Today I am teaming up with +Jamie Reimer from hands on: as we grow and +Jackie Higgins from Ready Set Read for a Valentine's Day for Kids Google Plus Hangout! We'll be sharing Valentine's Day themed letter activities for preschoolers--it will be so much fun! It will air LIVE both here and on my G+ profile page at 3pm EST today. But no worries if you miss it--you can check back to either place anytime you want to watch the video! As you can see … [Read more...]
Valentines for Kids: I’m Stuck on You Printable
Do you make your own valentines? Download cute printable ones? Buy them at the store? My kids like to make their own valentine cards and like to make holiday decorations. So today we combined the two with some window cling valentines for kids! The first thing we did was make the window cling hearts. Yep, those colorful glittery hearts are actually homemade window clings. You can read all of the directions in my Make Your Own Heart Window … [Read more...]
Kindness Challenge: Love the Environment
Today is the first day of Toddler Approved's 100 Acts of Kindness Project! We are doing 52 Weeks of Kindness this year and are super excited to spend the next 4 weeks participating in the Kindness Project. It's a fantastic family activity and I was thrilled when Kristina asked me if I wanted to give the first challenge! Week 1 Challenge: Show some love to your environment! This week we are challenging you to perform an act of kindness that helps … [Read more...]
Random Acts of Kindness and Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
To spread kindness to our neighbors this year I had big plans for all the cute, fun things we could make. I had visions of pinterest-worthy crafts to show our neighbors just how much we appreciated them. And then tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary last week and beautiful creations no longer seemed to be what our neighbors needed. Our local elementary school was in partial lock down all week. Parents could not walk their kids to their classrooms … [Read more...]
Christmas Fun: Holiday Ornament Exchange
The holidays are filled with exchanges...cookie exchanges, gift exchanges and ornament exchanges! We took part in the Christmas Ornament Challenge and Exchange hosted by Red Ted Art, Inspired by Family Mag, The Imagination Tree, and Mom to 2 Post Lil Divas and got a beautiful ornament in the mail! We were paired with All about the Whites who sent us this gorgeous Fabric Ornament Ball! Head to her site to see the instructions and check out her fun … [Read more...]
Random Act of Christmas Kindness: Help a Neighbor
Our family has loved counting down to Christmas with 24 Days of Random Acts of Christmas Kindness. It has been a great way to slow down and really appreciate what the season is about and we have gotten just as much out of it as the people we are RACKing. Especially yesterday. For Day 10's RACK we helped our neighbors by raking all of the leaves in their front yard. The kids were so excited to do this one and there was a pretty large (by FL … [Read more...]
Christmas Craft for Kids: Family Tree with Mini-Ornaments
We had so much fun doing my son's preschool's "family homework" last week! They sent home a large green sheet of paper and asked each family to create a Christmas tree to be displayed at the school. When we were talking about what our family should do the kids were adamant that we each make our own mini-ornament to put on the tree--which I thought was a great idea! At first we were going to try and glue string bead necklaces (we have tons that we … [Read more...]
Holiday Mail for Heroes: Send a Card to a Service Member
We have been having a blast counting down the days 'til Christmas with 24 Days of Random Acts of Christmas Kindness! Today's RACK was making cards for deployed servicemen and women. The kids sent their Halloween candy to their troops last month and loved the idea of sending cards for the holidays. How to Send a Card to a Servicemember We used to send ours through the Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes program. They have … [Read more...]
