15 Proven Tips to Go Camping with Your Newborn… and LOVE It!

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If you camped alot before your baby, you likely are pretty excited to camp with your newborn ASAP… but you might also have some fears of how different it will be, or if it will even be worth it! While we camped with our first child a little later than newborn, we camped pretty early with our twin girls. We just HAD to get back to being us, and we wanted to get them to love being outside as soon as possible. Camping with a newborn can seem pretty intimidating … Read more

Summer Camp Craft for Kids: Easy and Fun Camp Necklaces!

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What better way to remember an awesome summer camp or family camp trip than with a camp necklace! It’s WAY funner than buying one at the store, and you can create a necklace centered around your favorite memory about camp.. whether that was the mountains, boating, or let’s get real for most of the 10 and under – the s’mores! I absolutely love doing camp crafts because not only is it fun for the kids, but if you have younger ones (my oldest is in preschool) then it’s something to … Read more

DIY Scratch and Reveal Easter Egg Game the Kids Will LOVE!

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This fun easter craft for kids is easy for toddlers and preschoolers, and is a really fun egg hunt game to make for the classroom or at home! This DIY egg hunt scratch and reveal game is so fun, and includes the free printable!!

If you LOVE Easter Egg hunts with the kids, then you’ll love this fun Easter Egg Hunt Game that you can do with the kids right at the table! I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, and if you did too, then you know that Lisa Frank was THE BEST THING EVER! The folders, the crafts, those velvety poster things she made.. and of course, the fun of scratching off her black sheets to reveal pretty tie dye colors under neath! It turns out, even though it seemed … Read more

Fun and Easy Egg Carton Tulip Kids Easter Craft

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What easier way to celebrate Easter and spring than with this easy tulip egg carton craft?? With Easter coming up, I am super excited because that means a couple of things – camping season is about to start and my flowers are going to start blooming! I have yet to put any tulips in my garden (I’m a brown thumb…) but lots of people in our town do, and I absolutely love going on those warm sunny spring walks and checking them out! There’s alot of really beautiful flower crafts … Read more

Free Printable Camping Bingo Cards – A Fun Camping Party or Outdoor Activity for the Whole Family!

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What better way to celebrate the nearness of spring (and camping!) than with some fun camping bingo cards! I love that Bingo cards can actually be played a variety of ways when it comes to kids – it can be a matching game, a memory game, trading game… I sometimes like to just give my preschooler the calling cards and a gluestick, and let him match it up! Anyways, I made these cute camping bingo printable PDFs because I wanted just that – another busy activity to give my toddler … Read more

How Cold is Too Cold to Camp With Baby (+How To Keep Babies Warm While Camping at Night!)

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It’s always a big concern when taking your baby to camp for the first time – how cold is too cold to go camping with your baby, and how do you keep them warm? The good news is, the threshhold can be said that as long as you can stay warm, they can (if dressed appropriately!) If you dress your baby in adequate layers, is is unlikely it will be too cold to camp with your baby! This includes a baselayer, wool layer, and perhaps an insulated (and baby safe) … Read more

3 Easy Steps to Deal with a Toddler That Hits (Without Hitting Back or Timeout!)

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At some point, your toddler is likely going to hit, and it doesn’t matter how “gentle” you’ve raised them, or how little the reason seemed for doing so – but here’s the thing, you have to handle it calmly while remaining firm! If you’re new to parenting, you might think you need to “teach them a lesson” by hitting them back. It’s sort of the societal norm, and even I did it. Then I realized something, after my toddler kept hitting, and obviously that method wasn’t working – why in … Read more

5 Things to Know That Make Toddlers So Much Easier to Handle!

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These 5 essential toddler parenting tips and tricks will make life with your little one so much easier!

Guys, if you are anywhere close to toddlerhood, then you have likely been warned 100 times over about “the terrible twos” or “threenager threes”… I know I was. It makes you freak out about losing your sweet, innocent baby and, apparantly, watching them morph into a terror.. or at least according to other people. But here’s the thing – that DOESN’T have to happen to you! It’s all about having the knowledge and the understanding about what your toddler is going through… and none of it is terrible! I’m not … Read more

Easy Snow Popsicles Dessert that Everyone Will LOVE!

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With lots of snow in the forecast, and unicorns all the rage now a days, I knew I wanted to find a way to combine them, so unicorn snow popsicles were created! My oldest goes to preschool, and I guess every kid there has unicorn gear. Unicorn hats, backpacks, jackets… so it was was no surprise when my guy came home saying he didn’t want his Daniel Tiger backpack anymore, but wanted a unicorn one instead! Now, I don’t mind him having a unicorn backpack, except for the fact he … Read more

DIY Easy Snow Paint for Kids! (1 Ingredient!)

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DIY snow paint for kids outside during winter

This February has been the absolute snowiest one in history, and I really wanted to think of something fun to do with all of it (besides sledding, of course) – so snow paint was born! It’s not an entirely new concept, but it is a cheap way to save money if you want to give the kid something to do by them selves. I wrote another article on fun snow toys here, and one of the things listed was a snow paint set – and it was actually quite pricey! … Read more