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I am fascinated with baby names. I love reading lists of baby name ideas because it’s so fun to see what names are trending, see unique names and check to see if any of my kids’ names make the list (they never do). If you are expecting or know someone who is, you probably feel...
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Make your own galaxy crayons for bright and colorful printable Valentines! Crayon Valentines are all the rage and they’re super easy to make! If you’re looking for colorful and unique Valentine’s Day cards, we have the perfect ones for you! Every kid loves to color, but let’s take it up a notch with super fun...
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Nothing is yummier than some Valentine’s Day Bark Candy when you want a sweet treat to give to someone special. We are obsessed with delicious chocolate bark recipes, especially when they are holiday flavored! Kids enjoy helping to make candy bark–adding sprinkles and chocolate candies at the end is the best part! Valentine’s Day Candy Bark...
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Disney+ is breaking even more ground with their Pixar shorts. After Float, an ode to loving and parenting a child with disabilities, the newest installment is Loop, featuring a non-verbal teenage girl with autism as one of the two main characters. In Loop, Renee, who is non-verbal, is paired up on a canoe trip...
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I am so excited to share this recipe! I sat out to make a cuticle cream that would rival my Burt’s Bees (since making it on my own would cost so much less) and I did it! I wasn’t sure how it would work out but it is so good. Especially during the winter months,...
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We’ve found the best Kids Valentines for School on the web and wanted to share some of our favorites with you. With school parties coming soon, this list of school valentines ideas has all that you need to make Valentine’s Day treats that your kids can’t wait to share with their friends. We even have...
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Oh why couldn’t I have had twins? Kidding! But if you are having twins or know someone who is, you’ll want to make sure those babies are ready to make their debut into the world this Sunday. Yes, Sunday could be something truly magical other than Superbowl and Pizza Hut wants to take part. Pizza...
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This list of our favorite Valentine’s Gifts for Kids is perfect for those of you who want to celebrate Valentine’s day without all the candy. There are sweets around for every holiday and sometimes it’s nice to simplify and cleanse! Skip the sugary crash this year and pick out a fun present for your kids. We’ve...
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If you are feeling a little blue because of the weather, these 5 Fresh Orange Recipes to Brighten Your Day will change your mood! 5 Fresh Orange Recipes to Brighten Your Day This post contains affiliate links. Cranberry Orange Bread Shopping List: 1 cup Sugar 2 cups Flour 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder 3/4 cup...
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Homemade valentines are the best kind because they are made with love! These easy homemade valentines would be perfect for friends and family or to take to school. Every kid loves getting fun valentines on Valentine’s Day so be sure to check out these 25 Homemade Valentines! Make sure you also download our free Valentine...
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If you’re looking for the best Valentine’s cards for kids, you’ve come to the right place. These cards are so much fun! With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s time to get prepared. From school parties to the perfect Valentine’s Cards, get ahead of the mad rush to the card section by checking out...
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Click here to read Burn Off Energy with an Indoor Gross Motor Activity for Preschoolers! on Hands On As We Grow®
Are you stuck indoors? Try Brigitte's simple energy busting gross motor activity for preschoolers!
I love a gross motor activity for preschoolers to burn off some extra steam. Bonus: this one uses balloons – a total win for kids’ activities!
There are so many ways to play with balloons, so I always keep them stocked at my house. Hitting a balloon back and forth as they try their hardest to prevent it from touching the ground is my daughters’ favorite balloon activity.
We love this easy indoor balloon badminton activity for kids!
Plus, it works on those large muscle groups and works off extra energy, too!
This time, I tried something different with a few basic supplies.
To set up your own indoor gross motor activity for your preschooler, you’ll need:
First, blow up the balloons and tie off the bottoms.
I drew shapes on the sides and the bottom of each of the balloons (great for shape practice), but that is totally optional. You could also draw numbers, letters, or just leave the balloons blank.
After drawing shapes, I tied yarn to each of the balloons and hung them from the ceiling using painter’s tape. This is one of those supplies I just always keep on hand.
