There aren't many certainties about mothering, but one thing I know for sure: we can never have enough sidewalk chalk in the house. My girls are content to draw on the sidewalk even longer than they're willing to sit and watch a princess movie! Here's how to make your own sidewalk chalk.  more...

Simple Superhero Capes
from Handmade Holidays on www.craftingagreenworld.com

Since the color of March is green, here's a different way to be green this month- recycling and repurposing old sheets or fabric scraps into superhero capes (although I'm sure you could adjust them to be princess aprons as well)!

Friendship Blossoms for Valentine\'s Day or Any Day! 

For each, cut three heart-shaped petals, two leaves, and two flower centers from scrapbooking paper or card stock.

Poke a small hole in each, crease the petals as shown, and slide the pieces onto a lollipop stem. Tape the bottom to secure.

Productive Parenting provides you with one new activity suggestion each day based on your child's birth date. Click here to equip yourself with fun, simple ways to engage with your child today! (From infancy to 5 years old.)

Treasure Hunt

• Target Age: Middle four-year-old
• Materials Needed: Beds, tables, pictures, windows, etc.
• What to do: Practice counting with your child around the house with this fun activity! Sketch the objects listed on a piece of paper. Have your child go around the house and count the number of each found. Have your child write the final count of each object found next to the corresponding sketch. You can make this activity as easy or as difficult as you'd like depending on the items to be counted (electrical outlets would probably require higher counting, beds a much smaller number).
• Skills Learned: Visual Discrimination, Counting Concepts
• Activity Category: Fun with Numbers
• Activity Contributor: Carrie Biales, M.Ed.

How to Make an Evergreen Wreath
from www.ehow.com

Things you'll need:

Activity Travel Tray
from www.About.com 

If your family is driving anywhere this holiday season - whether it's to the store or to grandma's house 16 hours away - you'll want a surefire way to keep your little ones busy in the back seat. Click here to learn how to make an inexpensive travel tray, great for budding artists!

CraftFail

How many times have you attempted to recreate a craft that someone else makes look so easy? Craft Fail is a community blog dedicated to sharing our not-so-successful crafting attempts.

DIY Recycled T-Shirt Braided Scarf Tutorial
from thisolddress.blogspot.com

Do you have any old t-shirts laying around? What about all those free ones you get from events, schools, contests ... make them useful!

This tutorial will teach you how to make your very own homemade recycled t-shirt braided scarf. Or if you're not feeling crafty, you can buy one from her etsy shop (that's not really an endorsement - just an option!)

How to Make a One-Pattern-Piece Reversible Sun Hat
from craftstylish.com

View the step-by-step tutorial for making a simple sunhat that will fit your head (or your kids' heads) perfectly here. There are pictures!

No-Sew Cafe Curtains
from Better Homes and Gardens

View the tutorial video at BHG.com but here is a transcript that will walk you through it as well:

To jazz up your windows, try this! You don't have to know how to sew to whip up these easy little café curtains. You do need to know the height and width of your window though.

Now, the fabric for your curtain needs to be half the height of your window and 2 inches wider than your window. Now, I promise it's all the math you're gonna need to know for this project. You definitely need your iron though, so get that plugged in and warmed up, and I've got mine on the silk setting.

Then, cut your fabric to the right dimensions. If you have some pinking shears, you may wanna use them just to cut down on any of the fraying. Now, I'm ready to suppress a 1-inch fold all the way around my curtains. Let's get your iron here, and I've already premeasured a 1-inch fold.

Here is the best part, no sewing. No need to lug out your sewing machine because you're going to use hem tape. And I love this stuff because it fuses the fabric together and keeps your fold in place for a no-sew hem. It's great.

You use the crease as your guideline, and you're going to lay your tape up along the crease, like this. Fold over your fabric, like this, and then iron. And I like to snip off the hem tape after ironing it into place. In that way, it kinda has a tendency sometimes when you iron that the hem tape will kind of shrivel into the fabric area, and so, if you wait until you cut it at the end you'll be guaranteed that you'll have enough of the hem tape showing so the fabric doesn't fray.

We're just gonna iron all away around your curtains. Now, I wanna show how easy it is when you come to a corner. We're gonna create a simple box fold. So what you're gonna do is you just gonna take one seam and fold it over the other. It is easy as that, and it looks really nice. It cuts down on a lot of fraying. It just has a nice simple edge there for a box fold.

Now, you're ready to hang your curtains, and I've got some clip-on curtain rings over here. And what you're gonna do, is you're gonna find the center of your finished curtain. So just fold it over and find the middle. Keep that mark and clip on your curtain ring. And then, you will work your way out to the edges. And I'm just gonna eyeball it, but if you've stickler, you could measure it.

Now, you just string it on to a tension rod and hang it in your window. Now, you've got some lovely café curtains, and you didn't even have to take a single stitch.