{5 Colorful DIY Kid Activities}

Boy do I wish I had these ideas two summers ago when a friend's two precious little girls (4 & 6) stayed the weekend with the hubs and I! We did lots of fun activities, but I probably spent more than I should have on crafts, games, and treats. The internet is inundated with fun, easy, and inexpensive ideas for having fun with your kids, it's just a matter of finding a few tried and true tutorials! I've compiled a few here:

{Liquid Sidewalk Chalk}

Domestic Charm

{Jello Playdough Recipe}

Here.

{Fluffy Bathtub Paint}

Housing a Forest

Will be trying this one on our little one soon...

{Sensory Bottles}

Pink Pistachio

{Lawn Bowling}

Here.

Since our Baby A is too little to do anything with the above actives besides try to eat the contents, I will be looking for opportunities to incorporate these ideas into play-time with friends' children when we babysit!

{love} kacey jane

{Babies and Books}

Reading was my first love, and of course I love babies, so it would naturally follow that I would find the combination of the two to be absolutely adorable! I'm loving several photo trends these days for newborns and babies, and one of them is the baby/book combo. Sometimes a photo can capture the wonder of reading just perfectly!

So much wonder and imagination here...

Three Nails Photography

Reading is hard...

inspire m.e. on Tumblr

Dress up, play, read...

Fotopastele

Lookin' just like daddy...

All That is Right In the World

Extensive reading list...

Beth V Photography

My husband reads to our little darling every night and it steals my heart every time.  Can't wait until Baby A is big enough to sit up and hold a book in her lap by herself!

{Children are 

made readers 

on the laps 

of their parents. 

 - Emily Buchwald}...

Enjoy this blogpost from "How We Montessori" 

on five reasons to read to your baby:

How We Montessori

{love} kacey jane