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Keeping Mama Sane Airplane and Travel Activities for Babies, Toddlers and Big Kids

I’m so excited to share this awesome travel activity set my sister-in-law gave to our baby for her first birthday the other day!  She knows the stress I am feeling over finding airplane activities for our upcoming flight to Disney World with a four year […]

Airplane & Travel Activity Ideas for Kids

We are going on a Disney trip in a few months and I have already started (shocking!) thinking about our airplane travel activities.  Really, now is the perfect time since everyone is taking summer road trips and talking about the activities they are packing for […]

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

We’ve been seeing lots of fun, messy, summer posts about oobleck and we just had to find out exactly what it is!  We just had to!  So we headed straight to our local library and checked out Dr. Seuss’ Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, Bartholomew and the […]

Frida Flower Fun

Our backyard flowers inspired us to get creative.  We have been reading books about Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera.  Tonight we downloaded a beautiful pencil sketch of Frida and added beautiful flowers to her hair.  We may try our hand at self portraits […]

Painting Pepette

Sometimes the greatest books are the ones we just stumble across at the library.  Literally, we saw this book as we were headed out.  We liked the cover and the title so we threw it in our pile.  Painting Pepette by Linda Ravin Lodding turned […]

Breakfast Ice Cream

Cereal, smereal!  Who needs it when you can have ice cream for breakfast!  Your kids are going to love you!  YOU are going to love you!  Seriously, since tasting this creamy, tropical bowl of refreshing goodness we can’t think of ever having anything else!   […]

Thumbprint Art & other Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Father’s Day is next week so we headed to our local paint and play place and painted up some fun gifts for daddy.  Our first project was some thumbprint art.  We used Pinterest for inspiration and combined several of our favorite ideas to create a […]

The Kissing Hand: Father’s Day Gift Idea

We accidentally stumbled upon The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn one winter day while we were at Barnes and Noble.   It’s one of our favorite places to go on cold or rainy days.  First stop, the coffee shop for a non fat latte, a milk […]

How to Bake a Book and Other Book Activities

We love reading books and we love, love, love doing learning activities after reading a book.  This post is going to be a running list of our favorite books and activities.  Check back soon as we will update often!  Also, check out Isabella’s Book Bag for […]

Backyard Archeologist

Don’t you love the Target Dollar Spot!  We do!   Last summer I found some awesome excavation kits there for just $1.  I was super excited to see them again this year.  We are definitely going to pick up some more.  Each kit contains one […]