Posts tagged ‘play!’


To Do Daily: Imagine

Friday, July 2nd, 2010 in Beauty in Everyday, Life

*Picture Taken with My Phone Every day is a new adventure in our home.  We do many things that are not grand tasks, but just as important daily whims that need to be put on the to-do list and checked off. Whims from our imaginations that make the day, in deed, very grand. Spending the whole morning […]

Friday: Play!—Mother’s Day Craft

Friday, May 8th, 2009 in Friday: Play!

Attention, dads! This is a very quick and simple craft you can do with your kids. They can give it to Mom for Mother’s Day complete with the traditional Mother’s Day breakfast on the top! Supplies: Some of Mom’s favorite pictures, your children’s “masterpieces” or poems written by the kids Mod Podge Craft glue Paintbrush […]

Grandparents Week~Friday: Play!–Grandma’s Favorite Recess Game

Friday, April 10th, 2009 in Friday: Play!

  Jacks – Grandma’s favorite Recess Game My absolute favorite game to play at recess when I was in elementary school was JACKS and the above picture is my jacks, bag and ball from when I was a little girl! I lived in Tempe, Arizona and attended Hudson Elementary. During recess you would see groups […]

Friday: Play!—“I See” Game

Friday, March 27th, 2009 in Friday: Play!

Amazing Amber from Because Babies Grow Up is here as my guest today sharing a fun activity to do with the kidddos! We are happy to have her! Our favorite game we named “I see…” It’s a lot like I spy… but without the guessing. I love this game because we can play it anywhere, […]

Friday: Play!—A Bag of Stale Marshmallows!

Friday, March 20th, 2009 in Friday: Play!

What could we possibly be doing to have fun with a bag of really stale marshmallows, toothpicks and water?   We made a bridge by trying out different patterns to see what would hold up as a floating device to run our cars over. We learned about shapes, patterns, how things float and most importantly used […]

Friday: Play!—Thumbprint Art

Friday, March 6th, 2009 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts, Crafts

Boy do kids love any art project that involves getting their hands messy! You can dress up or arrange your thumb/finger-prints to make a family portrait, clouds, flowers, butterflies or animals. This is such a fun and simple project to do, all it requires is an ink pad and some markers.

Friday: Play!—Picture Book Fun

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 in Friday: Play!, Books/Reading, Crafts, Children's Books

I am so grateful for all of the wonderful guest writers helping me get my posts done this week, I am busy getting ready for my Birthday Bash tonight and will be back to posting regulary soon. Sharla from My Little Gems is a wonderful blog that inspires me as a mother and she is […]

Friday: Play!—Car Wash

Friday, February 13th, 2009 in Friday: Play!

Momma is tired, which is probably why she let us dump tons of water and soap on the table and run a car wash. Life is good.

Friday: Play!—Valentines Day Craft

Friday, February 6th, 2009 in Friday: Play!, Crafts

Since we had an extreme amount of buttons leftover from out last button craft, I have been looking for ideas to use them up! I saw this fantastic idea for a Valentines Button Card on this blog (by the way the picture above is HER card, not mine 🙂 ) We collected our dozens of […]

Friday: Play!–Nature–Investigate!!

Friday, January 30th, 2009 in Friday: Play!, Nature

This is the most excited I have seen Abby in a long time (and she is a pretty easily excited gal), the thing I love is this took NO EFFORT on my part. No putting together supplies, no spending money to have fun and that (along with many other reasons) is why I love spending […]