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Book Review – Toddler Activities Made Easy: 100+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Busy Parents

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All play, no prep toddler activities

Your little toddler is bursting with enthusiasm, wonder, and…ENERGY! And you’re a busy parent. No matter the time, space, or kind of materials you have on hand, this book gives you plenty of quick, easy, and fun-filled activities to engage your child’s curiosity.

Toddler Activities Made Easy uses everyday household materials to create educational and entertaining experiences for your toddler. With activities that take only 5-minutes or less to get ready, this book makes it simple and fast for parents to turn a moment of idleness into play learning.

Toddler Activities Made Easy includes:

  • 100 + awesome activities?Engage your toddler with active play, early science experimentation, creativity, imaginative games, and outdoor exploration?no matter which toddler activities you choose, they’ll be learning and having fun!
  • Quick, no-fuss setup?Use common materials that you have lying around the house to prep toddler activities in just 5 minutes.
  • Developmental milestones?Choose toddler activities based on skills developed with labels for early literacy, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and so much more.

Turn a regular box into a school bus. Make musical instruments from office supplies. Experiment with puddle splashing. Whatever the game is, this book makes it fast and easy for you and your toddler to have a BLAST learning.

 

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How to Manage a Large Piece of Cross Stitch Fabric

I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching. 

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies. 

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems. 

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess. 

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes. 

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]