Typically we are so psyched for the first big holiday break of the school year. During the Thanksgiving time off, we normally get to unwind with our kids, visit with family, catch up on shopping and errands, but this year we are basically doing none of that (except for the excessive time spent with our kids)! You have probably exhausted every arsenal in your bag of tricks for keeping your kids busy, entertained, and hopefully off screens (yeah right).

I’ve gathered a few goodies together that might help with the Thanksgiving ennui…both yours and your kids! Click the links below to shop!

1| Rainbow Wall Hanging Weaving Kit. I’ve seen these adorable crafts all over Instagram and here’s a kit to make one for yourself!

2| The Handmade Charlotte Playbook will keep your kids busy through next spring! Handmade Charlotte has been serving up delightful crafts and treats for years, and now it’s your turn to own this amazing craft encyclopedia. If you need to stock up on your crafts supplies, I’ve saved my faves to this Amazon list!

3| Stay in the Thanksgiving spirit with this adorable Thanksgiving Craft Kit from Cottonwood Home. It comes with 6 activities to get your gobble on! (Their words, not mine!)

4| Another craft craze that I can’t get enough of is the punch needle activity. This Wool Queen Punch Needle Kit comes with everything you need to make this beautiful, colorful landscape. You may even want to take over once the kids go to bed…it’s SO satisfying! If you are interested in more punch need projects, check out Rose Pearlman’s book, Modern Rug Hooking. She’s the queen of this skill!

5| Get the littlest of hands started in the fiber arts with this Little Explorers Play Bead Sewing Kit. It comes with al the basic supplies to help your little one experiment with his or her first sewing project.

6| Take some time for yourself and start up a project! I fell in love with these sweet mittens; and you can buy the pattern and the yarn on Etsy.

7| I am ready to add this Woven Beaded Ring kit to my shopping cart! This is a great activity for the phone-obsessed tweens and teens in your life.

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Art is in the eye of the beholder, but this artist is undeniably adorable! This quick and easy costume is a great last-minute choice for the kid who can’t make up her mind! You likely have many of the crafty items at home, and you can pair them with these perfect pieces from Primary.com to give your artist that extra je ne sais quoi! I love the french striped look alongside the more funky star pant, giving this little painter an edgy vibe.

Here’s how to put it all together…

What you’ll need:

• Long sleeve classic T in stripe from Primary.com
• Cozy legging in star print from Primary.com
• Mask from Primary.com 
• Kids’ apron
• Acrylic paint
• Cardboard
• Paintbrush
• Black felt
• Scissors
• Hot-glue gun
• Beret

1. To make the paint palette, draw a kidney-bean shape on cardboard, about 16″ in length and cut out. Cut out a small circle near the end.
2. Paint splotches of paint along the palette.
3. If your apron isn’t already messily beautiful, then add some dashes of bright paint to match your palette.
4. Cut a mustache a goatee shape from black felt and use glue-dots to attach to mask (this way you can have a clean-shaven mask when finished).

Once Halloween is over that apron will come in handy for future art projects and those  clothes will last until your kid grows too big to wear them!

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

When we were trying to think of Halloween costumes that could naturally sport a face-mask (because, let’s face it, if your kids are doing anything with other kids on Halloween, even trick-or-treating, face masks are a must!), the idea of a beekeeper came to mind. No, they don’t typically require the face mask, but you can double up with a face mask and face shield if you want to be extra safe (both from imaginary bees and bugs of the viral type).

We started with our clothing pieces from Primary…all you need is just two simple pieces that your kid will be comfortable in! And again, one of the best parts of this costume is that nothing is attached permanently, so they can wear the clothing IRL, post-Halloween.

And of course this beekeeper needs to show off the honey (CANDY!) that he’s collected, so you can make these easy honey-jar candy-carrier from an upcycled oatmeal container.

This is a great DIY Halloween costume to make with your young kids. They will love bringing pom-poms to live as buzzing bumblebees!

What you need:

• Long-sleeve dream knit oxford shirt from Primary in white
• White leggings from Primary
• 1-inch yellow pom-poms
• 1/2-inch black pom-poms
• Black pipe cleaners
• Black, yellow, white, peach felt
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• Glue dots
• Safari hat
• Tulle
• White paint
• Oatmeal container
• Yellow rope or yarn
• Cardstock in 2 tones of yellow

MAKE THE BEES

1. Cut a black pipe cleaner into 1-to-2-inch pieces.
   
2. Glue the pipe cleaners around the yellow pom-pom.
3. Glue the small black pom-pom to the end of the yellow pom-pom as the bee’s head.
4. Cut small teardrop shapes from the peach felt and glue onto the top/back of the bee as the wings.
5. Attach bees to clothing with glue dots.

MAKE THE HAT

1. Paint the hat white (optional).
2. Hot glue a 6-inch wide piece of tulle all the way around the lip of the hat with the opening in the back.
3. Use glue dots or hot-glue to attach bees to hat.

