Soap Holder Craft

        This comes in handy for keeping extra bars of soap for guests and it’s attractive. Take any design of 3-inch ribbon about 24 inches long. Loop one end through a ring and secure (sew or use hot glue). Take...

Journals for Kids – Great Way to Express Themselves

        Go to any store and get what I call nothing books, give them to your kids to write, draw or express themselves any way they choose. Be sure to write the year on the inside cover so through time they can reflect...

Showing Your Daughters How Dates Should Be

My children are 13, 12 and 9. My husband plans on taking the girls on a REAL date so they can get used to what a date is supposed to be like. I think this is a GREAT idea! Val Pearson, Mom of 3 Greenwood, SC

Hire Professionals for Birthday Parties

Get all the help you can get with professionals. I celebrated my son’s birthdays and hired a magician. He kept the kids as well as the children entertained, and everything went smoothly and on time. Sulbha, Mom of 2 Pittsburgh, PA

Combining Birthday Parties for Siblings

For birthdays: If you have two children who are the same gender, and close in Age (appx. 2yrs or less apart), have a combined birthday party for them. Give them four to five different themes to choose from, and TRY to get them to come to an agreement...

Make Your Teenager’s Birthday Personal

My Daughter loves Reese’s and on her sixteenth birthday I wanted to do something special for her. I bought her sixteen Reese’s and then I wrote sixteen reasons why she is special to me. I cut them out and taped them to the Reese’s....

Milk Bottles Flower Pots

Clean the white milk jugs and paint or draw themes on them. You can put different flowers in the decorated vases. Jackie, Mom of 2 Brooks, GA

Creating Memories with Crafts

I found as my girls were growing up, spending holidays making crafts and creating things is a memory I still have. With Valentine’s day coming, I was looking at a magazine and it brought back memories of all the fun times we had creating Valentine’s...