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Organizing: It’s an After Christmas Plastic Sale!
Organizing: It’s an After Christmas Plastic Sale!

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Organizing: It’s an After Christmas Plastic Sale!

I’m sure you’ve noticed that the stores we shopped at for holiday gifts have replaced the stocking and wrapping paper with rows and rows of plastic containers.right This seems to imply we have so much stuff – we need to buy more stuff – to put our stuff in. The good news is, with all this plastic for sale, its a great time to organize our kids ‘stuff’. When our kids were young, we spent some time before the holidays cleaning out the old to make room for the new. Together we decided what was old, broken and ready for the trash. We reorganized and tidied up the keepers and donated some old toys as seed for the new to come.

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A Great Sketchpad For All Your Ideas

Kids love to draw and can chew through a lot of paper when they get rolling. In this video, I share some thoughts on the best, inexpensive drawing paper and my favorite, very affordable sketchpad for kids.I hope it gives you some ideas.

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Brayden’s Christmas at LEGOLAND

We have a kindergarten boy in the family and he loves building things and making things.right His Christmas gifts included a lot of hands on activities and plenty of Lego’s. Brayden loves to build, take apart and rebuild the Lego sets he already has, but the addition of several new pieces have already brought hours and hours of time spent in detailed assembly work. As much as it seems we’re living in Legoland, we’re excited by his passion and interest, knowing it’s reflective of his strong spatial skills. Building these colorful three- dimensional puzzles is also a powerful way to focus his boundless creative energy.

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Family Fun: 11 December Activities for Your Kids

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

December is a great month to enjoy the holiday season and all the joy they bring! Enjoy these 10 activities I found that are fun for kids:

  1. Make a Gingerbread House     gingerhouse
  2. Craft an Ornament
  3. Build a Snowman
  4. Go Christmas Caroling–“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!”- Buddy the Elf
  5. Make Snow Angels
  6. Go Sledding
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Gift Ideas For Kids: Under $30

leftInstead of heading to your local retail store for holiday gifts, check out what the Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalog has to offer. They have a wonderful assortment of engaging activities designed to keep your child’s creative juices flowing. These gift ideas have our vote because they offer children ways to interact, create, make and do in ways that will provide hours of fun.

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Holiday Letter Writing

Did you know this Saturday, December 7th, is Letter Writing Day?!left

What better time of year than the holidays, to have your little ones practice their writing then by writing a letter to Santa!  Child’s handwriting is precious, especially seeing it drafted as a letter to Santa expressing their holiday wishes. Writing letters to Santa is a great way for your children to practice their handwriting but also a way you can build into your families holiday traditions.

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Activities at Home: Draw it Out!

Sometimes you just have to draw it out!

Brayden drawing in the hallway

It had been a very busy day at our house, with a big dinner and lots of activity. Four year old Brayden was full of energy and in need of something constructive to channel that energy into. I suggested he get his markers and paper and do some drawing. He considered it and quickly appeared with markers and paper in hand, asking “what should I draw?”.  We talked over just enough ideas to spark his imagination and as you can see, it was a very fruitful evening.

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