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 […]
How to Make Butter
When Pinterest first exploded, I went a little crazy making my own…everything. Bread. Granola. Laundry soap. Anything I could, I made. But it started taking up a lot of time and making a lot of messes and it wasn’t always the best idea. I started to realize that just because I could make something from scratch […]
5 Tips for Bird Watching With Kids
Our bird watching started as a winter habit. We were all cold and snowed in one winter morning, and we put birdseed in our bird feeder and crowded around the window to see what happened. And what happened was that while the entire world was holed up in their warm homes, the birds were out […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Make this Easy Cardboard Dollhouse
We have a lot of cardboard boxes. We did most of our Christmas shopping online this year, which was awesome. Not taking four children to a crowded mall on a freezing day and dragging them through stores was possibly the best Christmas gift of all. This makes me a Smart and Practical Parent, right? Not an […]
5 New Year’s Eve Party Ideas for Kids
New Year’s Eve can be a drag. It’s a night meant for parties. You always feel like you should be going out somewhere fabulous, and drinking champagne, and dancing in a fancy poufy gown…and really, you end up on the couch in your sweats, trying to make it to midnight, blowing those little paper blower-thingys, and heading […]
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