Activities for Money Smart Kids Teaching kids about money and how to be money smart can be a really stress-inducing thought. If you as an adult have any money stress at all, the thought of teaching your children about it may in fact cause you anxiety and it can be for many reasons. View Post
How to Add Hygge to Your Valentine’s Day
How to hygge on Valentine's Day We’ve been talking about hygge for a bit now, and how hygge is about coziness, feeling comfortable, no-stress and simply an overall feeling of satisfaction and contentment. Valentine’s Day is another excellent opportunity to light some candles, snuggle on the View Post
The Best 17 Perler Bead Ideas for Creative Kids
17 Clever Perler Bead Crafts for Kids Oh, where to begin? At first glance you wouldn’t think that a bag of plastic beads could be used to produce such a variety of items. From favorite characters, to keychains, to décor items to toys, you can make them all with Perler beads, also known as Hama View Post
How to Make an Awesome LEGO Christmas Wreath
I combined my two favorite crafts: LEGO and wreaths and came up with an awesome LEGO Christmas wreath. This project can easily be modified to fit any season! DIY LEGO Christmas Wreath Instructions: Happiness is combining two of your favorite things: making wreaths and creating with LEGO. View Post
The Most Amazing DIY Advent Calendars for Christmas
Make Christmas More Fun With These DIY Advent Calendars: I think we can agree that the excitement for Christmas and the whole Christmas season easily starts to build somewhere between the day after Christmas and the first day of school. We try to put off getting to consumed by it until we have had View Post
10 Super Fun Halloween Ideas for Kids
Fun Halloween Ideas for Kids: Spooky and creepy or cute and adorable, either way you prefer your Halloween decorations and crafts, kids adore them all! We like the simplicity of paper crafts and our kids enjoy making Halloween paper crafts too! From spiders to witches, from bats to monsters, there View Post
Awesome Autumn Leaf Crafts For Kids
Autumn Leaf Crafts to Make With Kids: So, remember when we did that cute collection of pinecone crafts? Well, we’re at it again, or we’re still at it I should say, because really, the adventures and the crafting never stop. This time around our featured nature find is leaves. Everybody loves View Post
DIY Kid Friendly Halloween Decor
Kid Friendly Halloween Decor Halloween is easily one of the best celebrations there is. I mean, there’s great costumes, amazing decorations and yep – tons of candy. There are also a lot of opportunities for the DIYers out there to get their craft on – and some people go ALL OUT. Everything is View Post
13 LEGO STEM Activities for Young Engineers
13 STEM Activities with LEGO It’s no secret that we all love to play with LEGO. And it’s also a well-known fact that LEGO is the ideal medium for experimenting and learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ("STEM"). We’ve collected some great activities for you and your builders to View Post
12 Ways to Have Unbeatable Fun with Bubbles
12 Ways to Have Unbeatable Fun with Bubbles: You know what’s awesome about bubbles? Everything! I mean really, we arm the children with soap and water and say "have fun!" And they do!? It’s a total win-win situation for everyone. We are talking about some good clean (literally) fun that View Post
14 Gross Motor Ideas to Take Outside
Outdoors Gross Motor Ideas School is out for summer! And it’s time to throw the screens in the trash and kick the kids outside, enjoy the outdoors and get moving! We know that gross motor skills are important for muscle and strength development. We know they are crucial to building confidence and View Post
14 Thoughtful Homemade Gifts to Make For Mom
14 Lovingly Homemade Mother's Day Gifts: We all know it’s the thought that counts when it comes to gifting – and when it comes to the really important people in our lives, like Mom, we want to make sure we get it right. Truth is, Mom is probably going to love just about anything you View Post
12 Absolutely Fantastic LEGO Ideas
12 Absolutely Fantastic LEGO Ideas I have yet to meet a person, be it a kid, or someone who use to be a kid, that does not love LEGO. With the exception of the piece that gets stepped on of course. However, that aside, kids of all ages have been building and playing with LEGO for pretty much ever. View Post
60 Fun LEGO Facts Every LEGO Fan Needs to Know
Thank you to the LEGO® Group for sending us a fantastic Anniversary box of LEGO bricks. The honest opinions stated in this post are 100% mine. 60 fun LEGO facts every LEGO fan needs to know Our kids had a BLAST building creatively with the bricks contained in the LEGO Anniversary box, while I View Post