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Best Jokes for Kids
Comedy is a difficult skill to teach your children, but I warn you a good joke depository is imperative to their growth and development.
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How to Keep Kids Busy and Happy in a Restaurant
Taking your kids out to eat can be a nice break — but it can also be a hassle. Try these simple tips for keeping kids occupied in a restaurant.
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Nancy Drew Dunnit
By Tracey Clark of Mother May I
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Making Sun Prints with Children
If you have trouble filling up the time during summer like I do, read along to see how you can have some creative fun with your kids making sun prints.
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Burning Daylight: Painting Projects for Children
Our first project involved painting with watered down paint and straws. Using our breath to blow the paint across the page making interesting patterns.
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Making Ice Cream with Kids
What do we want?! Ice Cream! When do we want it? In about 20 minutes after shaking this ball around! Not much of a battle cry but passion comes in many forms.
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Weekend Project: a Rainbow Library
Weekend Projects sound very, um, daunting. Weekends are for rest and relaxation, right? Yep. I agree. Though a weekend project need not be stressful, but a small and delightful task. And, why not kill two birds with one stone and (try to) get your child…
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Teaching Your Kid how to Ride a Bike
It’s up to us to not only birth these little creatures we also have to teach them to ride a bike. And teaching them is quite an adventure.
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The Best Kid’s Outdoor Games
Summer’s almost over so get the kids outside before they’re trapped back inside all winter. We have some ideas to help get them out the door for a good time.
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Traveling With Kids: The Best Car Activities
Keep kids busy on the road with these old school car games and low-tech toys. No chargers or screens required!
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You’ve Been Boo’d! A How-To for Halloween Booing
Surprise friends and neighbors with a Halloween boo — a small treat or gift left anonymously at their door.
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How to Take Great Halloween Photos
We’ve rounded up our favorite tips, tricks and hacks for getting really good Halloween photos of your little ghouls and goblins. Nothing scary here!
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How to Start A Kid’s Book Club
I’ve been researching how to start a book club for kids and would love to share what I’ve learned so you can start one of your own.
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Instead of Trick-or-Treat, Try Trunk-or-Treat!
This year, skip trick-or-treat and plan a trunk-or-treat event instead with our simple how-to. It’s so easy even a ghost could do it!
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A First-Timer’s Guide to Trick-or-Treating
I’m breaking format this morning because…da da da DAAA…I’m an idiot who is having trick-or-treating anxiety. Yes. Trick-or-treating anxiety. My life is…really very sad. A recap of my life, pre-pathetic-ness: We lived in the city, in a building that did not get trick-or-treaters. We never…
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Enchanted, the Movie: Two Mama Thumbs Up! by JenB
First, I swear to you I never read any reviews of this movie. All I knew is that most of my mama friends and I were highly anticipating this movie’s release. So, this is my untainted view of my new favorite movie Enchanted. Ok I…
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How to Throw a Kid-Friendly New Year’s Eve Party
Include the kids in your New Year’s festivities with these fun and simple crafts and activities.
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Mad Libs For Kids
I love the vocabulary lesson these books give my kids. It’s fun to hear them come up with different parts of speech. Give them a try with your kids.
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Celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day With Your Kid
Penguin Awareness Day is a day to celebrate the penguin. Here are five ways you can celebrate penguins and their waddling cuteness with your lil’ penguin fan.
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Simple DIY Baby Shower Gifts
Show up for your next baby shower with one of these easy-to-assemble handmade baby gifts — no complicated crafting involved. We promise.