The Active Toddler

I have started to plan my daughter's 4th birthday with an Arts & Crafts theme. We both love crafts!! This is a compilation of ideas ...

We celebrated my sons first birthday today and Airplanes were our theme. See a previous post with more ideas for an airplane theme, these ...

My daughter enjoyed making these spring flowers this morning. She flattened some different sizes of cupcake wrappers and then coloured them....

So easy! Cut a rabbit shape from paper (or for a sturdier version use the cardboard from a cereal box!). Let child colour. Let them glue on ...

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 li...

Sweet little handprint lambs - one made solely by my 3yr old (except for tracing & cutting the handprint out) and the other one I made ...

You've probably seen many variations of these coffee filter staine d-glass-look decorations. We've done them as snowflakes for winte...

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 togethe...

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 ...

Rainbows are a fun craft for St. Patricks Day , Easter, or celebrating Spring or Summer! *see the bottom of this post for alternativ...

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 s...

Im getting a collection of baby food jars and small jars from spices & seasonings. Im also looking into ideas for my kids upcoming birt...

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

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...

STRIPED Valentine Heart Cards: Glue random sized strips of red & pink paper onto a piece of white paper. Once the stripes are all glu...