Crafts and DIY

I recently hosted a baby shower for two friends, both of whom are having their second child. Both moms wanted something low key because it was their second child, but I couldn’t have a baby shower without a little bit of a theme. A teenie weenie little smidge of a theme was necessary to elevate …

Sometimes kids need to earn their keep.  I mean, if we spend years wiping their bums the least they can do is step up to the plate and help out every now and again. But getting kids to work can be challenging if they aren’t into it. Just like some people hide veggies in comfort …

It’s time to lean how to meal plan. Do you ever feel like your family eats the same things for dinner over and over?  When you cook a meal does your family complain and say “But we just had that!”  Do you find yourself dreading to think of something to cook for dinner?  Is it …

At dinner every night, everyone in my family shares one thing they are thankful for from the day. This started in November as we were discussing Thanksgiving and it just stuck. I adore this new tradition. After a rough day of whining and snot and poop on the ceiling (yes, this happened last week) it …

I am so ready for spring and some warmer weather.  (That’s a bit of an understatement.) The winter weather in Illinois has been hard on my family and we have all ended up with terribly dry skin.  This happens every year but this year it seems especially bad.  My seven-year-old daughter has it the worse.  …

Dying eggs is one of the few craft activities you can do with really young children.  As long as they can put an egg in a bowl, they can help out. Those first two sentences were taken from my brain before I had ever dyed eggs with a young child. In reality, if they can …

I’m just going to say it, I’m not the craftiest person! Sure, if it is “crafty baking” I’m all in but if it is regular old crafts, I’m not that great. You know, the crafts when you create something with crap around your house? Yeah, those are just not the Martha Stewart traits that I …

Hey Baby Gizmo Readers! It’s Alex from Mommys Craft Obsession and I am so excited to have the opportunity to share my 3 Ingredient Sugar Scrub with you today! Let’s get started, shall we? I know we just met, but I want to make a confession to you. Until recently, I had never paid to …

After we filmed a few Baby Gizmo videos for American Girl in my daughter’s bedroom a couple months back, we started to get quite a few questions about her bed. While you can’t see the entire bed in the videos, so many people started emailing us and asking us questions about where we got the …

My youngest son has eczema. Pretty bad eczema all over his body but his face. The nasty winters in Chicago can wreak havoc on his poor little baby skin. His skin gets dry, itchy and irritated. We lather up on the eczema-friendly lotions and try to get a handle on it the best we can …

The holidays are pretty quiet around our house when it comes to visitors. Most of our close family is at least a state away if not half the country, but we are all doing our part to help grow relationships amidst the miles that separate us. One such way is this nifty DIY family tree. …

Lots of baking going on right now for the holidays! There are holiday snacks, crafts, and parties galore this month. Today I wanted to show you one kid-friendly dessert that is so easy to make, that your kids can help. Yep, this is another craft time meets snack time with these easy to make Snowman …