Kids
In the Easter Basket
I feel prepared this year. I am all set for Easter weekend (I think). At least I know the chocolates are bought and gifts ready to go. We don’t buy large gifts at…
Activity: Make Your Own Bean Bag Toss Game
Sometimes the games we play seem so simple it’s silly – but these are the things that my kids love (which makes me happy too!) This game was made with coffee stir…
Holy Fun, Batman
As part of the fun of being a Fisherprice Mom, surprise packages arrive at our door once and a while. These packages have toys of course, and when a box of toys shows…
Activity: Counting to 100 using pennies and craft paper
As part of 100 days of school and Kindness Week, my son’s class was asked to count out 100 pennies to bring for donation to a local foundation. I LOVE this idea. Not…
Activity: Valentine’s Day Fill in the Blank Printable
A little printable for you and your school aged child to practice their writing (something we are doing a lot of in this house with my 5 year old) Help the younger ones…
Turning Winter Blahs into Winter Hoorahs With the Kids
I am so over Winter. Am I alone? Because seriously, I’m not sure what it is this year but I am done. Sadly, we still have many weeks left of winter and the…
25 Days of Christmas – Advent Calendar Activities 2011
Once again I’m putting together our 25 Days of Christmas activity advent calendar. We’ve done this for a few years now, thanks to the creative blogger Andrea of A Peak inside the Fishbowl.…
Preschool Activity: Holiday Felt Magnets
This is a really simple activity to do with the kids and the magnets are great for the fridge, office white board or gifts! What you will need: glue felt scissors glitter glue…
Cooking with Kids: Holiday Baking and Decorating Cookies
Thanks for checking out my segments on CTV Ottawa Morning Live this morning! I really appreciated the words of encouragement. As promised, I’ll be posting the cookie recipe and the craft we did.…
How to make a Paper mâché Yoshi Egg
I’ll write up the other decorations we did for my son’s Super Mario themed birthday party, but here’s an easy craft that you can do for your Mario loving gang, or simply paint…
