It’s March Madness! Time for spring basketball tournaments! That means everyone is watching their brackets, cheering on their favorite college basketball teams and dressing in their favorite colors! Kids want to get in on the fun too! So bring out the pom-poms, some construction paper, a few pipe cleaners and let the kids create their…
Everyone has seen people making homemade crayons by melting them in the oven using muffin pans. But honestly, that is too much work for me. I don’t like the smell of the burning crayons and hate the mess that it makes. This past week, I decided to cut the process in half and make some…
Hobbies aren’t just for adults. Kids enjoy experimenting with different hobbies at each stage of their life. My kids have gone through stages where they loved building with the big Mega Blocks, Fisher Price Trio Builders and then moved to LEGO bricks. I don’t think they will ever outgrow LEGOs. Even my brother who is…
Many bloggers get started in the blogging business because they love to talk about their kids. Then they discover the joys of doing product reviews and the fun goes to a whole new level. It’s Win-Win! The kids get new toys and Mom gets new subject material. But growing up with a mom blogger is…
We didn’t do summer school in our house. But we did make sure the kids were still learning even though they were on summer break. Whether it’s visiting a museum, taking a tour, doing an experiment or reading a new book, our kids had summer school fun adventures unlike many other school kids.
What do your kids do when it’s raining outside? Watch TV? Play Video Games? Complain that they’re bored? One recent rainy day my kids pulled out the kitchen table chairs, all the sheets they could find and enough stuffed animals to stock a zoo. What was the plan? They were going to build a rainy…
It’s hot outside! That means that the kids are spending a little more time indoors. But that doesn’t mean they have to be bored or play electronics all day. I gave the kids a few ideas so they could choose what they wanted to do for the afternoon and then turned my 8 year old…
My kids are just like your kids. They love to play electronics. But they also have amazing imaginations and love to play in their own pretend world. We have always tried to encourage imagination by giving them limits on their electronics time. When we unplug them from Xbox, DS and computer, they can find amazing…