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Fun activities for money smart kids. Creative ways to teach financial literacy to kids, tweens and teens. Teach your kids about financial responsibility and the value of money with these fun money activities. Math activities. Money lessons. #TeachingKids #FinancialLiteracy #MoneySmartKids #TeachingKidsAboutMoney #MamaintheNow

10 Super Fun Activities For Money Smart Kids

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

Filed Under: Creative, Financial Life, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

How to add hygge to your Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day crafts for the romantic. Bring coziness, mindfulness and happiness to your Valentine's Day celebration. Danish happiness. Hygge crafts for a beautiful Valentine's day. Valentine's Day crafts. #Valentinesday #Hygge #MamaintheNow #ValentinesDayHygge #ValentinesdayCrafts

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

Filed Under: Creative, Hygge, Winter

The best Perler bead ideas for creative kids. Great craft for fine motor skills. Perler bead craft ideas. Hama bead craft ideas. Melting bead ideas. Crafts for kids. Fun crafts for tweens. Crafts for teens. Perler bead patterns for kids. #MamaintheNow

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

Filed Under: Creative, Perler

How to make an awesome LEGO Christmas wreath. LEGO Christmas decoration. LEGO Christmas stocking instructions. Decorate your home with Christmas LEGO decorations this year. This LEGO wreath can easily be adapted to any season. #MamaintheNow

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

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Winter, Wreaths

DIY Advent Countdown for Christmas Calendars. Christmas countdown for kids. Daily advent calendars for kids. These DIY Christmas advent calendars are Christmas fun for the whole family. #Advent #Adventcalendars #DIYChristmas #DIYAdventCalendar #DIYAdventCalendars #CountdowntoChristmas #mamainthenow #ChristmasCrafts

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

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Life Style, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

10 Super fun Halloween ideas for kids. Not too spooky halloween crafts for kids. Halloween crafts for kids. Halloween decorations you can make with your kids. #halloweenideasforkids #HalloweenCraftsForKids #Halloween #HalloweenCrafts #CraftsForKids #ForKids #MamaintheNow #NotSpookyHalloween #FunWithKids #FallFun

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

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Awesome Autumn Leaf Crafts for Kids. Fall leaf crafts to make with kids. Fall crafts using leaves. Autumn crafts using leaves. Crafts for kids. Having fun with mother nature. #AutumnLeafCrafts #FallLeafCrafts #CraftsforKids #FallCraftsForKids #AutumnCraftsForKids #FallFun #AutumnFun #NaturePlay #NatureCrafts #forkids #MamaintheNow

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

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

DIY kid friendly halloween decorations for the whole family. Not spooky Halloween decorations, family fun at Halloween. Kids friendly Halloween crafts. #Halloween #HalloweenDecorations #MamaintheNow #KidFriendly #KidFriendlyHalloween #NotSpookyHalloween #HalloweenDecor #HalloweenCraftsForKids #CraftsForKids

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

Filed Under: Creative, Life Style

STEM Activities with LEGO. Learn math with LEGO, do science projects with LEGO, learn engineering with LEGO. STEM activities for young engineers. Learn with LEGO. #STEM #LEGO #Engineering #TeachingKids #TeachingChildren #LearningTools #LEGOMom #MamaintheNow #LearningActivities

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

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO

12 Ways to Have Fun with Bubbles. Bubble fun for kids. Summer outdoor activities for kids. Ideas for play with bubbles for kids. #Bubbles #Summer #SummerBucketList #BubbleFun #GrossmotorSkills #FunForKids #mamainthenow

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

Filed Under: Creative, Parenting, Spring, Summer

Outdoor Gross Motor Activities. Gross motor skills ideas. Creative ways for your kids to work their gross motor skills. Outdoors summer activities for kids of all ages. #grossmotor #grossmotoractivities #grossmotorskills #grossmotorforkids #summerfun #funforkids #mamainthenow

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

Filed Under: Creative, Parenting, Spring, Summer

14 Lovingly Handmade Gifts for Mother's Day. Surprise Mom on Mother's Day or on her birthday with these homemade thoughtful gifts - also great for mother-in-laws and grandparents. Adorable gifts for mom. Lovingly made presents for mom. #MothersDay #GiftsForMom #GiftsforMotherInLaw #Handmade #Homemade #mamainthenow

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

Filed Under: Creative, Gift Guides, Motherhood, Spring, Winter

12 Absolutely Fantastic Lego Ideas. Creative LEGO ideas, ways to use LEGO around the house. LEGO uses in the home. LEGO ideas for older kids. #LEGO #LEGOIdeas #LEGOMom #LEGOFun #AFOL #MamaintheNow

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

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO

60 fun LEGO facts to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the LEGO brick! The coolest toy ever created: LEGO! Learn little-known facts about LEGO, the LEGO Group and the LEGO bricks. LEGO trivial for the true diehard LEGO fan and AFOL. #LEGO #LEGOfacts #60thAnniversary #AFOL #FunFacts #LEGOMom #MamaintheNow

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

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Reviews

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