halloween Pumpkins Coloring Sheet
It’s pumpkin carving season and this coloring sheet features 3 happy pumpkins sitting on a wall! Enjoy! Click here to open and print. (more Halloween coloring sheets here)
Free Pumpkin Carving Stencils and Patterns
Time to get out the carving knives and get ready to create some great pumpkins for Halloween! Here are some great ideas: Scary Pumpkin Stencils Printable Pumpkin Carving Patterns Extreme Pumpkin Patterns Pumpkin Masters Free Patterns Stencils from HP Pumpkin Carving Ideas at BHG Get the supplies! Pumpkin carving is MUCH easier with the right [...]
Marble Race Building Toy
For the first time in 4 years, I’m adding a new category to FreeStuff4Kids. I have two kids and quite regularly we play with some great toys and even though they aren’t *free* I really want to tell you about them. I think we all hate spending money on toys that turn out to be [...]
Cute Kid Friendly Treats for Halloween
Halloween is around the corner and that means it’s time to plan to make some fun treats! Dirt Nap Cake 1 (5.9 oz) package chocolate instant pudding mix, prepared 2 cups chocolate wafer cookies (about 45-50), crushed 2/3 cup chocolate syrup 1 (8 oz) container frozen non-dairy whipped topping, thawed Gummy worms, small pumpkin candies, [...]
Make a Flower Printable
Yesterday’s post got me inspired to make a printable that might make creating layered paper flowers a little easier. Just print, color, cut out and tape/glue together. You can make a whole garden! Click to open and print —-> 6 Petaled Layered Flower
How to Make Paper Flowers
I don’t have a girl, so I’m sighing wistfully at these cute paper flowers, thinking how sweet they’d be decorating a wall in a girl’s room. Simple Paper Daisies Tissue Paper Flowers and… I know this post says these are for a wedding, but how cute would these flower balls be hanging from a bedroom [...]
Click N Kids Review and Giveaway
I first heard about Click-N-Kids from a former teacher turned homeschooler who was using it with her daughter and loved it. So, when I received an email from Click-N-Kids asking if I wanted to review both their Click-N-Read and Click-N-Spell products I was excited! My son is already reading, so he is using Click-N-Spell, and [...]
Make an Origami Folding Paper Toy
This is a great little origami paper toy to make, especially for older kids.
Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies Ever
One of my favorite homeschool blog writers posted a peanut butter cookie recipe recently. I read it just as dinner was finished cooking, so I jumped up and we made this quick little recipe and we had warm cookies for dessert. Recipe: 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar (Can sub. 1/2 c agave or [...]
Crafts for Kids: Cinnamon Sandpaper Shapes
The warm, sweet smell of cinnamon sticks is a great way to welcome fall. This craft combines a few inexpensive materials to create a beautifully scented memento you’ll treasure for years. Age Group: 3-6 with help, older with supervision Time: Less than an hour Materials needed • 1 sheet of sandpaper per [...]
Gallagher Girls Giveaway
The Gallagher Girls series is a New York Times best-selling series about girls attending a special high school where they are training to be spies. If you’re a fan of the books you’ll be excited about this giveaway! Check out the great prize pack: PRIZE PACK – Gallagher Girls Tote – Gallagher Girls Hair Pin [...]
Back to School Mad Lib
Ready to go back to school? Here’s a fun mad lib to get you in the mood for back to school time! Click here to open and print the mad lib. You can find more mad libs at Classroom Jr.
5 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Budgeting
Young children will develop financial skills by watching and learning from their parents. As kids grow into adulthood they tend to acquire the same spending and savings habits that their parents have shown them through the years. There are a number of activities you can do with your child to ensure they’re on the path [...]
Printable Preschool Match Game: Outdoor Play Time
Here’s a quick match game your preschooler will enjoy. Match games help young children to develop early math and language skills. Print the activity and cut along the grey lines. Then turn the outdoor activity cards over and shuffle them up and arrange in rows to play. Have fun! Click here to open and print [...]
Printable Story Starter Worksheet: Once Upon a Cat
What would it be like if you were suddenly turned into a cat? How would you tell your family what had happened to you? This story starter has a few sentences to get a young writer started, along with lines to complete the story. Click here to open and print.
Unique Father’s Day Gift Ideas
I don’t know about you, but I find that it’s really difficult to find just the right thing for Dad on Father’s Day. You want him to know he’s appreciated, but you want the kids to be involved in the gift as well. Here are several ideas to help with finding something special for Dad: [...]
