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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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Perfect Square: An Artistic Literacy Lesson for Preschoolers

Bring your child’s imagination to life and develop preschool art and literacy skills by using Michael Hall’s simple, fun book Perfect Square to inspire your own creations. Bring your child's imagination to life and develop essential preschool skills by reading this simple, fun book and inviting your child to create their own artwork inspired by Perfect Square.

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I found a new book to love: Perfect Square by Michael Hall. Do you know it? It came out in 2001, so it’s not exactly new, but I’d never heard of it until my brother mentioned it to me a few months ago. Fast forward to this week when I finally got around to checking it out from the library, and I’m in LOVE.

The simple story has more depth than your four-year-old will see, but that’s what makes it beautiful. It’s one of those rare books that really speaks to both adults and children….

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Spinning Easter Eggs…and 10 more no-prep Easter egg activities for toddlers

Need a way to keep your toddler busy until the Easter bunny arrives? These simple Easter egg activities require absolutely NO prep (assuming you have a few plastic eggs lying around), and they’ll provide hours of entertainment.

The best activities are the simplest, and these 11 ideas require nothing more than a bag of plastic Easter eggs. Toddlers and young kids will LOVE these games.

Little Man (3) LOVES Easter. Last year, he somehow found the Easter eggs in the basement mid-February and we had a month and a half of hunting for Easter eggs before the Easter bunny even showed up. That would have been fine, but he had a bad habit of hiding the eggs for me to find and then forgetting where he put them. So I was finding random plastic eggs around the house for months! It was never-ending. …

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