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May 8, 2019
Early Elementary, Everyday Crafts, Gifts, Holidays, Jewelry and Fashion, Mother's Day, Older Elementary, Preschool, Toddler, Tween to Teen
You can’t escape it…the homemade necklace craft is and always will be a staple for DIY gifts on Mother’s Day. We will always love the classic macaroni necklace here at Project Kid, but sometimes you want to give mom a little surprise.
This handmade bauble is a one that mom is sure to love…and no matter how young the child, this is one that will always look chic and polished. With few materials, this one can be accomplished in just a few minutes. And if you act fast, you’ll still have time to hit up Amazon Prime for the materials! If not, your local craft superstore will surely have all that you need!
Here’s what you’ll need:
Peel off heart from paper backing and stick to the wood circle. Make sure to press down firmly.
Color all around the heart with marker.
Peel off heart sticker and discard. Thread string through the hole and knot.
String beads on to make a necklace.
If Mom is not the necklace type, you can always tie these to a keychain or make a clip for her bag.
A necklace craft for mom on Mother’s Day is a win. One that mom will actually like to wear is just icing on the cake!
May 8, 2019
ad, Decor, DIY Home, Lighting, Styling, Wall Decor
our famously ugly Brooklyn bathroom
This post and project were generously sponsored by Kohler.
While I don’t consider myself an interior designer at all, I’m definitely a design digester. I have Pinterest boards about kitchens, bathrooms, and lighting, I pet velvet sofas like they’re kittens, and I never met a glossy, lacquered wall I didn’t love. But, even with all my oohing, ahhing, and admiration of good interior design, I have to say that to start from scratch designing a room is a bit intimidating. So when my husband and I decided that it was high time we renovate our (famously ugly) Brooklyn bathroom, I looked to the premier bathroom source: Kohler. Once I started to poke around on their site, I learned that Kohler offers real design help, including floor plans, product selections, and 3D renderings.
Kohler Design Style Preferences: Style Trends
Kohler Design Style Preferences: Materials Palette
Here’s how I best describe it: Kohler Bathroom Design Service is like an online dating service, matching you up with your best bathroom. You start the process with a quiz (see screenshots above)…you are presented with photos of spaces and you just have to viscerally respond to them—sometimes it was the light, sometimes the color, sometimes the textures. It was like an interior design personality test and I loved it. We also were asked to link to our bathroom boards on Pinterest so that they could see where our eyes wandered when day-dreaming about the perfect bathroom.
Once the quiz was complete, we had our first of three video calls with our matchmaker, er, designer, Lynn. The first call is the “Collaborate” phase, where Lynn gathered more info about our taste, our functional needs, and our budget (some things don’t translate into the online dating analogy). As you may guess, I’m more of a Do-It-Yourselfer than a Do It With Someone-Elser so this felt so unfamiliar just unloading wants, needs, tastes, etc. But it all made sense to her…we were speaking her language.
Michael and I are not the types that just say things like “I like green” or “I don’t like brushed nickel.” We are people that describe a surface with more words than probably necessary…I tell stories about where I saw a beautiful tile pattern, when and why I was there. (Michael usually chimes in with—Amanda, Lynn doesn’t need to hear all of this!) I asked her repeatedly if we could do this with every room of my house…it felt so luxurious and helpful to have someone interpret our taste, our needs, and our space and funnel it into a plan that was dreamy and achievable.
Video chat with Kohler Designer
The second call was the “Visualize” phase where we got a swatch-like picture of our new bathroom. Lynn had made mood boards with colors and tiles and Kohler products that were derived from our earlier conversation and the answers from our online quiz.
3D rendering video chat of bathroom with Kohler Designer
And then the third call is when we got to meet our new bathroom…a 3D rendering of our little space, complete with new paint, tile, product finishes, fixtures and even an orchid on the vanity! There was no swiping left on this bathroom…we were amazed! And to top it off, we received a box in the mail…a beautiful package of paint samples, wood finishes, and a blown-up photo of the 3D rendering.
I think bathrooms are one of the most complex spaces to renovate smartly and that’s why Kohler Design Service’s $499 price tag is such a steal. You get expert design advice, an easy-to-visual final product with a photorealistic bathroom rendering, knowledgeable product recommendations and access to a list of Kohler Installation Partners. Plus, you get a 2% discount when you purchase the products recommended to you on the list!
Once we shared our hopes and dreams with Lynn, we decided to take the destiny of our bathroom in a slightly different direction, collecting all of her expert plumbing and fixture advice but tweaking the design ever so slightly. She set us on our color palette path of green, gold and white, but the more we looked around, the more we uncovered what direction we really wanted to go in.
