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Enjoy the peaceful and cozy winter days with these 15 activities that will help you embrace the season and create lasting memories. From staying in and curling up with a good book to engaging in outdoor winter sports, find inspiration for how to make the most of the winter season. Peaceful Winter Days.- 15 Activities For A Cozy Winter Roast marshmallows  - Gather around the fire pit or fireplace and roast some marshmallows for a sweet treat. Take a winter walk  - Bundle up and explore the great outdoors. You’ll be rewarded with stunning views of snow-covered landscapes. Go sledding  - Grab a sled and head to the nearest hill for some fun in the snow. Create a winter centerpiece   - Use pinecones, holly berries, and other natural materials to create a beautiful winter centerpiece for your home. Make snowflakes  - Get creative and make your own snowflakes using coffee filters, glitter, and paint. Attend a winter festival   - Check out local events in your ar...

10 things to do on a snow day 1. Play in the snow - Get your kids out and enjoy some time out in the snow. 2.  Choose a few of your favorite books and cozy up and read. Whether  you read a book for your enjoyment, or you read to your kids. Enjoy this time. 3. Make some warm cider or cocoa  - You can start early in the morning, and prepare either your cider or cocoa in a slow cooker. This way you can sip on it throughout the day. 4. Watch some shows together - Catch up on one of your favorite shows, or enjoy a family-friendly movie/show together. 5. Make a snack mix. - Create your own snack mix. This is great for when you are lounging around and keeping warm by the fireplace.  6. Put together a puzzle - Do you have a puzzle that you put away and haven't finished yet? If the answer is yes, maybe take this time and put it together.  7. Play a few board games - Set out some board games and enjoy playing them as a family.  8. ...

I hope you're all doing well. I've put together a few of my blog posts that include crafts and other ideas for a great summer. I think you might enjoy doing this summer. Each link will take you to that specific blog post. Enjoy and happy summer to all! “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”  ―  Susan Polis Schutz (Click any link below to view.) Enjoy! Little garden buddies Snakes in the desert DIY paint/beaded sun-catchers Sail away, water play with floating boats 30 days of adventures with your kids.- Free printable included Bug Sheet [exploring nature/entomology] Free printable Summer fruit matching game Float, sink, or absorb?

I remember discussing color-changing celery with my husband. He mentioned experimenting with that when he was in school. I know at some point we all have.  For this experiment we used carnations.  Take three measuring cups and fill them with water. Our daughter then put a few drops of food coloring.-At this point she was excited and ready to add in the carnations.  We allowed them to sit in the food coloring overnight. In the morning we noticed the tips of each flower had changed. Currently, they are sitting in the food coloring. I'm hoping that by this evening we will see more change in color. Have you tried this with your children? If so, how did they react to the color change? Our daughter had a few questions about the color. She specifically wanted to know how it happens.  I figured after exploring creepy crawlers we could enjoy this simple hands-on experiment.  **Update- One carnation changed entirely in color.- Going from white...

Will it float, sink, or absorb water? Observation activity This was a great learning/observation activity to do with my little one. I asked questions like, "why do you think the rock sank to the bottom, but the sponge was able to float". I went over the different shapes, and sizes of each object. Also pointing out which ones were lighter, and heavier. I also asked which one she thought would float, sink, or absorb when placed in the water. We went over this a few times, and soon she was able to tell me what would happen when they were placed in the water. Our observations- Rock -when added to the water, they sank to the bottom. Silk flower  absorbed some water but still managed to float above water. Cotton balls immediately  absorbed water, and sank to the bottom. The paper towel absorbed  some water and floated the first time. The second time put into water it sank to the bottom. Jewel , along with buttons all sank to the bo...

Welcome Autumn with three fun  hands-on activities and crafts. This activity is very hands-on, and just so much fun! We enjoyed making the apples, and crust for our delicious play apple pie. Enjoy making your apple pie, while sipping on your tea.  Autumn Paper Bag Pumpkins Materials needed: -Paper bag -paint -paint brushes -green pipe cleaners/any color will do -tissue paper/ I used this to stuff our paper bag pumpkins Toddler Creation-Autumn Banner We let our daughter create her very own Fall banner. For this we used: -Craft paper -Paint (Autumn colors) -Twine/or you can use yarn or string -Hot glue gun -Washi tape/scissors And our last activity is just for fun. We made some moon sand! Using 8 cups of flour, and 1 cup of baby oil. It's so much fun, our daughter loves it!! Enjoy~ Moon Sand

I've seen so many creative ways to make maracas, and I thought this one was great! We have two sets of store-bought maracas. I  wanted something my daughter could make, and later have fun with.  My daughter took a few different sharpies and created art on the plastic eggs. Once she was done, we filled them up with macaroni noodles. (Which I forgot to mention as one of the things needed in the picture above)  Below you can view the video we played and danced to. We had a lovely time. Have fun shaking your maracas!!!!! Pin for later

This week we have been very hands-on with learning, and fun activities! Outdoor water/bubble play  My daughter always has such a fun time playing with water and bubbles.  We took a few items out of the kitchen and experimented with different ways to blow bubbles. We splashed, dumped, and strained the water, it was so much fun.  Yesterday we decorated a rock and made a little Rock pet.  We even made a little bed for it. :) This is a fun activity for little ones. Very hands-on. Materials: Tissue paper Craft eyes Jewels pom pom We did a fun and simple counting activity. All you need for this activity is counters, paper, markers, and a few colors We made some cute paper bracelets.  My daughter decorated them with stickers, jewels, and washi tape and colored them. I just punched out a hole and added some yarn.

Summer fruit matching game I've been working on a learning tote for our daughter. It's filled with tons of learning activities that I have made for her. It's nice keeping her entertained while we are on the go. Today I made this fun, and simple activity to add to her tote. All I used for this activity: craft paper paint marker washi tape Enjoy~

Our daughter loves the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. We did a little interactive learning activity to go along with this book. This activity allowed my daughter to engage and interact with the book as we read through it. As you read through the book with your little one, your child can go through and pick out each item you read out loud. My daughter loved the caterpillar we created, and she even had him eating through each item of food. She made the munching sound and all. She's two and just loves exploring books. We worked on naming each picture, colors, and counting. She's getting so good at saying the days of the week. That's something else we worked on while doing this activity too. I just used construction paper, hole puncher, crayons, laminate, and scissors. Create and then have fun with your little one. :) Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -Charles R. Swindol...

We had so much fun learning yesterday! The letter of the day was P. We learned about Panda's, letter P coloring, made some peas in a pod, went over a few words that begin with the letter P. We also did some potato stamping. It was so fun. I started working on a  learning activity lesson book for my daughter. Inside the activities are: -Counting Apples -Alphabet bubbles -Days of the week -Colorful fishes & -What do you see 

We always have so much fun exploring, and trying new activities. Today we explored a little with different sounds. For this we used: empty Gerber snack container paper towel roll paper cup plastic cup old medicine box plastic eggs I filled them up adding some  rice, beads and noodles.  We had so much fun with these. We did a little shaking, and even danced around for a little. We shook each one to hear the different sound each one would make. Such a fun activity. Enjoy, and have fun shaking! Counting Tulips This activity was so much fun. I took some paper cups that I purchased in the dollar section at target. I used a few of my plant/garden markers, construction paper and we made a few paper tulips. We cut them out and I just used some tape and taped it to the garden marker. It was really that simple and  a fun activity. I poked holes in the bottom of each cup as well.  My daughter had so much fun placing and countin...