MAKE THE HONEY CANDY CARRIER

1. Cut 3 long strands of yellow/orange rope or yarn and braid them together. Knot them at each end and hot-glue inside the oatmeal container.
2. Cut drips out of one color of cardstock and glue them to the top edge of the secondary color. 
3. Now you need to add the word HONEY to the front. You can write it with a marker, use letter stickers, or cut out the word using your Cricut. Here’s my template here if you’d like to use it (ours was 6 inches wide).  

Thanks to Primary for sponsoring this post!

Thanks to Primary for sponsoring this post.

In 2020, I’d say the newest verb to hit the lexicon is “to zoom.” Kids, executives, and college friends…we all zoom. All. The. Time. What was just an onomatopoeia word back in February, is now a non, a verb…a whole new way of living!

So when I embarked upon a 2020 Halloween Costume project with Primary, I knew that I needed to tackle Zoom as one of my costumes. And what is Zoom? It’s business up top, party on the bottom…am I right? Primary has so many amazing basics that feel so soft and cozy, you’d actually never know you were wearing a button-down.

Download our printable to make the color-yourself Zoom frames, and iron-on the “mute” symbol onto a Primary mask.

What you need:

• Cardboard, 11×17 inches
• Black tape
• White cardstock
• Scissors
• Markers
• Glue
• X-acto knife
• Printable-iron on or Iron-on vinyl for a Cricut
• Primary mask
• Long sleeve dream-knit oxford shirt from Primary
• Jogger with Rainbow Trim from Primary
• Necktie
• Slippers or any comfy shoes!
• Hot-glue gun
• 1/2″ Elastic

1. Create a 1/2″ border of black tape around the cardboard. Fold the tape over to cover the edges.
2. Print out the template 1 and template 2 (each template has a mix of different face styles); cut and color the frames to match your classmates. Write the names in the lower left-hand corner.
3. Glue the frames to the cardboard, leaving the center clear (for most, you’ll need about 18 colored frames.)
4. Measure the height and width of your child’s head and sketch their head-shape on a piece of cardstock. Cut it out. Trace this shape onto the top of the cardboard.
5. Carefully cut out the head shape from the cardboard with the x-acto knife.
6. Cut a piece of elastic that stretches over the back of the face opening, measuring it against the child’s head. Glue it to either side of the opening
7. To make the mask, print this template onto iron-on material or using red vinyl on your Cricut (we sized ours to 3″ tall). Iron the design to the mask following the instructions on the materials’ packaging.

This is such a fun DIY Halloween costume because your kids will really get into helping you with the coloring and naming the members of the Zoom! Thanks to Primary for the amazing clothes that made this happen!

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If one good thing came out of this crazy 2020, it’s that the public-at-large recognized the true importance of the Essential Worker. This year, at Project Kid, we could have made 83 different essential worker costumes, from doctors to nurses  to grocery store clerks to fire fighters.

But since healthcare has been the real focus of the year, we are honoring the people that work in the hospitals—the doctors, nurses, hospitalists, physician assistants—all of ’em with this essential workerHalloween costume.

We were excited to get to work with Primary again this year on our Halloween 2020 costumes! They have the best, most durable basics that fit and last until your child grows out of em. And with these costumes, your kiddo will get to wear, play, and quarantine in these clothes long after Halloween.

What you’ll need;

• Pool leggings from Primary
• Short-sleeve tunic from Primary
• Long-sleeve slim tee from Primary
• Classic legging from Primary
• Solid mask in neutral from Primary
• Headband
• Yarn
• Scissors
• 2 bottle caps
• 2 black pompoms
• Hot glue-gun
• Cracker or cereal box
• Black duct tape
• White cardstock
• Red cardstock

DIY STETHOSCOPE

1. Tie yarn to the middle portion of the headband.
2. Wrap yarn around about 2 to 3 inches of the headband. Glue to keep keep yarn in place on the far side.
3. Tie the yarn back to the starting place and make knot. Add a dot of hot-glue to secure.
4. Cut a 6 to 8-inch piece of yarn and tie it to the yarn loop from step 3.
5. Glue the end of the yarn into the larger plastic bottle cap. 
6. Glue the smaller cap into the larger cap.
7. Glue 2 pom-poms to the ends of the headband to make the ear pieces.

FIRST AID TRICK-OR-TREAT BAG

1. Tear two pieces of black duct tape about 12 to 15-inches long. Attach them to each other, sticky-side together.
2. Wrap black duct tape around the 3 edges of the box, taping the double-sided tape from step 1 in place as the handle. 
3. Trace the faces of the box on white card stock, cut them out, and glue them to the front and back of the box.
4. Cut two red plus signs and glue them to either side of the box. 

Order your Primary pieces by October 21st to get them in time for Halloween!