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The 5 Playroom Must-Haves

Playrooms are both a blessing and a curse in a lot of ways. It’s a blessing to have a home big enough to have space designated to nothing but entertainment and learning for your children. It can also be a curse. Kids tend to be messy so playrooms can often become Lego and Matchbox death traps. How do you balance these two? You design a playroom that can grow with your kids, keep them entertained, help them learn and inspire creativity…yet is easy for your kids to clean up after themselves in. Sound impossible? It’s not! These five things you can do with your child’s playroom will take it to the next level.

Making a List And Tossing It Out 7 Gift Ideas Kids Will Love but Not Think to Ask For

Has your child been making a list and checking it twice? I know mine like to circle all of their favorite things in the endless catalogs we get in the mail. Seriously, where do all of those catalogs come from? I don’t have anything against toys but our playroom is already busting at the seams with colorful fun. I’m pretty sure the toys multiply while we are sleeping at night.

Keeping up With the Neighbors Learning About Friendship and Being a Great Neighbor

Saying I have a flair for the dramatic is not an exaggeration. As a matter of fact, if you look up flair for dramatic, you may find a picture of none other than yours truly. I have been known to celebrate birthday weeks and months, decorate for fall as soon as August ends, get a little carried away with parties and play dates and put bows on my daughter that are bigger than her entire head.

The Teal Pumpkin Project Halloween Lesson Plan on Allergies and Food Safety

What do you think about the Teal Pumpkin Project? We participated in the Teal Pumpkin Project last year and will be participating again this year. This project was started by FARE in 2014 to create a safer Halloween for all kids, including those with food allergies. This project was inspired by Food Allergy Community of East Tennessee (FACET).

Top 6 Children’s Books For This Halloween Season

I love Halloween and everything that goes with it. We have so much fun decorating, singing the songs and reading the books. The books are so much fun! We had so much fun reading we want to share a list of our top six favorite books. It has been really hard to narrow it down, but here are the top six books my daughter really loves this Halloween season.

Bubbling Over With Excitement Fall STEM Activity

Fall is officially here and I am so excited about all the fun ahead. The air is feeling crisp, the leaves are changing, EVERYONE is serving pumpkin this and pumpkin that… and I am feeling pretty happy. I always over-plan this time of year! I even have had my daughter’s Halloween costume for a few weeks now. So it is not a huge surprise that my family is making our way to the pumpkin patch this weekend. Our outfits are planned and I even have some ideas in mind for a few of the pumpkins we will be getting.