Badges of Fun: The Backyard Fun Badge!

Family Fun is my favorite, favorite magazine for LOADS of ideas to do with the kiddos, and they’ve added a really cool feature for the next year… Badges of Fun is a year-long celebration of the magazine’s 20th year and a way for families to have more...

Friday Fun: Travel Game for the Boys

We took a little day trip the other day. As usual, the boys grabbed a couple of toys to take with them. On this particular day, the toys of choice were Hot Wheels. As we were driving the boys made up a little game and I thought it was perfect to pass on to you!...

Friday Fun: Alphabet Caps

This is such a simple idea, but I never thought of until my friend Megan mentioned doing it with her kiddos! I’m trying to stock up on things for Little J to play with while Big J and I do school, or even activities we can do together at varying levels, and this...
Friday Fun: Paper Bag Vest Tutorial

Friday Fun: Paper Bag Vest Tutorial

As my son would say, this is “EASY PEASY!” The boys are always wanting to play dress-up, and the paper bag vest is a simple way to make a “costume” for many of the roles they dream up! Big J is obsessed with being a tiger right now, so that was...