Handprint Easter Bunnies

Check these little bunnies out! Paint the palm and two fingers of the hand and print on paper. A dab of pink paint for the nose and some little eyes, whiskers, and mouth down with a black marker.

We also added our coffee filter Easter Eggs we made earlier in the week.

Baby & Toddler Handprint Lambs

Sweet little handprint lambs - one made solely by my 3yr old (except for tracing & cutting the handprint out) and the other one I made of my 11m old's handprint. Cute!

Easy Toddler Easter Decoration Craft - Coffee Filter Easter Eggs

You've probably seen many variations of these coffee filter stained-glass-look decorations. We've done them as snowflakes for winter and hearts for Valentines. Here is our Easter version!

Cut coffee filters into an egg shape.

Decorate with markers

Lightly spritz with water (this will make the markers bleed and the lines of the filter disappear

Let dry (happens fast) and then hang up!

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We also made some using Paper Towels & Highlighters and them worked great too!

*I think we will make an Easter Bunny with paper & cottonballs and use these eggs to make an Easter Diorama*

Toddler Easter Art

Have your child help with the Easter decorations by making a HUGE Easter Egg!

Cut an egg shape from very large paper (tape 2 pieces together if needed to make a large egg)

Decorate with markers or crayons or paint

Decorate with stickers

VOILA!

Easter Playdough Basket

Just wanted to turn our Playdough fun into an Easter theme so I made this cheap recycled basket for my daughter to play with. A emptied & clean applesauce cup with an elastic (taken from broccoli bunch) around it and a pipe cleaner wrapped on the elastic. Not very fancy obviously but she had fun with it. Here's a pic of the basket filled with Easter Eggs & Easter Snakes (every playdough activity MUST have snakes included!)

Rainbow Craft Projects - Toddlers & Preschoolers

Rainbows are a fun craft for St. Patricks Day, Easter, or celebrating Spring or Summer!

*see the bottom of this post for alternative suggestions and an easy way for a toddler to make a Rainbow Shape*

FRUIT LOOP or MINI COLOURED MARSHMALLOW or SMARTIES RAINBOW - Craft or Snack!! Fruit Loop Cereal or Mini Coloured Marshmallows Glue Construction Paper Have the child glue the coloured cereal or marshmallows into a rainbow shape**. Stress the importance of only eating the cereal that DOES NOT have glue on it! :-D

**Turn this into a RAINBOW SNACK by omitting the glue! Maybe use cream cheese to attach them to a plate and then enjoy eating your Rainbow Snack - another option for the rainbow could be Smarties! Create your rainbows on Sugar Cookies or Cupcakes or Graham Crackers!**

TISSUE PAPER RAINBOW Different coloured strips or squares of tissue paper Glue Stick Construction paper shaped like a rainbow Put a thick layer of glue stick on the construction paper. Stick the tissue paper on randomly.

YARN RAINBOW Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple lengths of yarn Glue Construction Paper Glue lines of glue in a Rainbow Shape** onto the construction paper. Lay a appropriate coloured length of yarn in the glue.

MOSAIC PAPER RAINBOW Red, Orange, Yellow, Green Blue, Purple Construction Paper (just a small strip of each) White Construction Paper Glue Cut the strips of coloured paper into small squares. Have the child glue them into a Rainbow Shape**

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**Rainbow Shape** To make it easier for a young child, draw the rainbow stripes with the appropriate coloured crayon (remember ROY G BIV or Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet) Then they can glue their paper, yarn, or cereal onto each line.

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*Any of these projects could have half a Paper Plate subsituted for the constructions paper to change it up a bit!

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*Any of these projects could have CLOUDS added to the ends of the rainbow! For the Fruit Loop or Mini Marshmallow rainbows, use large white MARSHMALLOWS! The other rainbows could have COTTON BALLS!
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Natural Diaper Rash Remedy

My poor little boy had a nasty diaper rash (which I think came from putting too much bath soap in his bath the other night)

So after doing some research, this is what worked for us.

Warm bath with some oatmeal (I put a handful of oats wrapped up in some cheesecloth and held under tap as I ran the bath)

Towel dry. Attempt to use blowdryer on the affected area (he didnt really care for this part!)

Spend some diaper free time to let the air flow on affected area. (I let him wander around & play in the bathroom while his sister had her bath. This is fun for him because I dont let him play in the bathroom normally and clean up would be easy for any accidents - after awhile of that I laid a towel on the livingroom carpet and put some snacks and his drink there)

Apply a natural diaper rash remedy of a blob of olive oil shaken with a few drops of water.

