When I was growing up, my mom had us make Valentine’s Day Collage Hearts each year and it was one of my favorite Valentine’s Day activities. I knew it was something my boys would love too, so we had an
Ever since we decided to get a balance scale, my boys have been obsessed with using it…as a catapult. While I encourage their exploration and creativity, I figured it was time to teach them how to really use the balance
Will cold cocoa make a marshmallow melt? This and many other questions were answered through this Melting Snowman Activity. My boys are always asking for marshmallows in their cocoa. Inspired by everything snowman lately, I decided to give the marshmallows
My boys are both very engineer-minded. They love to build and design. Both are getting more and more into art as well. I want to encourage them to keep practicing engineering, so we come up with activities like this Building
Counting down to Christmas Day is always a favorite activity for kids. We wanted a fun way to count down to Christmas, so we came up with this fun Christmas tree advent calendar last year and pulled everything out this
Last year we decorated gingerbread houses. My boys did not love the idea that they couldn’t eat the cookies and I didn’t love the idea of making more with loads of sugar, so we came up with an incredibly fun
Teaching emotions to kids can have a lot of benefits. My boys had fun with their LEGO emotions activities, so we created our own activity using balloons. The other day at church we had the kids stay in nursery while
