Sparkle Stories Blog

Made from an empty Altoids tin, this travel photo frame will let you bring your friends with you, along with a few other tidbits and words to help you feel brave.

No matter what autumn looks like near you, you can do this project! If your trees are bare, you’ll need to hunt a little harder. If there’s still a lot of greenery around, it’ll be no problem finding interesting nature bits and bobs to use for your sun prints.

We've e got you covered for Mother's Day with EIGHT Sparkle - inspired gift ideas for mom. All of these recipes and crafts are easy to do with children and their grown-ups.

You may be wondering, how can you improve the soil in your garden? Maybe you don't have enough space to compost compost everything, or access to goat droppings like Mr. Brown. There are other ways you can amend soil to make it healthy and happy.

Children have an innate curiosity to explore their world through tactile experience and creative imaginative play. Sometimes as adults, we forget that we too have this ability. Here's a great list of materials to help your family get creative!

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.

Inspired by the set painting that occurs for the Dry Gables play, this week's craft project is similarly collaborative — it's a family splatter paint project.

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.

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.

This project accompanies the second story in the *Martin & Sylvia: Nature School* Audio Book – “The Deer Mice”.