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  • Color Matching With Play Dough

    This was an easy and fun way to spend an afternoon.  And when Baby Girl woke up from her nap, she loved it too. I put out six colors of play dough and a little bin of colored beads, paper clips, and other little things.                Fine Motor Strengthening for kids They had so much…

  • Pot O’ Gold Door Wreath

    “Top o’ the morning to you!” We have been busy, busy, busy… One day last week we had the cousins over and us Sugar Aunts got to brainstorm up some pretty cool ideas.  I love that even in our 30’s, we are still “playing”.  Sometimes these projects are more for us moms than they are…

  • Share It Saturday #9 and Our Week in Review

    Finally, the weekend is here!  We love sharing our week with you, and love seeing what all of you have been up to too.  There were some great link-ups last week, thank you all for sharing.  We had a blast this week making a bear cave in our living room.  This cave was there allll…

  • Snowball Experiments

    We had so much fun one day last week…with our Great Snowball Experiment We gathered up a tray of snowballs and brought them inside.  I asked the kids what they thought would happen if we put snowballs in different places (I gave them examples of places that we could try putting the snowballs, so I…

  • Fine Motor Play with crafting pom poms

    Fine motor play for toddlers is a win in our house.  Toddlers seem to love moving, scooping, dropping, and sorting items, so why not incorporate fine motor skills into the activity?   Looking for more creative ideas for toddlers?  Try these ones.    Fine Motor Work for Toddlers and Preschoolers This activity is so easy to…

  • Share It Saturday #8 and Our Week in Review

    Happy Weekend! We love to start our weekend off right by highlighting all of these amazing bloggers who are linking up each week with us at Share It Saturday.  It is fun to look through the listing of links and pick out new and creative ideas to do with our own kids.  We love to see each and…

  • Broil-Top Cake

     This yummy cake is our go-to dessert for a quick and easy cake.  It tastes like a coffee cake and tastes even better the next day.  We always had this cake growing up, it was our mom’s recipe and it is fun to make it now that we have families of our own.  Recipe:  Yellow…

  • Potato Stamps- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

    This activity was so much fun…it started out as potato stamping and turned into my little children turning into little green Leprechauns as you will soon find out.  I sliced the potato in half and used a knife to carve out the shapes.  I let my daughter pick the theme and she asked for Twinkle…

  • Multi-age Letter Learning Bin

    This was an easy little activity that worked for all of the ages.  My Pre-K kiddo copied the words, My Pre-Schooler liked telling me all of the things that started with “D” and exploring the bin, and my Toddler loved checking out all of the fun things in the bin. (Especially the ducks…Baby Girl looooooves…

  • Nutella Cupcakes With a Gooey Chocolate FIlling

    I was looking for a Valentine’s Day cupcake recipe that did not involve me carting 3 kids to the store.  I scoped out the cupboards and did a little Google search to find this recipe.  With a little modification, it became the most perfect Gooey Filling Nutella Cupcakes. These cupcakes are the gooiest you will…