an unconventional home
Last year, our daughter received a play kitchen for Christmas. This is still one of our kids’ favorite things, and it’s played with every single day by our 2-year-old AND our 7-year-old.
There are tons of play kitchens available. But if you are like me, you want it to look good. If the kitchen is going to take up valuable real estate in your home, you want it to fit in with the decor you’ve chosen instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. (I’m looking at you, plastic play kitchen.)
With kindergarten comes lots of paper. No joke. My kid is coming home with a folder full of goodies every single day.
And I basically want to frame and display everything I see. Here’s how we created a simple rotating display for all that awesome artwork!
I feel like many parents (myself included) feel a lot of pressure to create the perfect holiday magic for our kids. It’s all on us. It’s enough to make us crazy trying to do all the things, see all the Santas, hide all the elves, buy all the gifts, and craft all the glorious glittered perfection. […]
Thanks to Behr for sponsoring this post. If you have been here before, you know I have been painting with Behr for years. As always, this project and opinions are all mine. I often have ideas that no one understands. And by no one, I mean my husband. This DIY pegboard project was one of those ideas. Since moving into the house, […]
On Monday, I mentioned the DIY space slime we made for Henry’s space birthday party. It was great for kids to play with and it made a fun favor that the kids might actually use at home. (Especially with those rad space placemats.) This is a craft that Henry and I have been making all winter […]
Thanksgiving may be tomorrow, but it’s not too late for some fun and quick kids art. My friend Mel shared this handprint turkey with me and Henry and I made them last week at my parents. This is so simple that many of us may even remember making these turkeys when we were growing up. […]
