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This Piggy Bank Coins Sensory Bin is my contribution to a Collaborative Series from Little Bins from Little Hands called 40 Sensory Bin Fillers. Miss Three has had this piggy bank for years now and any time she receives money, or more likely any time LalyDad has change in his pocket at the end of…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! This week I’ve been interested in the idea of DIY Fidget Rings! “What is a fidget ring,” you ask? Well to start with a “fidget” is anything used to keep hands busy, so a fidget ring is something worn on the finger with moving parts that allows you to…
Welcome back to Magic Moments Mondays, a linkup for sharing cherished moments, a quiet connection and other special memories with your children. Thank you to all the bloggers who joined us last month– what enjoyable writing was shared! As seems to happen each month, Magic Moments Mondays provided me with a post that really came…
This is a sponsored post for a Fairy Garden Kit by CraftProjectIdeas.com, powered by Horizon Group. The kit was provided for free by Horizon Group and I am sharing my honest opinions about it. When the folks at CraftProjectIdeas.com asked if I would be interested in reviewing a new Fairy Garden product I was pretty…
I am so excited to be participating in a terrific series from All Done Monkey called 31 Days of ABCs. This series brings you a different blogger every day in October showcasing an activity based on one letter of the alphabet. Today is our turn for the letter Z. This times out perfectly because it…
Today I am sharing a really cute kids activity that will keep them engaged with tons of pretend play, and bonus, gives them tons of fine motor skills practice. It’s the second week of our Fine Motor Fridays series! I’m teaming up once again with four other awesome kid bloggers- Craftulate, And Next Comes L,…
Hooray, today is the very first Fine Motor Fridays Post! I’m so excited to team up with four other awesome kid bloggers- Craftulate, And Next Comes L, Stir the Wonder and School Time Snippets– to bring you new fine motor activities every Friday in October! We each had different backgrounds before becoming mothers and bloggers…
Ladybug has been on an outdoorsy kick lately. She and her dad camped out in a tent in the backyard, she likes “exploring” and looking for bugs, and she’s been pretending to fish in the back yard using twigs she finds on the ground. I love it, it’s adorable to see my 3 year old…
Looking for kids activities, crafts and recipes involving apples! Well get ready because here they come! I’m teaming up with a group of awesome kid bloggers for a blog hop ALL about apples! This bloghop was organized by Jill over at Blessed Beyond a Doubt and will be seen on over 20 great blogs! Bloggers, come…
Hi! Is this your first time here? We’d love to see you again on our Facebook Page to follow along with the fun! Melty beads- sometimes called Hama Beads or Perler Beads-Â are colorful bits of plastic that you typically use to make designs and fuse them together using an iron or by baking them. They…
We have been playing a lot with Melty Beads this week, finding all sorts of ways to play with them- and we haven’t even melted them yet! This project gave my 3 year old a lot of opportunities for learning and development as well as a project that she and I could do together. Here…
This picture was taken in my back yard and if you cannot tell it is a picture of my daughter using a magnifying glass to look at a GIANT MONSTER CICADA. At least that is what *I* thought she was looking at. To my daughter it was a new buddy. She found him on our…
We have a group of playdate friends who organized a Busy Bag/Activity Exchange so I was trying to think of something that would be fun and yet personalized, so that each kid would have their own special item. I’d seen I-Spy bottles and figured they are easily customizable, so I thought I’d give it a…
Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community. I joined this organization because I knew they worked with Mariano’s and I was really excited for the opportunity to work with them. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and Mariano’s. The opinions are all mine though!…
I had the pleasure of getting together with another crafty blog mom recently- George from Craftulate– for our first ever messy playdate. The moms and the kids in this case were all a little mess-averse so we were nervous but excited for the playdate. The moms each mixed up a batch of messy materials. I…
I took this picture on my cell phone last week and every time I look at it I get a little teary-eyed. This is my second child at 9 months old, touching a leaf for the first time. Seems pretty harmless I know, and maybe odd that it took that long for me to give him…
I am always on the lookout for party favors that are not junk or candy. This year for Ladybug’s birthday we had…what else…a ladybug garden party theme. An idea had been slowly forming in my head ever since I saw a picture from this post about the healthiest gummy bears you will ever eat. The pictures of…
  This weekend in the midst of the Easter hullabaloo I decided to commit to 30 Days of Spring Cleaning WITH My Toddler by participating in a Spring Cleaning challenge at Mommysavers. I may not post every single day but today is Day 1 so let’s go! The first task on the list is mirrors. This…
  A few days ago I saw the image above posted on facebook by Mommysavers and thought…I wonder if I could do that challenge and teach my toddler about cleaning at the same time? I know your first thought may be, “wow slave labor, how classy!” But hear me out! My idea was more about doing something together every…
It sure has been a while since I’ve blogged! Strangely, I haven’t had as much passion for sewing since I’ve had kids but I realized that my creativity has been coming out more in other ways…namely finding and creating activities for my kids and finding deals online. There is a lot of online inspiration in these areas and…
