Get your kids outdoors and enjoying nature while helping them learn valuable skills by making small gardening tasks easy and engaging for them. This post may contain affiliate shopping links that support the blog at no cost to you. Gardening offers a refreshing alternative to watching TV or scrolling on the phone, especially for children …
Crafts for Kids
If your kid loves LEGO, there’s a good chance they’re already budding engineers and designers—whether they know it or not. Building with bricks is more than just fun: it’s hands-on STEM education disguised as play! And if you’re looking for a way to nurture that creativity without just plopping them in front of a screen, …
Trying to keep little hands busy? Look no further than here. Check out these five awesome DIY home projects to enjoy with your kids right now! If you’re looking for ways to keep the kids busy while having fun yourself, welcome to the club! DIY projects offer a great alternative to screen time and can …
Mitch and I spent a lovely afternoon doing something simple, fun, and surprisingly educational: we made a pine cone birdfeeder together! If you’re looking for a sweet and easy activity to connect your kids with nature, this one checks all the boxes: outdoor time, hands-on crafting, helping local wildlife, and birdwatching from your own window. …
Build creative connections with your kids! Here are four model activities (including model bridges) that inspire imagination while keeping your children engaged. Are your kids constantly looking for hands-on activities? Whether you have bored kids to entertain during a rainy weekend or want to spend a day away from technology, model-building activities are perfect for …
Let’s be real, Easter eggs are getting egg-spensive. Between the price of actual eggs, the vinegar stink that never quite leaves your kitchen, and the very real risk of losing a rogue hard-boiled egg behind the couch (been there, sniffed that)… maybe it’s time for something different this year? How about Marshmallow “eggs”? Photo by …
If you grew up before “screen time” was a thing to worry about, then you’ve made origami paper fortune tellers — also known as cootie catchers or chatterboxes — when you were a kid. Right? One day Mitch came home with a folded paper fortune teller his friend’s mom made to entertain them during a …
Every fall I take the boys out to the local pumpkin patch where we pick out festive holiday gourds…to launch across the field! This year we’re saving some cash — and made our own backyard pumpkin chuckin’ catapult. My hubs helped out with this project. He had some PVC pipe scraps left over from another …