It's fall ya'll! I love fall because with it begins the holiday season with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. My family loves to celebrate each of these holiday's to the extreme, and I want to help you as well!! Here are a few free Halloween color pages to get you ready for the Halloween season.To be able to print these coloring pages just click on the link and you'll be able to download the page and print it at home. Jack-o-LanternJack-o-Lantern coloring page (pdf … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Dot to dot
My kids really love to celebrate holidays, so the St. Patrick's Day crossword puzzle was a big hit, but I wanted to keep it going. Here are a couple fun Dot-to-Dots for St. Patrick's Day that are also coloring pages!! Print and enjoy!St Patrick's Day dot to dot (PDF) We also have a lot of other fun printables you will want to check out! … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Snack Bags
St. Patrick's Day is here so here is a quick little treat bag idea for all your little friends.We just got some sketch pens for the Silhouette and so we decided to try them out on the Silhouette Portrait for this project.There are 4 main steps in this project: Step 1: Print The first thing you need to do is print bag tags using your printer. This will only print the chevrons, white text bubble, "I'm", "to be your Friend" and the registration marks (the black square and the … [Read more...]
Robot Valentine’s Day Mailbox
My kids love going all out for their Valentine's Day mailboxes. Once Christmas wraps up discussions begin on what theme they want their mailbox to be. At our schools the kids have a big Valentine's Day party and so each child brings a "mailbox" to collect their Valentines from their classmates. My son was very excited when the idea of a robot got brought up. It seemed easy enough, so here is how we created it using our Silhouette Cameo . The Box The box that we used for our robot is … [Read more...]
Hot Air Balloon Valentine Mailbox
Valentine's Day is right around the corner so it's time to think about what your son or daughter will be using to collect Valentine's from their friends at school. Why not a hot air balloon?Materials12 x 12 cardstock (varity of colors) Small brad Straws Small basketSupplies you needpaper cutter or scissors stapler clear tape small hole punch hot glue gunInstructionsCut the cardstock into 1 inch strips. You will need two strips of each color. We … [Read more...]
Silhouette Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Pixelated Shamrock Pop-up card
The Back Story As I was writing the Pixelated Heart Pop-up card post, I went back to the site where I got the card templates, to get links to include in my post. On the sidebar I noticed that there are pictures of other tutorials on the site and I found these Pixelated Christmas Pop-up cards. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if there were pop-up cards for all the major holidays. I searched the site for any other holidays besides Valentine's Day and Christmas, but I couldn't find any so … [Read more...]
Fun Snack Time with Printable Valentine Bingo Boards
Do your kids love to play with their food and then eat it? Normally this is a behavior that I discourage at our dinner table, but when it comes to snack time, why not? When the kids are out of school, or when they get home from school I like to have wholesome, delicious snacks for them to have. If I'm able to combine snack time with play time, then I'm basically "Mom of the Year!"Honey Maid Go Bites are the perfect snack for kids because they are made with 7g of whole grains, 5g of protein … [Read more...]
Tips for Playing Robot Mouse Coding Activity Set
I received Robot Mouse Coding Activity Set free for review purposes, all opinions are my own.Build your maze, and then create a step-by-step path for Colby, the Programmable Robot Mouse. Program the sequence of steps, and then watch Colby race to find the cheese! The first time I saw this activity set I knew I would love it, but I'm a little bit bias. I'm a programmer; I do programming at work, I do programming at home for fun; I really like programming. We have noticed that our kids really … [Read more...]
Top 10 Reason to Play Skylanders Superchargers Racing
This year the newest Skylanders game is Skylanders Superchargers Racing. My family always has so much fun playing the Skylanders games and this one is no exception. This games takes it to a whole new level by adding racing into the classic Skylander game. My son loves racing games and as soon as he saw the box he wanted to start playing. It was hard to get a picture of the box before he ripped it open.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eyMn3gKO0UActivision sent us the Skyanders … [Read more...]
How setup the Philips hue in 3 simple steps
The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.I'm all about trying new products that enhance my home. I didn't know much about the Philips hue when I first received the starter kit but after playing around I found it was a neat system that is pretty easy to use.The Philips hue A19 starter kit lighting system can be setup in 3 simple steps:Turn on the light switch for the new Hue lights Plug … [Read more...]
The Top 6 Features of the Netgear Nighthawk X6 Router
Today’s discussion has been sponsored by NETGEAR. All opinions are my own.At our house we have the standard modem/router from our internet provider. From time to time the WiFi will stop working and we have to reset the router to make it start working again. When we got the Netgear Nighthawk X6 Router, I connected it to our old router and we started switch over our devices to use the X6. In the short time that we have been using the X6, the WiFi on our old router has stopped working and now … [Read more...]
Super Hero Assemble App Tutorial
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #AvengersUnite #CollectiveBiasI've always been a big super hero fan. When I was younger I would read comics and watch all the super hero cartoons. As I grew up I always keep myself in the super hero "loop". I have loved all the movies and the super hero universe that Marvel has created and continues to expand. I look forward to these movies so much! Whenever there is a super hero app … [Read more...]
Simple DIY Winter Soldier Costume
Here is a simple Do It Yourself Winter Soldier costume. All you need is:black long sleeve shirt grey long sleeve shirt black glove black pants red heat transfer material thick black markerOptional items:goggles face mask shoulder strapsMaking the Shirt The shirt is the only thing that you need to make for this costume. All you need to do is remove a sleeve from the black shirt and add lines and a red star to the grey shirt.The Complete Costume Put … [Read more...]
LISTERINE: The Oral Health Heros at Our House
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for LISTERINE. I received samples for this review and a promotional item to thank me for participating.In the past year, oral health has had an increased focus at our house and some of the things that have helped us to do that are these products from LISTERINE.Whenever I think of LISTERINE I always think of mouth wash but they also offer other oral health care products that I really like. FlossThere are … [Read more...]
10 Heroic Habits of Health
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for LISTERINE. I received samples for this review and a promotional item to thank me for participating.Superheroes are a big deal in our home. My kids love Superheroes - toys, movies, cartoons, all of it! Since Superheroes are people that we should look up to, have qualities we want to mimic and habits we also want to have we have come up with: 10 Heroic Habits of Health 1. Family Walks One of our favorite … [Read more...]
