Category: Christmas/Winter

DIY Gift Idea That Kids Can Make – Laminated Watercolor Bookmarks!

DIY Gift Idea That Kids Can Make – Laminated Watercolor Bookmarks!

Calling all people looking for a cute, fun, easy, gift idea to give to their book loving friends and family this year! We made these super awesome huge Laminated Watercolor Bookmarks for all our book lover friends and family members, and we might have made…

DIY Beautiful Wood Slice Christmas Tree Ornaments

DIY Beautiful Wood Slice Christmas Tree Ornaments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And the most wonderful time to make some beautiful “addicting to create” wood slice Christmas tree ornaments! Aren’t they just the cutest!!! Now I can’t take credit for this idea, because I was not the original creator…

Easy DIY Christmas Village Wreath – A Lonely Christmas or a Cozy Christmas?

Easy DIY Christmas Village Wreath – A Lonely Christmas or a Cozy Christmas?

So, It’s Christmas time and I love starting a blog off with some fun song lyrics, but I just can’t decide what the lyrics are the best to represent this years DIY Christmas Village Wreath… Baby Please Come Home (Just kidding, you can’t come home)…

DIY Family Photo Christmas Cards Using Canva!

DIY Family Photo Christmas Cards Using Canva!

Have you been procrastinating getting your Family Photo Christmas cards printed this year?!?! Well, join the club! Usually we go see Santa at the mall, and I use that photo to make Christmas cards at Costco’s online photo printing service (they are awesome and very…

How to Enjoy a Winter Mountain Adventure with Children Aged 5 & Under for only $23! – Big White Ski Resort Adventure – Kelowna B.C.

How to Enjoy a Winter Mountain Adventure with Children Aged 5 & Under for only $23! – Big White Ski Resort Adventure – Kelowna B.C.

Cheap fun adventures are where it’s at when you share your life with young kiddos!! Am I right? Spending money frivolously on something they wont remember in 2.2 doesn’t compute in my thrifty brain, so I am always on the search for awesome adventures that…

Kids Christmas Handprint & Footprint Ornaments!

Kids Christmas Handprint & Footprint Ornaments!

Christmas Traditions!! What are your favorite? One that my kiddos love doing is making Handprint and Footprint Ornaments… I love them… but at what age do we stop doing this tradition?!?! I don’t really want a tree full of hand prints. Lol… They love pressing…

Easy Christmas DIY Wreath: Cute For the Kids Bedroom Door!

Easy Christmas DIY Wreath: Cute For the Kids Bedroom Door!

When I was a kid, I remember how much I loved the day we got to decorate the house for Christmas!! We were never over the top… A Christmas tree and a couple of decorations for the fireplace mantel, I remember so wanting to have…

Fake Snow Snowman Fun! – Snow Spray for Flocking and Windows

Fake Snow Snowman Fun! – Snow Spray for Flocking and Windows

Super easy winter kids activity coming at you today. Well I mean it’s an activity that the kiddos love, but I wouldn’t trust my little kiddos to actually do this one. They can just use the Crayola window writers to colour around your project.  LOL. …

Baking Soda Clay Handprint Keepsakes – Better Than Salt Dough!

Baking Soda Clay Handprint Keepsakes – Better Than Salt Dough!

This year when writing my post about my Salt Dough Recipe, I came across a recipe called “Better Than Salt Dough {Homemade Clay for Ornaments or Handprints}” by Annette on her blog called “Tips From a Typical Mom.” So of course I had to try it…

How to Make a Snowflake – Crafts For Kids!

How to Make a Snowflake – Crafts For Kids!

I was trying to think of a simple kids craft to gussy up our front window, and I thought why not make it super simple with some super cute snowflakes.. right?!?! So… this is how you make a snowflake. Kids addition! “Hey kids…” I say,…

Salt Dough Recipe – Kids Christmas Handprint Ornaments!

Salt Dough Recipe – Kids Christmas Handprint Ornaments!

Super easy Salt Dough Recipe! It’s kind of a tradition to make the kiddos hand prints each Christmas, but instead of buying a hand print kit each year we use this super easy salt dough recipe to create some dough to make our handprints. I’m…

Personalized Christmas Stockings – Pompom Themed Tutorial!

Personalized Christmas Stockings – Pompom Themed Tutorial!

I love handmade personalized Christmas stockings! I grew up with Santa stuffing my stocking that was made by my grandma. It was super cute, very girly, with my name sewn on in felt lettering. So, I want my kids to grow up with some handmade…

Write a Letter to Santa – Christmas Kids Crafts!

Write a Letter to Santa – Christmas Kids Crafts!

This is the first year that my kiddos understood the concept of writing a letter to Santa! And they had so much Fun!! Anything Santa related is super fun… Well, actually… not actually sitting on his knee. That is horrifying to Miss Ivy Lynn. But…