Coffee Corner — crafts with kids
A new way to paint to keep the kids occupied
Posted by Christie Reimer on
My kids love to paint. It is messy, it is time consuming, and have I mentioned messy? But they love it. They also get tired of just painting. So we are always painting new things, or the same things but with a twist. Instead of painting on paper, we paint rocks, we make sidewalk chalk paint instead of just chalk. We paint on paper, canvas, paper bags, anything we can think of, and we try to make a theme of it to make it seem different. This time, we painted on canvas, but made a canvas with...
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How to save money with DIY vases for every season
Posted by Christie Reimer on
It’s that time of year again. It rains, and then the sun comes up, and everything looks beautiful. Dandelions start popping up everywhere and your kids love picking them for you. They make bouquets and collect as many flowers and leaves that they can. But what do you do with all of them? My girls, want to keep them all and say that they are special to them. Most of our vases are tall, and big. They are too big to hold just a kids handful of flowers. So what can we do? We are working in our house...
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