Safe “Sparklers” for Little Kids
I’ve become a major party pooper with fireworks…especially when it comes to sparklers. This was a picture taken last year when we were having lots of fun with the sparklers… Within a minute of this picture being…
Alphabet Squish
This Alphabet Squish activity was actually a spin-off of our Puffy Planets. Little Brother was more fascinated with the puffiness than the actual planets. Much to his brother’s utter dismay, he squashed many planets to feel the unique texture…
Puffy Planets
We’re still fascinated with Outer Space at our house and we even took a day trip to a space museum a few weeks ago (which both of the boys LOVED). In addition to our Outer Space Playdough, we continued…
Playdough & Alphabet Stamps
This was a serendipitous idea that came while the boys were playing with playdough today. As I watched them play with the cookie cutters, I grabbed our Melissa & Doug Alphabet Stamps (my favorite stamps ever) and encouraged a little…
50% off Select Fisher Price Toys (Today Only–6/18)
I wasn’t planning on posting today, but then I noticed that Amazon has select Fisher Price toys 50% off TODAY only. If your birthday stockpile has depleted since December’s sales (like mine), I thought you might appreciate this. Here are…
Sight Word Dive
One of our favorite things about the summer is swimming. My parents have a pool and we live about 2 miles from a YMCA waterpark, so we are in the water a lot! Unfortunately, Little Brother has had some…
Books about the Tough Stuff: Stranger Safety, Safe Touches, and How Babies Are Made
We live in an imperfect world. At times it even seems cruel and dangerous. As much as I want to raise my children to believe that every person is good and loving, unfortunately this is not the case. I…
Outer Space Playdough
Big Brother is currently obsessed with learning about space. He has all 8 planets (plus Pluto and its moon) memorized in order and knows individual facts about each one. I honestly didn’t know most of this information until he…
DIY Quiet Blocks
We’ve found another way to utilize pool noodles–making them into quiet blocks! I love it when the boys build with blocks, but we have wood laminate floors on our main floor…which means that blocks are really, really loud (especially when…
Free Webinar: Get Kids to Listen Without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling
I am super excited about this opportunity for myself and for each of you! I’ve teamed up again with Positive Parenting Solutions to offer this FREE webinar from Amy McCready on strategies we can use to help our kids listen…
Summer of Reading
Make the summer of 2013 a summer of reading! Encourage your children to develop a life-long love of reading with these suggestions: 1. Read aloud to your child for at least 20 minutes each day. Â Even if your…
God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum
My friend Stacie from MotherhoodOnADime.com has been working tirelessly over the last year to create an AWESOME preschool curriculum: Â God’s Little Explorers. It is a wonderful hands-on curriculum that teaches about God and academic concepts simultaneously! Little Brother will…
DIY Books of the Bible Puzzle
This post is obviously for older kids, most appropriate for 3rd to 5th graders. Our church is in the process of adopting a new curriculum that needs a lot of additional supplementing, so I have been working on writing…
New Books!
Our local library is having their annual Scholastic Book Fair this week, so the boys and I picked up a few new books that were all so good, I just had to share! Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by…
Shaving Cream + Cornstarch = Fun
We tried out a new sensory experience with shaving cream and cornstarch that I originally saw on Ms. Lisa’s Musings and Mayhems (via Pinterest). The boys loved it and if we’re being completely honest…I thought it was pretty cool…
8 Tips for Traveling with Kids
Traveling with children is truly an art form–one that I have yet to master. I thought I would share a few tips that I learned from our most recent vacation adventure to the Mountains. Some of these things are…
Books about Road Trips
Summer is the time for road trips. Hearing these two simple words together could elicit a wide variety of emotions, ranging from wonderful memories in the car as a family to a bit of anxiety as you remember listening…
Alphabet Parking Lot: Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
One of the boys’ favorite things to play with is cars. They spend hours playing with their assortment of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Little Brother used to be the only car lover, but he has now passed along his love…