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Grab these Earth Day printable worksheets to use with your children. They’re great for moms of young kids looking for Earth Day preschool worksheets, and wonderful for teachers with kids in kindergarten through late elementary school. Or even just moms looking for a great starting point to teach for their kids how to take care of our Earth on April 22nd! Using these Earth Day activities is a good way to supplement your other learning activities or lesson plans....

Our family typically has the exact same Easter plans. Wake up in the morning and the kids do an Easter scavenger hunt to find their Easter baskets (p.s., these Encanto Easter baskets I made this year are AMAZING!), church, then we do an Easter egg hunt, and then we finish it off with a little Easter dinner. Even our Easter menu is similar – glazed ham, homemade crescent rolls, strawberry fluff, and a little carrot cake or mini egg cheesecake for dessert!...

Easter Scavenger Hunt I’m planning to use this Easter scavenger hunt Easter morning to lead my boys to their Easter basket hidden somewhere in the house! Right before we try out one of these Easter egg hunts! This Easter scavenger hunt is one of the treasure hunt type scavenger hunts. If you’re looking for something where kids have to find certain type of Easter eggs, you’ll want to check out this Easter egg scavenger hunt instead!...

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Gratitude Game Skittles Edition One of the things I’ve found the most difficult with a 6-year-old is to help him understand more deep concepts like emotions and gratitude. In the past we tried this gratitude game (and it worked that year) for teaching gratitude, and we’ve also tried this card game for recognizing memories and emotions....

I’ve talked about how much I appreciate teachers before, but I’ll say it again – teachers are amazing. They do so much for our kids and have a job that I personally could never handle. I’ll be a room mom any day but being a teacher, especially right now, is a tough job. So I always like to send in some sort of back to school teacher gift or even just a gift card with one of these teacher appreciation gift tags with my kiddos at the beginning of the year....

We are always looking for fun Thanksgiving games and Thanksgiving activities for kids in our house! We’ve already done a Thanksgiving word search, Thanksgiving i spy, and even created some Thanksgiving coloring pages. So when I started trying to come up with some new games for this year, my mind immediately went to matching. And food. I mean food has to be part of any Thanksgiving activity right? So this Thanksgiving matching game is centered around food – popular Thanksgiving food like stuffing, brussels sprouts, and even cornbread....

I love a lot of things about camping but not necessarily the bugs. So instead of actually going camping these days, I really like to host camping themed parties and sharing camping party ideas! These campfire cupcakes are an adorable addition to any camp party dessert table or would make a great dessert for an actual campout (as long as it’s cooler so the frosting won’t melt!). They use my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe as a base but if you’re in a hurry store-bought chocolate cupcakes would work too!...

This Halloween is still going to look a little different than years in the past. People are having to come up with new fun Halloween games, doing neighborhood Halloween scavenger hunts, and swapping trick or treating with the candy bar game or Halloween egg hunts. This Halloween Quik Draw game is the perfect game for this Halloween because you can do it either in person or virtually via Zoom or another similar program....

Trick or Treat Game Idea Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and for good reason. Candy. Costumes. Chili (especially this white chicken chili). All things I love. It’s no wonder we host or at least attend a Halloween party every year! This Halloween trick or treat tree game idea is still one of my favorites because it’s SO simple to make and play! It’s also great because it’s really just about luck – not skill like these Halloween minute to win it games....

For more homemade egg dyes, check out our recipes for blue dye, yellow dye, orange dye, pink dye, and brown dye.

Skipping the bar has certainly saved me money considering I was accustomed to paying upwards of $15 for a cocktail not long ago. But the alcohol and sugar content of unlimited margaritas, lemon drops, and dirty martinis can quickly add up, leading to unfortunate hangovers made even more unfortunate by the fact that they originated from a quiet night in. So when I discovered Haus, a brand that makes low-ABV (alcohol by volume) apéritifs that promise to reduce hangovers, I was sold....

Sure, the right lineup is important—including making the proper skincare routine transition—but first, it’s important to understand what dry skin is in order to combat it. Since colder weather is rapidly approaching, we enlisted some top dermatologists to find out how best to prepare for the winter skin storm forecast ahead. What is the difference between dry and dehydrated skin? Dry skin is often misunderstood. To put things simply, dryness refers to a skin type, and dehydration refers to a skin condition....

What Is Board and Batten? Board and batten is a siding or paneling style that pairs vertical planks of wood (the boards) with smaller strips of wood (the batten), which cover the joints between each plank to prevent leaking. According to Jay Kallos, senior vice president of architecture at homebuilder Ashton Woods, the style probably originated with barns and other outhouses, where it was a practical, relatively easy exterior cladding solution for structures that didn’t need to be particularly elegant or ready to impress visitors....

Here’s one hard-and-fast rule for good gifting: “Always gift from your recipient’s perspective,” says Elaine Swann, founder of Swann School of Protocol. “Look at their life, interests, what’s meaningful for them, what they might enjoy, and make your decision based on that.” Still stumped? We asked some etiquette experts to weigh in on some of the most common gift-giving questions. “It is satisfying to give gifts that are well-loved and well-used, but remember that giving should be motivated by generosity,” says etiquette expert Catherine Newman....

But my beauty routine is slowly changing, thanks to new products specially formulated to be used in the shower. Here are some innovative ways I’ve recently upped my shower game to come out looking and feeling better, faster.

For this reason, many millennials are opting to move back home with their parents—many of them indefinitely. In previous generations, “moving back home” may have been considered a sign of failure; but these days, it’s a way that millennials and retirees alike can save money and thrive together. Changing Attitudes on Multigenerational Living Don’t let the memes and jokes on social media fool you. There are actually plenty of benefits to moving in with your folks—or staying at home longer if you haven’t moved out yet....

You may not believe in ghosts, ghouls, spirits, or lingering souls, but you’ve likely seen plenty of horror movies that start with an unsuspecting family moving into a haunted house. Offscreen, too, some actual houses are rumored to be haunted. While some people certainly are interested in haunted houses for sale, plenty might reconsider the purchase if this information was handy. According to the analysis, home sellers in most states don’t have to tell potential home buyers if they think their house is haunted, so it would be easy enough for someone to buy a house without knowing it possessed a ghost (allegedly)....

But by taking advantage of these easy to use peer-to-peer payment apps, you also put your banking info at a slight risk of hacking. How can you protect yourself when using money-sharing apps? “The best you can do is raise the bar so high, there is no practical way to exploit an issue easily,” says Jason Glassberg, a cybersecurity expert and co-founder of Casaba Security. “Think of hackers like car thieves—they’re much more likely to steal a vehicle with the key in the ignition and windows down than one that’s locked and alarmed....

Once your leather is refreshed and renewed, it will last for years with regular maintenance. So how often do you need to clean a leather couch? Mahdessian recommends cleaning light-colored leather every six months and dark-colored leather once a year. Once you’ve learned the steps below, cleaning your leather couch will become a painless part of your regular cleaning routine. What You’ll Need: Leather conditioner/cleaner (such as Chamberlain’s Leather Milk)Mild dish soap Microfiber cloths Baking soda...