How to Trick or Treat Safely
Halloween is a spooktacular time of year! Keep the following top tips in mind on Halloween night to keep your trick-or-treaters safe.
Halloween is a spooktacular time of year! Keep the following top tips in mind on Halloween night to keep your trick-or-treaters safe.
PB&J sandwiches are great to serve at kids parties. But it’s not always the best given the prevalence of peanut allergies. Here are a few tips to keep in mind.
Looking for a simple and inexpensive way to decorate your home for Halloween? Let your little ones make these cute paper ghost garlands.
Serve up candy this year in these fun papier mâché Halloween candy bowls. Made from paper bags and recycled tissue paper, they are a fun project for the kids.
More ghosts and jack o’ lanterns! We made these fun and simple stencils to use on treat bags, but you could add them to decorate tees or banners.
Still looking for a Halloween costume for your kiddo? Here’s an easy way to turn a t-shirt into an owl costume in a couple of hours without any sewing involved.
We created two free printable calendars customizable to reflect your family’s own celebration of the holidays. One calendar is a gingerbread house with 24 days to count down until Xmas and the other calendar is a winter village with eight window openings to celebrate the days of Hanukkah. Enjoy!
Ring in the Christmas season with fun homemade wreaths crafted from repurposed household items you can find in your own recycling bin! One man’s trash is another man holiday trimming!
I love little holiday cardboard miniature villages so I made a template for something similar that you can make with the kids. This is a quick and easy project!
Ring in the new year with these shiny new noisemakers made from raisin boxes! They’re fun to shake and even more fun to make!
I love to make crafts, yet find Valentine’s Day cards to be a chore. I always start with grand plans, but after my kids have made about 10 cards they lose interest, even when we start well before. So I was looking for ideas that truly are easy but will make you feel good about creating handmade cards.
Welcome spring by making this simple bird’s nest with your kids using recycled paper bags. Or, try colored pastel paper for an Easter decoration.
Using salt dough, turn jars from your recycling bin into one of a kind flower pots, vases and candy jars for Easter.
A parents first inclination is save our children when something goes wrong in their lives. Truth is we all learn better through making our own mistakes.Â
Back to school is here! We have some tips to help you start the school year off right and keep things running smoothly throughout the year.
For every time that you’re willing to say no, you get the freedom to say yes to something that’s a better fit for your family.
Make time to interview your child and record memories about the school year.
Back to school seems more than a fitting time of the year to make some resolutions. A time to reinvent our routines and make them work for us.
Several of my young children are competitive athletes. These are the lessons my children have learned over the years from involvement in youth sports.
I’m worried something isn’t quite “right” with my daughter, but her school keeps finding excuses for not evaluating our concerns. Where do I turn for help?