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Hand Butterfly Craft

Posted March 26, 2013 By dealinanddishin

Tweet   The Girl was wanting to make something for Spring. When asked she told me that butterflies and rainbows are part of Spring. Since she has decided to decorate her room in Tinkerbell and butterflies thought maybe could make something for her room. To keep her involved I used her hands to make this [… Read More]

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How to make a Crown, Flag, or Bacon Pinewood Derby Cars

Posted March 16, 2013 By dealinanddishin

Tweet This year we made Crown, Flag, and Bacon Pinewood Derby cars. The pictures, tools, and art supplies used will hopefully help or inspire your Derby car. Tips I have picked up over the last few years are down at the bottom. The Boy had the American Flag, and won a medal for Patriotic theme. The Girl [… Read More]

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Easter Craft for Kids

Posted March 10, 2013 By dealinanddishin

Tweet Here is an easy Easter craft for kids and adults to do! I had The Hubs, me, The Boy(9), and The Girl(4) involved in this one today. I see lots of crafts using kids’ hands as the base. A hand does not really look like a bunny. However, hold up “bunny ears” or the [… Read More]

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Valentine’s Day Popsicle Stick Craft

Posted February 4, 2013 By dealinanddishin

Tweet During our craft night The Girl and I made these Candy Heart Necklaces and then moved on to popsicle sticks. I have a variety of these in multiple sizes in my handy dandy craft tote. They are usually cheap (dollar section a lot of times) and versatile. I rarely craft with them so it was [… Read More]

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Valentine’s Day Craft for Kids

Posted January 25, 2013 By dealinanddishin

Tweet The Girl wanted to make a Valentine’s Day craft so I did a quick mental scan of the craft stuff I had on hand, and came up with the Candy Heart Necklace. The Girl came up with the name of it. I grabbed some ribbon choices, foam craft sheets, hole punch, and scissors. At all [… Read More]

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Turkey Bottle Cap Craft

Posted November 20, 2012 By dealinanddishin

Tweet Bottle Cap Turkeys I’ve been saving my bottlecaps  thinking I would figure out something to do with them. With it being almost Thanksgiving and The Girl wanting “make something” I grabbed them and dug through my craft tote. I have all kinds of thing I buy on clearance or in the dollar section of [… Read More]

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Make a Penguin Costume (Peso from Octonauts) for Halloween

Posted October 19, 2012 By dealinanddishin

Tweet My 4 year old wanted to be Peso from Octonauts. Took me a bit to figure out who that was, but I was relieved to see he was a penguin. I was also working on a werewolf costume for my son at the same time. You could live off the “Peso” parts and have [… Read More]

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Make your own werewolf costume

Posted October 8, 2012 By dealinanddishin

Tweet I’m learning to sew and really wanted to make costumes this year, but I knew with two kids there was no way I could handmake two costumes from scratch. My son wanted to be a werewolf. Sounded easy enough. I was concerned about the face, but luckily found a mask at CVS for $5 [… Read More]

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What do you do for the 4th of July if you have a fireworks ban?

Posted July 3, 2012 By dealinanddishin

Tweet So this year we have a drought and personal fireworks ban after a month of no rain and having triple digit temperatures so had to find some ideas for the kids to celebrate the 4th of July without the fireworks. Cupcakes are a great idea and easy. Just a box mix and some food [… Read More]

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Easter Egg Basket Kid Craft

Posted April 2, 2012 By dealinanddishin

Tweet I’m helping with my daughter’s Preschool Easter party. The teacher said we could do an egg hunt, so I thought for the craft part of the party they could make an Easter egg basket. I found the template on Crayola (LOVE this site) and blew it up on my copier about 130% until I [… Read More]

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