My girls are already asking to carve our pumpkins for Halloween and we haven’t even bought the pumpkins yet! But since we are going pumpkin picking this weekend I thought I better research some printable Halloween stencils first. For those of you unfamiliar with printable Halloween stencils, they help the carving challenged like me carve [...]

Happy Halloween! It’s finally here! The pumpkins are painted, the decorations are up, the treats are made for the class parties, the candy is bought, and the Halloween costumes are ready to go. That means there’s just one thing left to do. Remind your kids how to be safe while trick or treating. Unless of [...]

Is it Halloween yet? Nope! That means I’m still writing about different ways to have fun this Halloween season. They don’t call this the Seasonal Kids Activities blog for nothin’! So where were we? You can’t remember either? Then let’s recap what Halloween treats, contests and crafts I’ve covered so far! I don’t want to [...]

Considering I hate spiders, I’m kind of surprised I keep posting about them! But then again handprint spiders and Ritz cracker spiders are a far cry from those I keep having to kill by my sliding glass door! Of course, my seven-year-old keeps telling me not to kill the spiders because they eat the other [...]

I love when my kids come home from school with artwork. Not only because it boosts their self-confidence when I proudly display it, but because, like photographs, the artwork is something tangible I can keep to remember different phases of their childhood. After it’s hung on the wall, fridge or sliding glass door for awhile, [...]

We’ve been very busy around here decorating for Halloween! If you’re just tuning in, we’ve already painted pumpkins and made ghosts out of tissue paper. But we decided we needed more Halloween decorations. So to add to our Halloween decor, we made spiders last night. While I really can’t stand spiders, these I can handle. [...]