Kids activities

Fun New Year's Eve foods, crafts, and activities for kids - I love spending New Years Eve as a family, and these are our best tips for having a successful party for everyone whether you're celebrating at home or with a group! Great DIY countdown ideas for a fun night including dinner, snacks, and dessert. Start new traditions this year! You'll never run out of things to do on New Years Eve again!

14 Tips for Celebrating New Year’s Eve with Kids

15 Best Party Games for Thanksgiving - After dinner, you need some fun activities to keep the family occupied and having an awesome time. These fun activities and games are great for kids, adults, and whole families.

15 Awesome Thanksgiving Games for the Whole Family

The ultimate list of screen-free activities for kids and teens - These are the best things to do when you're bored during the summer, on weekends, or anytime. Fun, simple, and easy play ideas for parents, children, and students. Great for rainy days, outside days, learning, eating, getting active, and more. Perfect for at home but could be adapted for school.

The Ultimate List of 150 Screen-Free Summer Activities for Kids & Teens

Summer bucket list - Over 100 ideas for tweens & teens, and adults too! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

Summer Bucket List for Tweens & Teens – Free Family Printable

Photo Scavenger hunt for Kids, Tweens, Teens, & Adults - This awesome list includes both indoor and outdoor ideas. Perfect for a birthday party, group, or team event. Could be done at school, home, Girl Scouts, or homeschool. Great family activity for spring, summer, or fall.

Printable Photo Scavenger Hunt for Tweens, Teens, & Adults

45+ best tween, teen, & adult games for family game night, even games for the kids! Tips and ideas for the 45+ best simple and easy family game night board, dice, and card games for children and adults to play together. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for older kids, tweens, teens, and adults to play together.

The Best 45+ Tween, Teen & Adult Games for Family Game Night

Fall bucket list - Over 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults for the autumn season! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

Fall Bucket List for Kids – Free Printable for Family Fun

The best fidget toys for kids or teens with ADHD or anxiety - These calming toys are good for children and adults at home or in the classroom at school. Most are quiet, silent even, so they can be used in preschool or any situation. Great way to calm down.

The Best Fidget Toys – A Simple and Easy Solution for Kids with Anxiety or ADHD

The Ultimate List of Things for Tweens & Teens to Do When They’re Bored – 200+ Ideas & Printable

Cherry Crest Adventure Farm Review - Lancaster, PA attraction for families and kids. Includes one of the best corn mazes in the US as well as many other attractions!

Cherry Crest Adventure Park & The Amazing Maise Maze Review – Family Fun in Lancaster, PA

Simple and easy things for kids, teens, and adults to do when they're bored. Options for girls and boys, mostly at home but some traveling away from home. Would be good alone, with friends, or with a boyfriend or girlfriend or husband. Perfect for a summer night by yourself or a winter afternoon as a couple or anytime of the year! Some can be done on a rainy day and some with no money. Way more than 100 creative, fun, and cool ideas here.

The Ultimate List of Things for Kids to Do When They’re Bored – 200+ Ideas & Printable

Summer bucket list - Over 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

Summer Bucket List for Kids – Free Family Fun Printable

101 mom & daughter or mother and son date ideas for quality one on one time together - Awesome tips for mommy and children to build a strong relationship. Kids need special time with their parents and these fun activities are perfect. Even good for dads!

101 Awesome Mommy-Daughter or Mommy-Son Date Ideas to Fit Any Budget

Free printable Christ-Centered Easter basket scavenger hunt for Easter morning - A treasure hunt is a great way to find your Easter basket. This hunt for kids, tweens, or teens uses the main points of the Easter story of Jesus as clues. Awesome Christian fun in riddles. Great for families at home. Religious and Bible-based. Easy clues using both indoor and outdoor spots.

Free Printable Christ-Centered Easter Basket Scavenger Hunt

Spring bucket list - Over 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

Spring Bucket List for Kids – Free Family Fun Printable

17 awesome St. Patrick's Day minute to win it games for kids and families - These simple, fun games can be used at home or in a classroom party and will inspire lots of laughs! Some easy ideas are for couples, teams, and some alone. The challenges use food, candy, and Dollar Store materials. Great family activities.

17 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games for Kids and Families

Ultimate staycation guide to winter family fun - Great for kids, teends, families, adults, and couples - Both indoor, at home, and outdoor activities. Good ideas for things to do on a date. Best cheap ideas for free and pay.

The Ultimate List of Staycation Ideas for Winter Family Fun

Tips and ideas for the 30+ best simple and easy family game night board, dice, and card games for kids and adults to play together, especially when you have a non-reader. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for all ages to play together.

30+ Best Games for Family Game Night (When You Have a Non-Reader)

Winter bucket list - Almost 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities. Free printable.

