Lego Costume

lego costume

Would your LEGO enthusiast love to wear a giant LEGO costume for Halloween this year?  Let us help you with this fun idea – just one of our many homemade Halloween costumes.  We at Kids Activities Blog just love costumes like this that are cheap and easy to make! LEGO Costume We try to make [...]

Craft Kits: A Creative Gift Idea for Kids (& a giveaway!!)

kits from Green Kids Crafts

Are you looking for gift ideas for creative kids – these kits are perfect!  Green Kid Crafts is a company that is mom-made and mom-run, and you can tell!  They understand kids and are spot-on with instructions.  Our kids love the variety and textures of the supplies included in the kits.  Congrats to April who [...]

DIY fabric wall letters

I have been drooling over the anthropologie-style wall letters (like these at Tip Junkie) and Elmers & Xacto gave me the perfect opportunity to make my own set with an Elmer’s Summer Craft Party!  They sent me a big box of goodies including foam boards, glue sticks, glue dots, markers and more!  They also sent [...]

DIY fabric wall letters… & a Giveaway of Elmers Craft Supplies

Elmers Gift

I have been drooling over the anthropologie-style wall letters (like these at Tip Junkie) and Elmers & Xacto gave me the perfect opportunity to make my own set with an Elmer’s Summer Craft Party!  They sent me a big box of goodies including foam boards, glue sticks, glue dots, markers and more!  They also sent [...]

DIY Chalk Calendar

DIY chalkboard Calendar

We wanted a place for our family calendar, something durable and big enough for all of our “plans”.   Organization is not one of my gifts, I struggle to organize our schedule and our bills!  Over our sink we added a chalkboard calendar to help us organize all of our daily events and activities.  I [...]

$100 worth of food for $30… and a $1000 Shopping Spree giveaway!!

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My wish, for Mothers Day, is to not wash a single dish, make a single meal or do any other chores but… we are also in the midst of an adoption of two kids and money is tighter than normal.  I am thrilled that I managed to get $100 worth of restaurant food for $30.  [...]

Grocery Games for your Preschooler & $100 of FREE Groceries

Grocery game at Save-a-lot

JDaniel’s Mom had a great guest post from when I was on maternity leave, it was brilliant.  She used colored paint chips and had a color hunt grocery game that she did with her preschooler, Daniel.  We adapted it slightly last week when we were at the new Save-A-Lot that opened in Grand Prairie, TX.  [...]

Scabs: Cute and Silly Patches – A Giveaway

patches for preschoolers

Do your kids have torn jeans?  Do they like to personalize items that are identical?  Do you like something that is super easy and durable?  These are a ton of fun!  And one lucky reader has the chance of winning a set of five (they may or may not be same items that we received [...]

Tips & Toy Guide: Entertaining Kids When Traveling or Doing Errands

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Looking for some tips and ideas to help you entertain your preschoolers while you are traveling, doing errands or out to eat? Here are some great tips from moms and toy suggestions that might make your outing just a touch easier. . Wikki-Stix are a great mess-free crafting activity. Our kids have used them as [...]

Toys for Travel: Giveaway Bonanza

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To celebrate the introduction of our first ever toy guide, we are having a giveaway bonanza!  There are over a dozen different toys up for grabs, all compiled from our travel toys and games suggestion list for preschoolers!  For a description of the toys please visit our Tips & Toy Guide.  Several of our readers [...]

Erudition: A Game to Learn Sight Words

erudition

Congrats to Natalie of Mouse Grows Mouse Learns! She and her daughter are the winners of this weeks “Learning to Read Sight Words” Game! Thanks to all who have participated! . We just discovered Erudition! It is a game designed to help early readers memorize common site words. We were given a copy to play [...]

Giveaway: Toddler and Preschool Felt Toys

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Congratulations to Mrs Cox, from Mrs. Cox’s Slice O’ Heaven. Her comment # was selected randomly. I will be contacting her by email to confirm and will send her contact info to Evgie. Thanks to all for your participation!!! … As any of our regular readers know, Quirky Momma LOVES mom-made products, especially mom-made learning [...]

Giveaway: Funky Hat

toddler wearing a funky hat

Congratulations to Beth over at Kesslerchaos!  You are our winner!  I will email you to confirm and send your contact information off to Sonia.  Thanks to all for participating!