So your school-aged kids have started school for the year! Great! But are your younger kids missing their older brothers and sisters? Are you already having a hard time occupying them now that their siblings are away at school all day?

Here’s a neat guide that might help. I came across this guide titled, “Fun Kids Crafts” which has complete instruction and supply sheets (with photos!) for over 700 craft projects suitable for kids three years old and up.

This downloadable guide has almost 400 pages full of craft ideas, templates, instructions and photos. There are holiday-specific crafts, crafts for very young kids and tons of unique crafts that can be done with common items found around the house.

Need something to occupy kids on a teacher workshop day or a snow day? These activities are perfect for those “crafting emergencies” when you need to keep the kids entertained and engaged for longer periods of time.

This guide is a downloadable ebook, so you can order it any time of day and have instant access to all of its contents. They even offer three free sample craft sheets so you can see what the instruction sheets are like! If you do nothing else, at least go and download those three free craft sheets, because you never know when you might need them! The cost of the book is so small compared to all of the sanity-saving ideas you get…just $24 and you also will receive three bonus books in addition to the book of 700 crafts!

Check out Fun Kids Crafts here and have it handy for the first teacher worshop day! You’ll thank me later!

I wish I could take credit for this idea, but I found this on a really cool site called IkeaHacks….they take items from Ikea and “hack” them into other uses or to make them more functional. Definitely worth a visit if you have an Ikea near you.

 Anyway, this hack caught my eye because we have these CD cases from Ikea and use them to store our DVD’s near our TV (way more efficient than shelves and shelves of DVD cases in your living room!). I also frequently have the need for a quick “grab and go” diaper bag alternative when I just want to run into a store with my son and not cart the entire diaper bag and all its contents with me. Sometimes you just need the emergency stuff in case of an accident….diapers, wipes, something clean to change them on, an emergency pacifier and maybe a clean onesie.

This idea basically turns a CD wallet into a diaper wallet…..really a cool idea!

Click here to read the entire post, with pictures and a how-to….

So cool……

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