Ugh! Another kid sick and our simple paper craft.

Posted by Tracy Zdelar on February 1, 2010

Yep, you knew it was coming. Brendan missed four days of school last week. Jack picked up a bad cough during that time (following in big brothers steps)…but little brother has 2 ear infections!
Two!
The kid has never had 1 in his life…that I’ve known of. Back in December the ENT specialist saw fluid in his [...]

 Our crayon project.

Posted by Tracy Zdelar on December 8, 2009

One of my preemie-parent friends posted this project on her blog and did such a good job at it I decided to try the project myself, with the help of my boys. Its simply melting down old crayons into other shapes. Truly the hardest part was peeling the paper of the crayons.

There is more than [...]

 Crafty fun on the cheap.

Posted by Tracy Zdelar on December 2, 2009

Kids love stickers. So when you get some unrequested address labels or other stickers in the mail, cut off the fun parts and give them to your kids or grandkids to use. My mother-in-law does this and we have a stash. The boys make pictures with them.
I keep a variety of crafty things for my [...]

 Cute Flower Craft for Kids.

Posted by Tracy Zdelar on September 26, 2009

Paper Flower Bouquet.
The other day my 5 yr old asked me to cut out some flowers for him and then he told me to stick the pipe cleaner through it.  He told me he saw it on Caillou (kid’s PBS show that doesn’t seem to be on now, you can pick up the cds at [...]