Do you have any traditions that came out of nowhere? We do! We have an annual Christmas Pajama photo tradition. It was a tradition that I started in 2006 and I had no idea it would become a yearly thing. In 2006 our first child was born and I thought it would be cute to take a photo of him under the tree in some Christmas PJs. I love that photo! The next year my son was busy climbing into things. I caught him climbing into a box that I had wrapped to store some fun presents for our families. He had taken all the gifts out of the box and I caught a photo of him inside the box. Not realizing he had on some cute Christmas PJs again the tradition was born. Each year we added more photos.....and more kids....he he he! This year I went all out and got hats to match the PJs. Yep, I'm THAT mom! Christmas PJs AND Santa Slippers! Come on....the cuteness is overwhelming! This was the year we had just moved into our new home. I was about 33 weeks pregnant with my youngest...we had been in … [Read more...]
Crayola Helps Us Create #SPON #Giveaway
We've shared with you our love for Crayola products in the past, well we are about to share a little more about our love for Crayola. Our friends at Crayola contacted us and provided us with a gift pack in exchange for a unique Holiday Craft idea and a blog post: Crayola Washable Markers Crayola Colored Pencils Crayola Glitter Glue Crayola Model Magic Crayola Slick Sticks $25 Wal-Mart gift card for more Crayola products They asked us to share with all of you a fun, and unique craft to make with these awesome crayola products. My kids and I sat down at our kitchen table and brainstormed a few ideas. My 5-year-old twins sat down and grabbed the bold colorful washable markers, pencils, and slick sticks. Wow! I had never seen the Slick Sticks before and they are incredible! We have the ever popular Elf on a Shelf and our Elf's name is Scottland. They created fantastic pictures for Scottland to take with him to the North Pole. The colors were fabulous and so incredibly … [Read more...]
5 Alarm Fire Craft
My twins really loved this art project. Seriously, they made about 15 each! It's really easy to do and only requires a piece of paper and some finger paint. Paint your hand (or child's hand) red and have place it on the paper with your fingers far apart. Add a little red and yellow (or orange) to make a "fire" on the side where the thumb print is. Using white paint add a face (one finger print) to the top of the fingers. A little more red on the top for the fire hats and a blue line across the fingers makes the hose. And there you have it, a five-alarm fire print! … [Read more...]
Snowman Bulbs
Today's Pinned it, Did it post is brought to you by a friend of mine. I completely fell in love with her adorable snowmen when she posted a photo of them! I begged, borrowed, and stole (well, I asked first) the photo and idea because I just had to share it with you, our lovely readers! She said these were really easy to do and here is how she did it! 1. Take your clear glass (or plastic) Christmas bulbs and stuff them with "insta-snow" (a.k.a. fake snow) and replace the tops 2. Use a paint marker to draw in the faces on the ornaments 3. Hot glue (adults only please) two glittery pom poms to the side to look like ear muffs 4. Carefully thread glittery pipe cleaners through the top of the ornament and attach to the pom poms And there you have it! The cutest snowmen Christmas bulbs I have ever seen! … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Biscotti Treats
This time of year my favorite thing to do is bake. My kids and I are awfully fond of anything Gingerbread-ish. So I came up with a gingerbread recipe I thought I'd share with you. Gingerbread Biscotti Combine first: 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 tsp cinnamon 1 1/4 tsp baking powder 2 tsp ginger 1 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour Once these ingredients are mixed well then add: 1/4 cup dark molasses 2 large eggs Mix well and create log shaped cookies from the dough. The other method you can use is to create a large circle shape and then bake and cut immediately after removing from the oven with a pizza cutter. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes and then ENJOY! … [Read more...]
Christmas BINGO- Free Printables
BINGO is such a fun and easy game for kids to play. I thought it was a good idea to make a set of BINGO cards for Christmas parties and print them off. I'm sharing them with you today and hope you like them. Simply click on the photos and print them. Easy, peasy, lemon, squeezy! The first photo is for the cut outs, simply print and cut out each photo for the game caller. The Merry Christmas can be used as a Free Space if you chose or it can be a regular game play. Card one Card two Card three Card four Card five Card six Card seven Card eight Card nine … [Read more...]
