Holidays
Make Your Own Mother’s Day Necklaces
A simple and unique craft to make with your kids as handmade gifts for Mother’s Day. The necklaces are super simple, fun and garner loads of compliments!
Activities
Have an Hanami Picnic or Dinner under the Cherry Blossoms
Hanami is the Japanese tradition of enjoying the flower blossom season– typically cherry blossoms. It’s an important social event for Japanese people, celebrated with picnics under the sakura trees. You and your family should totally try it this weekend!
Holidays
Earth Day Craft: Beautiful Butterflies
Let your kids raid your pantry and laundry closet, instead of your wallet, to make these bright butterflies for Spring.
Holidays
Easter Craft: Rubber Stamped Easter Eggs
This super easy decorating technique turns your Easter eggs into something extra special.
Activities
Participate in a Trunk or Treat Event
Have you heard of the Halloween tradition of Trunk or Treat? It’s a mash-up of the traditional trick-or-treating and tailgating parties. Need we write more to get you interested?
Activities
Party at a Local Int’l Festival
With the warmer weather consider attending international festivals to introduce your children to the music, dance, games and FOOD of different cultures.
Activities
65 Things You Must Do & See at Disney World
Ah, Disney World! So many things to do and places to see. Not enough time. Where do you start? We’ve got you covered. We asked moms who love love love Disney World to tell us their must-see places and their secret spots.
Activities
How To Teach Your Kids to Juggle
Stuck indoors? Got cabin fever? Use this as a time to show your kids how they can join the circus one day.
Crafts
Burning Daylight: Toothpick Sculptures
These toothpick sculptures was an easy project that kept the kids busy for an hour. The how-to is self explanatory (bonus: pictures to show you how we did it.)
Activities
Tampa Bay: 50 Things to Do with Your Kids Before They Grow Up
Discover the unexpected activities for kids to enjoy in the beautiful Tampa Bay Area.
Activities
Portland, Maine: 50 Things to Do With Kids Before They Grow Up
Amanda of SouleMama, and author of The Creative Family, takes us through her hometown of Portland, Maine. If you and your family haven’t visited Maine yet, make sure to put it on your must-visit list!
Holidays
Five Ways To Celebrate Earth Day With Kids
Five ways to mark Earth Day with your kids by celebrating recycling, reducing and caring for the earth in tangible ways they can understand and relate to.
Activities
Kids Photo Scavenger Hunt
This activity is good for burning a full hour of daylight. Bonus! No mess involved and very few supplies needed. I highly recommend this activity.
Holidays
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.
Activities
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!
Crafts
Origami Art With Kids: Next Stop Sushi!
I decided last night to try some very simple origami with the kids. We made a variety of animal shapes. It was a fun way to burn some daylight with the kids.
Activities
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.
Crafts
Homemade Bubbles, Playdough and Sidewalk Chalk
We gave homemade bubbles, playdough and sidewalk chalk a try. One of them was definitely our favorite. Read on to find out which one we recommend.
Party & Play
The Best Play Tents, Forts & Teepees
We have some ideas to make the idea of an outdoor fort appealing to the kids so you can get the space in your house back.
Health & Safety
Family Health & Fitness Day- Tips for Getting the Family Active
We approach our fitness goals from very different starting points but I hope we’re giving our kids healthy attitudes toward exercise somewhere in the middle.