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Easter Bunny Pancake

March 29, 2013 By Kara 6 Comments

Easter Bunny Pancake

Here comes Peter Cottontail! It just wouldn’t be a holiday for us without some sort of fun pancakes. We had Leprechaun pancakes for St Patrick’s Day, Groundhog pancakes for Groundhogs day, Cupid’s arrow for Valentine’s day, Santa pancakes for Christmas and even “Man”cakes for Father’s Day. So, naturally we would have to have an Easter Bunny pancake for Easter. Right?

As, with most of my pancake ideas, these are pretty self-explanatory from looking at the picture. I’ve decided you can make almost any type of object with pancakes, bananas, marshmallows and chocolate chips. Really, you should try it. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food/Recipes, For the Boys Tagged With: Fun Food, Holiday fun

25 Spring Break Ideas for Kids

March 22, 2013 By Kara 5 Comments

Spring break is here! Some of us may be celebrating and some may be wondering what we will do to entertain the kids all week. If you don’t have any big plans you may be looking for some Spring Break ideas to keep the kids busy.

25 fun Spring Break ideas for Kids

1-Pinterest party

Have the kids look through your Pinterest boards for crafts, activities or recipes that they may have been wanting to do and get the supplies together for some fun. There isn’t always time to do those things during the school week so Spring Breaks is the perfect time. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Crafts/Activities, For the Boys, Just for Mom, Parenting Tagged With: Activities for boys, Holiday fun, Outside activities

Edible Dinosaur Eggs

March 20, 2013 By Kara 14 Comments

Dinosaur Eggs for Easter

Easter time is here and my boys are really excited for next week. Not only for Easter but because we have Spring Break off the entire week before Easter. Since my boys have each gone through a stage where they were obsessed with Dinosaurs, I knew these Dinosaur eggs would be a fun Easter project for them. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food/Recipes, For the Boys Tagged With: Activities for boys, Fun Food, Holiday fun, recipes

St Patricks Day Games

March 12, 2013 By Kara 2 Comments

Quick and Easy St Patricks Day Games

As I mentioned in past posts, this week I’ve been entertaining a sick 4-year-old. We’ve made some fun food ideas like our Rainbow snack and Shamrock cookies, but I wanted to do something fun to entertain him so he wasn’t totally absorbed in the television or Ipad. I had him help me try out these two St Patricks Day games.

We made up a game that we named “Let’s Roll a Leprachaun”. This was inspired by the game “Roll a Pumpkin” from Happy Home Fairy that my boys played over and over and over at Halloween time.

The picture is self explanatory but basically, you take turns rolling dice and based on what you roll you are able to add a feature to your leprechaun or for a twist if you roll an 11 you have to switch papers with another person. (My 4-year-old was absolutely NOT giving up his leprechaun so you can always leave it out or change #11. My older boys thought it was fun.) The first person to finish their leprechaun wins.

St Patricks Day Games

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Filed Under: Crafts/Activities, For the Boys Tagged With: Activities for boys, Holiday fun, St Patrick's Day

St Patricks Day Food: Rainbow Snack and Shamrock Quesadilla

March 9, 2013 By Kara 3 Comments

If your boys are like mine, every day after school a couple of ravenous beasts return home wanting to eat everything in sight. My boys tend to be really, REALLY grumpy when they are hungry so feeding them asap is a must.

I’ve been trying to have healthier and more filling snacks available to them so they aren’t just finishing off an entire box of gold fish crackers or cereal, so this week my 4-year-old helped me make this St Patricks Day food. He’s been home sick from preschool so I’ve been trying to entertain him with some St Patrick’s day fun.