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Birthday Party Ideas:
Easy 5 Minute Smash Cake DIY
🎉 Celebrate your little one’s first birthday in style with this quick and adorable DIY 5-minute smash cake idea! 🍰 Transform a store-bought cake into a personalized masterpiece without any hassle. Perfect for busy parents! 🎂✨
Easy Inexpensive DIY Minecraft Birthday Party Ideas
Throw an epic #Minecraft birthday party without breaking the bank! Check out these easy and inexpensive DIY ideas for decorations, favors, games, and treats. Get your child’s #birthdayparty a #pixelated touch without the hassle.
Easy DIY Minecraft Cupcakes and Party Activity
Create the ultimate Minecraft-themed celebration with these easy DIY cupcakes! Perfect for a fun party activity, these delicious treats will delight all gaming enthusiasts. Get your #MinecraftParty started with this simple activity and enjoy a day filled with creativity and tasty adventures.
Cheap DIY Minecraft Birthday Party Decorations – Nether Portal and Ghasts
Transform your child’s birthday party into a Minecraft adventure on a budget! Create a stunning Nether Portal backdrop and cute Ghast decorations using easy and affordable DIY techniques. These cheap Minecraft party ideas will leave your guests awe-inspired.
Halloween Skull Dripping Cone Birthday Cake
Indulge in spooky sweetness with our Halloween-themed Skull Dripping Cone Birthday Cake! 🎃🍰 Perfect for all October babies and spooky celebrations. This delicious treat features a cone-shaped cake covered in drippy white ganache and adorned with skull-shaped candies. It’s a frightfully delicious centerpiece that guarantees a hair-raising Halloween party! 🕷️🎉
Easy Tombstone Halloween Cupcakes
Get spookily creative this Halloween with these Easy Tombstone Cupcakes! These adorable and delicious treats are perfect for any Halloween party or gathering. With just a few simple ingredients, you can create your own graveyard masterpiece.
Inexpensive, Adorable Mermaid Party Tails! DIY
Make a splash at your next party with these budget-friendly and super cute mermaid party tails! Dive into DIY fun and create your own magical mermaid tails that little ones will love. Perfect for birthdays or just adding some enchantment to playtime!
Cardboard Crafts and Upcycle Ideas
Have a bunch of cardboard laying around and wondering if there is something else you can do with it before recycling? Then check out some of these great cardboard crafts.
- Cardboard Creations – Dog Playhouse
- Cardboard Creations – Big Blue USPS Mailbox
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Play Kitchen
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Lacing Cards
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Storage Boxes
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Puzzle
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Small Mailbox
- Cardboard Creations – DIY Rearrangeable Pom Pom Ball Run
Cut and Sew Fabric Crafts
Fabric for all of the Busy/Quiet Books can be purchased through Spoonflower in my Cut and Sew section complete kits with all the necessary pieces are available through my Etsy Shop Busy Button Designs.
My Life Skills Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a clock page with movable snappable pieces, a page with buttons, a shoe tying page, a sweater buttoning page, and zipper page, and a coin bank page. Fantastic for developing fine motor skills.
My Princess Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a dress lacing page, a velcro “build a castle” page, and hair style page, and dress up yourself page, and a paper doll dress up page.
My Car Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a monster truck page with button on wheels, a stop light with snap on lights, a velcro car puzzle, velcro street signs, and drivable mini cars on a play road.
My First Old Testament Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a page to learn the days of creation with snap on pictures, styling Queen Esther’s hair, Zipper whale for Jonah, finger puppets and Arc pocket for Noah, Hook and Eyelet matching for Ruth’s wheat gathering, and weaving for Joseph’s coat.
My Farm Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a tractor page with a button and snap on wheel, planting and harvesting crops, finger puppet animals, main braiding, and apple gathering with hook and eyelets.
My Bug Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)
Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a velcro bee puzzle, a button on ant page, a peek a boo caterpillar page, a design the wings butterfly page, a snap on spots lady bug page, and a weave the spider’s web page. Fantastic for developing fine motor skills.
