Tips for Surviving Airplane Travel with Kids
Traveling by plane with kids is stressful – there’s no way around it. You’re all trapped in a little metal tube for hours on end with hundreds of strangers and no way to escape. There are a few major differences between traveling by air…
Travel Journals for Germany
I started making travel journals for the kids when we went to Montana last summer, and then in the fall I made journals again for our trip to Germany. The little guy is still a bit young to fully appreciate it, but I do…
Color Matching Game for Kids
I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…
Felt Boards for Kids
Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…
Tooth Fairy Pouch
My little girl lost her first tooth last night, and I sewed up a little pouch that she could put her tooth in and stick under her pillow. I didn’t want the teeny tiny tooth to get lost under the pillow, and risk the…
Coloring Night
We had a color-in this evening after we got back from camp. We needed a mellow evening.
Lunch Bags for Tomorrow
We’re off on a big school adventure tomorrow – overnight camp with all the grades, plus younger siblings. Vivi and I decorated the brown paper bags for lunch.
Everyone Here Is Getting Excited
I helped the kiddo make a countdown calendar to mark off the days until our trip. It’s installed in our bedroom (so one little frequent visitor doesn’t mess with it) and the first day is marked off!
Sight Word Memory Match
My daughter’s kindergarten teacher sent us home from Curriculum Night with a list of sight words for the kids to memorize, with the suggestion to “make flash cards or something”. Sight word flash cards sounds extra boring to me, so I decided to make…
More Travel Journals for Kids
I got these sweet blank journals at an event this summer and set them aside to use for the kids’ travel journals this fall. I’m starting to add some activity pages and the nameplate pages.
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