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Beautiful and Simple Embroidered Mother’s Day Cards

April 30, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Beautiful and Simple Embroidered Mother’s Day Cards

I do love handmade cards from the kids. I’ve tried to save most of them, because I know I won’t get homemade Mother’s Day cards forever. I just love ’em. We made embroidered cards similar to this for Valentine’s Day this year…so it only seemed sensible to change up the pictures a bit and make […]

Filed Under: crafting, seasonal Tagged With: craft, indoor activities for kids, kid, kids, kids activities, Mothers Day, spring

Creative Story Orbs Are a Fun Girl Scout Activity

April 20, 2016 By Laura 5 Comments

Creative Story Orbs Are a Fun Girl Scout Activity

I’m always looking for ways to meet our Girl Scout badge requirements, but make things fun and interesting for the girls. We meet right after school, and after a day of sitting in their desks working hard, the girls don’t want to meet for another hour to do the same thing for even longer. So […]

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Great Books for Budding Readers

April 14, 2016 By Laura 9 Comments

Great Books for Budding Readers

I’m now working with the last of the four kids, teaching her to read. It’s one of my favorite phases, when that jumble of letters and spaces on a page suddenly come together, and everything clicks, and a whole new world opens up to them. And they get so proud of themselves as they learn to […]

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11 Things to Do Over Spring Break

March 16, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

11 Things to Do Over Spring Break

This post contains affiliate links to stuff we love! I always start out spring break strong. We get up, we usually go somewhere fun the first day or two…and by the end of the week, we’re hanging out in our pjs until 10am and watching more TV than I like to admit. So I made […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: books, cooking with kids, dessert, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, recipe, recipes

Fun Easter Crafts — Egg Dioramas

March 10, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Fun Easter Crafts — Egg Dioramas

This is by far one of our favorite Easter crafts to make. These dioramas just look so cool! And the kids like decorating the dioramas — they’re almost like little fairy gardens, because you can put figurines or little toys or eggs in there…and switch them out and play with them and…oh, they just love these.

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How to Make Magazine Beads

February 29, 2016 By Laura 1 Comment

How to Make Magazine Beads

I get a lot of catalogs I don’t remember signing up for. In fact, I get a bunch from places like fancy furniture stores and upscale kids’ clothing stores. Places I’ll never buy anything from…but I like flipping through the catalogs and pretending that I could put a full outdoor patio set at the end of […]

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Embroidered Heart Valentine Cards

February 10, 2016 By Laura 2 Comments

Embroidered Heart Valentine Cards

So here it is: card embroidery is my new obsession. It just looks so cool, and gives off this great handmade vibe, but it’s simple to make (really, it’s just lacing cards for grown-ups).  So. Christmas cards. Valentine cards. Do people send Easter cards? Because if they’re a thing, I’m embroidering them. The best part of making […]

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Valentine Card Making

February 5, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Valentine Card Making

We’ve been making a lot of cards recently (and we have one or two more ideas still to come!). We did these secret message colored pencil Valentines, AND these secret message watercolor Valentines over here (for BabyCenter), and these lacing heart Valentines. But sometimes? The kids like it best when you just put out a […]

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Kid-Made Lacing Heart Valentines

January 23, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Kid-Made Lacing Heart Valentines

I think kid-made valentines are one of the best parts of Valentine’s Day. We usually start early, and the kids make valentine cards for grandparents, and me and Chris, and each other (it’s beautiful and sweet and highly unusual when they’re this nice to each other. Makes me nervous, actually.) My preschooler loves lacing right […]

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Kid-Made Valentines (With a Secret Message!)

January 19, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Kid-Made Valentines (With a Secret Message!)

I think one of the best parts of Valentines Day is getting a Valentines Day card from each of the kids. We’re not huge gift givers for Valentines Day, we usually just make little things for each other instead (ok, and buy chocolate. Definitely plenty of chocolate.)

Filed Under: crafting, seasonal Tagged With: craft, indoor activities for kids, kid, kids, Valentine

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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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