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Mod Gingerbread House
Whether you love modern architecture or you just love a challenge, this mod gingerbread house might be worth an afternoon of fun with your kids. It's based on an award-winning real home and you can...
The Raisin Experiment
Funny Family Traditions
Are you finding it harder and harder to please your kids in your gift giving? Last year we came across a hilarious micro-experiment where a father gave his three-year-old a wrapped 14 cent box of ...
Christmas Wichtels
Flickr Find
After spotting these adorable little Christmassy creatures, we had to look up the word wichtel to find out that they're house imps (or gnomes, depending on your sources) that leave presents and surpri...
Cookie Cutter Wreath
Maybe you're looking for some easy DIY projects to spruce up the house in time for the holidays? How about a cookie cutter wreath that's anything but?...
Simple Peanut Ornaments
How To
Peanuts™ has always been a part of our holiday traditions, but we're happy to welcome a new peanut to the party. Who knew that drawing a smiley face on any little object could instantly put it in...
Tinker Tree
Flickr Find
How much are we loving this little bit of festive eye candy? Flickr member - and Ohdeedoh reader - Nudik proves that all it takes is a bit of ingenuity to fashion a kid-friendly Christmas tree using s...
How Early Do Your Holiday Traditions Start?
In our home, once Santa had returned to his sleigh (or rather gone back to bed), our little feet carried us down the hall to stare at all the presents and lit tree, in the darkness of our living room...
A Christmas Branch
Last week's farmer's market had some beautiful branches for sale that we passed on. We're kicking ourselves now and hoping they'll be making another appearance this Sunday so we can pull of something...
Sebastian and Ruby's Festive Delight
Room Tour (Reprise!)
Children's names and ages: Sebastian (3.5) and Ruby (5 weeks) Location: Missouri It seems only fitting, as 2009 draws to a close, that we take a look back and see what changes the year has wrought....
Make and Bake Christmas Tree Ornaments
Big box stores make it easy to get all your tree ornaments in one fell swoop. We've seen the clear containers of shiny baubles in different colors. Easy and efficient, but consider making (and bakin...
Popsicle Stick Snowflakes
How To
Popsicle sticks are practically a staple of kids' art supplies, but you may want to raid your kid's stash to make some large-scale snowflake decorations of your own. ...
Leaving Santa Cookies and Milk
Of course it's just good hospitality to leave Santa (and those reindeer) a little something on Christmas Eve when they visit your home. They're working hard, and they need the energy......
Acorn Topped Ornaments
How To
If we were a round wooden bead we'd like nothing more than a beret-like acorn topper and a sweet little face painted on us. Ez of Creature Comforts is offering up this easy, adult-supervised, tutor...
Fabric Pup Tent
How To
When pondering Christmas gifts for my kids and others, I think about the next several months of cold wintry weather. Sure there will be brisk walks, quick trips to the playground and, if we're lucky ...
Festive Paper Lanterns
How To
Do you remember making these as a kid? We do, and boy howdy, was it fun. Fast, easy, and using materials you probably have on hand -- this is a great little afternoon quiet-time project. And like the ...
Print It, Don't Buy It: Holiday Gift Tags
To piggyback on our free downloadable holiday cards post, we've rounded up another edition of free holiday gift tags you can print out at home. Besides being free, they're frankly cuter than most o...
A Non-Green Tree
Maybe we're boring but each year for the holidays we buy a real tree. It's a bit more maintenance with the watering but the fresh pine scent makes it worthwhile. All across the blogosphere, however,...
5 Free Downloadable Holiday Cards (That Are Actually Cute)
After spending quite a bit of time researching the subject, we think we can confidently say that, when it comes to free downloadable greeting cards, you generally get what you pay for. Despite this, w...
Make a Winter Village with Cereal Boxes
How To
Wreaths, trees and garland are all nice and fine, but our favorite seasonal decoration is a winter village. It's like having your own Who-ville for kids to play with. The only problem is that most ...
Holiday Decorating Idea On the Cheap
Paper Crafts by Macula
And by cheap, we mean free. We've been careful not to accumulate too many holiday decorations since we have neither an attic or basement to stow them in the other 11 months of the year, but that do...
Favorite Holiday Music for Kids
What's playing at your house?
You don't have to be a kid to love these albums, but here are a few that start getting heavy rotation in our house even before those last turkey leftovers are consumed. Much to our husband's chagri...
Letter from the North Pole
Your kids might be writing letters to Santa- but how about sending them a letter back- complete with a real postmark from the North Pole......
Snowflake Curtain
How To
Okay, so maybe you're not quite ready for full-on Christmas decorating, but you've got an itch to start some kind of project. Or perhaps you don't observe Christmas but you still want to celebrate the...
Book Advent Calendar
The advent calendar officially comes out of storage today. Like many of you, we struggle year to year coming up with fun things to tuck into our advent calendar. Many of you really enjoyed the list ...
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