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May 5, 2014

Fruit-sicles Healthy Fruit Popsicle Recipe

We have a new healthy snack obsession at our house--Fruit-sicles! These fruit popsicles are easy enough that the kids can make them and the perfect snack on a hot day. Frozen Fruit Popsicles fresh fruit (we use grapes, strawberries and bananas) Wooden skewers air tight container wax paper We have been eating frozen grapes in the summer for years and the kids love to stack them on skewers to make grape-sicles. A couple weeks ago we … [Read more...]

September 11, 2013

Polar Bear Activity and Cupcakes

Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. is one of my kids' favorites books!  The repetitive text and animal sounds make it especially appealing to preschoolers.  There are so many fun ways you can play and learn with the story that we just had to choose it for this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids! The story is very similar to his Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? book except that instead of seeing a new animal on each … [Read more...]

June 24, 2013

Healthy Kids Snack: Painted Toast Flags

Healthy Kids Snack Fruit Painted Toast

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...]

May 17, 2013

How to Make Peanut Butter Play Dough

We love homemade play dough recipes!  Homemade play dough is a lot less work to make than you would think, lasts a really long time, and can be customized to fit your kids' needs and preferences.  For example, if you have a toddler you may have asked yourself, "How can I make play dough that is safe for kids to eat?"  As long as your child has no allergy to peanut butter recipes then peanut butter play dough would be a great choice! Edible Peanut … [Read more...]

April 15, 2013

No Bake Dog Treats Book and Cook Activity

Homemade No Bake Dog Treats Book and Cook Activity

This month's Virtual Book Club for Kids author, David Shannon, was completely new to us so we went to the library to check out of bunch of his books.  Good Boy, Fergus! was the house favorite and we had a lot of fun doing a dog themed kids activity to go along with it. The kids really enjoyed Fergus, the canine main character, because he reminded them of our dogs and how they sometimes act...especially out in public! We love book and cook … [Read more...]

March 27, 2013

Gruffalo Party Food and Movie Night

Gruffalo Cupcakes

We have been having so much fun with The Gruffalo and the Virtual Book Club for Kids this month!  Our friends at The Gruffalo North America sent us a copy of The Gruffalo DVD (affiliate link) to watch so we decided to invite some friends over for a Gruffalo Movie Party! I came up with three Gruffalo themed snacks for the kids to try while they watched! The Gruffalo cupcakes were just chocolate frosted cupcakes with candy on top. The horns and … [Read more...]

September 24, 2012

Pumpkin Themed Play Date and a Blog Hop

We invited some friends over on Saturday for a pumpkin play date!  It was a great way to celebrate the first day of fall and definitely got us in the mood for fall.  The best part? It was fun for the kids and super easy to put together! Pumpkin Books: We started the play date with a pumpkin story, the book Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell.  The story follows a little girl and her family as they enjoy many fun fall activities.  This is one of … [Read more...]

August 22, 2012

Back to School Muffin Tin Meal

Monday nights are busy at our house so a couple months ago we started doing muffin tin dinners.  Muffin tin meals are usually just a fancy way to serve leftovers, but this week I made a back to school muffin tin meal to celebrate the first day of school! It was very simple to do.  I used kitchen scissors to cut out the sandwiches in the shape of a notebook and wrote ABC on the top with an icing pen.  I saw the super cute idea for the cheese pencil … [Read more...]

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