My kids have always been creative, and they love to make Christmas presents for people they love! Here is one of our favorite projects, and certainly one of my husband's favorite gifts: this super easy tree painting with fingerprint leaves. Several years ago, when my husband shifted his career toward construction management, he stopped working in a cubicle and started working in a construction trailer. The first time he had to set up his new …
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Minecraft Trunk-Or-Treat!
Last year, the crafty competitor supermom part of me decided that our family should have the craziest and coolest vehicle at our elementary school's Trunk-Or-Treat. I scavenged the recycle bins throughout my neighborhood on trash day and brought home an entire van full of cardboard, which my kids and I converted into HUGE Minecraft characters! At first, I thought I could just paint these and call it good. Oh, how wrong I was. I did paint …
Minecraft Creeper Pumpkins!
I've been painting A LOT of pumpkins lately - what can I say, I love Halloween and crafty fun and the two just go together! Yesterday I made this Minecraft Creeper pumpkin for my mantel. The moment my kids walked in from the bus stop, their eyes went right to it and they all started to squeal. I think they're currently fighting over who gets it for their room! I guess we'll just have to make a few more! This was so easy, and took me about …