We had a family party yesterday and my daughter and I put together this Kids’ Winter Snowman Tablescape. I love setting up tablescapes for kids! It is such a fun way to celebrate. I try to make the kids’ table fun and bright. I usually have a party favor for each child on their plates. …
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Elf on the Shelf: Balloon Basket has our elf, Pepper Mint, in a floating balloon basket carrying lots of toys for good girls and boys. This morning we woke up and Pepper, our Elf on the Shelf, was pretty easy to spot. He was floating in a top hat basket. The hat came from our …
Elf on the Shelf: Decorating Gingerbread Houses Apparently, Pepper, our Elf on the Shelf, is a foodie. He loves his gourmet hot cocoa with marshmallows, his breakfasts are decadent feasts, and he can make and decorate a gingerbread house like no one else’s business. The day that we were going to decorate gingerbread houses with …
Elf on the Shelf: No Sew Christmas Pajamas Tutorial Each year, we love to get the kids matching Christmas pajama pants. I don’t usually splurge for the entire matching outfits because they usually pretty expensive. Normally, I purchase the pants on sale and then find shirts that we already own and are comfortable in that …
Elf on the Shelf: Goin’ Fishing in the Dark Our Elf, Pepper Mint, loves the great outdoors. He likes to fish and he loves to go fishing in the dark. He loves it so much, he left a little early the night before we found him fishing. My daughter likes to say goodnight and wish …
Each year, when we decorate, one of my favorite group of items to put out is The Three Tree Christmas Display. My seven year old daughter is really into decorating and she specifically asked if she could put out The Three Trees Christmas display this year. I told her of course. Then, when we started …
Kids Santa-Themed Christmas Tablescape Each time I host, I love to have a ‘kids table’. Growing up at family parties, as a kid I would always sit at the designated, “Kids Table”, and it was the best place to be. There were more interesting conversations and there was a lot more fun to be had …
Elf on the Shelf: Mele Kalikimaka Like many of you, we haven’t traveled anywhere too far away since before 2020. We had saved up our flight points and booked a family trip to Hawaii for this December 2021. Unfortunately, my two older kids both picked up COVID19 at school a few weeks before we left …
White and Gold Nativity Christmas Tablescape I love hosting Christmas parties. I especially like designing different Christmas tablescapes for adults and then kid-friendly Christmas tablescapes as well. You can see in the background of the above photo that there is a kid’s table behind this one. I will be posting about it soon. …
This Wood Peg Nativity DIY project was a fun for to make this Christmas season. I love to decorate with nativities! Our upstairs mantel is Nativity-themed this Christmas. I wanted to add a nativity that I handmade to our collection. I had all the supplies on hand so Sunday I decided I’d make it. Soon …
Best Christmas Books For Kids Christmas is just a week away and kids are starting to get excited. Books are a big part of the Christmas experience in our family. I posted about Popular Kids Christmas Books here. Now that a year has passed and have found more Christmas books to read, so I figured …