Are your kids bored? Starting to pester each other? Are YOU bored? Well friends, I have the answer … a SCAVENGER HUNT! Scavenger hunts are so much fun for kids and a great way to turn any day around. I wanted to share scavenger hunt ideas for kids with you right here so you would…
Gross Motor Activities for Busy Kids
Do you know what gross motor play is? If you have busy kids I am sure you are engaging in it daily – you might just not know that term. Gross motor activities involve the whole body and big muscles of the body. Running, jumping, even sitting requires gross motor skills. One of the BEST…
Ridiculously FUN Race Ideas for Kids
If there is one thing I know about us – and by ‘us’ I mean you, me, and the other fabulous Mamas in this space – it is that we have active kids! Wonderfully busy little people who love to run, jump, and play. This active nature is truly a beautiful thing – but sometimes…
SPLASHINGLY Fun Pool Games for Kids!
Nothing says summer quite like a swimming pool – right? We don’t have one of our own, but we have a pass for our local public swimming pool this year. Spending so much time in the water we have discovered some pretty fun pool games for kids. Swimming itself is a perfectly splendid thing to…
Summer Crafts and Activities for Kids
Are those lazy long summer days calling your name? We are entering full summer mode here. Our days are slow and long and full of summer crafts and activities. It’s amazing to me how summer can feel so different than the rest of the year. Maybe it is because our activities wind down, but for…
10 Easy Peasy Water Play Activities
Has the warm weather found you yet? If so. it’s time for water play activities! We are still ‘warming up’ here in Canada, so our water play days are still a little while away. But we are dreaming … washing the snowsuits and mittens and dreaming of sunshine. We did have one beautiful day here…
A Preschooler’s Spring Bucket List!
Have you been on Pinterest lately? I truly love Pinterest (are you following us over there? If not please do!). I find it so inspiring – though at times SO overwhelming. I was looking for some neat spring activities, and while I did find some awesome ideas – a lot were very complicated. I started…
7 Stellar Sidewalk Chalk Games for Kids
I have been thinking so much lately about my desire to get back to that art of living simply. I want my little ones off of those screens (that seem to creep in out of nowhere) and outside truly enjoying their childhood! So I have been thinking of fun, classic activities to get those little…
Garden Fun: Teaching Kids to Grow their Own Food
The snow is officially done here in Ontario (I hope you are listening Mother Nature – we are officially done … please). And this means it is time for some fun in the garden with my kids! Over the last few years I have really taken to vegetable gardening. I am far, far, far from…
Outdoor Activities for Earth Day
Earth Day is April 22nd! Looking for some outdoor activities to celebrate Earth Day? I’ve got you covered. Any day is a great day to get little ones outside, but Earth Day?! This is a day that practically screams for outdoor activities. I have seen oodles and oodles of cute crafts for Earth Day (like…