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Easy Easter Candy Creations

What does the Easter Bunny stuff your kids’ baskets with? My daughter typically scores mass amounts of chocolate, jellybeans and a farm’s worth of Peeps. While candy is a staple in eggs and baskets around the holiday, it’s also great Easter craft material. The following simple candy crafts are ones my preschooler looks forward to making each Easter. They are an ideal way to keep kids busy for a couple hours, plus they are relatively inexpensive to make. The best part: The leftover candy can be stashed away for the bunny to use on Easter Sunday. CANDY CRITTERS Materials for … Continue reading →

Silly Fun With Digital Photographs

Digital photography makes so many cool and creative projects possible. This blog isn’t about those projects though. Instead, it’s about a very silly game that your kids will love to play. It’s also a way to teach them some art terms. But mainly, it is just for fun. To start, make sure you have good saved copies of your digital pictures. You don’t want to lose those. Next, save a copy of those pictures. I like to name them something that lets me know they aren’t our “real” pictures, but pictures we can play around with. Once you have copies … Continue reading →

Fun with Fonts!

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I can say that I am mildly obsessed with fonts. I own an encyclopedia of fonts and I labor over every stylistic decision I need to make for my online tee shirt and gift shop. Even years ago, I used to spend hours upon hours designing my old record label’s website. To this day, I pay close attention to the layouts and fonts used in magazines, websites and on product boxes – yes, I am a little strange. One evening, while writing an article for Families.com, my girl climbed up on my lap and wanted to see what I was … Continue reading →