tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47960047625471857182024-02-06T21:10:01.664-08:00realefunAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comBlogger894125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-65412566623164357292013-11-12T18:02:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.530-08:00Food Fun at Mom's LibraryWelcome to Mom's Library!Filled with parenting tips, activities for young children, devotionals, crafts, recipes, and more!Check back again and again to see the new posts!(We have a great Giveaway too!) If you enjoy the link party, please follow Life with Moore Babies by email or RSS feed.You can also follow us on Facebook, Google +, Twitter,Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-81391615395124579412013-11-10T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.547-08:00Egg Carton OwlsThese cute little owls are based on the ones made by Art and Soul Preschool. The girls auntie came across them, and (not so subtly) requested some of her own. Even Eli was happy to make some because it meant he got to paint!To start with you need an egg carton. Cut the top off the bottom. Then cut the top in two pieces and the bottom into sections of two to make eyes. When Cutting the Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-78283560544319251012013-11-07T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.544-08:00Season Tree Sun CatchersWe made these cute hand print sun catchers using oil pastels and a laminator! Head over to Enchanted Homeschooling Mom to read how you can make some too!Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-19090473814184027332013-11-06T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.487-08:00Bright Light Pillow ReviewA pillow, a night light....it's both! Seriously my girls have been asking for one of these since they first saw the commercial maybe a year ago! I was thrilled to be able to review one to see if it lived up to the hype.We were gone the day it arrived, so that evening before bed I presented it to Nadia, the lover of all fuzzy things. She was thrilled! We put in 3 AA batteries and she Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-27186329407961504352013-11-05T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.493-08:00Mom's Library Science Experiments for PreschoolersWelcome to Mom's Library!Filled with parenting tips, activities for young children, devotionals, crafts, recipes, and more!Check back again and again to see the new posts!(We have a great Giveaway too!) If you enjoy the link party, please follow Life with Moore Babies by email or RSS feed.You can also follow us on Facebook, Google +, Twitter,Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-72927437782693592092013-11-04T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.539-08:00DIY Light TableA light box is something I have always thought my kids would enjoy, but I never wanted to spend the money on one. Finally I got around to making our own. I used a large, clear, Rubbermaid container, two strands of Christmas lights, and press and seal wrap (love that stuff). I lined the bottom of the container with the press and seal wrap (the top may have been a better idea, and I may do itAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-87933279178569698472013-11-03T18:00:00.000-08:002013-11-24T10:58:29.558-08:00Keurig GiveawayTo celebrate Enchanted Homeschooling Mom reaching 5,000 likes on facebook, she is giving away a Keurig! As part of her contributing team I get to share it with you all too! For more information about what is included in the giveaway hop over to Enchanted Homeschooling Mom! This giveaway is only open to US residents; good luck to all who enter!a Rafflecopter giveawayAnd if you haven't Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-77061761335461942452013-11-02T13:08:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.543-08:00And T is for Tantrums This week we have been mostly having a to-do with Tantrums. Some mild - a pouty bottom lip, an almost-tear, and some full blown almost-being-sick epic scream-athons.General Running. Everywhere.I had fallen into the trap of the most destructive of parenting myths - that if you're a good parent, attentive to your child's needs, there won't be tantrums, tears or any losing of sanity. Thank goodness Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-68270435716569305402013-11-01T05:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.533-08:00October Thank YouOctober is over, and it is time awaits thank all those great blogs out there that featured my it's in the past month! I hope you will take the time to visit them and check out some of the other amazing ideas they featured!Piggy in Polka Dots - Party in Polka DotsFantastic Fun and Learning - Ways to Decorate PumpkinsTwodaloo - 10 Activities Using Real PumpkinsHomeschool Creations - Preschool and Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-28665956105460171862013-10-31T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.494-08:00Fairy Tea Garden Kit ReviewToday I want to introduce you to one of the new Fairy Garden Kits produced by Horizon Group USA, the Fairy Tea Garden! My girls have made fairy gardens with their grandma before, but I knew they wouldn't be able to resist the tiny tea set in this kit! (We received this kit in exchange for our honest opinions!)The kit includes a planter, arbor, little fence, two chairs, a table, a tea pot, two Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-57664890758048294452013-10-30T18:30:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.526-08:00Hedge Apple FlowersAs part of a nature exchange this fall we collected some hedge apples. For those of you who don't know, those big green, wrinkly looking balls in the picture below are hedge apples. They come from the Osage Orange Tree and are also called Osage Oranges or "green brains" according to Bria.I have been told they are good for repelling bugs, and even though I don't know how true it is, they areAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-26458292110151168092013-10-29T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.491-08:00Mom's Library Spider EditionWelcome to Mom's Library!Filled with parenting tips, activities for young children, devotionals, crafts, recipes, and more!Check back again and again to see the new posts!