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Artsy Play Wednesday: Kids’ Crazy Quilt Craft {LINKY}

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITY Feel free to check out the details for Kids’ Crazy Quilt Craft We also have some exciting new to … Continue reading →

Ideas for Celebrating Earth Day with Children

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Happy Earth Day!I was inspired to share with you some ideas for how to celebrate Earth Day with your children because there are so many wonderful ideas out there! It is so important that we teach our children to take care of our earth. We want our children to be happy and healthy and to be able to have happy and healthy children themselves. The best way we can do this is by setting an example ourselves, but there are also some more specific things that we can teach our children. One way to get our children excited about recycling … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday: DIY Homemade Kite Guaranteed to Fly!

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITY Feel free to check out the details for How to Make a Homemade Paper Kite Guaranteed to Fly . … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday: Homemade GAK {LINKY}

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITY Feel free to check out the details for How to Make Homemade GAK . If you are linking up … Continue reading →

How To Make Homemade GAK or Slime {Printable}

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For my daughter’s birthday, we made Homemade GAK. The girls absolutely loved getting their hands dirty and slimy! The added glitter made it extra fun and some reusable plastic containers with lids were provided for them to take their GAK home. What is GAK?GAK is a slimy!GAK is squishy!GAK is stretchy!GAK is fun! Why is Homemade GAK Good For Kids? They can manipulate it.They use fine motor skills.It is fun.Making it is a procedure that involves following directions.Measuring is math.It is fun!Here was our GAK activity bowl all ready to create a gooey, slimy mess! The kids loved measuring and … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday: Egg Carton Flowers {LINKY}

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITYFeel free to check out the details for this week’s Super Easy Egg Carton Flowers over at Capris +3. If … Continue reading →

Easter Eggs LEGO® STAR WARS® Style!

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Did you know that LEGO STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Out comes out on DVD on March 26th? Easter Eggs Star Wars StyleCheck out Canadian Moms Cook for some Star Wars inpsiration for how to decorate your Easter Eggs Star Wars style! We gave the new trend of Hard “Boiled” Eggs in the oven and while they turned out amazing for decorating Easter eggs, we must have baked them too long because the egg whites had some brown on them that we had to cut off. Here is Our Egg Disaster: Pin It Check out our Canadian Online Shopping Directory … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday: Super Easy Kids Art Coasters {LINKY}

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITYFeel free to check out the details for this week’s Super Easy Kids Art Coasters over at Baby Giveaways Galore. … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday {LINKY} March 20

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore Welcome to Artsy Play Wednesday, a weekly post featuring activities, crafts, recipes and more wonderful ideas to share with your children! Each week, we will have a Featured Activity for you to check out along with an opportunity for you to link up your child friendly activities or to check out ideas for you to do with your children! I look forward to seeing you again next week! FEATURED ACTIVITYFeel free to check out the details for this week’s Super Easy Kool-Aid Eggs over at Shannon’s View From Here. … Continue reading →

Artsy Play Wednesday {LINKY} – March 13

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore FEATURED CRAFT Feel free to check out the details for this week’s Super Easy Stained Glass Craft. If you are linking up today, we would love it if you could copy the following code below onto your linked up post (it is a button for you to use showing that you linked up at Artsy Play Wednesday):This post was linked up on: Hosted by Multiples-Mom, Multi-Testing Mommy, Shannon’s View From Here, Baby Giveaways Galore Check out our Pinterest Board where we will be listing all of YOUR amazing ideas. … Continue reading →