Winter Bucket List – Free Family Fun Printable

Felt Cat Ornament – DIY Christmas Ornaments for Kids (Free Printable Pattern)

Cute Bird Ornament – DIY Christmas Craft for Kids

10 Fun Family Activities for Fall

These 10 summer bored busters for boys and girls include rainy day activities, outside activities, crafts, and more! Your kids will love them!

10 Super Summer Boredom Busters for Kids

Free printable active Easter basket scavenger hunt for Easter morning - A treasure hunt is a great way to find your Easter basket. This hunt for kids uses rhymes and riddles as clues. Awesome active fun in riddles. Great for families at home. Non-religious. Easy clues using both indoor and outdoor spots.

Free Printable Easter Scavenger Hunt

December Birthday Ideas – Do’s and Don’ts of Celebrating a Birthday During Christmas

12 Things to See at Hersheypark Christmas Candyland

What to Do in Hershey Pennsylvania at Christmas

20 Questions to Ask Your Kids Printable

9 Ways to Celebrate Easter as a Family

16 Simple Lent Activities for All Christian Kids

Valentine’s Day Heart Animal Crafts for Kids

10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas

10 Ways to Count Down to Christmas

Kids' Bucket List - Almost 100 ideas and experiences that every kid should have. Some for boys, but mostly for girls. Year round fun for summer, winter, spring, and fall. These are the activities and things that all children should 'do before I die.' Awesome ideas for friends and family road trips and vacations. Mom and Dad will have great memories of childhood as well as their kids.

A Kids’ Bucket List – 82 Things Every Kid Should Do Before They Grow Up

11 Smart Tips for Cooking with Kids

Please Touch Museum – A Day Trip to Philadelphia

Adventure Aquarium – A Day Trip to Philadelphia

Grace and Diego the sea lion performing a trick together at Hersheypark.

Tips for Doing Hersheypark with Kids

Tips for Visiting Hersheypark’s Boardwalk Water Park

Play Dough Color Theory for Preschoolers

Making the Most of Easter at the Last Minute

Pine Cone Bird Feeder Craft

How to Host A Christian Passover Seder Meal with Preschoolers

How to Celebrate a Christian Passover Meal for Preschoolers

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Lamb of God - Sheep craft for preschoolers and older kids

Lamb of God – Sheep Craft for Preschoolers and Older Kids

Writing a Letter {Preschool Activity}

Moses and the 10 Commandments Booklet and Activity

This is a simple activity to teach preschoolers the beginning skills to count money.

Learning to Count Money – Preschool Sorting Activity

Painting with Cookie Cutters - This is so simple and easy! Plus, it uses barely any paint so there's no mess.

Painting with Cookie Cutters

10 Ways to Have a Perfect Valentine’s Day with Your Kids

Ideas for a Frozen Valentine’s Day Party

How to Make a Painted Doily Garland

Kids Noisemaker Craft for New Year’s Eve

This is the most creative way to ring in the new year that I've ever seen! Fun New Year's Eve activity that includes foods, crafts, and activities for kids - I love spending New Years Eve as a family, and these are our best tips for having a successful party for everyone whether you're celebrating at home or with a group! Great DIY countdown ideas for a fun night including dinner, snacks, and dessert. Start new traditions this year! You'll never run out of things to do on New Years Eve again!

How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve with Your Kids

Washi Tape Christmas Tree Craft for Kids

10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas

6 Ways to Celebrate Advent with Kids

How to Make Easy Marzipan Snowmen

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

Tips and ideas for the 30+ best simple and easy preschool board, dice, and card games for little kids to play together or with adults, especially since they can't do reading. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for young children.

The Best Games for Preschoolers

Apple Taste Test Activity: An Elementary Math & Science Lesson

60 Random Acts of Kindness for Kids

An Island Grows Book and Volcanic Island Craft

Easy 5-minute Duct Tape Binoculars Made from Toilet Paper Rolls

Easy DIY Duct Tape Binoculars Made from Toilet Paper Tubes

baking soda

10 Fun Uses for Baking Soda

American Flag Fruit Kebabs – Deconstructed for Kids

Our 2014 Summer To Do List

How to Celebrate July 4th with Kids

15 Ways to Celebrate Independence Day with Kids

what to do with my kids this summer

What to Do With Your Kids This Summer

How to Celebrate Memorial Day with Kids

Turkey Hill Experience sign

The Turkey Hill Experience in Columbia, PA

How to do Cross Resist Paintings for Easter or any time of year

Cross Resist Paintings for Preschoolers and Big Kids

A Sense of the Resurrection teaches children about Jesus' death through real life sensory experiences.

