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Disney Countdown for Kids
Are you getting ready to go to Disneyland or Disney World or are planning to go in the near future? I made a few printables for my little family as we recently had the opportunity to visit Disney World this fall. If you have never experienced Disney World in the fall, I would highly recommend it. The decorations were nice, the crowds a bit smaller than in the spring, and it was much less hot. I didn’t feel like I was melting all the time! I made a countdown for my kids to help count down the days to our vacation as well as a few to take along on…
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TMNT Birthday
Cowabunga! My oldest recently turned eleven and requested a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pizza party for his family and friends. Here is how we celebrated using simple supplies, little expense, and not much time (as his little sister’s birthday was just around the corner). I also made some printable crafts, photo props, banners, and food labels that are free to download below. Hoping these ideas and printables can be useful and fun for your ninja fans! Decorations: We stuffed the arms and legs of a TMNT costume with pool noodles and added a green balloon on top to create Leonardo doing the splits above our fireplace. My kids helps me…
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Moon Festival Lanterns
Today I wanted to share some simple paper lanterns I recently made with my kids to help decorate for the Moon Festival (also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival or in Vietnamese, Tet Trung Thu) which begins today. The three lanterns feature a happy moon, mooncakes, as well as a silhouette of Vietnam. All you need is some white cardstock, the free printable templates below, scissors, and glue. Hope it can help to add a little fun to your family or classroom celebration as well! This file is best printed out onto 110lb white cardstock. Your kids can color their lanterns using crayons, markers, or even paint them with watercolors. Stickers…
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Fruit Birthday Party
Recently my middle daughter turned 6 and requested a fruit themed birthday. Bright, sweet, and very orange-inal, it was a fun theme that reflected my daughter’s personality. Here is how my kids helped me to put together an absolutely pear-fect, easy, and inexpensive birthday party to celebrate with her family and friends. Hoping these ideas and printables can be helpful and fun for your family too! Decorations: I really loved these ballon fruits from Oh Happy Day. She makes the funnest things out of balloons. My kids helped me to blow up various balloons we had leftover from past parties and cut out leaves from construction paper to make these…
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Easy Fourth of July Activities for Kids
Sharing some low prep, last minute printables and crafts for the fourth. Hope they can be helpful and fun to you and your family as you get ready to celebrate Independence Day! The cute star and stripes and happy grill coloring page is free to download here. The USA birthday cake is available for free download here. My kids love coloring. It’s calming, therapeutic, and fun. We always make sure to have a coloring corner in our home as well as some sort of coloring activity set up at all of our gatherings. Simply add a tray of crayons, markers, and stickers, and you are set! I found star shaped…
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Timber Rattlers Party
Recently, we threw an end of the season celebration for my son’s little league team. They were the Timber Rattlers. Here is how we quickly set up a simple, inexpensive, and fun party in our home to celebrate a group of 10-year-old little leaguers. Hoping these ideas and printables can be helpful to you if you are either celebrating a baseball team or hosting a snake or reptile theme party. Decorations: We made large swirly snakes out of poster board. I purchased this pack of poster board from Walmart and used an extra black piece I had. As a child, I used to make swirly snakes from paper plates by…
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Derby Party
Here are a few easy, quick, and affordable ideas to celebrate Derby Day. Hoping these ideas and printables may also be helpful and fun for your classroom or home as well! Decorations: My kids helped me to create these easy and fun rose suncatchers to decorate. I made a template for the roses that is free to download below then printed them out onto black cardstock. I cut the insides out, overlapped the circles and then placed contact paper over everything. Here is a quick video tutorial of how to make them: The kids went to town adding cut up pieces of red tissue paper for the roses and green…
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Easy Leprechaun Trap
My kindergartener came home recently with an assignment to construct a leprechaun trap. I wanted a project that she could do mostly on her own with some guidance using our recyclables and what craft supplies we already had on hand. We had so much fun crafting this together! Little sister who is three, also was able to complete most of the steps herself. I made some printable trap signs that are free to download below and have outlined our steps as carefully as possible in case your little ones would also like to try to catch a leprechaun. Here are all the supplies we used: construction paper, an empty Capri…
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Dr. Seuss Party
Recently we threw a party for Dr. Seuss’ Birthday! We have celebrated his birthday in our family for the past decade and it has become a fun tradition that my kids all look forward to. Here is how we pulled it off using simple supplies, little expense, and not much time (as it was in the middle of the week on a school day). I also made some free printables that are free to download below. Hoping these ideas and printables can be fun for your kids too! Decorations: I made simple cutouts of Dr. Seuss’ silly fish out of colored poster board and hung them up all over our…
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Jawa Class Valentines
Do you have a huge Star Wars fan? My oldest loves anything Star Wars. This year he turned a Capri Sun box into a sandcrawler to house his class valentines. He also made Jawa peg dolls completely on his own and he helped me to design these Jawa inspired class valentines which we thought were too good not to share. Hope your young padawans will also agree! This file is best printed out onto white 110 lb cardstock then cut around the border to create six tags. They can be hole punched on top and tied to little treats. You can also slide a valentine pencil or glow stick (light…
