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The Make & Play Vault

Happy Monday everyone. I’m pretty thrilled to be able to announce today that Allison of All for the Boys will [...]

So remember last week when the Elmer’s Craft it! giveaway began?  Of course you do, entries have been nuts – [...]

I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday, short weeks always seem to wreak havoc on my schedule. Plus today was C’s last [...]

If ever there was a quintessential DIY toy it’s play dough!  Parents and children have been happily cooking up this [...]

The title of this one is a little misleading.  These pretty pencils aren’t actually dip-dyed, they just mimic the look [...]

It’s been a busy, busy weekend on the homefront.  Gorgeous weather led to some impromptu yardwork and spring cleaning along [...]

I’m at momtastic this week sharing my favorite new painting technique.  S and I picked it up at toddler group [...]

Aren’t these water bead eggs cool?  They were unbelievably easy and inexpensive to pull together and I think the kids [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of lamenting about C dropping naps over on the facebook page lately (which, by the [...]

St. Paddy’s Day is just over a week away so here’s one more fun project to try with the littles.  [...]

  Around this time last year I stumbled on the idea of making a Leprechaun Trap for St. Paddy’s Day [...]

I’m so over winter.  Seriously, I feel like we’ve done the cold and snow thing enough already – I’m jonesing [...]

We were stuck inside the other day in an attempt to keep a case of the sniffles from becoming something [...]

It’s been an inordinately busy weekend here at MPMK.  Things starting getting exciting on Friday, so much so that I [...]

I first gave you a glimpse of the personalized alphabet book I made for C here.  He liked the initial [...]