Is your closet fully stocked? Check our must-have activity supply list!
Then it was time for some running and jumping. Great gross motor practice and an energy buster!
I set a challenge: who can tag or hit the most balloons by running and jumping?
My kids were thrilled to jump around in the house!
All I had to do was sit back and call out a color or a shape for them to run to and hit. With more than one kid participating, it became a race.
Who will get to the purple balloon first?
If racing and competing leads to some arguing or hurt feelings, then it may be best to give each of the kids separate balloons to run to and hit. My kids loved working out energy with this simple gross motor activity for preschoolers!
Since the shapes were drawn on the sides and the bottoms of the balloons, they were easy to see no matter where my daughters were standing.
I didn’t measure the yarn when I cut it, so the balloons ended up being different heights from the ground. But if you have really little kids, go with longer strings.
If the balloons are very low, it can be fun to try to hit the balloons with a head instead of hands. If the balloons are too high, something such as a paper towel roll or fly swatter can be used to hit the balloons.
Either way, it still gets the kiddos running and jumping and burning off some of that excess energy without wearing me out!
Click here to read Burn Off Energy with an Indoor Gross Motor Activity for Preschoolers! on Hands On As We Grow®
Are you stuck indoors? Try Brigitte's simple energy busting gross motor activity for preschoolers!
I love a gross motor activity for preschoolers to burn off some extra steam. Bonus: this one uses balloons – a total win for kids’ activities!
There are so many ways to play with balloons, so I always keep them stocked at my house. Hitting a balloon back and forth as they try their hardest to prevent it from touching the ground is my daughters’ favorite balloon activity.
We love this easy indoor balloon badminton activity for kids!
Plus, it works on those large muscle groups and works off extra energy, too!
This time, I tried something different with a few basic supplies.
To set up your own indoor gross motor activity for your preschooler, you’ll need:
First, blow up the balloons and tie off the bottoms.
I drew shapes on the sides and the bottom of each of the balloons (great for shape practice), but that is totally optional. You could also draw numbers, letters, or just leave the balloons blank.
After drawing shapes, I tied yarn to each of the balloons and hung them from the ceiling using painter’s tape. This is one of those supplies I just always keep on hand.
Is your closet fully stocked? Check our must-have activity supply list!
Then it was time for some running and jumping. Great gross motor practice and an energy buster!
I set a challenge: who can tag or hit the most balloons by running and jumping?
My kids were thrilled to jump around in the house!
All I had to do was sit back and call out a color or a shape for them to run to and hit. With more than one kid participating, it became a race.
Who will get to the purple balloon first?
If racing and competing leads to some arguing or hurt feelings, then it may be best to give each of the kids separate balloons to run to and hit. My kids loved working out energy with this simple gross motor activity for preschoolers!
Since the shapes were drawn on the sides and the bottoms of the balloons, they were easy to see no matter where my daughters were standing.
I didn’t measure the yarn when I cut it, so the balloons ended up being different heights from the ground. But if you have really little kids, go with longer strings.
If the balloons are very low, it can be fun to try to hit the balloons with a head instead of hands. If the balloons are too high, something such as a paper towel roll or fly swatter can be used to hit the balloons.
Either way, it still gets the kiddos running and jumping and burning off some of that excess energy without wearing me out!
Are you looking for some great ideas for a romantic night in with the one you love? Whether you are celebrating Valentine’s Day, an anniversary or another holiday, or just enjoying a nice date night in together, you can spice it up with essential oils for a romantic night in. Essential oils are a great...
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These Owl Homemade Valentines Cards are so cute! Valentines cards from friends are such a special treat, especially when they are made by hand. Let friends know they are a “hoot” with these super adorable owl homemade valentines cards. Kids will have fun handing these out to classmates, plus they are so easy to make! Here...
