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The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids

April 9, 2018 By Laura 10 Comments

The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids

Whether you can start gardening with your kids today, or whether you still have a month or more to go before it’s safe to plant outside (like me…le sigh), I’ve got some gardening ideas here you can try with your kids right now. I’ve been itching to get out there. Dirt under the nails, bugs […]

Filed Under: gardening Tagged With: fairy garden, garden, gardening, indoor gardening

Meet the Kindness Elves

July 10, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Meet the Kindness Elves

  I’m really excited to share one of our latest toys with you. Actually, are they toys? Projects? I’m not sure how you’d categorize them. But…look how cute!! These are Kindness Elves. They’re special friends who love sprinkling kindness and joy. And my daughter is in love with them. Her favorite part is the tiny mailbox […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: fairy garden, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, kids play, summer

Your Must-Have Fairy Garden Supplies

June 1, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Your Must-Have Fairy Garden Supplies

If you’ve been reading here for any amount of time, you know we love our fairy gardens! And since the weather is nice out, the kids have been spending more time outdoors, cleaning out the fairies’ habitats and getting them ready for summer. We introduce new things each year, but we do have a core list […]

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Fairy Garden Ideas

March 2, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Fairy Garden Ideas

We’ve been gathering fairy garden ideas and making our own for a few years now. I can’t think of any other activity I do with the kids that’s so much fun to set up. And after the initial set-up, the kids spend hours playing with the gardens and fairies. Everyone loves the fairy garden — from the […]

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The Fairy Garden

June 3, 2014 By Laura 4 Comments

So after a wee break last week to attend to the end of the school year…and to the first patient here requiring a cast (I figure one cast after 11 years and four kids is a pretty good record by OSHA standards, yes?)…we’re back and ready to start our summer. One of the first orders […]

Filed Under: gardening, Kids' activities Tagged With: fairy garden, gardening, kids, kids activities

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Welcome! I'm Laura -- a mom of four kids aged thirteen and under. I run occasionally and love really bad puns.

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