A few weeks ago I hosted a Buddy Walk in our town to help raise awareness and promote inclusion for the Down syndrome community in honor of my perfect little baby boy. It was a beautifully wonderful day and we had the absolute most fun! I can not wait to do it again next year! I did learn though that boy did I order way too much pizza and my amazing friends pitched in and we way overestimated the snacks, salads, and donuts that we’d actually need, which I guess isn’t the worst thing! It did mean though we had an abundance of both plastics forks, plates and cups around…

With my oldest now in kindergarten he’s been learning his letters at school. We’ve been practicing a bit at home to help him in recognizing both upper and lower case ones, a concept I don’t think I’ve realized was probably pretty confusing until recently. His desire to learn to read though is wonderful and the way he enjoys kindergarten is the best, hopefully that love for school sticks around! I created two different alphabet turkeys for this activity, one for my kindergartener with upper and lower case letters and one for my preschooler with only upper case letters. There are only three things you’ll need for this craft and if…

My little girl is a big fan of coloring things, no thankfully not the walls, but not really paper either. She loves to color on paper cups, styrofoam plates, and plastic containers so it was no surprise she loved coloring on some coffee filters I had in my craft bins in the basement. Her median of choice is always the markers, which worked out well for this activity since that’s what we wound up using. There are not a lot of supplies you’ll need for these, but they also may not be things you have just laying around the house. In order to create these turkeys you’ll need some white…

Turkey craft number 108124 of the Thanksgiving season but I have to say this one was my personal favorite. The majority of time my purpose for setting activities up for my kids is to keep them busy so I can accomplish something, feeding the baby, making dinner, or even taking a shower, without them standing directly behind me 🙂 But, this time, I was such a fan of it that I decided to sit with her and make one too! Check back in with me later about how much laundry I’ll still need to put away which will now take twice as long since I’ll have two (unsanctioned) helpers. This…

I still can’t believe Thanksgiving is only a week away! If you’re house is anything like ours we have been teetering between Thanksgiving and Christmas since Halloween ended and the kids are loving every second of it! Although I am a big time summer gal, I do love a good fall day. I’m all for the fall fests, the changing of the leaves and come on, that crisp fall air really can’t be beat! I’ve learned a few things over the last 5 1/2 years of being a mom and one of them is that there is just nothing more fun for these kids than making a giant pile of…

Hi there! Here on the South Sore of MA we love the beach and all things water! We send our summers watching the lobster boats pull into the town pier to show off their haul from the mornings fishing trip. Share our love for ocean? Enjoy this coloring page of a lobster boat off the shore near a lighthouse!

How are your kids holding up the last few days before Christmas? Have the officially reached peak excitement level like ours have? And maybe more importantly, how are YOU holding up?? Our kids finished up Preschool for the year a few days ago so they have been home playing Santa, drawing Santa, being Santa, watching Santa and every other related Santa thing you can think of! They are beyond excited for the Holiday. We’ve been talking a lot about how Santa flies around the world on Christmas Eve and if you’re lucky you might just spot his sleigh, which got me thinking…they love to use their binoculars when we go…

Who’s ready for summer break? Welp guess what, ready or not, it’s here! I, for one, LOVE summer, the heat, the beach, the late nights by the firepit, it’s hard to pick one thing that’s my favorite. Our love for the beach though is hard to beat so the sand, or in some cases if you live on the South Shore the nonexistent sand, was the inspiration for this activity! This craft was one that both my kids liked which is always the best kind to find, plus my daughter could eat it throughout which I think is her favorite. Anything that keeps them busy and entertained for almost *2*…

I’ve been going through the overwhelming number of cardboard boxes to put together some crafts for mornings I have meetings and the kids are faced with some quality head to the playroom and occupy yourself time. Sometimes grabbing a premade easily prepared craft is the best thing to do because for whatever reason, using recycled material seems so intriguing to them. A few days ago I snagged a couple supplies from the craft corner, my glue gun and a cardboard box and put together this pompom centric activity board. They enjoyed it although honestly anytime I bring out the pompoms they seems to enjoy the task, whether it’s put them…

A couple weeks ago we received a news letter from my sons Preschool about some different ways to help with fine motor skills which listed a few ideas they work on in class, including using clothes pin. Fast forward to the other day when my kids played with their giant bucket of dinosaurs and magna tiles, matching the colorings of the dinos with the tiles which let me to this great idea! A spiked dinosaur color matching game. The supplies for this craft are pretty limited, you’ll need a piece of cardboard, some dot stickers and a few clothespins. I traced and cut the dinosaur out of the cardboard and…