Decorating you bike when you are young, whether for the 4th of July or a neighborhood parade, is so much fun! When you are little your bike is an object of triumph and your ticket to freedom so personalizing it and celebrating it just adds to the joy. All three of our kids are at the age where bikes are exciting so we knew that decorating bikes was something that had to be on our "Old School" Summer Bucket List! We have a red, white, and blue theme … [Read more...]
Healthy Kids Snack: Painted Toast Flags
Painted Flag Toast turned out to be such a fun and healthy 4th of July kids snack! Instead of using milk and food coloring for our paint like we usually do we decided to try using fruit paint and found it to be delicious! This is one 4th of July craft you can do anytime of day...especially if you need a snack! To make the flag toast snack we cut the bread into a regular shape and made our fruit "paint". We had leftover strawberries and … [Read more...]
Acts of Kindness: Send a Thank You to a Service Member
We wanted to come up with an act of kindness that would help support the troops in some way. Our Daisy girl scout troop was doing an upcycling art project and we decided to combine the two ideas and make a thank you note for our service members. After the meeting my kids made even more cards and I have packed them all up to send to A Million Thanks who will deliver the cards to our service members in time for the 4th of July! The deadline for … [Read more...]
Acts of Kindness: Easter Egg Messages
I am so excited about today's acts of kindness for kids idea! Not only is it fantastic, it is also from one of my very dear, real-life friends, Courtney. She was at the soccer practice with her boys last week and came across some plastic Easter eggs with kindness messages inside! The eggs made their day and they decided to pay it forward and make some kindness eggs for others to find too! After spreading Eggs of Kindness throughout with her kids … [Read more...]
Egg Shakers and Song for Preschoolers
My kids LOVE playing with egg shakers! They're so much fun, easy to make, and (surprisingly) last for a long time. I was just making a bunch for my son's preschool class and realized that not everyone has made them before! So here's a quick "how to" along with our favorite preschool song to shake to... Affiliate links included below How to Make Egg Shakers: Put a scoop of rice, pebbles, granola, etc in the bottom of a plastic egg Line … [Read more...]
Chalkboard Easter Eggs
I have been loving all of the fun egg decorating ideas for kids I've seen this year! One of my favorites was this idea from Super Mommy where she dipped her eggs in chalkboard paint. I wanted to try it with my kiddos, but I was worried that we wouldn't remember to get them back into the refrigerator. So instead of chalkboard painting eggs we used egg-shaped rocks! Genius, right? Now they can stay out year round and be used in any way the kids can … [Read more...]
How to Make Slime and Valentines
My son really wanted to make his own valentines this year and after a couple different ideas settled on passing out slime! Making slime is really fun, super easy, and (surprisingly) not messy. How to Make Slime: (Click here for the Borax-free recipe) Pour 8oz of Elmer's glue into a glass bowl. Add in 8oz of warm water. (You can just fill up the empty glue bottle to save on dishes!) Add whatever color food coloring you choose. … [Read more...]
Homemade Valentines for Kids: Car Painting
My kids love making homemade valentines and love painting with cars so it's easy to see why these "You're a wheel-y great friend!" valentines are such a hit! We first made them when my son was two for all of his friends and since then we've made them as valentines, thank you cards, birthday cards...pretty much anything you can think of! My three year old is very excited to get to make valentines to pass out to her friends this year and these are … [Read more...]
