Christmas

Gingerbread play dough recipe (smells amazing!) + homemade gift idea

Make up a batch of this amazing-smelling gingerbread play dough as a fun sensory activity for your kids over Christmas break…then gift another batch to friends!

Make a batch of this amazing-smelling gingerbread play dough for your kids over Christmas break...then gift another batch to friends!

Christmas is THIS week! Can you believe it? If your kids are anything like mine, they can hardly contain their excitement!

We are on break from school all week, so I knew I needed to have some fun activities planned to help keep the kids occupied until Santa comes to town. We’ll be hosting a Polar Express party for some neigborhood friends, baking up a storm, playing LOTS of games, watching movies, and who knows what else.

Need an idea for a fun and festive activity that will keep the kids busy for hours?

Make gingerbread playdough!

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Festive Printable Christmas Gift Tags that Kids Can Color!

Get your kids involved in wrapping gifts for family and friends this year by inviting them to color these fun printable Christmas gift tags!

Printable Christmas gift tags with colored pencils for kids to color.

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I’ll be honest. I’m not usually one for fancy gift wrapping. I love it, I admire it, but as the mom of three young boys…I don’t have time for it. I do almost all the wrapping of gifts around our house, so I usually buy a pack of the sticker-style gift tags and call it good.

But this year I got inspired to do something a little different.

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Christmas Jokes for kids that will make your day merry and bright

Add a little extra “jolly” to your holiday season with these fun (and oh so punny) Christmas jokes for kids. Perfect for holiday parties or lunch box jokes!

Want a simple way to get into the holiday spirit and connect with your kids? Try a little laughter!

Telling jokes around the dinner table has become on of our family’s favorite activities lately. Whether it’s dad’s terrible puns (sorry, my love), my preschooler’s nonsensical knock-knock jokes, or some surprisingly witty jokes from my older boys, laughter really is the best medicine!

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4-in-1 Christmas Scavenger Hunt for Kids (free printable)

This free printable Christmas scavenger hunt activity bundle is a simple way to get festive with the family this season. Print once, and use it four different ways for hours of holiday fun!

This free printable Christmas scavenger hunt pack is a simple way to get festive with the family this season. Print once, and use it four different ways for hours of holiday fun!

To all the tired moms out there (I’m raising my hand with you!), repeat after me:

Making Christmas memorable does NOT have to be complicated.

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Christmas Sudoku for Kids (free printable!)

Need a no-prep Christmas activity to entertain your little elves this holiday season? Challenge them to solve one of these free printable Christmas sudoku puzzles for kids!

Lately, I can’t seem to decide whether to be shocked that it’s already December or thrilled that 2020 is almost over.

Either way, Christmas is coming, and that means my kids are acting out “Santa Claus comes down the chimney” in their bedroom each night (which means they take turns putting on a Santa hat and squirming down through the space between their bunk bed and the wall to bring “gifts” to each other…I have no idea where they come up with these ideas).

It also means it’s time to break out the holiday activities!

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Gift Guide: Outdoorsy gifts for kids who love to explore

These outdoorsy gifts for kids are both practical and fun–perfect for budding scientists who love to explore the world around them!

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Have you made your Christmas list yet? I have a goal this year to have all my shopping done by the first week of December. I want everything wrapped and done early so that I can focus on enjoying the season with my family.

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Christmas Popcorn Snack Mix

This easy-to-make Christmas popcorn snack mix is a perfect recipe for your holiday party, neighbor gift, or Hallmark family movie night!

Christmas is next week! Are you ready? My shopping is almost all done, and I’m looking forward to some good low-key family time together next week. This week has been crazy busy (we’ve had something planned every night), but next week our schedule is wide open, and I want to keep it that way.

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How to host a fun & simple Polar Express party for kids

Want to make Christmas extra magical for your kids? Try hosting a Polar Express party! Here’s everything you need (including free printables) to host a festive party without the stress!

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Sometimes, I get ideas…and they snowball into something much bigger than I originally planned. That’s pretty much how this Polar Express party came to be.

It began with my boys remembering a Polar Express playdate we did with some friends a few years ago and asking if we could do it again this year. It ended with inviting 20+ kids over to our house on a Friday afternoon for a Polar Express party!

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Printable Christmas Bingo Game

This classic Christmas bingo game is a simple way to entertain kids at holiday parties or for a fun family game night. Just print, cut, and play!

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Are your kids going bonkers for Christmas right now? Mine certainly are. We have lots of festive activities planned for the next few weeks, so hopefully the time will fly by quickly for them.

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25 charming Christmas picture books you’ll love

These Christmas picture books for kids are the best of the best…stories your family will want to read again and again! We got our first real snow this week, and Black Friday ads are everywhere…so it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas from where I’m standing.

We’re holding out on putting up the Christmas tree until after Thanksgiving, but we’ve been listening to Jingle Bells on repeat and we broke out the Christmas picture books last week. I started requesting books from the library weeks ago, knowing that by December 1st, many of my favorites will be backlogged until February….

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