(We have a great Giveaway too!) If you enjoy the link party, please follow Life with Moore Babies by email or RSS feed.You can also follow us on Facebook, Google +, Twitter,Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-70483164469971024432013-10-29T13:34:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.536-08:00How Not to Bake Shortbread Having stumbled across my 1970s cookbook as the sun was setting late this afternoon, with play options of park, beach and library having already been exhausted, I was heartened by a step by step recipe for shortbread.With just four ingredients, and five simple pictures of a child effortlessly making shortbread I was lured into cracking out the caster sugar, butter, and two types of flour...Yet byAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-38230360683521033562013-10-28T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.508-08:00Printable Books for Emergent Readers Review and GiveawayDo you have an emergent reader in your home? If so you may notice how difficult it can be to find books on their reading level! It seems the easy readers (even the level 1) at the library (at least our library) are all too advanced for very early readers! Seems silly when reading books (not just words on a page) gives kids a sense of accomplishment and helps early readers gain that much needed Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-85543768342283361782013-10-27T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.554-08:00Poppin's Book Nook #8 - Seasons and Snow Globes This months theme for Poppin's Book Nook is Seasons! Instead of choosing a single book about seasons we went with The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder because each book goes through an entire year of seasons. We haven't made it all the way through the books, but we just finished The Long Winter (book 6), and it is interesting to compare the weather in the various books and Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-86499326749028029262013-10-24T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.555-08:00Nadia's Tangled PartyWe recently celebrated Nadia's 5th birthday with a Tangled Party! I think this is the first party I have ever thrown without streamers and balloons! The living room was decorated with a long roll of yellow table cloth draped around to resemble Rapunzel's excessively long hair.I set up the little castle tent just for that tower effect, and the towers continued into the ie cream cone cupcakes! Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-32546668388394521472013-10-23T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.503-08:00Easy Canvas Prints Review and GiveawayI love photographs, and I have always loved the way canvases look on the wall, but I have never been brave enough to spend the money one. Needless to say I jumped at the chance to review one from Easy Canvas Prints and offer a giveaway for one of my lucky readers!But first my review! Honestly, the hardest part about ordering this canvas was getting a picture to put on the canvas&Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-44694317345095726352013-10-22T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.518-08:00Loads of Letter Activities at Mom's LibraryWelcome to Mom's Library!Filled with parenting tips, activities for young children, devotionals, crafts, recipes, and more!Check back again and again to see the new posts!(We have a great Giveaway too!) If you enjoy the link party, please follow Life with Moore Babies by email or RSS feed.You can also follow us on Facebook, Google +, Twitter,Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-79913964798750263262013-10-22T12:19:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.546-08:00Sensory Play the Easy WayI admit it. I always Mean to Do sensory play. I downloaded that darn make-your-own-playdough maybe ten times. And I've still not come close to even raiding the cupboard for ingredients... Lunchtime today was a tough mental switchover from work mode to toddler mode. I struggled to.think of an engaging, free-play idea. And hubby had already done the Park in the morning.I've been meaning to Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-39022521128827834642013-10-22T12:03:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.510-08:00Halloween Spooky Fruit FunWhen I was asked to conjure up a Spooky Fruit as part of AlexandAlexa's Halloween competition I couldn't resist. With a Fruit Monster for a toddler I knew there was nothing he'd like better than to play with, and eat, than some fruit! Obviously it had to involve blueberries as apparently they are irresistible. Too worried about toddler's short attention span to try actual fruit moulding or major Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-60705779639947285552013-10-20T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.527-08:00Egg Carton Dragon PuppetRemember the royal toilet paper roll puppets I shared over at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.To go with them, I put together this egg carton dragon puppet! You start with 2 egg cartons.Paint the bumpy part white. Then I painted the area between what would become the teeth red for gums, but you could easily leave it white too.If your egg carton has holes in the top you can just hot glue a pieceAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-19266168115969325192013-10-20T13:18:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.489-08:00Silent Sunday Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comDeal, Deal51.222492 1.401661tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-15769262720270897902013-10-17T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.484-08:00Pour Paint PumpkinsWe haven't made our annual trip to a pumpkin patch yet, but when we can across some little pumpkins in the store, the girls begged for some. Lucky for them I already had a plan for them! So we picked up a few as well as some acrylic paint.Once we were home we headed out with our pumpkins, paints, and some disposable cups (I think bottles would have worked well, but I don't know how Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-85333040845390779422013-10-16T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.552-08:00One Word - Month 9I know I missed posting about my One Word again last month. I have to say that even I underestimated the amount of the time that was going to be spent once we officially started schooling. Some of it is spent necessarily, and some of it is spent because of stubborn children (we're working on that one though). This brought a few areas that I really need to work on to the fore front! These Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796004762547185718.post-30601740985058852772013-10-15T18:00:00.000-07:002013-11-24T10:58:29.499-08:00Mom's Library All About TreesWelcome to Mom's Library!Filled with parenting tips, activities for young children, devotionals, crafts, recipes, and more!Check back again and again to see the new posts!(We have a great Giveaway too!) If you enjoy the link party, please follow Life with Moore Babies by email or RSS feed.You can also follow us on Facebook, Google +, Twitter,Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511849975281144966noreply@blogger.com