**I am not a doctor so take this for what it is worth! **

In the summer (or if you are very worried about accidents in the house) the child could go diaper free with some loose airy shorts on. This would help prevent any "spray" and keep grass & dirt from getting all over his sore area if outside.

Recycle / Reuse Baby Food or Spice / Seasoning Jars

Im getting a collection of baby food jars and small jars from spices & seasonings.

Im also looking into ideas for my kids upcoming birthday parties and have come up with the plan to use the little jars to package up candies for the loot bags!

I can decorate the lids with fabric or have my daughter decorate with stickers.

This will save on the plastic baggies I am trying to live without!

(of course they could also be used to make snowglobes, storage for nuts/bolts, hair elastics, pushpins, bread bag tags, musical shakers, large shot glasses, small vases, or small drinking glasses)

Toddler Friendly Dessert (that they can help make!)

This is the dessert we had for Valentine's Day that my toddler helped make (and enjoyed licking the spoon & bowl too)

JEllO PARFAITS

Stir together for at least two minutes:
1pkg jello (red for valentine's!)
3/4 cup boiling water

Add & Stir:
2 cups Frozen chopped Fruit (strawberries in ours)

Remove 1/2 cup of the fruit & jello mixture and add to a bowl with
1 cup Cool Whip

Layer in glasses or bowls the jello, cool whip, jello, cool whip.

Enjoy (they are so yummy!!!)

Baby or Toddler or Mommy Valentine Drink - Smoothies!

A Smoothie is a yummy treat for any age! We rarely (if ever) make these (I hate cleaning a blender!) so this is exciting for the kids.

It's yummy no matter the quantity of ingrediants you use, so here is my 'recipe':

2 small yoghurts
a cup 'ish' of frozen strawberries (or other fruit)
a banana

blend that on ice crusher mode

pour in a small amount of milk to get your desired consistancy.

Baby Friendly (well not newborn but the age that is eating solids!) too!

Valentine Card Crafts - Stripes, Felt, Stained Glass & Craft Sticks

STRIPED Valentine Heart Cards: Glue random sized strips of red & pink paper onto a piece of white paper. Once the stripes are all glued on, cut out hearts. Glue these hearts onto cards.

CRAFT STICK Valentine's: Use red craft sticks (or paint them red) and write your message with a few stickers. This could be stuck into a small plant you are giving someone or maybe used as a bookmark...??

FELT Valentine Card: Cut hearts from felt and glue onto a card. For a folded card, you could get four cards of the long strip cards or eight of the small folded cards (from an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet)

PEEKABOO STAINED GLASS Valentine Cards: After doing your stained glass with wax paper and crayon shavings, place behind a heart cut out for a cute unique card.

Coffee Filter Craft / Stained Glass Hearts / Heart Snowflakes!

This is the easy way to create a stained glass effect without the use of an iron and crayon shavings which is hard for a small child to be a part of.

These Stained Glass Heart or Heart Snowflakes are made with Coffee Filters, Markers, and a spritz of water = EASY!

Fold coffee filter in half (could do a few layers at a time). Cut out half a heart.

Let child colour with markers.

Lay on wax paper, tin foil, vinyl tablecloth (something that can be tossed or easily wiped down).

Spritz each lightly with water so that the colours start to bleed and the creases of the coffee filter disappear.

Let dry (happens quickly)

Hang in window with a small smear of glue stick (washes off easily later)

Easy Valentine Decoration / Craft - Heart Straws

I was making these for our party tomorrow and was putting it on display to take a picture. My daughter comes along seeing the Heart Straw and proceeded to drink two full glasses of water because the Heart Straw was so much fun. Who knew that something so simple could make her drink water - which she normally wouldnt drink!

Anyhow, so simple craft. Cut out hearts. Hole punch two holes. Thread straw through. Drink. Fabulous & Fun!

Valentine Handprint Craft - Tree of Love

This recent creation was done at our Toy Library. I traced my daughters arm & hand and cut out. She glued it on the paper and then glued random sized hearts for the leaves. Cute!

VALENTINE's PEOPLE for CARDs or Fun ARTWORK

Look at these adorable little HEART PEOPLE!

Let your imagination run wild with options for hair, clothes, etc! Make into cards or hang up to display :-)

These could also be made into Heart ALIENS or MONSTERS if that would make your little man be less anti-Valentine's!