No Candy Valentines- Squishy Valentines with Printable My daughter loves squishy toys, she plays with them all the time and loves to squish them. Does anyone else have a child that loves them too?! Well since she loves them so much, I decided that for her valentines this year, we would make some fun squishy…
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Kids Halloween Party Ideas- Games and Crafts
Disclosure: I was given product in exchange for this post, all opinions are 100% my own. Halloween is coming soon and it’s time to start planning the parties! Whether you are having a home party or a class parties, Oriental Trading is the way to go! Seriously, they have the cutest stuff and they…
WFM Unlimited Text, Talk & Data Plan and DIY Angry Birds Game
We are huge fans of angry birds at our house, so we made an awesome giant DIY angry birds game to play in our front yard. It was a blast and a super easy to make! With school starting soon, you may be on the hunt for a new cell phone for one of your…
DIY Star Wars Glowing Light Sabers
Star Wars is coming!!! Are you excited about it?? With a house full of boys, we are definitely excited about it! We LOVE the Star Wars movies. My sister is throwing her son a Star Wars birthday party this weekend and we were talking about party ideas and favors. So to get my kids even…
Easy Boys Homemade Valentine Idea- Car Valentine with Free Printable {No Candy Valentine}
I love making Valentines for my kids to bring to their classmates. I always like to make something that they are into that year. My kindergartner has always loved trains, cars and planes. He still does and I love that he does. So I thought that it would be very fun to make a valentine…
Little Girl’s Gift Idea- DIY Dress Up Station
My little girl is turning 4 next week, so I am in complete party mode! We plan on having a little tea party with her little friends and I thought it would be fun to have a little dress up station so the girls can get all dressed up for the tea party. As I…
DIY Foam Minecraft Pickaxe and Sword #Minecraft
My boys’ room is going to be Minecraft and I am having so much fun decorating it. There still isn’t a ton of things in the stores for Minecraft, so I have to make lots of things (I don’t mind). The stores do have some sweet foam swords and pickaxes, but they are around $20. …
Best Ever Homemade Play Dough Valentine Idea {Free Printable}
My little girl is now in preschool and she is obsessed with play dough. She would play with it everyday if I let her. Since this is her first year of giving valentines to her classmates, I thought it would be great to give them something that she loves. So I came up with this…
Olympics Party Idea: DIY Olympic Medals
Funny story (okay maybe it’s not that funny). One day we went to a city dance and there was a dancing contest. My boys entered it, but did not win. They were very upset that they didn’t get the trophy. Then my oldest started complaining that he didn’t have any trophies or medals anymore (he…
Tot Thursday: Legos
We are HUGE fans of Legos at our house. There isn’t a day that my boys don’t play with them. They just love them. Because they love them soooo much, it seems like I am always picking up Legos. Is it like that at your house? I spend at least 30 minutes a day just…
Tot Thursday: Angry Birds Pom Pom
I’m always looking for fun boy crafts, and it seems like Angry Birds are all over the place. When I saw this idea, I thought that my boys would love to make them. This is how I made it: 1) I took 10 yards of yarn and wrap it around a semi circle. I have…
Whatever Wednesday: Angry Birds Cans
For my son’s birthday party, the theme was angry birds!! I saw this idea on Pinterest and knew I wanted to do it for the party. It was perfect and so much fun for the kids. This is how I made it: 1) I got some regular cans, washed them and removed the label. 2)…
Tot Thursday: Valentine’s BINGO
One of my favorite things about being a stay at home mom is that I get to help out at the school for my sons’ parties. I love going in and meeting all of their friends and finally putting a face with a name. I usually do some kind of craft but this time they…
Whatever Wednesday: Angry Birds Masks
For my son’s third birthday party, I wanted to make something that the kids could play with at the party but also be part of the party favors. Then I saw this idea and knew that I had to make it! This is how I made them: 1) Using felt, I cut all the pieces…
Star Wars Light Saber Pencils
My son’s Star Wars themed birthday party is today, so we made some awesome light saber pencils for the goody bag. These are super easy to make and look awesome. They are so easy to make that kids can help make them (my son is turning 5). Plus they do great when they are sharpened…
Silhouette Saturday: Dry Erase Letters
When my four year old was in preschool, he’s teacher told me that he wouldn’t trace his letters. So I tried to work with him and he didn’t want to trace them with me either. Soon, I learned that he loved to write on a dry erase board, so I came up with this idea…
Whatever Wednesday: Personalized Base Ball Bat
My oldest boy is in t-ball right now. While we were at the store, picking him out a glove, he spotted a nice red bat. He really wanted it but we told him no. We had a prefectly good bat at home. Instead, I told him that I could decorate his bat with red vinyl….
Tutorial Tuesday: Crinkle Toy
When I saw this idea to make a crinkle toy, I knew that I had to make one for my little girl. She LOVES playing with bags and wrappers. So this was prefect, without the danger :). It was so easy too, I think it took about 15 minutes and she loves it! This is…
Tutorial Tuesday: Tattoo Paper
Today is the start of Silhouette’s June promotion and it is one that you won’t want to miss! Right now until June 29th, you can get the Silhouette SD machine and two packages of the temporary tattoo paper, all for $199!! That is an awesome deal! But the deal gets even better, all products are…
Silhouette Saturday: Chore Charts
I have been wanting to make my boys a chore chart for a very long time. I have struggled with them doing their chores because of school ending at 4:00 and me having to make super at 4:30, there wasn’t much time to “enforce” it, so it didn’t happen. Well that’s not the case anymore!!…