Thanksgiving Gramma In A Box Plus Giveaway

Gramma in a Box was developed when the creators three grandchildren moved to Seattle. She was always boxing up cookies and treats that they could make together when they Skyped. Once she shared the idea with other friends and family, the concept for Gramma in a Box was born!

As a mother of five myself I can relate to families being far away and trying to find unique ways to bond together. To me Gramma In A Box is the perfect way to get your kids excited for the holidays. My kids love Halloween so they really enjoyed this months box. I love how you know what you are getting with Gramma In A Box each box includes two treat projects you make with your kids and baked cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Each box makes at least 20 finished treats. I love that this is enough for all three of my older kids to enjoy. It's hard for me to find cheap projects I can do with all three kids that we haven't already done.
In the Thanksgiving themed box we made Acorns, Pretzel Turkeys and decorated Thanksgiving Cookies. A good mom tip I break out the cookies first so the kids have something easy and simple to do while I prep the other two projects. I also save the cards so I can recreate the projects with the kids. Gramma In A Box makes a perfect impressive, thoughtful, inexpensive, fun gift for multiple kids or one very special child. Give the gift that lasts all year with a 12 month subscription or choose 3, 6 or single box subscriptions.

Halloween Themed Gramma In A Box

Gramma in a Box was developed when the creators three grandchildren moved to Seattle. She was always boxing up cookies and treats that they could make together when they Skyped. Once she shared the idea with other friends and family, the concept for Gramma in a Box was born!
As a mother of five myself I can relate to families being far away and trying to find unique ways to bond together. To me Gramma In A Box is the perfect way to get your kids excited for the holidays. My kids love Halloween so they really enjoyed this months box. I love how you know what you are getting with Gramma In A Box each box includes two treat projects you make with your kids and baked cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Each box makes at least 20 finished treats. I love that this is enough for all three of my older kids to enjoy. It's hard for me to find cheap projects I can do with all three kids that we haven't already done.

Get Kids Excited For Halloween With Mindware Treats

With Halloween so close I wanted to do some extra special fun crafts and projects with the kids to get them excited for Halloween. It seems like as the boys get older they get less and less interested in the holidays. My boys are only ten and eight and I want them to enjoy Halloween still as much as my three year old does. My go to is always Mindware! Mindware just has the best and most unique toys and kids products on the market in my opinion. Mindware has never let me down and with four kids that is a big deal. I ordered a few different items to get the kids in the Halloween spirit. You can check out all of Mindware's Halloween products here. I ordered the kids the Scratch and Sniff Animal Favorites Scented Sticker Set,  Scratch and Sniff Treats Scented Sticker Set, Dig It Up Dinosaur Skeletons, Magic Wands Quick Sticker Kit, Stemulators: Glitter Slime Lab and Paint Your Own Porcelain Fairy Light.

DIY Bath Tub Soap Playdough

Check out this fun recipe for making bath tub playdough! Bubble bath play dough can be used in the tub and disappears when mixed with water.

Downtown Bookworks Review and Giveaway! #Valentine's Day Gift Guide

Free For All received a sample to try to facilitate this review. No financial compensation was received all opinions are 100 percent my own!

Downtown Bookworks has an amazing selection of gifts for any child! Their books are not just books they are mini adventures for you and your children to partake in together!  We received an amazing selection of books for review and an activity kit from Downtown Bookworks. We received three books from their Science With Stuff line, Insect-O-Mania, Fossil-Icious and Space-Tacular. We also received from the PBS Kid's line Super Simple Crafts: Sticks & Stones! I always like giving my kids a book for Valentine's Day it is a small gift and you can easily attach their Valentine's Day card to the book! Downtown Bookworks has an excellent selection of STEM , superhero and many other books!

The Science With Stuff is perfect for all ages of children. My two year old loved the Insect-O-Mania. She likes bugs and enjoyed that it came with an actual bug in resin. The bug in each book varies but each bug includes one bug in resin! I am constantly trying to teach my kids because so much is expected of little ones in school. I took the bug in resin a step further and started talking about fossils and how a lot of fossils are captured in resin that it is a great way of preserving. That way we could get into our Fossil-Icious book that also included something really cool. We actually got our own little fossils! Fossil-Icious was my oldest sons favorite as he loves fossils! My middle son likes space he was a huge fan of Space-Tacular he loved that it came with real space rocks! I even learned something from Space-Tacular! Do you know what "Space Rocks are called? I sure didn't! They are tektites!  I think kids learn so much better when they can see things and touch and feel them. My kids are all visual learners!

Our favorite out of all the products was the PBS Kids Crafts: Sticks & Stones! We live in Eastern Kentucky so we explore the great outdoors a lot. We have tons of hills, forests and just wildlife all around us. The Sticks & Stones Crafts was something we could enjoy doing as a family. We took a nature hike I gave each of my kids a bag and asked them to pick up whatever they found interesting in nature. We had rocks, leaves, sticks and pine cones mostly. Then I let the kids open their Sticks & Stones craft kit. They all seemed to enjoy painting rocks the most. There are over 50 activities though that you can choose from to do with your little ones all in this one kit!

With Downtown Bookworks you can't go wrong they have something for every little one! Make sure to check out Downtown Bookworks site and follow them on social media below:

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Make Your Own Slime

Who knew slime was so easy to make? Make your own slime with this do it yourself recipe!

What You Need:

• White glue or school glue
• Borax
• Food coloring (optional)
• Water
• Two bowls

What You Do:

1. In one bowl mix 1/2 cup (4 oz) glue and 1/2 cup water. Add food coloring if you want colored slime.
2. In the other bowl, mix 1 teaspoon borax with 1 cup water until the borax is dissolved.
3. Add the glue mixture to the borax solution, stirring slowly.
4. The slime will begin to form immediately; stir as much as you can, then dig in and knead it with your hands until it gets less sticky. (No one makes slime without getting a little messy!) Don't worry about any leftover water in the bowl; just pour it out.

Results:

The glue has an ingredient called polyvinyl acetate, which is a liquid polymer. The borax links the polyvinyl acetate molecules to each other, creating one large, flexible polymer. This kind of slime will get stiffer and more like putty the more you play with it.
Store it in a plastic bag in the fridge, to keep it from growing mold.

Make your child their very own Voltron Door Hanger

I am always looking for crafts to do with the kids. Making door hangers is super easy and fun for the kids. Check out this Voltron Door Hanger below! Is your child a fan? Make this craft with them!