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10 Tips to Take Great Pictures of Your Kids

Photographing kids is a real adventure. They are very fast, mostly bouncy, often busy and sometimes grumpy. As parents, you want to capture every moment in your sunshine's life but it's not always that easy. Follow our 10 tips, and you are going to take amazing pictures of your little ones in no time. 1. […]

Mission Impossible Game For Kids

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You want to make your kid's birthday really special? Here is a nice idea that won't cost much but that'll earn you a lot of happy faces. Turn your flat into an adventurous place teaming with laser beams and all the kids in secret agents! Simply use strands off wool and stretch them between banisters […]

10 Unique Ideas for Coloring Easter Eggs

Although it's a great tradition to get the whole family together creating some nice Easter decorations, Coloring Easter eggs can become a little dull after a few years. Especially for older kids there needs to be a little more fun than just the boring dip-in-dying. Here are some ideas to keep the fun with this […]

Cool Kids Craft: Busy Bee Egg Cup

Today's busy bees aren't just carriers of honey, the can carry whole Easter eggs! Here is a fun Easter craft if you are a little tired of bunnies... All you need is glue, yellow, black and blue paper, sticky tape, pipe cleaner, pens and a toilet paper roll.  We cut out black and yellow stripes for […]

How to Build the Most Amazing Sandcastles with Pro Gadgets

Here come a bunch of great ideas, amazing gadgets and a how-to explanation for your kid's next, most amazing sandcastle. Whether it's a nice sunny day, the next summer vacation, Memorial Day or July 4th - a trip to the beach is always great fun for the whole family. With sand and water in abundance, what […]

Modern Parenting

Parenting is a huge challenge. Full stop. Teaching your kids right and wrong, politeness, tidyness or even to live healthy is a tough job. But it can also be fun. Here are some ideas for modern parenting. Grounding children for messy rooms or bad behavior is completely out-of-date. They have whole rooms full of exciting video […]

Sweet dreams are made of this!

Reading a story to your children at snooze time is not only a good way to set down sleep patterns and calm them down, it will also encourage your child's speech and language development. Listening to stories can also improve social skills and empathy, especially if you aks questions like "What would you do?". For […]

Kids Clothes: Then And Now

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Do you remember when you were little, looking at old family pictures and thinking how funny your parents dressed when they were younger? Styles come in and go back out. I remember a pair of wedge shoes I wanted when I was a teenager that my mom really didn't like. She had some that were similar at […]

Is Santa real? – Tricky Christmas Questions and How to Answer Them

Christmas is not only the time of love and family; it’s also the time when the big old man with the long white beard makes children behave like little angles. But what if they start doubting the existence of Santa? Here are some original answers for tricky questions that your young ones might ask around […]

Great Outdoor and Indoor Hopscotch

I remember loving hopscotch as a little girl. My friends and I would jump around happily every sunny afternoon until it was time to go home. Here are two versions of this classic game and some ideas on how to play it according to the children's ages. Outdoor Hopscotch with chalk Combine this active jumping […]

All the World is a Canvas …

Some kids are little artists that feel misunderstood. Normal people with their narrow minds simply don't see the beauty in a room full of paint ... ... or a colorfully decorated bed. Just like they cannot appreciate creative wall paper designs ... ... or creative visionaries that are not afraid to get in touch with […]

Fun Outdoor Aiming Game with Tin Cans

Here comes a fun, outdoor, aiming game that you and your kids can build yourselves. Start with coating different sizes of tin cans with white paper. Then you and your kids can get creative and draw on the tin cans whatever you like. After that, I added numbers to show how many points the different cans will […]

Yummy! 4th of July on Your Plate!

Bring the 4th of July to your children's plates with these delicious and easy to make sandwiches. We made two versions - one with strawberry jam and the other one with cream cheese. Here is how you make your own stars-and-stripes-super-yummy-4th-of-July sandwich. Add sliced banana halves to the jam sandwich .... ... and sliced strawberries […]

Happy Tin Can Tossing

With 4th of July just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to share a DIY, new edition of the all time favorite outdoor game, tin can tossing. This game will be the perfect pastime for young and old and shouldn't be missing on any July 4th barbecue or picnic. Most of the […]