Just for Fun With Sandy shares a super-simple way to make bathtub paints…so simple you may wonder why you haven’t tried it before! Click here for the details!

These colorful horses make such a beautiful statement and would be perfect in a horse-themed nursery or on a wall of the horse lover in your life. Enlist your little one to help paint and they can have their own artwork to display. You can find a full tutorial for making these at Design Sponge! (via Folding Trees)

Tiny Decor came up with a way to use stretched canvas to display the alphabet cards she purchased for her son. I would love to do this with our alphabet cards. I believe they’re sitting in a bin somewhere at the moment and I would much rather have them out where we can see them regularly! Stretched canvas can get expensive, though, so I’ll be on the lookout for large pieces of artwork on canvas at the thrift stores that I can just paint over. An explanation of how the cards are attached can be found here! (via Ohdeedoh)

Isn’t this bird mobile so totally gorgeous! It was originally created by Lisa Tilse(The Red Thread) for Small Magazine, but they’re including the tutorial on their blog, Smaller! How cool is that! Go here to see it!

This is one of the latest prints available from Feed Your Soul: the free art project from Indie Fixx. I just love the playfulness of the print and think it would be lovely in a girl’s room. Click here to see this and other prints available for free download.

Today is Children’s Day in Japan and That Artist Woman has a fun way to share a bit of Japanese culture with the kids! Click on over to learn how to make windsocks from paper or fabric (she has a tutorial for each!).

Let’s Explore shares a very cool way to make your own window clings using rubbing plates. If you don’t have rubbing plates, I’m thinking you could get similar results from cookie cutters or the like.  You can read more about it here!

Glitter and sparkly antennae makes this clothespin butterfly shine! Hang a few together for a lovely Spring mobile! Whimsy Love shares a tut for making these little gems.

This is such an awesome idea from The Toby Show. She took an inexpensive tackle box, added a variety of craft supplies to it…and viola! The perfect gift for a budding young artist! Click here for more details!

I really like these personalized display pieces (as seen on Tip Junkie). Here they’re used for teacher gifts, but I think they’d be equally at home in a child’s bedroom or playroom. Link (Thanks Julie!)

I love this monogrammed art piece inspired by a large chipboard “M.” Miki at Pursuit of Craftyness explains how it all came together by digging deep into her scrapbooking stash!

Amy Cluck created this cute wooden plaque from velvet stickers she picked up at a craft store. Perfect for a child’s space and infinitely customizable based on the stickers. Simple ideas like these are my favorite!

I’ve been seeing a TON of memory/matching games popping up all over the blogosphere. The great thing about these games is how customizable they are. I grabbed the ones from my bookmarks and searched for a few more to bring you these:

Bottle caps memory game from  Crafty Beats

Juice cap memory game from Row of Ducks

Paper and woodchip memory game from Creative Chicks at Play

via Crafty Crow

Sounds memory game from Zrecommends

Shells memory game from The Write Start

Family and friends memory game from Chasing Cheerios

Quick and easy (and low cost!) memory game from Croqzine

Fabric memory game from Inchmark

Via Crafty Crow

Art cards memory game from A Bit of This and a Bit of That

Printed fabric memory game made by Under Construction (originally from the Stitched In Time book in left sidebar)

also seen at  Sew Liberated from Meg who posted some great tips on playing the game with little ones.

Plus, Jennifer Ackerman Haywood, of CraftSanity, showed hers off on a local news show and talks about how to make it in this video

A few other ideas include using images from a favorite picture book (simply make a high quality copy of the original to make a pair) or make a game using fine art cards.

Kristena’s eye for pretty can be seen in everything she touches, including this reuse of Little Golden Books. I’m planning on borrowing this idea for my girls’ room and I already have the pictures picked out! For older kids, who might be a smidge pickier about what gets hung on their walls, consider using the cover art from their favorite books. Visit Thimbly Things for the details on this little lovely!