Inspiring Creative Kids

Kids love making craft projects during arts and crafts time but there is some preparation involved. We as parents do our best to organize creative activities but we often do not have as much time to spend crafting with our kids as we would like.

If you can get your kids to be creative on their own, that means less time spent on unproductive activities such as watching TV or playing video games.  But how does a parent go about that?  Here are some thoughts on the subject:

Cutting My Hair For My Daughter

As you may or may not know my daughter has won her battle and has beat cancer. She is now finished her chemotherapy, but still alot of tests and one last surgery to go.

Most people when they know of someone who is fighting cancer they shave their hair off. Really, completely, I wholeheartedly wanted to do this for my daughter.

Her exact words to me was, “No, Mom please don’t.” in her cute teenager voice.

So I compromised with her and told her she couldn’t stop me from cutting it short. I grew it long for over 4 years now and it was time to shed the locks.

Easter Egg Coloring Made Easy

Coloring Easter eggs is something kids look forward to every year. However, it can be messy, right? Well here are some ideas for Easter egg coloring made easy and inexpensive as well.

Now in the old days, you would buy an egg coloring kit which required you to use vinegar and dyes. Using a tablespoon to drop the eggs into cups; take them out again became a bit messy. The kit everyone seemed to use was the PAAS egg coloring kit.
Since then, PAAS has come out with new and quite exciting ways in which to color eggs. In fact, they now have holders for the eggs to make coloring them more efficient and user friendly. Although you can still buy these kits, there are other ways in which you can decorate Easter eggs without having to use any dye at all.

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