If you follow our Jillian on Instagram, you know that she and Scott just finished making their boys’ fort dreams come true with this modern playhouse. Best DIY ever! And now that summer is right around the corner, it’s the perfect time dream up an outdoor playhouse of your worn. Get inspired by all our faves below!

DIY mid-century play set from A Beautiful Mess

A playhouse designed by Henri Bredenkamp that’s a mini version of the main house. (Photo by Salt Productions)

California backyard play fort from Sunset Magazine

Cute all black modern playhouse. Major curb appeal! (Photo by @bloggaibagis via Growing Footprints)

Ginggaanbai outdoor playhouse

Farm stand playhouse from Castle & Cubby

Black and wood playhouse with deck from Castle & Cubby

A stunning garden birdhouse for kids

A kid-friendly stylish home and modern playhouse with a slide

Rustic A-frame playhouse via Magnolia

Adorable all-white playhouse from Iron & Twine

Doherty Design Studio’s Vardo Hut Cubby

And the follow-up to ABM’s first build is this darling A-frame playhouse!

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Now that October is *almost* here, are you all sooo ready to get crafting your kiddos’ Halloween costumes? Yeah, right! We’ve shared a lot of fun kids costume ideas in the past, but working with cardboard, scissors, and maybe some paint has gotta be pretty do-able as far as DIY costumes go, eh? Especially for those of you on the hunt for costumes of the no-sew variety! Snag the deets for this silly costume, complete with a cardboard bird house and colorful wings, here, and scroll on through the rest below!

Cardbord dragon and giraffe costumes via aticgrafic. Pretty artistic use of cardboard, we’d say.

Sometimes all you need is a fun mask, like these from Handmade Charlotte. Cutest shark face ever! See all ten Halloween mask ideas here.

Seriously darling DIY cardboard swan costume from Mer Mag.

The cutest DIY cardboard ice cream costume from Hello, Wonderful.

This easy shark costume DIY comes from Hello, Wonderful.

They also have this sweet DIY kids rainbow costume.

And an easy octopus costume. Genius!

It would be super fun to do a mommy and me version of this DIY bird cardboard costume from Paper & Stitch.

Or these Copenhagen row houses from The House That Lars Built. Eeeeek, so creative!!!

Okay, on to alllll you can do with cardboard…

…And you don’t even need paint, if that’s not your thing!

You can actually snag templates for all those last costume ideas over at Zygote Brown Designs. So fun!

Whatcha got up your sleeves for Halloween this year? Don’t forget to use #cakeletcostumes on Insta, it’s soooooo so cute.

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Raise your hand if you have a list of like 150 cute little projects you want to make for your kids, but never seem to get around to finishing. (Or starting!) Hoping it’s not just me.

Kristina here, popping in to share this super simple DIY Memory Game project I made last week in partnership with our friends at Petit Collage. From start to finish, including a trip to Michael’s for a few supplies, this project took all of 90 minutes. So achievable! I initially made the game for Louella, my almost 2 year old, but all three of my kids have been playing with it non-stop. Because kids just love looking through photos of themselves and their family, don’t they?

Supplies:

3 in craft punch
glue stick
scissors
patterned scrapbook paper
card stock
And family photos of course!

Step 1:
Print two copies of each family photo on thick card stock. (Make the photos slightly larger than 3 inches square.) Use as many family members as you like! I turned all of mine black and white for consistency, but color would work too.

Step 2:
Using the 3 inch punch, cut out family photos. Punch the same number of patterned paper circles.

Step 3:
Glue each family photo to a patterned paper circle.

Done!

I printed her brothers, her papa, her grandparents, our nanny, and of course her own photo too.

For the toddler set, the fun is really just naming each family member as they come up. Louella could do this for at least an hour so I call this little project a solid win!

And not surprisingly the big kids love this game even more. We had a bunch of kids at the studio last Friday and as you can see they quickly took over.

You can see more cute DIY templates over on Petit Collage‘s website, and their entire product line, which I’ve used on many a long car trip and airplane ride. And their back-to-school line is pretty darn adorable too. Which, OMG. We’re already back to school!

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Who’s ready for a fun DIY project?! I just planned my son Daxton’s second birthday and created this DIY peace sign floral wall hanging. See details below and make one for your next celebration!

The party theme was Summer of Love, so I kept the palette bright by choosing white, yellow, and orange flowers. I’d say to keep your wreath colors to three max. This way it’s more cohesive. You can pick up real or faux flowers. I choose faux flowers to make it a few days before the event to reduce some of the party madness on the day-of.

All you need is a wreath form, wire, flowers and a hot glue gun!

Tip: When using faux flowers, it’s easy to weave them into the form. You can also pick off the floral tops to hot glue onto the arrangement.

Viola! Get a closer peek in our gallery:

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Project Resources:
Round Wire Frame
Silver Wire
Faux Yellow Flowers
Faux White Flowers

You can see this and more DIY projects here and click on over to check out Daxton’s whole party, if you haven’t. Happy crafting!

Photo: Scott Clark Photo / Design: Jillian of 100 Layer Cake

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Easy peasy beet dyed Easter eggs by Design Mom

DIY African mud cloth inspired Easter Eggs by Alice and Lois

Modern gold painted Easter Eggs by Lovely Indeed

Blue marble Easter eggs dyed naturally with cabbage via Sweet Paul

Cutest pool party eggs by Handmade Charlotte

Black and white painted Easter eggs via EmmaBee

Paint splattered Easter eggs by Squirrelly Minds

Naturally dyed Easter eggs from Kirsten Rickert using cabbage, red onion, grape juice, and turmeric. So so pretty!

Modern Easter egg DIY by Lily Ardor

DIY confetti Easter eggs by Alice and Lois (they are just full of amazing DIY projects, aren’t they?)

Be sure to tag us on Insta if you and your littles whip up your own DIY Easter eggs this year!

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