Bring the Easter Story to Life with A Sense of the Resurrection

Visit Philly - Liberty Bell

The Time I Planned a Trip to Philadelphia & How You Can Do It Better

How to Make Marizpan Piggies for Good Luck

Finished suncatchers - Easy Valentine Suncatcher Crafts for Kids

Valentine Suncatchers – Easy Tissue Paper Crafts for Kids

Invitation to Craft – Making Valentines

Fortune Cookie Valentines with 4 pages of printable Valentine fortunes

Fortune Cookie Valentines – Free Printable Valentine Fortunes

How to Make a Snow Cloud from Boiling Water

Instant Snow from Boiling Water – A Science Activity for a Cold, Cold Day

Autumn Wreath Craft for Kids (It's easy enough for preschoolers, too!)

Autumn Wreath Craft for Kids (Even Preschoolers!)

Glittered Acorn Craft for Kids

Celebrate Your Daughters When They Play Like Girls!

27 iPhone and iPad Apps for Smart 3-year-olds

25 iPhone and iPad apps for smart girls - Some are educational. Some are just for fun.

25 iPhone and iPad Apps for Smart Girls

10 Fun Fall Activities for the Whole Family

10 Fun Fall Activities for the Whole Family

How to Make a Fairy Garden for Under $20

How to Make a Fairy Garden for Under $20

Fall Leaves Collage - More Scissor Practice

Fall Leaves Collage for Scissor Practice & Preschool Books about Trees

20 ways to get preschoolers excited about math - the best games, activities, and lesson ideas for teaching preschoolers in a classroom or at home about math concepts including games, play, cooking, and much more. Counting skills, measurement, numbers, shapes, and more.

20 Ways to Get Preschoolers Excited About Math

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Preschoolers

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Toddlers & Preschoolers

Allie in a Homemade Witch’s Hat

How to Make an Easy $2 Witch's Hat

How to Make an Easy $2 Witch’s Hat

Making Pictures with Baking Soda and Vinegar - A Cool Science Activity for Kids

Making Pictures with Baking Soda and Vinegar – A Cool Science Activity for Kids

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

How to Make Astronaut Pudding

Glow in the dark ring toss

Glow in the Dark Ring Toss and Other Games

Easy Beaded Butterfly Craft

Activities for the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister – 37 Fishy Activities & Art Projects

Painting With Sticks and Leaves

Painting With Sticks and Leaves

summer picnic games for kids

Summer Picnic Games for Kids

How to Personalize Your Journal

Making Mud Pies - Kids Sensory Play

Making Mud Pies – Kids Sensory Play

Our 2013 Summer To Do List

melted bead suncatchers

Melted Bead Suncatchers – Perfect for a Homemade Mother’s Day Gift

The best kids iPad apps

12 iPad Apps You’ll Be Happy to See Your Kids Playing

Frugal Easter Egg Sensory Bin

Easter Eggs Sensory Bin

St. Patrick's Day sensory bin

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Jelly Bean Math - Great learning activities for kids of any age including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Includes free printables. Fun way to learn math concepts like sorting, graphing, addition, subtraction, and even probability. Great ideas for teachers in classrooms or at home. How to make learning fun with candy.

How to Make Learning Fun with Jelly Beans

Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

24 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

Christmas Ornaments for Preschoolers

Making Styrofoam-filled Christmas Ornaments with a Preschooler

Christmas Ornaments Preschoolers Can Make

Sequined Snowflake Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make

celebrate advent

Celebrate Advent with Truth in the Tinsel

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox

What to Pack in an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox #OCCGiving

easy crafts for kids

Bird Seed Painting – Easy Crafts for Kids

Fun pumpkin lesson plans for kids - Awesome unit plans for teaching about the math and science of pumpkins in preschool, kindergarten, or even 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade. Includes a book list, experiment, investigation, and activities for math, science, literacy, and other connections. Perfect for fall unit study or theme.

Pumpkin Science & Math – A Printable Lesson Plan for the Preschool, Kindergarten, or Elementary Classroom or Homeschool

The Best Educational Apps for iPad

The Best Educational Apps for iPad and iPhone

Feels Like Home Blog

Playing in the Creek

Cheap Summer Fun – Have Glow Stick Treasure Hunt

free summer fun

6 Free Activities to Do with Your Family

2012 summer to do list

Our 2012 Summer To Do List

How to Make a Yarn Doll in 15 Minutes

How to Make a Yarn Doll

kindergarten journal

Grace’s Kindergarten Journal

how to paint with a toddler

How to Paint with a Toddler (or, Allie’s First Painting Experience)

Fire hose craft

Fire Hose Craft for Preschoolers

counting down to christmas

8 Ways to Count Down to Christmas

Coloring the Advent

jesse tree

How to Make and Use an Advent Wreath for Kids

jesse tree ornament

Learning the Christmas Story – Jesse Tree & Truth in the Tinsel

Our Christmas Traditions

jesse tree

My New FREE eBook – How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

Preschool Music Crafts – Guitar & Shaker

Our Summer To Do List – 2011

finished mosaic rainbow

How to Make a Mosaic Rainbow Using Dyed Rice

Kindergarten Crafts – Counting to 100

How to throw an indoor living room carnival for your family - Kids love carnivals, and these simple activities and fun games make it easy to have one for your family. Perfect for rainy days. Includes pictures and decorations. Awesome way to spend a day inside.

