Sparkle Stories Blog

We are joined by Monique of Green Acorns who teaches us how to idenitfy and map bird calls.

Joy is yours! Sometimes it just needs a little reminding. Time for a family craft, using all your favorite creative supplies.

In the *Martin & Sylvia* story, "Signs of Spring," Sylvia loves to color eggs – she loves to make the dyes, draw designs, and soak white eggs in the colors. Natural dyes are fun and easy to make with just few ingredients you can find right in your kitchen.

This week's craft is a good example of making do and mending. It uses something you might throw away — an old pair of socks — and makes it into a new toy for a child.

This dragon megaphone takes just a few minutes to put together with materials you probably already have. Make one up and keep it on hand for the next time someone in your house really needs to let out a good ROAR!

Journaling is a powerful practice. Sometimes all we need to get started is a good prompt! Here are 30 of our favorites.

This week’s craft project is very easy to put together, but — as with Martin’s microscope — getting it to work well will take a little bit of inventive tinkering. If you stick with it, however, it’s really neat to see how common objects and creatures look at a microscopic level.

Whether you have a proper May Day Fair or just celebrate the first of May by making a point to get outside and enjoy some sunshine, these May ribbon wands will add a lovely bit of whimsy to your day.

With a few dabs of fabric glue and some very fun, non-technical sewing, you'll have a nifty kit that's all prepared the next time you or your little ones need to speak out about an injustice. In fact, this kit is so cute and fun to make that it might even encourage you to speak out more often.

This cowl is based on a classic stitch pattern called “Chinese Waves”. When knitted up in a lovely spring green — the stitches look a bit like the leaves of a willow tree, blowing in a brisk breeze.