holiday activities

Your kids can trim Santa’s beard and work on their fine motor skills with this fun activity! This printable is from The Magic Playbook. I added a pink hat, cotton ball, stickers, and pipe cleaner glasses. Add strips of white paper to Santa’s face and set your child loose to give Santa a trim. You […]

On December 1st I updated our kitchen bulletin board with our bucket list for the month after being inspired by my friend Val’s beautiful sign. I just printed off the words on cardstock and then attached a piece of craft paper with a thumb tack. Here’s a list of our traditions and a little bit […]

So these aren’t really candy necklaces, more like sugary cereal necklaces but they were so much fun to make with the girls! Start by having your kids sort colored cereal (ours is from the Dollar Store) by color and then thread onto a piece of yarn or twine. I taped the end of the yarn […]

I spent two holiday seasons dairy free while breastfeeding so I’ve tried my hand at dairy-free recipes, but now that Flora is also allergic to eggs I’ve been trying full vegan recipes for holiday treats. After a lot of trial & error I’m excited to share the two recipes that make the BEST sugar cookies. […]

Last year I started making our own hot chocolate for the most part, it’s so easy and just so much better than the store bought kind! You can also make it much healthier by reducing the sugar! Here’s how we make ours! Ingredients: 2tbs cocoa powder (higher quality, the better)2tbs agave nectar (honey, maple syrup, […]

Ohhhh, I am SO happy to finally be sharing this post! I’ve been working on these ideas since November and finally manage to get everything photographed and ready to share! If you’re new around here, activity boxes are my favorite thing to put together to entertain my girls while I get work done, clean, cook […]

My girls had sooo much fun with their play ice cream shop that I had to make a holiday version for them!! This pretend hot cocoa shop could not be easier and we’ve had so much fun with it the last few weeks. While the girls love to set up ‘shop’ they also use the […]

This sensory play dough activity is so fun for the holiday season or special occasions like birthdays – but really your kids would enjoy it any time of the year and most likely you already have everything you need on hand! We scented the play dough with essential oils to make it smell like sugar […]

Oh, how excited I am to bring back the SANTA WATCHERS!! I found the idea on Pinterest last year and this was one of my most shared projects EVER – meaning I knew I had to share them again this holiday season. But – I also wanted to team up with the ever inspiring Amy […]

Yum! I’m so excited to share our first holiday recipe of the season!! I made these over the weekend and they were a HIT! These donuts are moist, rich & chocolatey and you can leave out the coffee (just sub more cocoa powder) if you’re worried your kids won’t like them. They are also vegan […]

I’m excited to finally share the easy DIY advent calendar I made this year for the girls!!! In the past I’ve gone all out buying little treats for each day, but to be honest we have so many junk toys I just wanted to keep it simple with CANDY. So each bag has a little […]

The first of my holiday DIYs!!!! I had too much fun making these little pom pom ballerinas! You could easily make them animals or holiday characters (santa, angel, reindeer, elves) instead. I’ve shown them here without the string attached to hang them on a tree, but you can use thin white string or clear fishing […]