• kids’ crafts Archive

    When it comes to holiday shopping, what do you get for the kid who has everything? I’m exaggerating, of course, but sometimes it feels like my girls have more gifts than Toys R Us. While we swap out old stuff twice a year to make room for birthday and Christmas gifts, it still seems like the stuff multiplies overnight. I don’t remember being this spoiled as a kid, but then my mother reminds me of the infamous Toy Closet, a bottomless pit of toys, dolls, board games and books that was forever busting its seams. Talk about history repeating itself!… This year, we’re on a special lookout for non-traditional gifts that are easy on space and that encourage kids to use their imagination, instead of [&hellip

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    We have so many types of batteries in our house, it’s become a regular Radio Shack. While I mainly stock up on extras in case of power outages, they are inevitably used for the myriad of electronic toys that my two daughters can’t seem to live without. Be it a talking cat keyboard, or my older daughter’s Leapster, it seems we are forever in a state of gadget dependency. Sure, it’s nice when the girls can play unoccupied and I can get some work done, but the reality is that I’d much rather my kids’ rely on their already-active imaginations during playtime. Maybe that’s why Wikki Stix are such a win-win for our household: the girls can engage themselves in a creative project that doesn’t [&hellip

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