11 Easter Basket Ideas for Kids {Candy Free} Easter is here, which means it’s time to start preparing those Easter baskets. I rounded up 11 Easter Basket Ideas for Kids (Candy-Free). 1. Peter Rabbit Candy-Free Easter Basket – This Easter Basket is perfect to give to kids who love books and doesn’t cost much. You …
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Food and Decor for a Peter Rabbit Party This post shows the food and decorations that I used for my son’s Peter Rabbit birthday party. To decorate, I bought a cute red wheel barrow and hoe and shovel for $10 on the local classifieds. As soon as I saw the small vintage wheel barrow, shovel …
Peter Rabbit Adults’ Tablescape When I host parties I love to decorate different tables for adult guests and kids. Growing up, I would often go to extended family parties. There were usually always tables designated for the kids and for the adults. My cousin and I who are the same age and have always been …
We are so excited for Spring and Summer at our house! We cannot wait to enjoy days outside. I created these $10.00 Outdoor-Activities Easter Baskets {Candy Free} for my kids to encourage them to get out and be active. Yes, these baskets were only $10 each! I found the items at Target (most were in …
31 Easy and Inexpensive Easter Crafts for Kids Easter is just around the corner. Looking for easy and inexpensive crafts you can do with your kids this Easter? Here are 31 easy and inexpensive Easter crafts for kids. 1. Paper Roll Bunnies – These paper roll bunnies are SO CUTE and really easy to make! …
Elf on the Shelf: Riding in Rapids. Pepper and Winter found their way into my son’s Polar Bear Arctic-themed room. They took the Camp Wandawega canoe down some “bean-bag-blanket-rapids” with our IKEA polar bear as their river guide. Unfortunately, Pepper, our Elf on the Shelf, was trying to ride the bull when the canoe hit …
Elf on the Shelf: Snowshoeing. Our elves were enjoying themselves in this outdoor snowshoeing scene today. It was such a fun festive looking set up. They were standing on a lot of faux snow. The faux snow has a lot of sparkles/glitter, etc. in it to make it look more realistic. The elves were standing …
I LOVE chess. It is my all-time favorite board game…Stratego is a close second on board game ratings, and Risk a third… I guess I love strategy. I never really knew that about myself until I just typed out my favorite board games… Anyway, today our elves are playing chess with one another. They are …
This morning, my kids looked and looked and looked for our elves and could not find them. Finally, about 10 minutes before school, I placed my 6 year old daughter looking straight at the elves while I did her hair. The photo below was her perspective as I did her hair. About when I was …
Our elves found their way outside our house on pink mopeds. They used my pink gingerbread front door decor as the base of their scene. It looks like they added padded seats to these planter mopeds that I used on a kids’ gingerbread tablescape. The seats weren’t there when they were on this gingerbread tablescape …
The last few Christmases my kids and I have tied quilts for our home or donated them to Wrap Ukraine in Quilts charity. This is the blanket we tied last year. Today, our Elf on the Shelf siblings laid out the blanket we are planning on tying for Christmas 2025. We tie a blanket while …