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Amazing Inspiring Mom Blog Award
Melissa of Forgetting Mess Pausing Time created some new blog awards and I'd like to help spread them around. Nothing like sharing a little love in the blogosphere, right? My only problem was...
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Hands-on Learning with the Animal Trackers Club
Disclosure: We received this product in exchange for this review. All opinions are my own and I only recommend things I love and think my readers will enjoy as well. I get the opportunity to...
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Kindergarten Skills You Almost Forgot
I'm guilty of it too. With so much emphasis on preparing kids for kindergarten academically (do they know their letters, numbers, can they read Shakespeare?) it's easy to skip over the smaller...
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Let's Get Outside - We Love Weekends linky
The weather is beautiful and we're enjoying the time outside! Here are some outdoor ideas linked up last week... A place for your garden fairies to hangout {Domain of the Mad Mommy} Melt some...
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Magnet Painting
Have you ever painted...with magnets? With a new magnet kit at our disposal, and Kay's love of all things magnetic, I wanted to try this science and art combo. Her magnet set (include link!)...
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Magazine Confetti
When I went searching for inspiration for this month's Recycle & Create project, I found it - in droves! Let me just say, there are some lovely things you can do with magazine pages. But after...
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A Guide to Water Walls - the What, Why and How
After finally making our first water wall this summer, I wanted to share with you the different options you have for making your own. It doesn't have to be difficult and no matter how you do it,...
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Beach Activities without the Beach + Kids Co-op
Summer is almost over here (did I just say that?!) but it's always a good time for these beach activities, that don't actually need a beach! Ocean slime {Buggy and Buddy} Beach invitation to play...
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Back to School with We Love Weekends linky
No, really...is it back-to-school time already? Kay starts kindergarten in a couple weeks (pinch me!) and last week saw some great back-to-school ideas linked up, so of course I had to share!...
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Easy Magazine Beads
Magazine beads are suggested as a creative activity for kids and adults alike. Well, confession: I can't make them. Well, that's not true. I make them - just not well! So I came up with a...
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Dinosaur Feet
Rainy Day Mum hosted a series recently called Story Book Summer and I was honored to take part. With 6 weeks worth of books and activities for kids, you'll definitely want to check it out! My...
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A Parent's Guide to Enabling
Our instincts as parents is to protect from harm. But sometimes, in doing so, we can be actually be doing more harm than good. This guest post from Whitney Hollingshead offers a lot to think about!...
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Magazine Collages
Keeping with our reusing magazines theme for Project: Recycle & Create, we made some collages (which is the first thing I think of when it comes to reusing magazines!). I dug out some old...
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Make Your Own Doctor's Kit
This month's Poppins Book Nook theme is "When I Grow Up" and I had the activity ready before the book was chosen! This is something we've had around for about a year and it's still not gotten old,...
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Paper Plate Ping Pong Paddles
Paper plate ping pong paddles? Phew, that's a lot of P's! (Good thing I love alliteration!) Having a supply of ping pong balls on hand (thank you dollar store!) but no paddles - and having a...
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Playful Math - Weekly Kids Co-op
Math was never a favorite subject for me while I was in school, but maybe I was going about it the wrong way. With fun activities like these, even I could have learned to love all things numbers!...
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More fun ideas - We Love Weekends Linky
Since I missed last week's linky (got lazy, cough, cough...) I'm glad to be back sharing some fun ideas. Hopefully we can inspire each other and fun some new blogs to love together! Staging your own...
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Recycled Magazine Butterfly Craft
I'm afraid I "cheated" a bit on this one, as far as a craft for kids go. Kay was perfectly happy to play with them afterwards, but not so much interested in making them. She put in a half-hearted...
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Make Your Own Body Paint
We could go through a lot of paint in our house. I know, because we have. A year or two ago, Kay started her love of painting - oh, not with brushes. Nothing so orthodox as that. She liked to...
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Fun with Leaves - Weekly Kids Co-op
It's all about the leaves this time of year and we're enjoying some pretty ones! So this week I'd like to share some fun leaf-y crafts that kids (and grown-ups - at least this grown-up!) will love!...
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