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Fidget Spinners. Do you love them or hate them? At this point when something new like this comes along I usually am ok with the kids getting on board and sitting back to see what creative ways my boys...
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I have been wanting to do this forever. Put together a cute, classy, & simple sensory bin. I've walked by these little wooden storage boxes at Michaels a bazillion times but never bought one...until f...
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Elephants, zebras, monkeys, giraffes. What do they all have in common? They are roaming around my house in the form of my children! I guess they really loved our recent trip to the zoo. I mean it does...
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Bug activities are still going strong at our house. In fact our bug box is still out and getting used by the boys almost every day. I have to admit I'm amazed. I don't think they've ever stuck with a ...
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It's unofficially "Bug Week" around these parts. What does that really mean? It means we've got bugs on the brain! The boys (ages three & four) have an interest in bugs right now so we are rolling wit...
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My kids love... no... make that L O V E playing with ball pit balls. They are hands down one of the best investments we've made in the toy department. If I had to downsize the toys, these would stay. ...
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Hello September! Although the weather would argue differently (um, 90+ degrees today thank you). Fall is essentially here as far as we are concerned. The kiddie pools are put away, and the fall decora...
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This post is brought to you buy I Love to Create and Blueprint Social I always seem to have an over abundance of party ideas for the little kids but the big kids.....well not necessarily so much. What...
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I honestly love making homemade gifts when it seems like a good fit. I find it's a lot easier to do when the kiddos are younger than when they are older so I try to take advantage while I can. Recentl...
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My (now almost 3yr old) Mr. C was so taken with making imprints and star shapes in the play dough from our red white & blue play dough last week that I thought I would capitalize on his interests for ...
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Yay! Memorial Day weekend is upon us. The official kick off to summer if you will. (I hope our weather forecast agrees)! C has been asking me to make "all kinds of colors" of play dough lately. I'm no...
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I forgot how much I love making sensory bins for the kids. I actually haven't done one in quite some time. I saw a couple of adorable bins come through my instagram feed the other day and felt compell...
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These pasta necklaces all began with my worst nightmare. I was getting into our pantry the other day (which does double duty as our craft closet), and I somehow knocked over a rather large container o...
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Do your little ones have a hard time settling into playing sometimes? I know Mr. C does! Some days he just can't seem to get his little two year old self engaged. One thing I've found that helps when ...
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You may have noticed that I have been doing a little writing for Little Pnut's blog. In exchange for writing for them I am fortunate enough to get a subscription to their special delivery boxes. If yo...
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I don't know about you, but we've spent the last few days trying to recover from Halloween and now the time change. I won't complain though because it's been mighty dark in the morning around here and...
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Aren't these little guys darling? I told you I had been bitten by the DIY bug! I'm pretty sure I had as much fun making this ghost bowling set as the little Mister has been having playing with it. If ...
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C loves play dough. It's one material that he will play with for extensive amounts of time. I try to incorporate it into our play invitations whenever I can. Today's invitation is simple but captivati...
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With the unseasonably warm hot and humid days we had here in New England last week, I was trying to come up with something new and fun in the water play department. Given the season "witches brew" cam...
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I think Little E is the fairest of them all.... Little E is cutting his first tooth. It's driving him nuts. We all know babies love mirrors, and babies love to look at other babies. Have you ever trie...
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Mister C has been really into cars lately. In trying to think up new ways of playing with them and creating new experiences for him, I set up this invitation to race one day while he was napping. I wa...
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I love when my diaper shipments arrive! For more than one reason. First I have the assurance of the stocked changing tables, but secondly C has a whole new toy to play with. That HUGE diapers.com box....
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Want to know what we've playing lately? Ok... I will tell you this... it rocks. hehe. Alright enough cheeky puns. I just couldn't resist. I'm sure there are at least a billion ways to play with rocks....
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Ok, my latest obsessions... color activities, rainbow colors, using unfinished wood pieces to make homemade toys, & taking pictures of all of the above. I think C is getting his basic colors down pret...
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With Memorial Day Weekend just a couple of days away my thoughts are quickly turning to summer and what that will encompass for this Plain Vanilla household this year. I am not one of those parents th...
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Have you ever used oatmeal as a sensory medium? We have used it in small amounts in the past but I have admittedly been a bit hesitant to let the little mister go wild with with it inside. It does how...
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This couldn't be much simpler but it was fun and something different. And that is exactly what was much needed on this particular morning. I threw down a quilt, as basket of books and some cereal snac...
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1\. This week we played with Bottle Caps. I've been saving them for awhile and will continue to do so. They have been a bigger hit than I expected. And why not, all different colors and sizes. Very in...
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If there was one toy that I would recommend over and over again it would be a bag of ball pit balls...or two...or three. These balls are one of our favorite things to play with. I can't believe we nev...
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What have we been playing with? 1\. Painting/Stamping with Spring Cookie Cutters. Granted this turned into mostly finger painting but it was still fun and festive! 2\. Ping-Pong Balls & Egg Cartons. O...
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Well our first weekly playlist post was a big hit so here we are again. I think I like this format for sharing with you. It frees me up to blog about the other things going on in our lives yet still s...
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I thought I would try something new for awhile. C and I are doing lots of fun activities but I just don't have as much time to blog as I used to. Of course I'm still taking lots of pictures, and I rea...
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So what have we been up to lately...play-wise that is? Well Mr. C is now just about seventeen months old. He's been walking for a couple of months and has a new curiosity about everything. I've tried ...
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I have been really wanting to do some fall themed sensory play with little guy. Although he's getting better at not putting things in his mouth, I still feel somewhat limited by the amount of mess I w...
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I'm thinking that this new little one we will be welcoming in Feb may be very creative as he or she has been sucking the creativity right out of me. It's been awhile since I've done much like this wit...
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I'm often inspired by the everyday simple things when it comes to thinking up activities for the babe. This time I was inspired by how much fun the munchkin man was having sticking his fingers in his ...
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Poor little C was down and out last week with a nasty cold. There were a couple of days where he just couldn't stand himself. So....what do you do with a sick (almost) 9 month old on a hot day? Fill u...
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I have been very anxious to get to making sensory bins with the babe. I know he's not quite old enough for the elaborate sensory bins I am envisioning but I am trying my hardest to find ways to be cre...
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I was cleaning in the playroom the other day and came across a bag full of coffee creamer bottles that we have had since 2007!! No joke...if you look at the expiration dates on them, they are in fact ...
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Something so simple turned into such a great activity for the babes I had to share it. The weather has turned a little warm here, and while the big kids are into their water balloons, I was trying to ...
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Today I decided to try something a little different with the munckin man. I wandered around Babies R Us this morning looking for a new toy, but nothing quite fit the bill so when we got home I decided...
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