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Amazingly Easy Science Experiments for Kids
Here are 3 simple science projects to do at home. They all use things you more than likely already have in your house, and all are fun for kids (and adults) to do.
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How to Make a Crystal Garden for a Science Project
A fun science experiment. Grow your own salt crystal garden. It's easy, and uses items you have around the house.
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Inexpensive Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Kids
Want to have epic stockings this year? Look no further. Here's a list of over 95 inexpensive stocking stuffer ideas for your kids' stockings.
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How to Make Dragon Eggs
A step by step tutorial to make fun Dragon Eggs with your kids...a must for all dragon lovers.
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How to Do Batik for Kids (With Glue)
Kids can create awesome items with this simple batiking process. All you need is glue, paint, fabric, and this step-by-step guide—and the kids provide the imagination.
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Sugar Rainbow Density Experiment
Looking for fun science experiments that will also teach your kids things? Teach kids about mass, volume and density by doing this simple experiment with sugar and water. It's the easiest way to make rainbow water.
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How to Make Bleach Spray Shirts
Looking to spice up your closet? Bleach-sprayed t-shirts are a fun and easy way to customize a boring t-shirt.
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How to Grow Green Onions From Kitchen Scraps
Simple and easy steps to grow and then regrow green onions in a container from kitchen scraps, plus green onion growing tips and a recipe for dip!
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Gifts for Tween Girls (Ages 10 - 12)
Looking for a great gift for your tween-ager. I've got loads of great suggestions in all price ranges.
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Classic Family Card Games to Play With Your Kids
Family Friendly Card Games With computers, television, tablets and video games at our disposal we sometimes forget that simple non-technological things can still bring great joy. Take a deck of cards, for instance, it takes up limited space, but...
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Ice Art | How to Make Rainbow Icicles
If you are looking for a fun project to do on a freezing cold day, look no further. These colorful rainbow icicles make a beautiful display during the dreary days of winter.
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How to Make Slime or Ooze
Making Slime (or Ooze) is a fun project for kids to make. It only takes a couple of materials that many have lying around the house. The best part is it can help teach kids about polymer molecules.
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5 DIY Teacher Gift Ideas
Looking for the perfect gift for your child's teacher? Here are 5 inexpensive ideas you can make with your kids that their teachers will love!
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Easy Minion Decorated Cupcakes
Kids love the minions from the Despicable Me moives. If you are looking for a different take on decorating cupcakes. Try making these darling, easy to make minion cupcakes..
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8 Best Perennials to Plant in a Shade Garden
Do delphinium and asters need sun or shade? Questions like this come up when searching for plants that thrive in a shade garden. This list of the best perennials for shady gardens will provide answers.
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Gardening in the Shade: 9 Annual Flowers for Shady Areas
Don't let gardening in the shade be daunting. Try planting some of these annual shade flowers that thrive out of the sun.
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8 Ways to Get Rid of Slugs in Your Garden
Too many slugs in your garden? Not sure how to get rid of them? This article discusses numerous ways to get rid of the nasty slugs that eat up your garden.
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How to Make Sidewalk Chalk
Making homemade sidewalk chalk is simple. All you need is a few supplies you may already have lying around the house.
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How to Make Your Own Custom Tile Coaster With Scrapbook Paper
Custom make these simple tile coasters with scrapbook paper for friends and family. So easy that even kids can help.
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The Best Annual Flowering Plants for Your Garden
There are many varieties of Annuals to choose from. The top 5 annual flowering plants are simple and easy to grow. AND of course they are all beautiful!
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Tips for Hosting a Fun Tween Sleepover
Discover the secrets to hosting a fun sleepover for your tween, with suggestions for setting rules, food ideas, and pre-teen-approved activities.
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How to Divide Hostas
Here are some easy instructions for dividing hosta plants in your garden.
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How to Clean Your Microwave With Steam
How to Clean Your Microwave With Steam Are globs of unrecognizable charred food parts covering your microwave walls and ceiling? Have you worn yourself out trying to coax off the caked on, dried up remnants of sauces and food so unrecognizable you...