How to Host an Indoor Carnival for Your Family

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

10 St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

rainbow scavenger hunt for preschoolers

A Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

cooking with kids

10 Ways to Get Small Children Involved in the Kitchen

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Valentine Games and Other Printables

Homemade Valentine's Day - Printable Valentine Cards

Homemade Valentine’s Day – 10 Valentine Cards to Print

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Homemade Valentine’s Day – 6 Printable Valentine Gifts

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts a Preschooler Can Make for Other Kids

homemade valentines day gifts for kids to make

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts Kids Can Make for Adults

Be Our Guest

love bookmarks

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Other Crafty Gifts

Reindeer Food

coloring the advent

Coloring the Advent

pom pom cupcake

Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make – Pom Pom Cupcakes

pom pom ornaments

Another Pom Pom Ornament to Make with a Preschooler

painted ornaments

Making Ornaments with a Preschooler – A Painting Success

advent books

10 Ways to Celebrate the Advent

angel tree topper craft

Making An Angel Tree Topper with a Preschooler

pom pom christmas ornament

Making Jingly Pom Pom Christmas Ornaments with a Preschooler

dyed-pasta-garland

Making a Colored Pasta Garland with a Preschooler

painting with a preschooler

Making Ornaments with a Preschooler – The Painting Mishap

preschool craft candy canes

Candy Cane Craft for Preschoolers

counting down to christmas

Our Christmas Countdown Chain

27 easy DIY Christmas tree ornaments that preschoolers can make - These homemade crafts include everything from pictures to paint to popsicle sticks to pipe cleaners to beads and, of course, glitter. They are a fun way to celebrate Xmas with your kids, and they will make adorable decorations on your tree or great gifts for the grandparents!

27 Ornaments to Make With a Preschooler

Christmas Countdown Chain & Calendar

Operation Christmas Child

Our Family Is Thankful For

preschool activity book

Preschool Activity Book

Halloween Traditions

Shrinky Dink hands

Smoochie Hands for When We’re Apart – Craft for Kids with Separation Anxiety

Playing Learning Games

A House on Fire!

Rain forest carousel at the Philadelphia zoo

A Day at the Philadelphia Zoo

dry erase activity book for preschoolers

Grace’s Dry Erase Activity Book

Taking a preschooler to the beach? Simple and easy suggestions, activities, and tips for what to do. Make art, crafts, science experiments, math activities, and games. Super fun! They'll never get bored!

10 Ways To Have Fun with a Preschooler at the Beach

dry erase activity book for preschoolers

DIY Dry Erase Activity Book for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Summer 2010 To Do List

finished princess crown

How to Make a Foam Crown for Your Prince or Princess

Simple & easy DIY Disney princess birthday party for preschoolers - My 3-year-old loved this party. Complete with ideas for favors and goodie bags, activities, food, crafts, and games. Because the party was outside, we had only basic decorations. Easy to do on a budget or with toddlers. Served cupcakes instead of a big cake and kids decorated them at the party.

How to Throw a Simple Princess Birthday Party for a Preschooler

Homemade Mother’s Day Gift – Colored Tote

How to make a fun sensory bin for kids - Toddlers and preschoolers love sensory materials! Colored rice, lentils, popcorn, dried beans, and other small items make the perfect base for stickers, pompoms, and other slightly larger bits. Children love to pour, sift, and play in this mixture.

How to Make a Sensory Bin

Our First Sensory Tub

I’ve Been Won Over By Princesses

Making Paper Horses – An Easy Preschool Craft

my artists smiling

We Skipped Our Project and Painted

Projects

How To Spend the Day with Small Kids in Washington DC

my homemade flower garland is all done

Decorate for Spring with a Homemade Flower Garland

Free Workshops for Kids – March

Melissa & Doug Fold & Go Castle

Sitting and Spinning

Fun for Kids at the Pennsylvania Farm Show

2 Simple Christmas Tree Crafts

Triangle Craft

Setting the Table with Photos

Thanksgiving Crafts

Our Easy Scarecrow Craft – The Rest of the Story

Making a Homemade Play Mailbox

Swinging: The Rest of the Story

Balls in the Circle (Toddler Bocce Ball)

Frugal Fun – Packing Material

Kids in the Kitchen Resources

Let Your Toddler Help in the Kitchen

Bath Paints – More Fun in the Tub

Organizing Your Play Kitchen

Accessories for a Play Kitchen

Bath Crayons Recipes

Happy BOO to you!

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