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  • Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft
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    Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft

    My kiddos and I love apples and pumpkins, especially when cool autumn weather rolls around. Help celebrate the Halloween holiday with your young child by making an adorable apple print pumpkin Jack-o-lantern craft using apples, paint, and markers. Materials Apples Black construction paper Nontoxic orange and green paint Scrap cardboard Black marker Instructions Cut an […] More

  • Black Bat Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Craft
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    Black Bat Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Craft

    Bat crafts make for a perfect Halloween activity! I also love using recycled materials such as toilet paper rolls in the crafts projects that I make with my kiddos. Help celebrate the upcoming Halloween holiday with your young child by making a simple and non-spooky black bat toilet paper roll craft. Materials Toilet paper rolls […] More

  • Frankenstein's Monster Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Craft
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    Frankenstein’s Monster Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Craft

    Frankenstein’s monster is an 8-foot-tall, hideously ugly monster created by mad scientist Victor Frankenstein in the Gothic novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley. Monster crafts make for a perfect Halloween activity! Toilet paper tubes also make craft great materials. Help celebrate the holiday with your young child by making a simple and non-spooky Frankenstein’s monster […] More

  • Halloween Ghost Toilet Paper Roll Craft
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    Halloween Ghost Toilet Paper Roll Craft

    Ghost crafts make for a perfect Halloween activity! I also love using recycled materials such as toilet paper rolls in the crafts projects that I complete with my kiddos. Help celebrate the holiday with your young child by making a simple and non-spooky Halloween ghost toilet paper roll craft. Materials Toilet paper rolls Nontoxic white […] More

  • S Is for Spider Halloween Paper Plate Craft
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    S Is for Spider Halloween Paper Plate Craft

    S is for spider! Make a spider craft to help your preschooler learn about the letter Ss and celebrate Halloween using paper plates, dot markers, yarn, pipe cleaners, and wiggle eyes. Materials White paper plates Green, orange, purple, or black dot markers Green, orange, purple, or black yarn Green, orange, purple, or black pipe cleaners […] More

  • Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Pregnant Women
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    Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Pregnant Women

    When I was pregnant with my daughter six years ago, I was thirty weeks into my pregnancy at Halloween. I was absolutely thrilled for the opportunity to dress up my pregnant belly. I had so many fun and safe Halloween costume ideas in mind. Unfortunately, Halloween fell on a Monday that year. Because I worked […] More

  • Cupcake Liner Apple Tree Craft
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    Cupcake Liner Apple Tree Craft

    My kiddos and I love making crafts for each season of the year. Apples are a favorite craft subject during the autumn season. For an easy but fun fall craft, my children and I used construction paper, cupcake liners, dot markers, and craft pompoms to make an orchard of apple trees. Materials White mini cupcake […] More

  • Tips for Saving Money on Disposable Diapers
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    Tips for Saving Money on Disposable Diapers

    I have been diapering my children for almost six years now. I started with disposables on my daughter but switched to cloth diapers full time when she was around three months old. With my son, I began using cloth but started using disposables part time during our eight months of travels back and forth from […] More

  • The Duck and Shedd Aquarium
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    The Duck and Shedd Aquarium: The Rubber Ducky Project Week 40

    The Duck and Shedd Aquarium features a rubber duck outside Shedd Aquarium, an indoor aquarium in Chicago, Illinois that opened in 1930 and that contains 1,500 species including fish, marine mammals, birds, snakes, amphibians, and insects. At the beginning of 2013, I made a resolution to post a weekly photograph of a rubber duck. Because […] More

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