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Anatomy of a “Creative Play Easter Basket”

April 18 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Creative Play Easter Basket - a great candy-free alternative

I hinted about this post last week, so here it is - C's "Creative Play Easter Basket".  I had 3 goals for this basket:   No candy allowed Absolutely every part of the basket has to be usable for play Inexpensive to make (and by that I mean CHEAP!) Thanks to a lot of clever bloggers and the dollar section at Target, I was able to meet all three of my goals.  I'm really happy with how it turned out and I think C will be thrilled.  Click through and I'll share all my resources so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday Projects, Learning & Engaging, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: candy-free Easter basket, candy-free Easter ideas, Easter ideas

Free Printable: Easter Memory Game

April 14 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Free printable: a simple and sweet Easter memory game for the kids' baskets

When I rolled out the Easter toy I made for S's basket, I also mentioned I had a few more projects up my sleeve.  So today I'm sharing a memory game I made for C's basket.   To make these patterned bunnies, I used Photoshop and a few of the awesome (and free!) patterns over at Sprik Space.  If you haven't been there yet, be sure to stop by and check out the whole series.  There are 13 different patterns in 25 colorways, which is enough for all kinds of cool projects. To make your own set … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday Projects, Learning & Engaging, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: Easter activities for kids, Easter memory game, Easter memory printable, free Easter printable

DIY Paint Chip Easter Garland

March 28 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

An easy upcycled Easter garland using paint chips - LOVE the pretty colors and how the lines on the paint chips mimic the lines in plastic Easter eggs.

I'm a bit of a hoarder when it comes to paint chips (see exhibit A below).  They all look so lovely in the hardware store that I have a hard time sticking to my intended color scheme.  As a result, I have quite a collection.   Lately I've been eyeing my stack and formulating a few simple projects in my head.  The first of which I present to you today - a DIY Easter egg garland.   This was super easy and turned out even better than I'd hoped.  I love how the white line … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday Projects, Seasonal Fun, The Make & Play Vault Tagged With: DIY Easter decor, DIY Easter garland, Easter craft, Easter crafts, Easter decor, Easter garland, Easter kid craft, paint chip easter egg garland, paint chip projects

Free Printable: St. Paddy’s Day Limerick Hunt

March 8 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

St. Patrick's Day Limerick Hunt - includes 4 printable pages to hide around the house as well as a printable pot of gold to fill with goodies!

I mentioned last week that I'll be contributing some playtime activity posts over at momtastic and today is my first one - yay!  It's a treasure hunt game with free printables so you can play along at home.       There are four limerick clues to print out and hide as well as a template for making your own pot of gold for the end of the hunt.  I was originally going to sew together the pot of gold but then I spied these stapled Valentines.  How ironic is it that it took my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday Projects, Seasonal Fun, Tutorials Tagged With: St. Patrick's Day activity, St. Patrick's Day craft, St. Patrick's Day DIY, St. Patrick's Day Kid Craft, St. Patrick's Day limerick, St. Patrick's Day printable, St. Patrick's Day treasure hunt

Tutorial: Shaving Cream Valentine

January 26 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

It's almost February and that's got me thinking about, what else, Valentine's Day.  I love that C is finally old enough to get into holidays so I wanted to make something special for him to give to his pals.  Since chocolate candy isn't really appropriate for a bunch of 2 year olds (at least not in my world), I came up with this instead.     Process based art and play has been big around our house lately (as evidenced by Monday's post) so these shaving cream Valentines were kind of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday Projects, Learning & Engaging, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: DIY Valentine, homemade Valentines, shaving cream valentines, Valentine crafts, Valentines, Valentines for kids

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