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Easy valentines crafts are a great way for kids to share their love with friends and family! This list has 18 fun ideas that your kids can complete in just a few minutes. 18 Valentines Crafts for Kids Are you looking for Valentine’s Cards? We have Free Printable Valentine’s Day Cards! Play with the color...
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I love pancakes. In fact, it’s probably one of my top 5 favorite foods. That is why, as soon as I heard that IHOP’s ‘All You Can Eat Pancakes’ Deal Is Back, I told my family that is what we are having for dinner tonight! IHOP IHOP has brought back their ever so...
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Forget chocolate, the way to our hearts just might be cheese … And not just any cheese, this 72-pound wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano that you can buy at Costco is the gift of our dreams. Imported from Italy, this wheel of cheese is aged 24 months and delivered to your doorstep in just a few...
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Click here to read Adorable Button Icicles Winter Craft for Kids on Hands On As We Grow®
DIY your own cute icicles - made out of buttons! We love this creative winter craft for kids!
We’ve finally had a good snow here in Iowa and I feel like I can finally get into winter crafts for kids and snow-themed activities. Even though it’s been winter for a while, it just hasn’t felt wintery, if you know what I mean.
Since it’s finally really snowy, we decided to bring some winter inside with a cute button icicle craft. And shh… I snuck in a little learning, too.
It’s been a long time since we’ve done a button craft. And they’re always a favorite.
It’s hard to go wrong with them, buttons make everything incredibly cute.
To DIY your own button icicle winter craft for kids, you’ll need (affiliate links):
Each icicle was quick to make. But it took a lot to fill up the window!
Discover 28 more chilly crafts kids will love!
I recently got in the button mood when I was shopping and bought a couple of packages of buttons. One in all white since winter was upon us. I figured I’d find something to do with them.
And this icicle craft was the perfect – and cute – way to use all my new buttons!
I happened to have some white ribbon on hand, but really any color ribbon will do. Rainbow colored icicles would be so pretty!
The boys each cut different lengths of the ribbon. I love any time that I can work a little bit of scissoring skills into a craft!
They decided how long their icicles were going to be. You could sneak in some extra learning by using a ruler or measuring tape to figure out the different lengths.
Then they did a “dry run” with the buttons. George and Henry lined up the buttons on their pieces of ribbon.
Like an icicle, it starts big at the top and gets smaller towards the end. They lined up their buttons the same, big to small.
It’s a great time to talk about sorting and size. That’s the sneaky learning part!
It was then time for the fascinating part: hot glue.
The boys hot glued the buttons onto the ribbon. Actually, it was the other way, the ribbon onto the buttons.
Once they got their lineup of buttons how they wanted them, they flipped them over in a line. They added a dot of hot glue onto the back of each button and pressed the ribbon down.
Reminder: hot glue guns are, well, hot. Go over the no-touch zones and about the danger of burns.
Tip: We also used craft sticks to press down the ribbon instead of using our fingers!
We set aside each icicle the boys made to dry fully.
Even though we’d made each individual icicle, we still weren’t done with our winter craft for kids!
I hot glued each icicle craft onto a longer piece of ribbon. I eyed it a little to evenly space it, but I didn’t want them perfectly spaced apart.
Then our icicle garland got hung in the front window to display for the winter!
It looks so pretty, especially with the white snow in the background.
We love playing in the snow! Try these easy ideas to get start at your house!
Click here to read Adorable Button Icicles Winter Craft for Kids on Hands On As We Grow®
DIY your own cute icicles - made out of buttons! We love this creative winter craft for kids!
We’ve finally had a good snow here in Iowa and I feel like I can finally get into winter crafts for kids and snow-themed activities. Even though it’s been winter for a while, it just hasn’t felt wintery, if you know what I mean.
Since it’s finally really snowy, we decided to bring some winter inside with a cute button icicle craft. And shh… I snuck in a little learning, too.
It’s been a long time since we’ve done a button craft. And they’re always a favorite.
It’s hard to go wrong with them, buttons make everything incredibly cute.
