The Ultimate Birthday Song Playlist
Ever since my daughter’s first birthday I’ve made a custom playlist for her party, and later for each of her little brother’s parties as well. I try to fit in as many birthday songs as possible and then fill in between the songs with…
Homemade Easy Reader Books and a Free Sight Words Memory Match Game: Fun Ways to Support Literacy Learning
My daughter is a kindergartener working so hard on learning to read at school, and I wanted to come up with some ways to support her learning at home in addition to the suggestions from school. Since I’m sure there are others of you…
Super Easy Four Ingredient Spaghetti and Meatballs
First off, let me just say this is one of my kids’ favorite meals, and since it’s also a very easy meal to make it’s one of my favorites too! Plus they end up eating a lot of spinach without mentioning anything about yucky…
Easy Decorating with Plastic Easter Eggs
This weekend we did some Easter decorating in the yard. My philosophy for holiday decorating is to make sure it’s fun for the kids and easy enough for them to help with, and decorating with plastic Easter eggs fits that description well. One thing…
Create A Restaurant Activity Kit To Keep Kids Entertained At Dinner
As anyone with young kids knows, eating out can be hit or miss, especially if you’d like to go somewhere a step up from fast food! I came up with a way to ease the pain of dining out by bringing along a restaurant…
Homemade Puzzles For An Easter Egg Hunt: An Inexpensive Easter Craft
Each year on Easter Sunday our extended family gathers and one of the highlights of the day is the Easter Egg hunt. We do one egg hunt for everyone and one just for the little kids and of course its loads of fun. The…
Thrift Store Thursday
Today was a special day for me. My 3-year old let me leave him at school without any fuss! He goes to a co-op preschool where parents participate in the program one day per week but up until now he hasn’t been comfortable with…
Salchipapas
Every Friday night is Movie Night at our house. We rotate who’s turn it is to pick the movie and the rules are that the person choosing the movie gets to choose dinner too. Right now that means that we’re eating french fries at…
Easter Bunny Flower Pot with Direction Signs
Easter’s coming up and I’m starting to think about how I’ll decorate this year. Its still a bit early to hang up our Easter eggs in the trees outside, but I came up with a cute little scene in a flower pot to put…
Turn Ordinary Takeout Chopsticks Into Easy-to-use Kids’ Chopsticks
This past weekend we had a family get-together where we celebrated the Lunar New Year with a Chinese takeout feast. We had two sets of kids’ chopsticks (the kind that are joined at the top to make it easier for kids to use them)…
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