Sentimental Diva http://sentimentaldiva.com Preserve Precious Memories Tue, 08 May 2012 21:55:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Toddler Crafts for Mothers Day http://sentimentaldiva.com/toddler-crafts-for-mothers-day/ http://sentimentaldiva.com/toddler-crafts-for-mothers-day/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:55:50 +0000 Sentimental Diva http://sentimentaldiva.com/?p=327 Even smaller kids can make Mother’s Day crafts with a little help from an older sister or dad. Here are some examples of things kids can make for Mom on Mothers day.

Framed Photos

Every mom loves to showcase pictures of her kids, whether at home or at work. Pick out a favorite picture or yourself with Mom and create a beautiful frame for it. There are some easy ways you can go about making photo frames.

One of the most inexpensive and simplest ways to make a picture frame is to cut one out of paper. Construction paper, card stock and thick scrapbooking paper are good choices. Or, if you want to make the frame even less likely to fall apart, use corrugated cardboard.

Just make sure the opening in the middle is large enough to show the part of the photo you want to display, and make the frame any shape you like. Decorate with paint, glitter and stickers. Add a magnet to the back for easy display on the refrigerator.

You can also make frames out of craft sticks. Just glue the ends of four sticks together to make a square, and decorate with markers or paint. Or if you prefer, buy a plain photo frame and decorate it as you please.

Candle Holders

It’s effortless to make an enchanting candleholder out of a small jar. Know any baby food jars that could work well for tealights and votives? You may have some in your own pantry. Pint jars can hold votives or small pillar candles.

To decorate, use paper mache techniques, especially one that uses tissue paper and newspaper. Mix equal parts white glue and water, and stick the paper onto the outside of the jar, stopping below the rim. Use pieces of different colors to create a stained glass look. Cut some shapes out of the paper if you like, arrange them in a pretty pattern, and glue on top of the larger pieces. Coat with the glue mixture to seal, and let dry.

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Family traditions are just a few of the things that define you as a family. These traditions create memories, which can be very important if you have kids. Even when they’re adults, they will refer to the happy times you spent Christmas together and reminisce with their own kids. If you want to leave a legacy, you don’t need lots of money to pass on to your kids, you simply have to make them feel that they became a part of something really special and important as far as your family is concerned.

Important Traditions During the Holidays

- Traveling
- Opening Presents Under the Tree
- Santa
- Snowman Building (if you have snow)
- Sledding

If you’re religious, you can have mass together as a family. Also, meals are a great way to wish each other a happy Christmas. Don’t be too strict on these days, and let the kids run around excitedly with their new gifts. Christmas gifts are wonderful, especially if given as a part of a family holiday tradition.

 

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Every year can be such family fun opening up the boxes of your stock of Halloween decorations. Children love getting out the hairy giant spiders and spider webs, spooky ghosts, witches on broomsticks, ghoulish outfits and costumes, vampire teeth, witches hats and noses and everything else that goes into making up Halloween. You would think it would frighten them, but children take great delight helping put up the the haunting and eerie decorations that go with Halloween.

Everyone goes about their Halloween celebration in a different way. Some are too busy or not interested. Many people just make their Halloween decoration simple, such as simply carving out a pumpkin face, putting a candle inside and placing it in a window facing the street.

Others like to put in an all-out effort in their front yard, with subdued and changing lighting, lightning flashes, cemetery tombstones, zombies, ghosts, vampires, bats, spider webs and even fog machines and sound effects. It’s quite a wacky idea when you think about it, but all good fun. Yet other people concentrate on a Halloween decoration for their front door entry way, to offer a spooky welcome to trick or treaters.

It can be well worth loading up the family and friends in your car at dusk and driving around your neighborhood in the days leading up to Halloween, just to see and enjoy the amazing effort some people will put in to participate and share in the celebration. You can bet your children will be planning out their trick or treating when they know who is in the Halloween spirit and likely to welcome them with good fun, and a good stock of candies and sweet treats.

Occasionally you will find people who also decorate the inside of their homes, and perhaps have tours through their seasonally haunted house to show it off and to raise funds for a charity. Your family will take delight in the visit experience if you are fortunate to have one of these enthusiasts in your neighborhood.

Others like to decorate just a room or two in their homes as the theme for a Halloween costume dinner or party, and invite guests around for some Halloween fun.

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