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Holiday Projects

With Thanksgiving coming up (here in the US) there are plenty of opportunities to talk about thankfulness with our kids. [...]

It’s officially the holiday season. What I love most about this time of year are all the special activities I [...]

Only a few more days until Halloween. Which means there are only a few more days until the overload of [...]

My kids love having Holiday decorations outside our home. I love having homemade decorations. Unfortunately homemade + outdoors don’t always [...]

Ah, fall – I adore this time of year, especially now that I have kids.  There’s so much potential for [...]

Our family is big on traditions.  We’ve got them for major events like birthdays and Christmas, as well as small things like Saturday mornings [...]

I’m so excited about this Halloween project, it turned out even better than I’d envisioned.  It’s the quintessential MPMK project [...]

So remember last week when the Elmer’s Craft it! giveaway began?  Of course you do, entries have been nuts – [...]

Aren’t these water bead eggs cool?  They were unbelievably easy and inexpensive to pull together and I think the kids [...]

St. Paddy’s Day is just over a week away so here’s one more fun project to try with the littles.  [...]

  Around this time last year I stumbled on the idea of making a Leprechaun Trap for St. Paddy’s Day [...]

It’s been an inordinately busy weekend here at MPMK.  Things starting getting exciting on Friday, so much so that I [...]

Despite February 14th still being over a month away, re-posting last year’s shaving cream valentine has opened the Valentine DIY [...]

It’s been a great week and we have a few more winners to announce.  Congrats to Kristen, the winner of [...]

  With two toddlers running around the house, I’m all for the trend of ditching the candy and filling the [...]