- Hi, I’m Renata. I’m a mom, a wife, and a teacher. I am also a writer, a painter, and a general creative soul. I love to write stories for children and poetry for adults. My favourite painting medium is acrylics. As well, I love to craft with my kids. While the goal is to have focused, daily creative time, that is not always possible with a five year old, three year old, and a one year old. That is why post it notes with sentence fragments, story ideas, and sketch ideas can be found on most surfaces in my home. This blog is a record of my attempts at sanity and at making me time for creativity while being a mommy of three.
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Category Archives: Creative Kids
Creative Kids: Taped Cards
Our cards this month were inspired by a link a friend sent me, I think it was off Pinterest but I’ve searched for half an hour and can’t find the original link. Search: “tape art kids” on Pinterest and a … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible art, birthday cards, taped art, toddler art
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Gobble, Gobble
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Tagged Thanksgiving craft, toilet paper roll craft, turkey family
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Creative Kids: Thanksgiving Door Hanging
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Tagged Thanksgiving craft, toddler art, Turkey craft
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Creative Kids: Birthday Cards IV
So I have a slight addiction to art supplies. Currently I especially have a thing for stencils. I LOVE them. My kids mostly ignore my art supplies (they think their supplies are more fun…possible) but their interest was peaked by … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday cards, homemade cards, preschooler craft, stencils, toddler crafts
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Creative Kids: Jellyfish Garland
We did this jellyfish garland ages ago but I just haven’t written a post about it to date and yet it’s pretty darn cute so wanted to share. We were inspired by the Aquarium’s display of paper mache jellyfish and … Continue reading
Creative Kids: Birthday Cards II
As I mentioned in the first Birthday Cards post, my kids love to work with paint. Previously we’ve done spin art in the salad spinner and it was super fun so I decided we’d try to make cards that way. … Continue reading
Creative Kids: Marine Rainbow: Seahorses
I realized I hadn’t taken photos of our last Marine Rainbow addition just as I was about to pack them up…so needless to say, they aren’t the best pictures but I got them for the record at least:) I ran … Continue reading
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Tagged marine rainbow, paper plate craft, seahorse craft, toddler crafts
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Creative Kids: Marine Rainbow: Whales
It’s been a crazy last week as we have moved out of our house (move in isn’t for another two weeks so it’s still going to be a crazy time for a while:) However, we did finish our marine rainbow … Continue reading
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Tagged paper plate craft, toddler craft, whale craft
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Creative Kids: Marine Rainbow: Turtles
From the movie Nemo, which I’ve already mentioned my kids love, some of their favourite characters (besides the little guy himself) are the surfer turtles. So we had to make some, dude! To begin we painted our plates green (C was … Continue reading
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Tagged paper plate craft, toddler craft, turtle craft
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Creative Kids: Marine Rainbow: Jellyfish
My favourite colour is up next: yellow! My kids LOVE jellyfish so they really enjoyed this addition. It was a very simple craft so it came together very quickly. While the paint dried on the paper plates, I drew lines … Continue reading
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Tagged fine motor practice, jellyfish craft, paper plate craft, toddler craft
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