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Review: Finding Educational Activities in the Most Unexpected Places eBook

I had the opportunity to read a review copy of Angie Kauffman’s new eBook, Finding Educational Activities in the Most Unexpected Places. If you are looking for simple and fun ways to enhance your young child’s everyday play, this book will be a great resource for your family! It is filled with more than 200 [...]

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Stained Glass Coloring Books

We went to our local toy store to look for a new board game and the girls spied this coloring book on the spinny rack:

I mean, garden fairies, stained glass, and glowing background colors? I knew we would be bringing this book home with us!
The book contains 16 beautiful illustrations on a vellum-like paper. The [...]

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Creative Building with Dado Cubes & Squares

It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open-ended, imaginative, creative toys and products for kids! I thought I would share some photos of the Dado Cubes and Dado Squares in action. These are both great products – colorful, durable, ready for creating all kinds of cool structures. They are even made in the United States!
That’s [...]

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AnimaLogic

The girls and I are having a great time playing with the new Animalogic game from Fat Brain Toys. The game comes with 16 wooden animals, a game board, and a book of challenges (with a range of difficulty). The object of the game is to help all the animals cross the river by leaving [...]

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Calling All Monsters!

I have been a reader of Marie’s blog, Make and Takes, for quite some time now. She always has great ideas for simple kids’ crafts, yummy recipes, and other helpful tips for family and home. Marie has a fun new ebook available for purchase, just in time for Halloween fun: Monster Mania!

Not only is the [...]

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Cathy Heller Music = Awesome!

We’ve got some new kids music on constant play around here – Say Hello to the Sun by Cathy Heller. I’m not sure how I stumbled onto her website, but I’m SO glad I did! Cathy’s CD is full of fun, pop-style songs with positive, affirming lyrics for kiddos (and adults!). My six-year-old says the [...]

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Spinny Spellers

Have you seen the Spinny Speller? We are all quite enamored with this simple toy. Spin the wood blocks and spell basic consonant-vowel-consonant words (you can make 36 real words, and dozens more silly ones, too!). The first time Delaney, age 4, played with the Spinny Speller she successfully sounded out a few words than [...]

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Friday Feature: Mudpuppy Color Me Puzzles

Delaney is my puzzle girl. When she was a toddler, she would line up the puzzles from one end of her room to the other. Then, she would start at one end and work her way down the line, doing each puzzle along the way. So, of course, she was super excited when I offered [...]

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Wikki Stix

I am always looking for new and interesting ways to help my girls strengthen their fine motor skills. Building strength and coordination in the fingers and hands helps kids get ready to use scissors and hold pencils and write letters. Wikki Stix are a fun and simple product that kids are drawn to [...]

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Wood Vehicle Kits from Maple Landmark

A good part of our Sunday was spent creating these:

We all had such fun with these Made By Me wood vehicle kits by Maple Landmark. Each kit comes with a vehicle body, four wheels, and four axles. These kits are made in the USA from smoothly sanded unfinished pine. All you need [...]

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