The Blog — Christmas

If you need a last minute Christmas printable, try our candy cane printable treat box.  It's super easy to whip up a bunch of treat boxes perfect for say, holding popcorn while you watch A Christmas Story, or to put carrots and oats in for Santa's reindeer tonight, or you know, something. Just click the image to download this free printable, or you can click here.

So school's out for the holidays, and I still need my kids to stay busily out of my hair while I finish up some last minute Christmas presents.  So I'm hoping to entertain them with some new Christmas craft stick puzzles.....at least they'll be busy for about 2.7 minutes. Just click the image to download these free craft stick puzzle printables, or you can click here. If you're not sure how craft stick puzzles work, you can check out the tutorial we posted here.

Are your kids out of school yet?  Today is the last day for my kids until January, so we need THINGS TO DO. I made this little playset with the intention of the kids helping me put them together.  Except then I got all crazy obsessive about it and did it all myself so that they would look better.  (But I'm not really that crazy, because my kids are super lazy cutters, and when I say, "cut on the lines" they hand me hacked up pieces and are like, "I'm done!" and I'm like, "uuuuh, it's missing half of it's...

Sometimes you just feel a little Scrooge-y.  For those days, you can display this 8x10 print. To Print: Download the  file using the pink “Click Here To Download” button or by clicking here. Your computer will automatically download a jpg file The file is now on your computer ready to print!

A lot of the time my kids are like, "Mom, why do we always eat the same exact junk for lunch everyday?"  And most of the time I just say, "Eat it or starve, it's up to you," but sometimes (rarely) I'm just awesome and instead of giving them different junk, I just make it LOOK different. To make: Grab a piece of bread, and some cheese, and some raisins, and a couple crackers and a carrot stick. Place orange-y cheese on the bread.  Then take some string cheese and separate it into strips.  You'll need to place those strips...