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💖WOODEN HEARTS MADE FROM PAINT, BUTTONS & BOWS!

💖WOODEN HEARTS MADE FROM PAINT, BUTTONS & BOWS! I ❤️found these wooden hearts at the Dollar Store in November and grabbed them! (yes, it was November)! 💘For this project, you need acrylic paints, wooden hearts, and lots of fun buttons and jewels in red, pink, purple and white. 💜Paint the hearts; let them dry and decorate! If 💗your kids/grandkids love to paint and glue—this project is tailor-made for them! ❤️Kids & grandkids seem to LOVE everything about Valentine’s Day! 💘What happy memories do YOU have of celebrating Valentine’s Day as a child? 💖Supplies & directions here: link in bio #valentines #valentines_day #valentinesdaygift #valentinesartsandcrafts
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❤️VALENTINE’S DAY ADVENT CALENDAR 💜Who s

❤️VALENTINE’S DAY ADVENT CALENDAR 💜Who said you can only have advent calendars in December? 💖Anticipation of upcoming holidays makes everything more exciting for kids & grandkids—switch things up a bit and make an advent calendar for Valentine’s Day! 💘You need toilet paper rolls, numbers 1-14, candy, trinkets, slime, etc. to fill the pockets, a poster board, and cardboard to paste everything on. 💗The grandkids’ contribution: paint all the toilet paper roll pockets. My contribution: assemble & fill the pockets. 💘If you’re pressed for time—just grab some cute paper bags and glue them on a piece of cardboard with numbers on each bag and fill them with goodies. Don’t reinvent the wheel! ❤️💜More details here: link in bio #valentines #valentines_day #valentinesdaygift #valentinesartsandcrafts
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💙📚FUN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ALL ABOUT SNOW, SNO

💙📚FUN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ALL ABOUT SNOW, SNOW AND MORE SNOW! ❄️☃️Here is just a small sampling of some of our favorite books about snow. *“Over and Under Snow,” *“If Winter Comes, Tell It I’m Not Here,” *“Snow” 💙📚What are some of your grandkids/kid’s favorite books about snow? 💙❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙☃️SNOWMEN DOODLE ART ☃️Another snowma

💙☃️SNOWMEN DOODLE ART ☃️Another snowman/doodle project… ☃️❄️Easy-peasy snowmen! Just draw a snowman on cardstock paper, color with markers, and start doodling different repetitive shapes. I 💙showed the grandkids different examples of doodling and they’re slowly getting the idea. 💙☃️❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙PAINTING ON ICE—CREATING A COLORFUL WINTER W

💙PAINTING ON ICE—CREATING A COLORFUL WINTER WONDERLAND! ❄️Painting on ice is a great sensory activity and our grandkids love it! During the summer we painted over ice-encased dinosaurs. ☃️This time, we’re painting over ice chunks and ice pebbles to create a fun winter scene. 💙Ask your grandkids/kids what colors they see in winter and then supply them with those colors to paint their ice. ❄️Then add some winter foam stickers and watch the ice melt and the colors blend! 💙☃️❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙☃️SNOWMAN FAMILY ON PAINTED MOUNTAINS 💙Don’t you love combing nature and art? (After all, nature IS art). It’s ☃️winter—take your kids/grandkids outdoors to look at all the colors found in nature. We looked at the mountains and wrote down all the shapes and colors we could see—shades of deep blue, grey, purple and brown. 💙Then we created this snowman family and mountains from cardboard, paint, paper and more. ☃️Both the mountains and snowmen are actually a collage—the mountains have scraps of cardboard glued to them before we painted them. The snowmen are a mixture of colorful bits of paper. 💙☃️❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙❄️DOODLE ART MITTENS 💜☃️Do your gr

💙❄️DOODLE ART MITTENS 💜☃️Do your grandkids/kids like to doodle? ❤️Did you know that doodling helps kids with: *Concentration
*Relaxation
*Thinking creatively
*Ability to grasp new concepts? 💙❄️This project teaches kids/grandkids how to doodle with repeating patterns & designs. 💜☃️The inspiration came from the beautiful mittens my daughter-in-law Moé knits. (Etsy shop: #MeyersYarnCraft.) 💚After looking at the mittens their mother made, the grandkids created a version of their own bright & colorful mittens. Afterwards, have your kids/grandkids use a shoelace to thread their mittens. ❄️Materials: cardboard, markers, buttons, a shoelace, and a Sharpie pen and you’re on your way to doodle heaven! 💙☃️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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❤️📚CHILDREN’S BOOKS ABOUT “HOME” 📚💚Check out these 6 fun books centered on home & family! If you decide to do any of the activities, I’ve posted this week about home & family—read some of these books throughout your time together to support the important idea of “HOME & FAMILY! ❤️💙💜Details: link in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling
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💜🍪THE BEST PART OF HOME: BAKING WITH KIDS/GR $💜🍪THE BEST PART OF HOME: BAKING WITH KIDS/GRANDKIDS! ❤️Do you love to bake & cook with your kids & grandkids? Here is a recipe for snickerdoodles—a favorite of many kids (and adults)! 💙Years ago, I got this recipe from my friend, @carolynallen—but since we’ve moved from sea level to 5,000 feet in the air—none of my recipes work well. 💚So, I’ve changed and altered the recipe to work at high elevations. 🍪🍪Baking with grandkids is a HUGE educational experience! They learn fractions, math, sifting, measuring, stirring, cracking eggs, setting temperatures, and more—it’s one of the best learning experiences ever and it’s all accomplished under a roof called, “HOME!” 🖤🍪Details & recipe: link in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling #homeschoolmom #homeschoolfun #familyfirst #familyfun #familymatters #familyhome #familyadventures #house #houses #housestyle #housestuck #housestyling #housedesign #kids #parents #grandparents #fun #artsandcrafts #homedesign$

