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July 15, 2010 By Mom Spark 7 Comments

guest post by Wendy (former Mom Spark writer) www.Wesnlani.com I love looking for fun and creative ways to display my children’s artwork, writing, and funny things they say. Suzanne posted about a collage that she created with her son’s artwork using Snapfish. I often use these items in my scrapbooks. Here are a few examples. If you would like to see a larger version of the pages just click and you will be sent to my Flickr page. 1. Take a photo of your children…

April 24, 2010 By Mom Spark 13 Comments

guest post by Suzanne Winn I’m not one of those mothers that saves every piece of paper my child has drawn on. Because I work full time, Jaxon goes to an in-home childcare with a lady that we go to church with. She teaches a cirrucilum and he loves it there. He started there when he was about 4 months old. Once he was around one he started bringing papers home! Needless to say – We have a LOT of papers from this kid and…

April 16, 2010 By Mom Spark 20 Comments

guest post by Suzanne Winn The other day I realized that I needed a birthday gift for a 5 year old girl. We got her a few little things that little girls like, but I also felt like making her something! So…I pulled out the clipboard I bought a while back for 50 cents and went to town!! Here’s the list of what I used: Wooden Clipboard Scrapbook Paper Acrylic Paint MOD-PODGE Ribbon Foam Brushes **I ended up NOT using the sandpaper and ink**, more…

April 2, 2010 By Mom Spark 31 Comments

I have posted this project before, but I wanted to share it once again. It’s a fun, easy craft that you can help your kids with! Pre-heat oven to 275. Place, broken, unwrapped crayons in muffin tin.(coated with cooking spray) He made one “lemon-lime.” (to left) Oven at 275-waiting for crayons to melt.

March 29, 2010 By MeganS 14 Comments

How to make this Quilt! It is easy- so easy it could be a MomSpark No-Brainer! The most fantastic thing about this quilt is how easy and how fast it comes together. I guess technically that is two fantastic things. Fast and almost effortless are great qualities but my favorite part about this quilt is that you can make it as simple or as complex as you want. It is a great quilt and an even better base pattern. That is what makes this is…

March 20, 2010 By Mom Spark 9 Comments

guest post by Suzanne Winn A few months ago Summer dida post on spin art, so I decided to break out my salad spinner that I rarely use because bagged salad is just easier! Here are a few pictures from our spin art experiment – it’s so easy, even a 3 year old can do it! Jaxon has a special art shirt that we don’t mind getting messy:

October 29, 2009 By Mom Spark 140 Comments

The kiddos and I recently had the chance to review Miss Brittany’s Organic Preschool Fun Dough. It has 3 main features that stood out to me. It’s Organic, Non Toxic, and Handmade in the USA. Even the packaging uses 100% recyclable packaging and is printed with soy ink. Not to mention that Isabella and I had a BLAST playing with it. Miss Brittany a preschool teacher from New York had the idea to make a more kid-safe and environmentally responsible play dough. So Miss Brittany’s…