How do you countdown to Christmas with your family? Do you use an advent calendar? Our family has decided to try something new this year and do a Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent calendar! We really enjoyed participating with Moms Fighting Hunger this fall and I thought this would be a fun way to bring the spirit of giving to the Christmas season. We made a list of ideas for Random Acts of Christmas Kindness, but … [Read more...]
Top Board Games for Kids and Families
Many of your favorite bloggers have teamed up to bring you The HUGE Holiday Family Gift Guide featuring over 200 gift ideas for your family! affiliate links included below And I'm excited to share some of my top recommendations for board games for kids and families! It was difficult to narrow it down to 10 so I decided to focus on games that fostered fun family interaction. Here's what I came up with: Bananagrams is a fun word making … [Read more...]
Christmas Kids Craft: Homemade Snowflake Ornaments
The trees are up in the kids bedrooms and they are ornament obsessed! They decorate their bedrooms trees with homemade ornaments each year and have been asking to make more ornaments since we made our angel ornaments last week. So yesterday we made popsicle stick snowflake ornaments! We started by gluing three craft sticks on top of each other (above) to form the snowflake shape. We used these funky shaped ones we had leftover from making mini … [Read more...]
Christmas Kids Craft: Angel Ornament and Picture Book
The Tomie dePaola book we chose for this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids, Country Angel Christmas, got us into the Christmas spirit a little early this year! The kids loved the story and asked me read it to them multiple times this weekend. It is a beautifully illustrated tale of the year the country angels planned the Christmas celebration. The older angels were busy making preparations, but there seemed to be nothing left for the three … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Kids Craft: Torn Paper Turkeys
Looking for a super easy, super fun Thanksgiving craft? Have kids of different ages and can't find something that can keep all occupied? Well, you are in luck! One of my kids' favorite Thanksgiving crafts--torn paper turkeys--may just be what you're looking for. Torn Paper Turkey Supplies: Scraps of paper in whatever color you want. Googly eyes Scissors--unless you are really, really good at tearing out turkey shapes! Your … [Read more...]
{21 Days of Gratitude} Why I’m Thankful for Reading
I was so excited when Mari at Inspired By Family shared her idea for the 21 Days of Contagious Gratitude family challenge and I couldn't wait to sign up. I have always loved Thanksgiving, even as a child I liked the coziness of the holiday and the chance to share how thankful you are for what you love. Today's gratitude prompt is a skill/talent you possess. As soon as I saw it I knew what I was going to write about. Reading. I am … [Read more...]
Create a Thankfulness Tree
Every year since my oldest daughter was born we have recorded the things we are thankful for in some way. There is something about stopping to write down the blessings in your life that makes them that much sweeter and more appreciated. We've done this in a couple different ways, but last year's was one of our favorites and the kids can't wait to do it again this November. We created a huge 6 foot tree out of torn and crumbled paper bag pieces on … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Man: A Family Tradition
For me, fall means leaves and leaves mean a very special family tradition. I grew up in upstate NY and as soon as the leaves began to fall we knew that soon it would be time to make our Pumpkin Man. My grandfather would bring over the Pumpkin Man supplies and send us out into the yard to gather the most beautiful fall leaves that we could find. And gather we did. Leaves are abundant in NY and in the fall our front yard was full of gorgeous, … [Read more...]
