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The Make & Play Vault

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 [...]

It’s gooey. It’s gummy. It’s like glue. It’s oobleck! I love activities that correlate with children’s books, and this is [...]

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 [...]

One of my boys was blessed with my very over active imagination, which can be fun during the day, but [...]

Last fall I was absolutely delighted when the lovely Kylie of How We Montessori agreed to write a four part [...]

I’m having so much fun rounding up our best posts for you to peruse while I’m working away on the [...]

I love activities that are cheap, easy, and entertaining for more than just a minute. This is one of my [...]

Would you believe me if I told you I didn’t coordinate Kaley and Kim‘s traveling posts?  I swear it’s true. [...]

Contributor Allison is back today with something very cool.  DecoArt sent us some of their new Ink Effects fabric transfer ink and [...]

Much to me and my husband’s disbelief, our little girl turned two recently.  (Two!  I’m officially no longer a mama [...]

I’m guessing that knitting isn’t high up on most of your lists for summertime fun.  But I’m here to change [...]

I’ve been really inspired lately by a concept known as “invitations to play”.  The steps involved are about as simple [...]

A few weeks ago C finished up his first year of preschool and they had a little carnival to celebrate. [...]