My First Weather Book – Busy Book Sewing Instructions (Quiet Book)Fabric Cut and Sew book with instructions for making a tactile rain cloud page, a magnetic hide the sun page, peek a boo leaf page, pull up flower page, elastic lightening page, and turnable snowflake page.
Family Friendly Boston/Cambridge
Weekly Event Summaries:
Weekly Event Summaries For Family Friendly Activities Going on in The Boston/Cambridge MA Area:
- Week of February 5th – 12th (2016)
- Week of January 29th – Feb 5th (2016)
- Week of January 15th – 22nd (2016)
- Week of January 8th – 15th (2016)
- Week of December 4th – 10th (2015)
- Week of November 6th – 13th (2015)
- Week of October 30th – November 6th (2015)
- Week of October 23rd – 29th (2015)
- Week of October 16th – 22nd (2015)
- Week of October 9th – 15th (2015)
Touring Boston:
Summary of Boston attractions and what you should know before visiting the attraction/s with children.
- What to Know About Visiting the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) with Children
- Unexpected Places to Visit on the MIT Campus – MIT Colored Floor Exhibit – Sol Lewitt: Bars of Color within Squares
- What to Know About Visiting the Boston Museum of Science with Kids
- What to Know About Visiting Boston’s Children’s Museum with a Toddler
- What to Know About Visiting the New England Aquarium with Kids
- MIT Graduate School Housing, Where Should I live with Kids?
- Touring Boston: Cape Cod Chip Factory
- Family Friendly Boston: Boston University BU Pool with Kids
- Touring Boston: Mike’s Pastries
- Touring Boston: Fenway Park with Kids
- Family Friendly Boston: Beacon Hill Trick or Treating
- Touring Boston: Ghost Graveyard Tour
- Touring Boston: Visiting Salem During October
- Touring Boston: Apple Picking – Russell Orchard
- Touring Boston: Apple Picking – Tougas Farm
- Touring Boston: Apple Picking – Lookout Farm
- Touring Boston: Painless Camping with Kids when you don’t have gear
- Touring Boston: Franklin Park Zoo with Kids
- Touring Boston: Bunker Hill Monument with Kids
- Touring Boston: Mayflower and Plymouth Rock with Kids
- Touring Boston: Plymouth Plantation with Kids
- Touring Boston: Mount Auburn Cemetery with Kids
- Family Friendly Boston: Dana Park Cambridge Splash Pad
- Touring Boston: Castle Island Beach with Kids
- Touring Boston: Kayaking the Charles River
- Family Friendly Boston: Artesani Splash Pad and Wading Pool
- Touring Boston: 4th of July/Independence Day Celebration with Kids
- Touring Boston: Cambridge City Movies on the Green
- Touring Boston: Hatch Shell Summer Movies with Kids
- Touring Boston: Free Fun Fridays (Summer Fun)
- Touring Boston: Frog Pond Splash Pad
- Family Friendly Boston: Cambridge Book Bike
- Family Friendly Boston: Greene Rose Heritage Park and Splash Pad
- Family Friendly Boston: David Nunes / Old Morse Park
- Family Friendly Boston: Fulmore Sand Park
- Touring Boston: Free Ferry Day – Georges Island
- New England Touring: Rhode Island Newport Mansions with Kids
- Touring Boston: USS Constitution with Kids
- Family Friendly Boston: Setting up a Fire Station Visit
- Touring Boston: Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Touring Boston: Garment District
- Touring Boston: Isabella Steward Gardner Museum
- Touring Boston: Union Square Donuts
- Touring Boston: Sullivans and the First Day of Spring
- Touring Boston: Boston Public Library with Kids
- Touring Boston: Candle Pin Bowling
- Touring Boston: Museum of Science with Kids
- Touring Boston: Boston Children’s Museum with a Toddler
- Touring Boston: New England Aquarium
- Touring Boston: Institute of Contemporary ART (ICA) with Kids
- Touring Boston: MFA Museum of Fine Arts with Kids