Sitting with a hot bowl of alphabet soup, who among us hasn’t tried to string words together from the noodle letters floating within? That urge struck me recently when I opened a box of Eden Organic Vegetable Alphabets noodles and found the letters forming words in lovely, earthy hues of spinach, carrot, beet and annatto. These noodles were begging to be incorporated into craft projects! Thanksgiving place cards and whimsical letter art are two craft ideas using alphabet noodles that are quick, easy, inexpensive and kid-friendly! Keep reading for instructions!

I’ve been making baby food for my 8-month-old twins since they started eating more than baby cereal; and now that they eat from every food group, veritable meal planning is happening in our kitchen. The other day I picked up a bag of organic green split peas, figuring the kids would enjoy mushy peas. I flipped over the package for cooking instructions and found a recipe for dal, the bean-based stew common to Indian cuisine. They loved this recipe for green dal, shared after the jump.

 

If you live with babies and small kids, you may also live with heaps of outgrown clothing, slated for hand-me-downs. With spring cleaning and re-organization underway in most households, why not revisit those old clothes and give them new life as recycled crafting materials? As a new mom with twins under a year old, I have approximately eleventeen zillion pairs of wee socks waiting to be repurposed (or at least moved out of our basement).

We are all familiar with cute sock puppets and sock monkeys, but what about tiny bunnies, chicks, and eggs? I have yet to come across a good reuse project for baby socks, so I put this DIY tutorial together with simple materials found around the home. Buried in the mountains of baby clothes, were also several adorable but too-small hats. With this crafty project, however, a hand knit hat finds new life as a nest for upcycled peeps.