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Easy Pretzel and Cookie Bark
This easy recipe for pretzel and cookie bark can be modified in many ways to suit not only the season, but also your specific tastes. Once you get the basic recipe down you can substitute other kinds of cookies and candies for a unique salty and...
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How to Use Google Search by Images - Reverse Photo Search
Google reverse image search is an easy way to find images and information on something based solely on an image. Its a great little tool.
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How To Make Custom Borax Crystal Ornaments
Creating Borax Crystal Ornaments SPARKLES…kids love them...heck, I love them. This craft project is a simple way to teach kids about how crystals are formed, and when it’s all said and done they end up with a cherished ornament that they can...
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The Best Free Star Wars Android Apps
I can’t help but think that the creator of the smart phone was a Star Wars fan who just wanted to have his own holopad. I mean, come on…ANDROID operating system?!? The Android icon screams R2D2 at first sight. Heck, the whole phone screams...
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How to Make Homemade Gel Air Fresheners
How to make Homemade Gel Air Fresheners. Looking for a great way to freshen up a small space? Need an easy teacher gift? Try making these simple homemade gel air fresheners. They are inexpensive and take less than 10 minutes from start to...
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How to make a Star Wars R2D2 Costume
Step by step instructions on how to make an R2D2 costume. No sewing requred.
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Easy Crafts for Kids: Homemade Cookie-Cutter Bird Feeders
Want to have a fun day with your kid? Consider learning how to make homemade cookies for birds out of bird feed so that you and your kid can have fun. This article will tell you why you should consider doing it and how to make one.
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6 Easy Creative Journal Writing Prompts
I’ve dabbled in journal writing on and off since I received my first diary with the little gold lock and key as a young child. Those first journal entries were stories of my day to day life. As I grew the journals weren’t as fancy, but they...
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How to Make a Ribbon Wind Sock
This simple ribbon windsock is a fun craft for kids to make. Looking for a fun way to utilize the extra ribbon you have lying around the house? This cute and creative ribbon windsock is easy to make. It could be hung outside or in a child’s room...
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How Well Does Homemade Laundry Soap Really Work?
Does homemade laundry soap work? I’ve seen many recipes for homemade laundry detergent. So many, in fact, that I decided to take the initiative myself and make a batch.
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Easy Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe
In the economy today, most of us are looking for ways to save some money. What better way to save a few bucks than to make your own laundry detergent.
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How to Make a Crooked Terra Cotta Pot Flower Tower With Annuals
Build a wonderful tilted flower pot display for your annual flowers that will last for years to come by following this easy, 4-step guide.
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How To Make Money On Cityville By Zynga
ATTENTION CITYVILE MAYORS!!! Does the deficit in your city have you down? Are you having trouble raising the funds for your gubernatorial race? Citizens today are becoming harder and harder to satisfy. They want bigger and better...
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9 Life Lessons Kids Can Learn From Watching SpongeBob SquarePants
Here are nine positive life lessons your kids can learn from watching SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Using Creative Journal Writing to Preserve Your Child's Memories
Kids grow up so fast. As parents we want to be able to preserve special memories for them, but we sometimes lack the time, creativity, and means to do it the way we want. Photos get loaded to our computers never to be looked at again, precious...
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How to Make a Terracotta Flower Pot Tower With Annuals
Create a stunning flower tower planter for your garden or front patio using simple terracotta pots. It's an easy, beautiful piece for your landscape or other outdoor areas.
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: The Final Week
When we started this FlyBaby Challenge a month ago my friend and I felt hopeless. We didn’t think we could tackle even the most simple tasks that needed to be done in our home. Both of us were overwhelmed by the chaos that unused in our houses,...
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How To Make Sidewalk Chalk Paint With Cornstarch
Have a future Picasso on your hands? Do your kids love to paint, but you hate having to clean up the mess afterwards? Then why not make some sidewalk chalk paint. Making sidewalk paint is a cheap and easy project for kids of all ages. All it...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps | Day 22 and Day 23
Follow this hapless homemaker as she attempts to use the FlyLady system of cleaning.
