Tap into your imagination and create your own magical world of people or fairies with this free download for pocket people. Created by The Big, at age 5, with pride. The Big has been obsessed with fairies for the last year or so. It started with watching Tinkerbell and then hit full throttle a little while later after seeing fairy gardens online. She’s been drawing fairy houses and building fairy gardens for months. And, now, she has found a love for pocket fairies thanks to our egg carton fairy craft we did a few weeks ago. After our initial burst…

This portrait drawing project started out as a Father’s Day craft and has morphed into one of our favorite drawing exercises. We’ve done close to 20 of them between us and each one we create is our new favorite. I’m not sure what it is about having a blank face that inspires creativity for us, but it does. There are so many ways to create hair, clothing, and faces AND we get to use a variety of different materials like scrapbooking paper, colored paper, crayons, markers, and stickers. Literally everything is up for grabs with these. Our first few portraits…

If you’re looking for a fun rainy day project, or a quick and easy DIY, These tissue paper 5’s are sure to be a hit. They are a colorful craft that can be done with any letter or number you want (see below for the templates). With The Kid’s 5th birthday party quickly approaching, we’ve been gearing our daily crafting projects towards that. The theme is Cinco de Mayo, which means lots of colorful and festive projects. Yesterday it was tissue paper flowers (we did a mix of these and these in various sizes) and today it was all about…