🖤🤍🖤BLACK & WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS—A GUIDED

🖤🤍🖤BLACK & WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS—A GUIDED DRAWING! I 🖤saw an amazing guided drawing template on Instagram. It was developed by @artwithmrs.e And it’s called “Winter Village Drawing Guide by Art with Mrs. E”—you can find it in her Etsy shop. 🏠🖤The template is filled with homes, shops, churches, bookstores, pizza shops, trees—everything that makes a neighborhood special and memorable. 🤍🏡Each of our grandkids chose 5 buildings/homes from the template and using a white Prismacolor pencil—they created their own unique neighborhoods! 🖤🏠This was a guided drawing exercise and each template gives you the step-by-step so it’s easy for kids to follow. 🤍🏡Guided drawings increase powers of observation, spatial relationships, fine motor development, placement of shapes, 3-dimensional learning, and more! 🖤🤍🏠Links in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling
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❤️🏠PASTA HOMES & A CLOTHESPIN FAMILY 🏡💙Kids & grandkids LOVE color—the brighter, the better! 🏠These cardboard homes are easy to create and fun to decorate! (directions on post) 🏡We made these clothespin people using yarn and bits of fabric—you can find “doll clothespins” on Amazon. (thank you @artbarblog) 🏠We also took a walk in the neighborhood looking at different shapes and colors of houses—then I encouraged them to create something totally colorful! 🏡As you’re doing this project, ask your kids/grandkids— “Would you like to live in a home where the outside is made of very bright colors—like red, orange, purple or neon green? “Would you like to live in a neighborhood that is lined with brightly colored homes?” “Why are most houses built with duller colors—gray, white, brown, beige, or muted blues?” ❤️🏠And last, “What’s most important INSIDE your home—family? Pets? Parents? A special hiding place? Your toys or books? Do all these things create a HOME of LOVE?” 💚🏡Link in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling
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💙🏡WINTER NEWSPRINT HOMES & NEIGHBORHOODS 🏠Homes come in all shapes & sizes. And throughout every season of the year, they take on their own magic! ❤️There’s something interesting when kids/grandkids use newsprint as they create arts and crafts! It makes the finished product a little more unique! 🏡These are our grandkids’ winter neighborhood scenes—with tall houses; snow-falling buttons, crisp snowflakes piercing the air and everything popping against a stark black background. 🏠All you need is newsprint (you can scan your newspapers and download them onto cardstock) or get a free newspaper template online. Make tall rectangular houses; add windows & doors, and a tree. Top it off with snow (we used white buttons) and snowflakes. 💙OR—you can mix things up a bit and create a neighborhood in an entirely different season of the year! When it comes to HOMES—the possibilities are endless! ❤️🏡Link in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling
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❤️RERUN! A POST FROM THE PAST 💙WHAT THE PA

❤️RERUN! A POST FROM THE PAST 💙WHAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US—THE IMPORTANCE OF HOME! 💜When the pandemic hit, we bunkered down in our homes waiting for the storm to hit. However, something interesting happened that proved— “there’s a silver lining in every cloud.” 🏠We got closer to our families—we spent more time with each other; we cooked & baked together, played games, and appreciated our homes & families more deeply than ever before! (Unfortunately, the opposite happened, too) 🏡For us, it meant spending more time with our grandkids—having them up each week and doing all kinds of themed activities. 🏠This week our theme is HOME! All of our activities centered on making and creating different colorful homes and appreciating, loving, and being grateful for our homes. 🏡Today –PAINT SWATCH HOMES & NEIGHBORHOODS! 🏠To create these super colorful homes—all you need is paint swatches—available at any place that sells paint, some cardstock, printed paper & buttons—and you’re good to go. I ❤️actually made these into puzzles—I showed the grandkids the finished product, then mixed everything up and had them put it back together. Each piece was designed to fit like a puzzle. 💚🏡The result? A new outlook on what “HOME” means! 💙🏠For more details: link in bio #home #family #homestyle #homesweethome #homes #homestyling
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💙❄️SCIENCE FUN! MELTING SNOWBALLS 💙Okay

