These back to school tips for parents are designed to take some of the guesswork out of the first week, with simple prep, easy lunch ideas, a fun DIY and a tradition worth remembering. Back-to-school season has a funny way of making you feel like you need to remember 47 things at once. New shoes….
You Might Also Love: Baking Cookies with Kids, Beach Dirt Cups, Backyard Picnic, Cereal Necklace Craft Lunch is lunch. Most days it doesn’t have to be more than that. But every now and then, you cut a sandwich into the shape of a star — and a four-year-old looks at you like you just…
You Might Also Love: Lemonade Sensory Bin Chalk Obstacle Course Cereal Necklace Craft Bug Scavenger Hunt Drop a small watercolor tablet into a cup of clear water and watch a child watch it dissolve. They will not look away. They will lean in. Some kids will gasp. They will want to do it again…
You Might Also Love:Chalk Obstacle Course Cookie Cutter Sandwiches Bug Scavenger Hunt Beach Dirt Cups — Here’s the thing about a picnic: it’s just lunch outside on a blanket. And yet — something about the blanket in the backyard, the snacks in small bowls, the fact that you said the word “picnic” out loud —…
You Might Also Love: Lemonade Sensory Bin Color Water Play Bug Scavenger Hunt Backyard Picnic Bath time is usually a negotiation. Kids resist it. Adults are tired. Nobody’s excited. And then one night you activate a handful of glow sticks, drop them in the tub, turn off the lights, and call the kids in —…
You Might Also Love: Chalk Obstacle Course Color Water Play Backyard Picnic Glow in the Dark Bath The setup: walk outside before the kids come out and hide 30 plastic bugs around the backyard. Under flower pots. In the grass. On the fence. Tucked behind garden stones. Then bring the kids out and say: “Oh no…
You Might Also Love: Baking Cookies with Kids | Cookie Cutter Sandwiches | Backyard Picnic | Cereal Necklace Craft It looks like a cup of sand with a tiny bear relaxing at the beach. It tastes like pudding, Cool Whip, and graham crackers. Kids absolutely lose their minds for it. Beach dirt cups are one…
You Might Also Love: Beach Dirt Cups | Cookie Cutter Sandwiches | Cereal Necklace Craft | Backyard Picnic There’s a version of baking chocolate chip cookies with kids that ends with everyone in tears, flour on the ceiling, and cookies that come out weirdly flat. And then there’s the version where a four-year-old pours…
You Might Also Love: Chalk Obstacle Course | Cookie Cutter Sandwiches | Baking Cookies with Kids | Backyard Picnic Grab a box of Fruit Loops, cut a piece of string, and you have an activity that keeps kids busy, builds fine motor skills, results in a wearable accessory — and is also a snack. The…
Yellow rice, lemon slices, little cups, and one big tub. This lemonade sensory bin kept a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old busy for almost two hours — and it’s easier to set up than you think.