With the beginning of the school year comes thoughts of a yummy school lunch. I have been exploring fun ways to present Buga with healthy lunching opportunities and fell in love with Bento style packing. Though she won’t be taking lunch to her little school this year, I thought it would be fun to pack […]

Snack Time! I have been wanting to make these little sandwich flowers for some time now. I saw them in a parenting magazine and thought they would be a fun way to each “sandwiches”. They were easy to make and a fun addition to our play date snack time. – First you take a piece […]

I made these wipeable coloring sheets by photocopying some of Buga’s favorite coloring book activities – I copied them at 60% so they would be more portable. I laminated each page, hole-punched it, and bound them together with a metal ring from Staples. We use Crayola Wipeable Crayons with it. I keep it in the […]

We have been away on Vacation…Preparing for Buga’s Birthday Party which was this weekend…Now we are Sick! Needless to say, things have been busy…but I have had an opportunity to create our next Book List for our Spring Time Book Shelf. Here they are – in no specific order. Happy Reading!

We have been using Sensory Bins as a way to incorporate the Season or Holiday into our daily routine for awhile now. However, I have not been very good at documenting them until recently. Buga really enjoys playing with different nicknacks in a tub filled with something tactile – I mean, who wouldn’t? It’s a […]

An ever so simple tub toy with endless open-ended play possibilities : Ping Pong Balls. You can shoot ’em in a basket, bounce them off the walls, watch them float, catch them with a “net”, push them under and watch them “pop up”…let your imagination float freely! I bought an inexpensive plastic kitchen strainer with […]

We have been trying to come up with some fun family “game” activities now that Buga is getter big enough to play along. On this particular night we went on a bug hunt. I do a lot of different things with these plastic bugs, and I have done this with her before…but this was a […]