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How to make Origami Finger Puppets - Dog, Pig

Looking for an easy activity with the kids.  Origami finger Puppets are fun to make and then play.

The Snowflake Cupcake - for January

My daughter really enjoys cupcake decorating and I got a calendar with cupcake pictures.  Although the pictures have neither instructions nor references, we decided to try to duplicate them using our imagination.  Last month was a cupcake with a snowflake.  (I called it a star in the…

7 Tips for the Christmas Cookie Exchange

This is another post from a blog I'm consolidating to one blog stream..... Our house has been doing a cookie exchange long before it was popular.  We've done it in huge groups of nearly a hundred and small groups of under 10.  I thought I'd share some tips. Check to see if…

10 things to do over the weekend with the family

You have a weekend coming up and you don't know what to do, so your kids end up playing video games all weekend.  Here are some ideas to get you and them out the door. 1. Take a hike   - Go to the local park or try urban hiking - hiking through the city and see if you can find som…