Sand Dough and Stepping Stones

I came across this recipe this summer when searching online for some unique summer craft ideas.  What a fun idea to let your kids help make and decorate fun stepping stones. The instructions have you pouring the dough into a favorite cartoon character cake pan to set/mold.  You can find these at any stores with a [...]

This Week’s Challenge: Take a Nature Walk

This week find a place to take a walk with your kids.  It might be around your neighborhood, at the park, or somewhere you’ve been wanting to go take a hike and haven’t.  Take a shoebox or paperbag with you and let you kids collect nature items.  When you get back, you can talk about [...]

Children’s Crafts

I cleaned out a section of my pantry this weekend where I keep supplies for the kids’ crafts.  It was a crazy mess.  While I was cleaning it out I found these foam visors I had picked up on clearance somewhere.  I let the boys decorate them and my 2 year old loved it.  He [...]

Tuesday’s Challenge: Have a tea party or picnic this week

How about throwing a fun tea party or indoor picnic this week?  I have 3 boys and my dear hubby thinks tea parties sound girly so you can call it whatever you want, but the point is to have fun planning a little snack/lunch party with your kiddos.  You can let the kids make their [...]

Tuesday’s Challenge – Make up a rainy day box

Having a rainy day box of fun stuff is something I always say I’m going to do, but never take the time to actually make one up.  So, today I’m going to get it done.  I challenge you to make one as well for that next rainy day or day that mommy has tons to [...]

Tuesday’s Activity Challenge – Water fun

Now that it’s getting hot around here, my boys are playing in the water almost everyday.  They love to play in the sprinkler or get their pool out.  So, my challenge for you today is get out there with them.  It seems that us moms often stand back and watch, not wanting to get wet, [...]

Tuesday’s Activity Challenge – Bake with your kids

I’m sorry for being quiet for a few days.  I’ve got a sick 2 year old and didn’t get online yesterday.
Today’s challenge is fun, easy, but messy.  Make some cookies with your kids today.  We limit sweets in our house and rarely offer dessert, but I like to keep things on hand in the kitchen [...]

Weekend Fun

For us, the weekends are all about family fun. We try to do something we may not normally do during the week. Sometimes, it something small like letting the boys pick a fun place to eat out or maybe take a picnic to the park. This weekend, we promised them a trip to the pool. [...]

Tuesday’s Challenge: the Public Library

I, for one, do not use the public library as an awesome resource like I should.  I’ve used the excuse that I don’t want to take all three kids there, but it’s silly not to use this free resource of fun and learning for my kids.  So, my challenge for you today is to take [...]

Bad link yesterday

I’m sorry that I posted a bad link yesterday. I got a few e-mails about that last night and this morning.  I did correct the link in my post from yesterday, but wanted to give it again, because Kim’s blog is such a great resource. I also wanted to give you the direct link to [...]