Can You See It?

Tweet My kids and I love to stare up at the clouds. We see animals, shapes, and images that captivate us and spur on conversations among us. There goes a bunny rabbit. Is that a lion about to pounce? As we were driving home this evening, Noah yelled out that he saw something. Can you [...]

Prehistoric Diorama

Tweet My lovely friend, Donna, kept my kiddos busy (and quiet) for quite some time yesterday evening. She had my kids and her kids assembling mini dinosaur and insect figures until our patio table was full of lizards, dragonflies, beetles, spiders and more. Some of these little figures fell apart as soon as they were [...]

Snowflakes

Tweet As I travel across the country for the third time in the last week, I can only imagine what my babies are doing to keep busy under the watchful eye of Aunt Sara. It was cold and raining when I left this morning, so I envision many little ones – eight to exact, including [...]

Indoor Fun

Tweet So, how did you do this last week? Were you able to be more intentional about fitting in a fun activity or creating a new craft with your kiddos each day? This week we discovered some new games – Zingo and Super WHY! ABC Letter Game – and we played some of our old [...]

Winter Sun Catchers

Tweet In my quest for a craft-filled week, I have asked some of my friends to help me out with some fun ideas. Today my friend Amanda has agreed to share a wintery weather craft with us. Amanda is a happy stay-at-home mom to two. She blogs at ohAmanda and Impress Your Kids. She’s a [...]

Snowy Winter Wonderland

Tweet We have a very special guest here at From Dates to Diapers today, to help us out with our challenge to be more purposeful about doing crafts and fun activities with our kids. Marie is a mother of 3 living in Utah. She’s the founder of Make and Takes, a top rated parenting blog [...]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

Tweet I know, I know… Christmas is over. But, the cold and wet weather is sticking around for awhile. Which means our energetic family – much like yours, I’m sure, unless you live in Florida – must turn to indoor activities to keep us busy and active. This last week was the most wet week [...]

Wintery Weather Fun

Tweet What words come to mind when you think of this time of the year? Maybe you live in Chicago and are snowed in, stuck at home with all your lovely and adorable kids. Cold. Bored. Or, perhaps you live in Southern California and your family still heads to the beach on any given day. [...]

Play and Learn

Tweet I have many fond memories of this time of the year, growing up…. With so many family gatherings and school group activities, we were much busier than usual. Because of the hustle and bustle, it seemed we took many days off of school between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sure, we were still learning, but they [...]

Kindergarten Learning at Home

Tweet The great thing about having a preschooler or kindergartner at home is all of the fun activities you get to do in the name of learning! I would encourage any mom of a 3, 4 or 5-year-old not to stress too much, but to use this precious time to play and learn together, without [...]

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