To DIY your own button icicle winter craft for kids, you’ll need (affiliate links):
Each icicle was quick to make. But it took a lot to fill up the window!
Discover 28 more chilly crafts kids will love!
I recently got in the button mood when I was shopping and bought a couple of packages of buttons. One in all white since winter was upon us. I figured I’d find something to do with them.
And this icicle craft was the perfect – and cute – way to use all my new buttons!
I happened to have some white ribbon on hand, but really any color ribbon will do. Rainbow colored icicles would be so pretty!
The boys each cut different lengths of the ribbon. I love any time that I can work a little bit of scissoring skills into a craft!
They decided how long their icicles were going to be. You could sneak in some extra learning by using a ruler or measuring tape to figure out the different lengths.
Then they did a “dry run” with the buttons. George and Henry lined up the buttons on their pieces of ribbon.
Like an icicle, it starts big at the top and gets smaller towards the end. They lined up their buttons the same, big to small.
It’s a great time to talk about sorting and size. That’s the sneaky learning part!
It was then time for the fascinating part: hot glue.
The boys hot glued the buttons onto the ribbon. Actually, it was the other way, the ribbon onto the buttons.
Once they got their lineup of buttons how they wanted them, they flipped them over in a line. They added a dot of hot glue onto the back of each button and pressed the ribbon down.
Reminder: hot glue guns are, well, hot. Go over the no-touch zones and about the danger of burns.
Tip: We also used craft sticks to press down the ribbon instead of using our fingers!
We set aside each icicle the boys made to dry fully.
Even though we’d made each individual icicle, we still weren’t done with our winter craft for kids!
I hot glued each icicle craft onto a longer piece of ribbon. I eyed it a little to evenly space it, but I didn’t want them perfectly spaced apart.
Then our icicle garland got hung in the front window to display for the winter!
It looks so pretty, especially with the white snow in the background.
We love playing in the snow! Try these easy ideas to get start at your house!
this post includes affiliate links A while back we shared a simple Homemade Chocolate Suckers recipe that was only four ingredients to make. I was really surprised by how much my boys and myself really liked them. They honestly tasted like a Tootsie Roll! It got me thinking that I should make some Honey...
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For the last year Barbie has been on a mission to make girls everywhere feel included. They have done through a new line of diverse dolls. So far, they have released a doll in a wheelchair. The company has also released a gender neutral doll collection. Now, they just released a new doll with a...
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Calling all chocolate lovers!! As of today (January 27th) Dairy Queen Released A New Double Fudge Cookie Dough Blizzard and It’s Loaded with Chocolate. If you love chocolate, you are going to love this! The New Double Fudge Cookie Dough is the Blizzard of the month (and rightfully so). It is described as: Chocolate chip...
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This fabric art work would make a great Valentine’s Day gift for mom, dad, or grandparents! Your kids will have fun making their fabric art and will be so proud to see it framed. Framed Fabric Art Work You don’t need much to get started on this great project! Supplies photo frame fabric cut to...
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This Valentines Day code game uses a secret spy code for kids. Add it to your Valentine’s Day activities for kids for some sneaky fun. Valentine’s Day Code Game Are you looking for a fun way to tell your kids you love them this Valentine’s Day? This secret message Valentine game would be a fun...
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As a new mom, there is nothing worse than being out with your baby and without proper supplies. Baby lost his pacifier? Grab an extra from the diaper bag. Yucky blow out? Fresh and clean diapers on standby. Spit up everywhere? Change of clothes just in case. But I found that the more I had...
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Click here to read Easy Tin Foil Boat Money Float or Sink Experiment on Hands On As We Grow®
Work on counting money then dip into science with a tin foil boat float or sink experiment for President’s Day by Brigitte.
President’s Day is a great time to talk about US history. Making history real for kids is kind of hard though.
But money is very, very real – and many US presidents are on our coins!
I was inspired by Washington Crossing the Delaware, the famous Emanuel Leutze painting, while dreaming up this President’s Day activity. For this tin foil boat sink or float experiment, it’s all about the water.
