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Artsy Play Wednesday {LINKY} – March 6

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Hosted by: Capri + 3Multi-Testing MommyShannon’s View From HereBaby Giveaways Galore FEATURED CRAFTYou can check out this week’s Four Leaf Clover Craft over at Capri +3. 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. If you … Continue reading →

Homemade Valentine’s Day Mouse Sucker Card {CRAFT}

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Adorable Mouse Valentine’s Day Cards HOW TO MAKE A MOUSE VALENTINE’S DAY CARD: Cut out a heart that is big enough to cover a sucker when folded in half. If you want to write a short message on the inside of the mouse, now is the time to do that. Fold the heart in half and tape or glue the sucker inside so that the sucker stick points out the rounded top of the heart Tape the bottom part of the heart closed. Glue a googly eye towards the point of the heart. Cut out a small heart and glue … Continue reading →

Halloween Crafts, Recipes and Kid Friendly Ideas

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DIY Pom Pom Spider for Halloween

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Although making this spider is almost all an adult job due to the use of sharp scissors and hot glue, children can be a part of selecting all of the items and gluing it onto their craft masterpiece! STEPS: Cut a pipe cleaner into 4 equal sections. Select a large pom pom and as many googly eyes as desired. Heat up a hot glue tool. Glue legs onto the bottom of the pom pom. Glue eyes onto the pom pom. Bend the tips of the legs to look like “spider feet”. Use as a simple “spider friend” or glue it … Continue reading →

Summer Sanity: Be an Artist with Stuck On You

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This post is a part of Summer Sanity, a series of posts for parents to gain ideas and inspiration for how to keep their children happy, active, educated and having fun during the long summer months. My 7 year old daughter is quite the little artist. Her favourite activity, other than reading, is to make arts and crafts! This is why the Artist Pack by Stuck on You is the perfect activity for her on a hot summer’s day, or even a rainy day!This Activity Pack has kept my daughter busy for hours this summer. For a retail value of … Continue reading →

Summer Sanity: Olympics Crafts and Activities

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This post is a part of Summer Sanity, a series of posts for parents to gain ideas and inspiration for how to keep their children happy, active, educated and having fun during the long summer months. With the Summer Olympics 2012 beginning on July 27th, I thought that I should share some activities for your children to do to get geared up! Here is a FREE printable for an “O is for Olympics” craft for young children. I love how the colour of the Fruit Loops are similar to the colours in the Olympic Rings! Here is a FREE printable … Continue reading →

Summer Sanity: Looking for Ideas to Keep Children Busy and Parents Sane

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What is Summer Sanity?A series of posts for parents to gain ideas and inspiration for how to keep their children active, learning and happy during the long summer months. Help WantedWe are currently looking for Guest Posts on the topic of activities, educational fun, crafts and more! You do not have to be a “blogger” or have a blog in order to Guest Post on Multi-Testing Mommy! If you are interested in writing up a post to be shared this summer during our Summer Sanity event, please fill out THIS FORM. Interested SponsorsThere are ad spaces available at the bottom … Continue reading →

Teaching Kids Their ABCs and Dinosaur Stick Puppets

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Dinosaur Stick Puppet

Children LOVE to make puppets and stick puppets are one of the easiest kind to make! Learn the simple steps to making a Dinosaur Stick Puppet. You can do this activity for every letter of the alphabet! Simply choose an object or animal that starts with each letter, find a printable image for that object/animal and have your child cut it out, decorate it and tape it to a popsicle stick. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a stick puppet for each letter of the alphabet? You could even make up a fun song!

Craft Caravan Kids Craft Club {REVIEW}

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Craft Caravan is a fun and creative subscription service for young children. It would make an excellent birthday gift for that child that has every toy they could ever want! What child doesn’t LOVE to receive mail that is addressed to them?! And, when the mail has fun crafts to make inside, it doesn’t get much better than that! We reviewed the January Kids Craft Club and boy was it ever fun! It all started off with opening up the mail box to see a huge bright envelope!Inside the envelope was a paper with a supply list, ideas for what … Continue reading →