
All great children’s books slip a lesson between the pages and this one is about how our first impressions aren’t always right. Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennet is a story about a little boy and his disappointing pet fish Norman. Pop them on and play! After we added the tags the pets joined us outside for a picnic lunch.That totally tickled me! I love finding activities that he really gets into. That could be a great way work on learning phone numbers too! My daughter was eager to watch her’s shrink but my son worked a lot longer on this project than normal. I didn’t add them because I didn’t want my phone number online but my son suggested we put them on in case we lose the pets. I wrote the names for my daughter and my son wrote his own. My daughter was super creative with her cat’s name.


My daughter loved the pretend play aspect of the craft and my son loved the creative side. These DIY Pet ID Tags are fun to make and fun to play with.

Shrinky Dinks are one of those crafts that my kids get equally excited about which isn’t always the case with a three and a half year age gap. Is your house filled with stuffed animals? It seems like when we go to bed ours multiply! When I was going through my craft closet I found some Shrinky Dinks sheets and immediately knew what we’d do with it.
