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TGIF and welcome back to another Fine Motor Friday! Today’s Halloween activity was fun for my preschooler AND my toddler. We did these fun and easy ghost crafts the other day and had a blast! Quick note: this post includes affiliate links, which means if you buy anything via those links, my site receives a…
Hiya! I’m Laura, a Chicago Area mom to two sweet redheads! My daughter was born in 2010 and my son in 2012. I started my blog to share the fun, creative kids activities we were doing and over time I started talking more about how I stay healthy and fit as a mom. When I…
Happy Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s super simple fine motor activity might look like the top two items on your back to school list, which is one of the reasons I love it- they are everyday materials! So. You give pencils and erasers to an elementary school aged kid and clearly they’re school supplies meant to…
It seems like summer just started but it is already time to start thinking about back to school! Today I have a super fun Back to School Craft for you with this easy Pool Noodle Pencil! I think this would be a pretty funny teacher gift or a fun craft for a back to school…
It is time for another Fine Motor Friday! Today’s simple fine motor skills activity is all about learning colors for toddlers. Mister 1 noticed Miss 4’s Frozen Fractals sticky collage on the window the other day and I thought he might like to stick some torn paper onto it. He went crazy for it so…
My mom is a tricky one to shop for. She is not picky but she doesn’t have any specific hobbies that I can cater to. Two things I CAN count on that I know she loves are photo gifts of my kids and chocolate. Hands down. For SURE. So I thought it would be fun…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! We are getting ready for Mother’s Day around here and wanted a simple craft project to do with the kids. My answer was this easy edible paint idea using nothing but chocolate! If you have kids that put everything in their mouths, you may not put painting at the…
Easter always sneaks up on me so I am prepping early with these Peeps Puppets Easter Games! This post will tell you how to make them, including a materials list with affiliate links as well as the details on the free printable Peeps template! This will be the first Easter that we will have a preschooler in…
We are back for Fine Motor Fridays with a funny little craft inspired by a question my 3 1/2 year old daughter asked me. She saw a cartoon episode about loose teeth where they talked about the Tooth Fairy but the show didn’t give a lot of information for someone who is new to the…
Welcome to a new year of Fine Motor Fridays! I’m back with our group of lovely bloggers to bring you more fine motor skills activities! I love making DIY Toys from recycled materials and this is one of my favorites! This week I finally made a toy for my son that has been on…
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…
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– so much beautiful, heartfelt writing was shared! This week I am featuring a piece of writing that really came into my life…
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…
When I was young, around the time that Home Alone came out, I asked my mom if we could go stay at a hotel downtown (in Chicago)Â as my Christmas present. She came with so I wasn’t quite as free as Macaulay Culkin, but we had a blast. We rode in a horse drawn carriage, ate…
We are following along with Jessie over at Play Create Explore for her weekly color explorations. This week is Black. Jessie really found some awesome activities, oodles of them actually! I have to say this was pretty challenging for me. We don’t have a ton of black toys or food and Ladybug was sick so we didn’t…