💙❄️SCIENCE FUN! MELTING SNOWBALLS 💙Okay, everyone knows that when you combine vinegar and baking soda you get fizz & foam! ❄️And kids/grandkids LOVE IT! To them—it’s magical and they are in control of creating the magic. 💙I made snowballs from baking soda and water; pressed them into a muffin tin; took them out and let them dry for 12 hours. ❄️Give each of your grandkids a bunch of “snowballs” and different colors of vinegar and let them melt their snowballs! 💙This is such an easy science experiment! 💙❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙❄️SNOWFLAKE COOKIES! ❄️We’ve made a

💙❄️SNOWFLAKE COOKIES! ❄️We’ve made and frosted a lot of cookies with our grandkids. And little by little my husband (the cake & cookie decorator) has helped the grandkids learn how to use frosting in a bag to decorate their cookies. ❄️It takes time, patience and a lot of fine motor coordination for little hands—but the best part is—if your grandkids/kids make a mistake, it can easily be wiped off clean and you can start over again (thank you icing). 💙So, with grandpa’s help—here’s their snowflake cookies 💙❄️Get all the details about cake tips & more here: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙❄️SALT, GLUE & WATERCOLOR SNOWFLAKES ❄️This is a fun project that almost seems magical to kids and one I’m sure many of you have done before. I got my inspiration for this on: @bestideasforkids 💙You need a snowflake template, glue, salt and watercolors—that’s it! *❄️Go to my blog and download the template from @bestideasforkids. I made my own template, but I like hers better *Use glue as a “pencil” and trace over the snowflakes *💙Pour salt over the glue; let dry and shake off excess *❄️Dip a paintbrush into liquid watercolors and press on the salt—it will spread out all over the snowflake. Just like magic! 💙❄️More details here: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙❄️MARBELIZED SNOWFLAKES IN A NIGHT SKY ❄️There were a couple of art projects we did last summer that our grandkids loved—so we combined the different process to make these marbleized snowflakes and sky. 💙You need cardstock paper, tempera paints, poster boards, shaving cream, food coloring and imagination! *❄️To make the sky—pour a few drops of white paint on black or blue poster board and roll marbles back and forth to create a Jackson-Pollock-like-sky *Cut out snowflakes from cardstock paper *💙Squirt shaving cream on a plate and drop a few drops of food coloring on top *❄️Press each snowflake into the shaving cream; lift up and scrape the excess shaving cream off with a credit card. *💙Glue the snowflakes onto your night sky. ❄️This is a messy project—but one your kids/grandkids will LOVE.
💙Get instructions here: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙DIY POPSICLE STICK SNOWFLAKES—BUILDS FINE MO

💙DIY POPSICLE STICK SNOWFLAKES—BUILDS FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS ❄️These fun DIY snowflakes use popsicle sticks, buttons, pearls, silver beads and glue! 💙Here’s what you do: *❄️Make a snowflake out of popsicle sticks (we made ours 8 sided but snowflakes are usually 6-sided—sometimes 3-sided). Hot glue them together *💙Supply your grandkids/kids with white buttons, snowflake buttons, pearls, silver beads and glue *❄️Create to your heart’s content! 💙So easy and so fun! Grab your kids/grandkids and make yours today! 💙❄️Details: link in bio #snowflakes #snowflake #snowflakecookies #snowflakedesigns
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💙❄️MAKE EASY PEASY JEWELED SNOWFLAKES WITH

💙❄️MAKE EASY PEASY JEWELED SNOWFLAKES WITH GRANDKIDS & KIDS! 💙If you have kids that love anything that sparkles—this activity for sparkling jeweled snowflakes will definitely please! ❄️This craft project is as easy as 1-2-3: *💙Purchase 6” foam snowflakes *❄️Purchase an assortment of colored “jewels” *💙Glue the jewels all over the snowflake *❄️Paint the background sky on a canvas—blues, whites, greens & purples *💙Glue your jeweled snowflake to the canvas 💙❄️Details: link in bio
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💙❄️THIS WEEK: FUN SNOWFLAKE ACTIVITIES FOR

💙❄️THIS WEEK: FUN SNOWFLAKE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS & GRANDKIDS! ❄️❄️LET’S MAKE A SNOWFLAKE QUILT! 💙I don’t know about your weather—but it’s snowflake season here. For the past 2+ months, we’ve been knee-deep in snow which makes it the perfect time to create snowflakes! ❄️I got the inspiration to do our theme on snowflakes from a book I purchased in 1998— “Snowflake Bentley.” It’s a true story about the first man in the 1800s that photographed snowflakes 💙After reading the book—we first made snowflakes & a snowflake quilt. ❄️Have you ever made something using tape-resistant art? It’s an art method that involves steps and teaches kids patience & problem-solving skills. 💙Check out the post (link in bio) on how to make a snowflake quilt using tape-resistant art. ❄️Our inspiration for the quilt? My sister-in-law, Dodi Poulsen, is a nationally recognized quilter and she sent me this amazing Christmas quilt a few years ago—which gave us the inspiration to make our paper quilt. 💙❄️Details: link in bio

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