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Mother’s Day Crafts and Activities Round Up ~ #ArtsyPlay {LINKY}

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Mothers Day Crafts and Activities

This week, we have gathered a collection of ideas for homemade Mother’s Day crafts and Activities for children. Happy early Mother’s Day! I don’t know about you, but for Mother’s Day, I don’t need anything extravagent! A homemade card or craft, some hugs and everyone getting along would make my day! Hand Print Sparkle Heart – CAPRI +3 Kids’ Art Coasters Craft – COUNTRY FIT FAMILY Handprint Flower Pot -WE MADE THAT Painted Glass Vases – TEACHING EVERY DAY Homemade Keepsake Letter – SIMPLY FUN FAMILIES Oven Bake Clay Necklaces – P is for PRESCHOOLER Decorative Tin Can – UNTRAINED … Continue reading →

Flower Crafts for Kids Round-Up ~ #ArtsyPlay {LINKY}

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Flower Crafts for Kids

Artsy Play Wednesday will now be featuring many of YOUR crafts in themed round-up posts each week. To see what themes are in the weeks to come, please see the image at the bottom of this post! By linking up, your post may be featured and shared across all of our social media and blogs! The more crafts you link up the higher your chances of being chosen. This week, we have gathered a collection of ideas for Flower Crafts for Kids. 1.  Planting a Rainbow Sensory Board – HOUSE OF BURKE 2.  Lollipop Flower Bouquet – CRAFTY JOURNAL 3.  KandinskyFlowers – RUBBER … Continue reading →

9 Fun Painting Ideas for Kids ~ #ArtsyPlay {LINKY}

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Painting Ideas for Kids

  Last week, we mentioned that Artsy Play Wednesday will be featuring many of YOUR crafts in a monthly themed round-up. To see what themes are in the weeks to come, please see the image at the bottom of this post! By linking up, your post may be featured and shared across all of our social media and blogs! The more crafts you link up the higher your chances of being chosen.   This week, we have gathered a collection of ideas for FUN painting ideas for kids. These activities use different tools, texture and more to make these educational … Continue reading →

Newly Released Disney Movies in April 2014 {DVD and Blu-ray}

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Pirate Fairy

Our family always looks forward to newly released Disney movies for our Saturday night family movie nights! Having a son who is 5 and a daughter who is 9, we sometimes have trouble finding movie options that will entertain everyone, but Disney movies and shows are almost always a fail-proof option! This month, two of our options were Sophia the First: The Floating Palace and Pirate Fairy Sofia the First: The Floating Palace became available on DVD on April 8th, 2014. After Sofia helps a young mermaid named Oona, Sofia’s amulet grants her the power to transform into a mermaid … Continue reading →

How to Make Mess Free Easter Eggs with Children

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Mess Free Dying Easter Eggs

I found the GREATEST idea for Dying Easter Eggs, from my friend Michelle, over at Missionary Kid To Stay At Home Mom and All Things In Between! Dying Easter Eggs is definitely part of our Easter tradition, however, I do find myself stressing about it slightly as my kids are kids and they are SUPER DUPER messy! These Mess Free Easter Eggs are so easy to decorate! With the help of Bounty paper towels, I was able to keep this activity of dying Easter eggs to minimal mess! Materials Needed: newspaper Bounty paper towel – I prefer the “select-a-size” kind … Continue reading →

Nasal Congestion Relief with #hydraSense {GIVEAWAY}

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I have always been one who cannot stand to have a stuffy nose, in fact when I am stuffed up I cannot sleep and that drives me absolutely crazy. There are many nose sprays on the market, but your body can get used to them and you can become permanently stuffed up which would be terrible. Right now, we are about to enter allergy season which means that I need some nose congestion relief on a daily basis! hydraSense helps me breathe!   Not only is hydraSense easy to use, but it is effective in reducing nasal congestion. It is … Continue reading →

8 Easter Ideas for Children – #ArtsyPlay {LINKY}

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Easter Ideas for Kids

Starting this week Artsy Play Wednesday will be featuring many of YOUR crafts in a monthly themed round-up. By linking up, your post may be featured and shared across all of our social media and blogs! The more crafts you link up the higher your chances of being chosen. With Easter coming up this weekend, our first collection made from your posts will be a round-up of Easter Ideas for Children. Have fun making these on Easter weekend! Easter Ideas for Children: 1. DIY Easter Newspaper Wreath from 1 Heart, 1 Family    2. Egg Carton Easter Bunny from Totschooling  … Continue reading →

Creating and Maintaining a Child Safe Email Account {Tech Tuesday}

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Feel free to follow my blog with Bloglovin. Protecting children when they are online can be a daunting and difficult task. In truth, the safest child is the offline child; however, that is also an unacceptable solution (especially when you consider the fact that you’re reading a post about secure email for children). One of the activities my daughter loves to do is to send emails to her friends and relatives. However, email is also the most common source of unsolicited communication on the internet (hence why many mail services provide spam filtering and the like). We knew we needed … Continue reading →

Turbo FAST on NETFLIX #Giveaway #StreamTeam

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TURBO

We’ve had Netflix in our house now for just over a month and we are absolutely loving it. The kids are enjoying the new tv content, we are LOVING House of Cards and the whole family is enjoying the large variety of movies for our Family movie nights. I will add that I am loving House of Cards so much that when we have time when I’m not blogging at night, we are actually binge watching the show. The characters and story line keep me wanting to watch more and more. I find it difficult to only watch one episode … Continue reading →