To get prepped for this tin foil boat experiment, you’ll need:
We searched through our coin jars to find four presidents: Abraham Lincoln (pennies), Thomas Jefferson (nickels), Franklin D. Roosevelt (dimes), and George Washington (quarters).
We sorted the coins into piles while looking at the faces, talking about each president the whole time.
I did a rubbing of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter to show the presidents’ faces along with their names. I had to do a second rubbing of a nickel when we noticed there are two different pictures for Thomas Jefferson.
Even children as young as three (with adult supervision) can practice sorting and matching the coins!
As we sorted and did coin rubbings, we also chatted about history. It is President’s Day, after all!
If you’d like to share some fast facts, talk about these:
While we talked and learned, my daughter decided to make her own “coins” by pressing aluminum foil around a couple of coins. She had seen the aluminum foil I had out for the next step and wanted to experiment.
Her coin copies turned out so much better than my coin rubbings!
After all of our talk about history and investigating the coins themselves, it was time to get down to experimenting. Up first: building tin foil boats for our float and sink experiment.
This is the reason the aluminum foil had been sitting out to begin with.
I used a plastic bowl as a mold so that all of the boats would be about the same size. Tear or cut a piece of aluminum foil slightly larger than the bowl.
Next, wrap the tin foil all the way around the bowl, tucking it in over the edge. Press down fairly firmly to really mold the foil to the bowl’s shape.
Then, I gently unwrapped the bowl just enough to remove it from the aluminum foil.
Finally, fold edges that had been in the bowl back in again so that the walls of the boat is really strong. Repeat four times to make four similar-sized tin foil boats.
My goal was to fill one with President Abraham Lincoln (pennies), one with President Thomas Jefferson (nickels), one with President Franklin D. Roosevelt (dimes), and one with President George Washington (quarters).
I thought it would be a fun science experiment to see what floats.
Our Challenge: Which presidential coin will we get more of in each boat before it sinks?
My plan changed when I realized we didn’t have enough quarters and dimes to actually sink the boats.
Here’s my original plan for the tin foil boat experiment:
Okay, so my first idea didn’t quite pan out. I’m already on the hunt for more coins so we can actually do the tin foil boat float or sink experiment.
However, my activity plan didn’t totally fail since we were able to turn it into a cool money counting game!
First, we talked about how much each coin was worth:
Then, we talked about how to count to 100 with each coin and made a chart:
We counted out $1 worth of each of the coins. One hundred pennies and twenty nickels were easier to count when stacked in piles of ten.
Counting coins is great skip counting practice!
Slightly older kids might not need assistance counting, but be sure to lend a hand or have pre-portioned coins for the little ones.
With our kitchen sink filled with water, we put $1 worth of coins into each of the boats. They all floated!
President Abraham Lincoln’s boat and President Thomas Jefferson’s boat did get a little bit of water in them, though. It was fun to talk about why that might be with my kids.
My daughters didn’t want to stop there. They decided they each wanted to create their own tin foil boats.
One created her own round boat. She used the plastic bowl upside down as a mold.
My other daughter decided to create a long rectangular boat, freestyle.
They were both happy when their boats actually floated on the water. We did need to make some adjustments before everything was perfect, but it’s all part of the process.
They decided to put pennies into each of the boats one by one as we counted. It became a competition to see which boat could hold more of President Abraham Lincoln.
We considered some questions as they did this:
We counted 169 pennies into each boat before we ran out of pennies. But neither boat sank.
So, we decided to just use one boat to see how many pennies it would take before it sank. The round boat ended up sinking with 267 pennies in it.
We switched and filled the rectangle tin foil boat, which ended up sinking with 185 pennies in it.
My daughters ended up experimenting for quite a while with the aluminum foil and water. They saw that their empty aluminum foil boats floated, but other objects sank.
We love this fun fireworks-theme science experiment, too!
Thankfully, George Washington’s boat was sturdier than our tin foil boat!
