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Tips

Activities for Traveling

Planning a holiday road trip this year?  Heading out on a plane with your little ones?  I received an e-mail (Hi Hannah!) asking what kinds of activities we bring to keep the kiddos busy while traveling.  Here’s some of our favorites:

pipe cleaners and beads
new music and/or audio books (from iTunes or the library)
clipboards
plain paper
coloring book [...]

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Our Art Gallery

I am so pleased with how this art display turned out!  I saw the idea in the October issue of Family Fun Magazine.  They had taken some mismatched frames (without glass), painted them all red, and hung them in a grouping on the wall.  My hubby was nice enough to build me a few frames [...]

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Time for Preschool!

Now that Natalie is all settled in Kindergarten, it’s Delaney’s turn to head back to preschool on Thursday.  We attend a parent co-op preschool, where the moms/dads/grandparents work in the classroom with the teacher on a rotating schedule.  I absolutely love being so involved and getting to know all the kids and parents.  I also [...]

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Door Hanger Helper

I found a plain wood door hanger in my craft supplies and decided to make the girls a little reminder list of their getting ready jobs for morning and night.  I am really happy with how it turned out, and the girls love it.  They take after their mommy — list and schedule-lovers!

To make [...]

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Our Top 10 Keep-The-Kids-Busy Activities

We always enjoy trying new things, but I also depend on my tried-and-true activities a lot.  Especially when the whining starts to get out of control or I really need to start dinner or I just need to sit down for 10 minutes with no one talking to me!

Right now, these are the things that [...]

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The Chore Bucket

It’s true. My kids ask to do chores. Actually, they beg to do chores. Part of it I pass off to their ages – at almost 4 and 5 1/2, helping with the housework is still fun and novel. However, their continued enthusiasm day after day I attribute to The Chore Bucket.

Simple coffee can, lightly [...]

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National Nutrition Month

March is National Nutrition Month! Throughout the month, I will be posting easy & nutritious recipes for cooking with preschoolers, suggesting fun books and toys that promote healthy eating, and even some ideas and products that make healthy cooking and eating more fun!
A great place to start this month is my post on using grocery [...]

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The Junk Box

I affectionately refer to this as the junk box. It is an ever-changing variety of materials, and is used very frequently for spur-of-the-moment art activities. My girls love digging through it and seeing what they can find.

Here are some of the things I throw in here from time to time:

junk mail, envelopes, address labels, [...]

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