Kids Activities

Family-owned, Spicer's Music, opened their doors eight years ago with the desire to enrich the Auburn-Opelika community through music. When stepping into Spicer’s Music you will find a full retail store with an emphasis on a song based approach...

I’ve said it before, but one of my main goals of motherhood is to create a childhood that feels magical and special and to curate an environment that yields openness and creativity. Holidays have a good bit of all...

Big Box stores started to sell Christmas items in early October this year; this seems earlier every year. We are constantly bombarded with buy me messages. Ads are everywhere—YouTube, Facebook, television, radio, mail, magazines, newspapers, websites, billboards. Even our...

For the past two years, I've hosted a Christmas cookie swap in our home: Everyone arrives with a few dozen homemade cookies, spreads them out on the table, and gathers around talking and sampling. There are kid crafts, a...

Halloween is almost here and, as with most things this year, we are not back to “normal”. If you are feeling iffy about going door-to-door, keep reading for some fun alternatives to schlepping kids up and down the road...

In our house, we take birthday month and week very seriously. Birthdays themselves are full of celebration and excitement, and drawing that fun out an extra week adds to childhood magic. Our son turned two in September, and in...

If you decided to go the homeschooling route, this post is for you. I’m sharing three important strategies you should incorporate into your daily homeschool routine to make it a smooth and easy transition. We all wished that things would...

Previously, I've written about summer day trips and day dates. I have been working on a list of places to take my kids in the coming season, and thought I would share my findings here. Many people are homeschooling...

We are all living in uncertain times where we can’t go and explore or socialize as freely as we once did. We may need some kids activities to keep ours minds off this pandemic.  Our kids LOVE to be active...

It's 2 days before Valentine's Day and you still have to make Valentines for every kid in each of your children's classes, and if you're like me you want to spare the other parents from the wrath that is...