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Make a city plan like L’Enfant
Learn all about Pierre Charles L’Enfant – the designer of Washington, D.C. – then create a city plan of your own using paper, pencils, and watercolors!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins {gluten-free, low-sugar}
Enjoy these healthy gluten-free pumpkin muffins with a cup of tea or coffee for a treat on a cozy fall day!For this recipe, we simply modified our healthy gluten-free cupcake recipe. If you would like the kid-friendly, visual instructions, follow our cupcake recipe,...
Paleo Donuts {baked, gluten-free}
Enjoy these gluten-free donuts, inspired by the paleo donuts at Five Daughters Bakery.
Doll and Me flutter sleeve pillowcase dresses
Make matching dresses for you and your doll! A great sewing project for beginners. Can be sewn by hand or with a machine.
Audubon inspired French nature activities
Audubon is a familiar name, especially for those who love birds. But did you know that Jean-Jacques Audubon was sent to America as a young man to avoid having to fight in Napoleon's war? Here in America he spent as much time as possible outside, observing and...
Ballerina Bunnies – drawing tutorial and coloring page
Our 11-year-old's love of bunnies and ballet comes together in this post. Follow along with her tutorial on how to draw a cute ballerina bunny. Or if you prefer a coloring page, print our FREE Ballerina Bunnies coloring page. These sweet bunnies are practicing...
Ballerina Sylphs and Flower Fairies Tutorial
Inspired by the ballet, Les Sylphides, we decided to make some pocket sylph dolls. They are so fun to make, and even more fun to play with. Follow along to learn how to make your own ballerina sylphs, flower fairies, and poet dolls. Our YouTube video (see below)...
Homemade Easter Decorations that Last
Dipping eggs in dye is so much fun, but we’ve found that some years it is so special to make Easter Decorations that will last for years to come. In this post we’ll show you a peg doll Easter scene, painted wooden nesting eggs, and an Easter banner.
Spring Folk Art Trees
We've been studying about Colonial history this year. The cheerful and simple folk art depicting Colonial times inspired us to learn more about folk art. To learn about how to make folk art trees, we watched a video on Deep Space Sparkle. This great tutorial from...
Paris Picture Books – a Fun way to learn French
We love learning through picture books! Both young children and older children can benefit from reading picture books. In this post we have fun crafts and learning activities for you to learn French while enjoying children's picture books set in Paris: The Red...
Water Princess Giving Well Activity
The book, The Water Princess, tells the story of the young Georgie Badiel spending entire days walking to get water for her family in Africa. Inspired by this story, we decided to make a paper well that can be used like a Lenten paper "rice bowl" to collect money for...
Make your own doll donuts!
Make your own doll play food donuts, using Model Magic.
ABOUT US
Hello! Welcome to Sparkles and Sprinkles! We are a homeschooling family with 4 daughters who love to bake and craft together. If we let them, they might just skip every other school subject and bake and craft all day!
We create fun craft tutorials and share our favorite healthy recipes (that are also gluten-free and super yummy!) in a visual format, so that children can learn to bake.
Our goal at sprinklesandsparkles.blog is to share the joy we have in baking and crafting with you! Enjoy!
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