We are ready to finally live happily ever after with our new bathroom…let the dating process begin! To check out the Kohler products that we selected, you can visit my bathroom idea Pinterest board! Stay tuned for the final reveal soon!
This post and project were generously sponsored by Kohler.
February 18, 2019
ad, Animals, Early Elementary, Family Bonding, Grown-Up, Halloween, Older Elementary, Tween to Teen, Uncategorized
This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures.
Sometimes I forget when I sit down to watch an animated film with my kids that it’s not always about silly animals and pretty colors—that there are some top-shelf lessons about to be served. When we watched the first How to Train Your Dragon movie, I felt like I needed to feverishly take notes to remember all of the tidbits for explaining individuality, compassion, and courage to my kids. Now that the final chapter in the franchise, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden Worldis coming to theatres on February 22nd, I will have my pen and paper ready (or at least my notes app on)! There are all new adventures as we’re introduced to a new female dragon, Light Fury.
True to form, Oliver and Sommer came away from both of the first two How To Train Your Dragon movies with different take-aways…while Oliver cheered through the adventurous battle scenes, Sommer fell in love with Toothless and Hiccup, emulating their sweet, trusting relationship with her stuffed animals.
To celebrate the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden Worldand the new dragon Light FuryI made this costume for Sommer that promises to be on high circulation in the costume bin!
What you’ll need:
1. Measure the distance from your child’s wrist to the middle of her back. Cut a piece of wrapping paper or butcher paper to that width, with a height of 15 inches. Draw a dragon wing and cut it out.
2. Fold a piece of felt that’s as wide as your child’s arm span and 15 inches tall in half and pin the paper wing to the felt, making sure that the center lines up with the felt’s fold. Cut through both layers of felt and unfold.
3. Using your colored chalk, lightly draw lines from the top center of each wing down to the bottom points of the wing’s tips.
4. Hot-glue cord on top of the chalk lines and fold excess around to the back and glue to secure.
5. Paint felt with glitter paint and let dry.
6. Hot glue white hair ties to the end points of the wings; these will slip over child’s wrists.
7. Cut templates from wrapping paper to create a headpiece for Light Fury as shown. Pin templates to a piece of folded white felt and cut out two large and two small.
8. Fold white felt pieces over the headband and hot-glue to secure.
Once the wings are on wrists, use safety pins to attach the top middle edge to your child’s white shirt.
Wear this beautiful costume to theaters when How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opens in theaters February 22! Get your tickets now http://unvrs.al/DragonsTix.
More about the movie:
From DreamWorks Animation comes a surprising tale about growing up, finding the courage to face the unknown…and how nothing can ever train you to let go. What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic adventure spanning their lives. Welcome to the most astonishing chapter of one of the most beloved animated franchises in film history: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures.
February 15, 2019
ad, Animals, Early Elementary, Family Bonding, Grown-Up, Halloween, Older Elementary, Tween to Teen
This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures.
Much like everyone that has seen the How To Train Your Dragon movies, my kids and I fell in love with Toothless. Loyal, courageous, and kind, he has it all…just like our fave four-legged friends. And finally, now that How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is hitting theaters on February 22, we can’t wait to see what epic adventures Toothless and Hiccup embark upon.
With simple materials we turned our loyal friend Joni into a Toothless the Dragon look-alike. Her fire-breathing skills have yet to develop, but no worries—there’s time!
What you’ll need:
2. Enlarge template to fit your dog. Print and cut out template and trace onto the tyvek towards one end. Flip the template lining up the straight edges and trace again. Repeat to cut a second a second set of wings.
3. Paint both sets of wings black. Let dry.
4. On the backside of one set, hot-glue wire around the top curved edge of the wings, working all the way around to the second wing.
5. Then, hot-glue pieces of wire down from the top middle edge of the wings to the bottom points.
6. Hot-glue both sets of wings back-to-back, with the wire in between.
7. Paint one side of the wings with glitter paint. Let dry. Hot-glue or pin (for a more temporary costume) wings to the harness.
Make your plans to see How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in theaters with your kiddos when it opens everywhere on February 22! Get your tickets now!
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD – In Theaters February 22
From DreamWorks Animation comes a surprising tale about growing up, finding the courage to face the unknown…and how nothing can ever train you to let go. What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic adventure spanning their lives. Welcome to the most astonishing chapter of one of the most beloved animated franchises in film history: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
Don’t forget to go see How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in theaters February 22! Get your tickets now here!
This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures.
February 4, 2019
Grown-Up, Holidays, Jewelry and Fashion, Older Elementary, Toddler, Tween to Teen, Valentine's Day
Here’s a sweet idea that kids can craft to celebrate their loved ones beyond February 14th. By giving a keychain, a pin, or a necklace, your Valentine will feel loved when she looks at her heart all year round!
What you’ll need:
Make it!