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Make Your Own Hedbanz Game at Home

Make Your Own Hedbanz Game at Home

**This post contains affiliate links, if you make a purchase using the affiliate link, I will earn a small commission** Editors note: This was originally published in 2012, I am sharing it again as a great game idea to make for a holiday gathering that includes many children, honestly, it is fun for the adults too! I hope you consider creating this as a fun family game to entertain the children during the holiday gatherings this season. One day my family ventured down to my daughter’s friends house where we all had a fun little barbecue one Friday evening. While we were there the kids all gathered inside to play a game I had never heard of, Hedbanz. It’s a very simple game and since we are a family game …

Do You Want to Build a Snowman Craft? #crafts #toddler #preschool

Do You Want to Build a Snowman Craft? #crafts #toddler #preschool

Do you want to build a snowman? The song I was singing, much to the annoyance of my children, while sitting down to craft it up the other day. I was on a mission … a mission to build a snowman! Not a real snowman, please no, I am not ready for that cold, wet real snow, but cotton balls make a good replacement for snow. Today I share with you a super cute, fun and easy craft to do with toddlers, because that is about my skill level – toddler level. I swear, in some ways, I shall never grow up! You will need cotton balls, googly eyes, glue gun (if you wish), Elmer’s glue, construction paper in brown, white and black. Oh and scissors! Glue together 4 cotton …

4 Ways to Show Gratitude This Thanksgiving

4 Ways to Show Gratitude This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is not just about the delicious food you will sit down to enjoy with a family. Seated around the dinner table with intellectual conversations amidst the smells of hot food sounds like something to be grateful for, but there is more to Thanksgiving than just showing gratitude for a meal well cooked. Today, I invite you to open your mind to showing gratitude in unique ways, read along to see 4 ways to show gratitude this Thanksgiving … Give Praise to Family with Praise Circle Sitting around the dinner table at a Thanksgiving family gathering is the perfect place to show gratitude to those who you may only see but once a year. In my experience family is always there for you, whether they are happy or disappointed about …

Tips to Raise Our Future Generations

Tips to Raise Our Future Generations

The children of today, are the future generations of tomorrow, this is one fact I keep in mind when making parental decisions. There are a few things I think that my children need to be taught, mostly through example: Conflict Resolution No one is Perfect Positive Actions get Positive Results As I look around at how our country is, I fear that We The People have become sheep with blinders over our eyes, We the People have started to think life is fair and We The People have learned to complain but yet do not wish to take the energy to seek action and resolve. I do not want to raise my part of the future generation to be lazy, offended easily and think that life is fair. For me, …

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