Hi there! Thanks for visiting. We’d LOVE for you to hang around! Like us on facebook, follow us on pinterest, and/or subscribe by email to be sure you don’t miss an update! Our public library is renovating, so toddler storytime for October was canceled. Bummer. But some friends suggested we invite our library group to our […]
Category: Kids’ Activities
Simple, hands-on kids’ activities for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Bubble Wrap: Trash or Toy?
Who doesn’t love popping bubble wrap!? At first, I thought the answer to that (supposedly rhetorical) question was going to be “my daughter.” The other day, I busted out the bubble wrap with the hope of exposing my toddler to the satisfying joy of squeezing and popping everyone’s favorite plastic packaging. But it was hard work. […]
Science Experiments for Toddlers and Preschoolers
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Alphabet Snacks–How Our Toddler Learned Her ABCs
Alphabet Snacks I really shouldn’t care if you disapprove of what snack foods I feed my kid. But I’m kind of terrified to publicly admit that I feed my toddler (25 months) things that are as nutritionally worthless as animal crackers. White flour! Sugar! Empty calories! No vitamins! I feel the need to jump to my own defense. […]
An Introduction to Gel Balls and Water Beads
Our big girl is 25 months old. Like most kids, eighteen to twenty-four months was a period of rapid growth. Her vocabulary exploded. She started forming (slightly more) complex sentences with helping verbs, pronouns, and conjunctions. These days, she’s giving us a lot of lengthy monologues: “Mommy, my waffle down in my belly already. Sofi (the […]
Preparing for the Second Child: Part 2
This post may contain affiliate links. My due date is less than two weeks away! With the clock ticking, here are the last five things on my pre-baby to-do list. (To read the first five, check out this post.) 6.) First on the list, a relatively simple task. What kind of “experienced” mom would I […]
Preparing for the Second Child–with big sibling gift ideas!
How We’re Preparing for the Second Child Last night, I was rummaging through some old papers and found a to-do list from two years ago. It looks to be the final list of goals and tasks I gave myself about a month before our first born made her grand entrance into the world. My, how the times […]