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps - Day 19, Day 20 and Day 21
When we first started our BabyStep a few short weeks ago, I was overwhelmed by her website. There were so many unknown terms and acronyms it made my head spin. I wanted her to use simple terms that I could understand, not overwhelm me more with a...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 16, Day 17 and Day 18
When my friend read the task for Day 17 her exact words to me were, “Did you look at tomorrow’s task yet? It could be problematic.” Oh no, I thought, we had been doing so well since our first BabyStep. I didn’t want any kind of snafu this...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 15
Today FlyLady’s BabyStep challenge was to make our bed first thing in the morning. I never EVER make my bed. Not because I’m lazy or unmotivated, but for one simple reason…dust mites. I mean, come on, you've heard the adage "don't let the bed...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 13 and 14
Looking back, its hard to believe 2 weeks have passed since my friend and I took our first FlyLady BabyStep. I approached that first task of cleaning my sink with complete trepidation. Armed with cleaning supplies, I laughed at myself for thinking...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 11 and Day 12
My friend and I were both pretty excited for Day 11. The task was to add a page of inspirational quotes to our 3 ring binder. We are both quote addicts…we’re those people that spend hours scouring Status Shuffle looking for that perfect Facebook...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 10
For today’s BabyStep we get to do 15 minutes of anything. When I think of doing ANYTHING, let me tell you that cleaning is not one the first things that comes to mind. FlyLady really needs to be more specific on her sticky notes…that, or I need...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 8 and Day 9
I have combined the hubs for Day 8 and Day 9 because after much musing last night I could not find anything interesting about putting paper in a three ring binder and writing down my routines. Oh, I could have possibly rambled on about how I almost...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 7
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~Confucius Following FlyLady’s BabySteps has been much like that thousand mile journey. After taking that first step it was much easier to take the next. Each little step we take...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 6
As each day goes by FlyLady is adding a step to our daily routine. Day Six is no different. Today FlyLady introduces Hot Spots and asks FlyBabies to spend 2 minutes working on one of our Hot Spots “A Hot Spot is an area, when left...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 5
The fifth day of FlyLady’s BabySteps addresses combating the negative voices in your head by using positive self talk. She wants us FlyBabies to write down what we hear when we hear our negative voices and then turn the words around and combat...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 4
See what happens on Day 4 of my adventure with FlyLady BabySteps
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 3
Lather, Rinse, Repeat For some reason the back of a bottle of shampoo came to mind when I read what was required on Day Three of FlyLady’s BabySteps. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. So we will be doing the same things we have already done on the prior...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 2
Empowered by our shiny sinks, my friend and I felt ready to tackle Day Two of FlyLady‘s BabySteps. Not sure what to expect, I hesitantly clicked on Day Two. “Get dressed to lace up shoes.” The instructions were simple, get up and get ready to...
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Following FlyLady's BabySteps: Day 1
“Do you feel overwhelmed, overextended, and overdrawn? Hopeless and you don’t know where to start? Don’t worry friend, we’ve been there too.“ `~FlyLady. WOW! Is she talking to me? I knew that something needed to be done with the chaos...
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Struggling with ADHD: Homework Strategies
Homework Strategies for kids with ADHD Most parents know that homework and children go together as well as oil and water. When you add in the fact that your child has ADHD, homework can be an open recipe for disaster. Just think about it, you take...
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How to Make Fossils for Kids
Making Plaster of Paris fossils is a great way for budding scientists to learn more about rock and fossil formation. Real fossils may take many years to form, but for less than $5 your kids can make them in just a couple of days. This quick,...
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Struggling with ADHD: Getting an Objective Diagnosis
In Kindergarten, she wrote most of her numbers and letters backwards. When I voiced my concern, her teacher replied with, “Don’t worry, that’s normal at this age.” In First Grade, she still wrote many of her numbers and letters backwards...