The other day I came across this little clip in my recommendations. It was 105 relaxing hobbies to start. Starting new hobbies are not only great ways to relax us, they are good for memory skills, and our mental health too. It’s also a great way to work on keeping our motor skills in tune…
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DIY pom pom crafts
I am a big believer in keeping children off the screens as much as possible. Doing crafts with the kids helps keep them busy and teaches them skills. Yarn crafts are fun and frugal ways to make cute animals and pom poms to decorate with or play with. Making your own toys is always fun….
Mother’s Day gifts from the garden.
“ To be a Mother is the most beautiful blessing. Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mothers.” Here in America we celebrate Mother’s Day Sunday May 11th. This is an older post of mine as I did not have time this year to make up some fun DIY’s to share with you all, I’m…
It’s time to forage.
While my husband worked on repairing some damage on my future “She shed” I walked around and collected some edible plants growing around our property. I’m learning so much every week. To think all this time, here I was walking around all these plants and had no idea how special they were. Everything is in…
ASD tabletime crafts…counting cups.
Supplies needed: Jelly beans, small package of toy carrots. Holiday seasons are the prefect time to shop for home school products. You can use jelly beans for math lessons for adding and subtracting. Or you can make a jelly bean necklace counting as you string them. There are all kinds of little erasers and Spring…
10 photos from Arizona that tell a story.
” A messenger of the truth is often a lonely voice, but it’s echo can change the world” They call this cacti the Teddy bear cactus. It’s not anything you want to cuddle with though. The jumping cactus digs in deep and is not fun to dance with, best to stay clear of this if…
Inspired to create.
‘ How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged.” Paulo Coelho What inspires you to create? We were all gifted to create, to use our hands, to share, to learn and to teach each other. Baking, drawing, sewing and building up our environments to improve our world. This is…
Needle felting hearts
I decided to try my hand at felting hearts. With Valentine close by and hearts everywhere, I wanted to try and make some hearts myself. I’m getting more comfortable with this newest hobby of mine. It takes time to get the feel of it, just the differences in needles and wool textures can be intimidating…
Natural Christmas confetti sensory craft.
Supplies needed: Leaves, white and red acrylic paint, sharpies, or paint pens, hole punchers in assorted sizes and shapes, tiny clear glass bottles with lids (most dollar stores have them), plain sticker labels (optional) small assorted papers (optional). assorted seeds. First for the fun part, unless you are somewhere that is packed with snow right…
DIY wooden folk art houses.
Here in the city there is never a shortage of wooden pallets. You can make all kinds of things with wooden pallets. I watched someone on Youtube once build a little house with some. I believe the big home stores sell them too, if you can’t find any laying around being tossed. Make sure they…
Our Little Red House 