Summer Time Bucket List: 50 Activities for the Kids

50 activities for Summer

I love our weekly It’s Playtime Link-up! Each week you have hundreds of activity ideas and suggestions for us! Thank you for being an inspiration to us each and every week. Below are just a few of the activities that have been linked up this past year. These activities are on our Summer Bucket List [...]

Father’s Day Keepsake Book

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Alright friends, hopefully everyone had a delightful Mother’s Day yesterday and were spoiled with wonderful handmade cards and gifts from your children.  Now it’s your turn and I’m giving you plenty of time to get this meaningful Father’s Day keepsake done. Rather than buy dad a new golf club, BBQ grill, or tool (all very [...]

Kids Can Blog Too

Kids and Blogging

Did you know that my oldest son started a blog when he was 7? I had been blogging for a year or two when he came home from second grade with a writing assignment. It was a simple paragraph about his favorite colors.  After he wrote the final draft in his best handwriting, he was [...]

Preschool Activities: Counting Flowers in Your Neighborhood

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This is the perfect time of year to head out into your neighborhood and look for things to count. The weather is great for walking around, camera in hand, with a seeker of things to take pictures of by your side. I helped my son decide to limit the things were looking for to flowers [...]

Making Butter With Kids

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Making butter used to be a hard, time-consuming job.  But of course, for centuries, almost everyone did it.  When my kids and I read a story book about life in old Appalachia recently and saw the pictures of a butter churn and children pumping away at it, we decided that we wanted to give making [...]