Holidays
Sweet Little DIY Honey Bee Cards for Rosh Hashanah!
For Rosh Hashanah this year, we’re making some little bee cards since apples and honey are customary to eat to symbolize a sweet new year. Bees on honeycomb would be just the thing!
Holidays
Make a Shofar to Celebrate the Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah is approaching and the shofar horn delights kids. Help your child make one easily.
Crafts
Lunar New Year Craft: Dragon Mask
It’s the year of the dragon. Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a dragon mask. It is super simple with this free printable to download!
Holidays
Fortune Cookies for Valentines & Lunar New Year
If you are looking for a fun way to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Feb 10, 2024) and Valentine’s Day give these fortune cookies (with a special message inside) a try! They make thoughtful little gifts.
Holidays
Rising Wishes Mobile to Celebrate the Chinese Lantern Festival
On the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year many Chinese celebrate with a Lantern Festival. Children decorate colorful lanterns. We are inspired to make our own that are safe to hang inside your home.
Crafts
Start the New Year with Your Own DIY Calendar!
Keeping the kids busy during holiday break? A calendar at a glance for this upcoming new year is productive and fun! Just use our free printable and tutorial.
Party & Play
Inauguration Day Bingo for Kids!
There’s nothing like learning about history than being right in the middle of it. Inauguration Day is Monday, January 21. For kids, turn watching the Inauguration festivities into a fun game.
Crafts
Birdhouse Ornaments (made from Pint-Sized Dairy Cartons)
Upcycle used pint-sized dairy cartons into mini birdhouse ornaments for your Christmas tree. We show you how to do it yourself.
Crafts
Baked Citrus Suncatchers
How to upcycle the excess citrus growing in our backyard into beautiful holiday suncatchers.
Holidays
Printable Purim Masks!
I’ve always loved the story of Esther which is still celebrated today in a Jewish holiday called Purim. To bring some of that fun of Purim here I thought I would create some easy printable face masks that you can download and print at home and play along.
Holidays
Hanukkah Craft: Tiny Little Neighborhood
Tired of homemade menorahs and popsicle-stick Star-of-Davids? Here’s something new and fun to do with your children during Hanukkah. Make a happy little Hanukkah Village out of raisin boxes!
Holidays
Family Photo Ornaments for your Christmas Tree
We teach you how to turn your favorite family photos into clever (and fun) Christmas tree ornaments that you can gift as keepsakes and/or use to decorate your own tree.
Crafts
Custom Painted Pottery Gifts (make for the best keepsakes!)
We share our been-there-done-that tips before you head to the painting pottery studio to make these great handmade and personalized gifts for family and friends.
Crafts
Flower Hair Scrunchies for the VSCO Girl (5 minute craft)
Learn to add faux flowers to the ever-popular scrunchies. This super easy craft only takes minutes and will be a hit with your VSCO girls.
Holidays
Shamrock Plant Gift for St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and let your friend know you appreciate them with a little shamrock plant with an added sweet message on a homemade plant pot stick.
Products & Services
Personalized Pencils: Be Creative
This holiday, I’m stuffing my son’s and husband’s stockings with these personalized and engraved pencils. I had the thirteen values of our Family Manifesto embossed on each pencil creating a set to gift to each. But here are other ideas.
Holidays
Tiny Holiday Matchbox Greetings and Place Cards!
For the holidays (or a winter-themed table scape), we made these adorable place cards from matchboxes. They are dioramas of winter scenes. We teach you how to make your own.
Holidays
Gingerbread Wreath Cake DIY for Christmas
We combine some of favorite holiday staples like gingerbread, chocolate and yummy orange olive oil cake into a delicious and gorgeous holiday cake.
Holidays
Fun Ways to Celebrate New Year’s Eve With Kids
Make New Year’s Eve festive for even the guests of all ages with these fun crafts and activities.
Holidays
The Treat Tray Thief (an adorable and heartwarming holiday story)
A heartwarming story of how thanking delivery and service folks during the holidays with treats led the discovery of an unexpected but adorable local thief.