Homemade Crafts for Mothers Day: The Weekly Kids Co-Op

 
Before you hit the panic button, or think I that I’m super organised (ha!), Mothers Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. In Australia, (as well as the U.S. and Canada), it is celebrated in May. However, in the U.K., Mothers Day is celebrated in March.

 
Just look at the lovely homemade crafts you can make to celebrate mothers day. This collection of homemade crafts is from last week’s Weekly Kids Co-op:

• DIY Engineer Heart Pendants and Ornaments by Play Trains
• DIY Bracelets by Lessons Learnt Journal
• Make Eggshell Dolls by Pink Stripey Socks
• Paper Flowers by Lessons Learnt Journal
• Edible Sugar Flowers by Happy Whimsical Hearts
• Hand Warmers by What To Do With The Children
• Making Soap With Kids by Learners in Bloom
• How to Make a Bookmark Using Tear Art by Buggy and Buddy
• Spring flowers by The Fairy and The Frog
• Kiddo Made Mug by Scribble Doodle and Draw

 
Feel super crafty after seeing this lovely batch of homemade crafts? I sure do.

 
We’re about to enter our weekend with gusto! Here’s an Instagram from our family this week. My darling Miss K can’t walk yet but wants to craft. Indeed, the apple does not fall far from the tree. 

 
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How?

1. Say “Hi” and introduce yourself and your blog by leaving a comment here. I want to know you, your blog and have a conversation.
2. Link up your child-focused link here. It can be a recent post or an older one – just as long as it’s child-focused.
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We love sharing awesome ideas with our readers and look forward to seeing the many great ideas linked up each week.

 
The Weekly Kids’ Co-op is co-hosted by a group of 50 fun kids’ blogs. By adding your your child-focused link at the Weekly Kids’ Co-op, we’ll share your idea across all of our child-focused blogs.

 
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Come and Play with LessonsLearntJournal.com @ The Weekly Kids’ Co-Op!

 
How?

1. Say “Hi” and introduce yourself and your blog by leaving a comment here. I want to know you, your blog and have a conversation.
2. Link up your child-focused link here. It can be a recent post or an older one – just as long as it’s child-focused.
3. Please include a link back or The Weekly Kids’ Co-Op button so that others can also find The Weekly Kids’ Co-Op easily.
4. Have you been featured today? Please take our Featured at Lessons Learnt Journal badge.

 
We love sharing awesome ideas with our readers and look forward to seeing the many great ideas linked up each week.

 
The Weekly Kids’ Co-op is co-hosted by a group of 50 fun kids’ blogs. By adding your your child-focused link at the Weekly Kids’ Co-op, we’ll share your idea across all of our child-focused blogs.

 
We’ll pin the best on our very popular Weekly Kids Co-op Pinterest board. Don’t forget to follow The Kids Co-op on Facebook.

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Printable: Weekly Planner with Doodling Space

 
I love doodling. It’s fun. It’s pretty, but doesn’t need to be. It’s “no-expectations”, “let’s-just-see-what-happens” type of work.

 
I love planning. It helps us in being wise with our time. I always over-plan. Over the years, my approach to planning has morphed into more of a collection of stuff that I think will work. A bucket list, if you will. My planning has also become a “no-expections”, “let’s-just-see-what-happens” type of work.

 
I’ve put together a free printable weekly planner with doodling space to combine my love of doodling and planning.

 
Click here for the free printable colour version of the weekly planner with doodling space.

 
Click here for the free printable black and white version of the weekly planner with doodling space.

 
I doodle down ideas for our week ahead in the large box on the right hand side. I love using colours, lines, circles, arrows, etc. It’s my mind map. A space for me to quickly doodle down things as I think of them.

 
I use the smaller boxes on the left hand side to record what we actually get to do during the week. I also jot down any spontaneous activities or interests that pop up during our week together.

 
The lovely thing about this planner is that it can be whatever you make of it. Use it as a weekly meal planner; jot down meals on the left hand side and use the large box for your shopping list. Or use it as a journal template; use one side for photos and the other for notes.

 
I think I may get my preschoolers to start using this for their first journal. Draw pictures of the day’s highlights in each of the smaller boxes and use the large box for photos of our time together during the week.

 
I would love to hear how you use this weekly planner with doodling space.

N & M: 4 years, 3 months
E: 2 years, 2 months
K: 10 months

September 2012

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