Sparkle Crafts
Unleash your creativity and dive into the world of crafting with Sparkle Crafts. From DIY projects to artistic endeavors, this category is your go-to destination for all things crafty and creative.
DIY Polymer Clay Pencil Toppers for Kids: Sculpt Sparkly Characters!
This fun and easy craft is the perfect way to help kids personalize their school supplies and get their creative juices flowing! It also makes for a great handwork moment and helps little ones practice those fine motor skills.
Explore Summer: DIY Explorer Bags
These DIY Explorer bags are quick to put together and you might just have most of the items hanging around your house already.
Sparkle Craft: How to Knit a Fairy Poke
We’ve created an easy-to-follow tutorial for making your own Fairy Poke! Simple knitting crafts like this help children develop fine motor skills, build confidence through play, and teach patience as well as creativity.
Crafts to Inspire Storytelling (for Kids and Grown-ups too!)
We’ve gathered three of our favorite crafts, centered around creating space and inspiration for storytelling- for parents and kids alike! Explore these fun activities and let the creativity and storytelling flow!
Valentine’s Day Printable Cards: Spread the Love!
This year, instead of candy or chocolate or disposable gifts, we are inviting Sparklers to share your love with stories!
Lavender and Coconut Bath Bomb Wands Tutorial
We’ve partnered with our friend Josie Hamor of On Willow’s Bend to bring you a special tutorial for making your own lavender and coconut bath bomb wands. Take some time to soothe and ease now that the busy-ness of the holidays is winding down!
Winter Nature Table Tips
A nature table is a great way to bring nature-inspired learning right into your home. We’ll walk you through some helpful tips that will help you to inspire your children to learn about and interact with the natural world in their everyday rhythms.
Candy Cane Ornament Sewing Activity for Kids with Frontier Dreams
In our newest Martin & Sylvia: Learning Days story, “A Handwork Moment”, there’s just so much to do this holiday season that it’s making everyone fuzzy-headed. Momma notices the children’s fidgety hands. What they need is an afternoon of soothing handwork: knitting, crocheting, and sewing!
Following the Creative Moment with Waldorfish
Watch and join in as David Sewell McCann and Brian of Waldorfish navigate a creative process together in which storytelling guides the visual art they create together.
7 Handmade Holiday Decoration Ideas for Kids
We’ve gathered 7 of our favorite Handmade Holiday Decoration ideas for kids. From garlands to DIY Christmas tree decorations, explore our creative tutorials below to get into that cozy, festive holiday feel.
Bulb Planting for Kids
For this week’s newest Martin & Sylvia story, we’ve partnered with Lusa Organics to bring you a special treat! Unlike spring-time gardening, there is a delayed payoff when planting bulbs in the fall. This is a great hands-on opportunity to teach kids about patience and staying the course while also connecting with nature.
How to Make Your Own Wormery
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Tanglewood Hollow to bring you this fun, squiggly wiggly project so that you can capture some of the Martin & Sylvia magic at home by making your own wormery.
NEW Libby & Dish Paper Doll Outfits & Accessories
Bring the new Libby & Dish adventure to life! We’ve expanded the original Libby & Dish paper doll collection for a special occasion: Aunt Cecily’s Wedding!
Castlechanter Audio Advent Calendar Crafts and recipes: Week Four
This final week of the Fairy Advent Calendar is about slowing down, being close with loved ones, and being mindful. The end of advent is a time for introspection and going slow. Take it easy this week, make some tea and a snack, and maybe enjoy a little walk in nature.
Castlechanter Audio Advent Calendar Crafts and Recipes: Week Three
This week is filled with wonderful baked goods and lots of crafting. The adventures Oscar and Aliyah go on just keep getting richer and richer as they learn about themselves along the way. We hope you are learning alongside them — we know that we are!
Castlechanter Audio Advent Calendar Crafts and recipes: Week Two
Week Two is here and we’ve got lots of tasty treats to share and crafts to make. From rock art and latkes to shepherd’s pie and pine needle tea, get yourself ready for a very tasty Week Two!
Castlechanter Audio Advent Calendar Crafts and recipes: Week One
Welcome to the first week of the Castlechanter Fairy Advent Calendar! We are so delighted you chose to join us. Every day for the next four weeks, we will be sharing crafts and recipes from our Sparkle Archives that are similar to the ones in the advent calendar.
Sparkle Holiday Extravaganza! All of Our Holiday Content in One Spot
Here in Sparkle Land, we love the holiday season. Since the very beginning of Sparkle we’ve been crafting and cooking for the holidays. That means we have A LOT of holiday content spread out through nine years’ worth of blog posts. We’ve rounded up everything right here into one master list of links.
Tutorial: The Castlechanter Fairy PRINTABLE Advent Calendar
We made a printable Advent Calendar to go with the Castlechanter Fairy Audio Advent Calendar. Let us show you how to put it together!
Sparkle Craft: Sit Spot Tutorial
Sit spots are a fantastic way to connect with yourself and with your environment without too much effort. Find a comfy spot out in nature, return to it again and again, and experience the magic!
