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How to Build Your Own Snack Mix for Kids & Make Snacking Fun

As a mom of an active Kindergartener, preschooler and baby, snacks are life. We never leave home without snacks. While we have our favorite pre-packaged snacks, I love making snack mixes because I can control the ingredients, be creative and include ingredients my kiddos and I enjoy eating. Yes, I enjoy snack mixes quite a …

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How to Paint A Simple Flower Garden for Mother’s Day

This week, my 4 1/2 year old, 2 year old and myself completed our first ever painting project that wasn’t free painting, finger painting or painting with handprints. We needed a gift for the grandmother’s, who we call MomMom and Babcia, for Mother’s Day. They don’t really need more stuff so that’s when I decided …

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How to Organize Your Toddler’s Toys the Montessori Way

You may have heard about the Montessori method. Pinterest is full of pictures of Montessori playrooms with neatly organized wooden toys. Of course, social media images may be different from reality. But that doesn’t change the fact that many families that started to apply the Montessori principles in their household agree that it is easier …

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A Thankful Tree is the perfect way to teach your preschoolers and toddlers about being thankful. Decorating it with thankful leaves is a fun activity, too!

Teaching Preschoolers to be Thankful with A Thanksgiving Tree

Happy November! I can’t believe we are in the month of November already. I feel like we were just talking about the start of fall and Halloween! But here we are, inching closer and closer to the busy holiday season. It’s so easy this day and age to get wrapped up in the hustle and …

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We transformed our dining room into a space for learning and creating together. We now spend most of our days in the activity room between arts & crafts projects and at-home preschool. All of our learning and project supplies are in this space, making it easy to access.

How (and Why) We Transformed Our Dining Room to An Activity Room

We’ve been spending a lot of time in our home over the past several months. My husband works from home and our kiddos are playing more at home. While we miss our lifestyle and daily activities pre-COVID, we have enjoyed transforming some of the spaces in our home to make them better fit the needs …

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