Feeling a Little Salty? You’re Not Alone!
We’re Christine and Jaymi, two salty mamas with seven kids between us. We’re happy to be your virtual mom squad!
With lazy-mom approved kids activities, snarky playdate chatter, and little ways to make your life more fun, we’re here to make your momlife a little sweeter.
Even when you’re feeling salty.
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So you’ve decided it’s time to start potty training. Congratulations! – and good luck. Because while the world may have tried to convince you that potty training may be an easy three day process, in our experience it hasn’t been so cut and dry. Well, definitely not dry. Wondering about the real stages of potty training? We’ve got all the real-talk take on the potty training progression in this hilarious post. What stage of potty training is YOUR child in?
Is it as hot and sweaty where you are as it is here? Whether it’s blazing hot or freezing cold, your kids will get a kick out of these exciting ways to play with ice in our list of ice activities for preschoolers (and beyond).
Mamas, it is too dang hot where we are and the kids and I are sweating it out. They’re saying it’s too hot to play outside, but we’re running out of activities to do here at home. It’s time to get creative.
As always, we set out to find some ways to entertain our kids. Bonus points if those ideas are low-cost, easy to prep, and use materials we have on hand.
Over the course of the summer, we have slowly but surely created a steady rotation of ice activities for preschoolers. These activities will keep your kids cool, keep them engaged, and get them learning with tons of fun science, mathematics, and art applications.
If you’re looking for ice activities to do with kids when it’s hot outside, you’ve come to the right place. Check out our 7 favorite ways to play with ice.
If our families have learned something in the last few years, it’s the power of grit and resilience. If you need family motto ideas to help instill resilience in your kids, check out these 5 ideas.
Resilience. It’s one of the buzz words of the morning, and we are constantly told how “resilient” our kids are. We want our kids to see that as empowering, and to develop a strong sense of grit.
“Grit” describes someone with strong character, courage, and resolve. When you say that someone has grit, it means that they have the capacity to overcome challenges, to keep going when things get hard, and to keep pushing to meet their goals.
So what IS grit? According to a recent Forbes article, the five characteristics of grit are resilience, tenacity, conscientiousness, endurance, and being achievement and excellence oriented.
Now, who WOULDN’T want that for their kids?
But it’s a little harder to teach grit to kids than other topics we usually cover with them. It’s not something that can be covered during storytime. It’s not a lesson we can complete and then mark off our lists.
Teaching grit means consistently emphasizing those crucial traits, over and over again, in a way that shows kids how important they are.
In our family, that boils down to a few family mottoes. We repeat these mottoes again and again. And though my kids are still little- age six and three- we’re starting to hear these phrases coming out of their mouths more and more.
With any luck- and a LOT of repetition- these ideas will stick, and become a part of their character throughout the years.
So if you need family motto ideas to help build resilience– and to change your family culture in the process- we’ve got some ideas that may help!
Our summer bucket list grows every year as we add new traditions. But one thing that we’ll never leave of the list? This yummy homemade ice cream in a bag.
Ice cream is, obviously, synonymous with summer. But in addition to lots of flavor (using simple ingredients), there’s also a whole lot of science you can fit into that little bag.
As a first grade teacher, I would always use this simple science experiment to end our unit on states of matter. Kids will get to witness first hand how their liquid ingredients change to solids, and how the solid ice changes to liquid. There’s tons of opportunity to talk about heat transfer, property changes, and even work on skills like measurement.
That’s a whole lot of science in a little bag. Plus, they’ll get to eat ice cream. Trust me- they’re going to be on board with this one.
So if you’re looking for a fun summer activity, give this homemade ice cream in a bag recipe a try. Your kids will thank you for it!
