We plan to throw a Super Easy Super Bowl party this Sunday, despite the fact our favorite team isn’t playing. Instead of cheering for the home team, we’ll cheer for half time performances and funny commercials during this Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Super Food I…
Category: Adventures at home
Christmas Bucket
We get a little Christmas crazy at our house. A few years ago, I came across the idea of doing an activity each day in December leading up to Christmas. The Christmas Bucket is sort of a Christmas bucket list slash advent calendar slash twelve days of Christmas all wrapped into one. I wrap small…
Reading Buddy Birthday Treat
The reading buddy classroom birthday treat is the perfect creative solution to run of the mill cupcakes or cookies. I stumbled across the idea on Pinterest when I was trying to think of a treat that incorporated my sons love of animals into a sharable snack for his first grade class. The reading buddy not…
Milk and Cookies After School Party
If you Give a Kid a Cookie…. The first day of school is filled with new experiences; a new classroom, a new teacher, new expectations and new routines. One of the new routines for our boys this year is riding the bus home. To celebrate this transition into more responsibility, I wanted to greet them…
Skol Vikings Party
Our house gets pretty excited for the start of the Viking’s football season. While the boys of the house focus on quarterback ratings and starting line-ups, I see the kick-off of the NFL season as a chance to get crafty. Break out the hot glue gun and scrapbook paper, this post explains how I put…
Back to School Treat
The first day of school is exciting, nerve-racking and exhausting. I can’t image how my kids must feel. The stress of new teachers, routines and expectations is hard. Each year I’ve put together a little back to school treat to help remind them they are special and this school year will be the best one…
Elf on the Shelf Ideas
Every year in preparation for the holidays, I scour various websites stealing ideas for our elf, Elroy, to do for Elf on the Shelf. I map out each day and make a list of what trick Elroy will do and what supplies I need to keep the elf magic alive. Here are 60-something of Elroy’s…
Back to School Party
Before the start of the school year, I try to get the boys excited about the upcoming year and all the possibilities. Part of building that excitement includes throwing a back-to-school party. The party is typically a few days before school starts, so as to not make the night before the first day of school…