What’s in Your Easter Basket?

Easter Sunday is already just one day away. I know a lot of parents will most likely be up late tonight making their children’s Easter baskets, but I went a little Easter basket crazy a few days ago. If I do say so myself, the two baskets I put together for my stepchildren came out great!

What are in your Easter baskets this year? Here’s a picture of the two I made up, do you think I went a little overboard?

Of course our baskets contain the mandatory extreme levels of sugar, which you can’t see because they are buried with a variety of small (and not so small) toys and Easter basket stuffers. Each basket contains one book by Leslie Patricelli, Baby Happy Baby Sad and Higher! Higher! [review here.] They also contain …

Leslie Patricelli Offers Up a Series of Bright & Delightful Books for Children

Leslie Patricelli is the author and illustrator of a series of bright, silly, engaging, and delightful books for children.

Baby Happy Baby Sad is perfect for toddlers and goes through the two most definitive emotions a baby has every single day–Happiness and sadness. It is a thick board book, full of color, highlighting scenarios that may occur in a baby’s day such as playing in mud, which of course makes the baby happy and getting a bath, which makes the baby sad.

However, my personal favorite of the two books is Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher! is an adorable tale of a young girl on a swing pleading with her father to keep pushing her higher and higher. It is a particularly silly but charming book that …

Easy Easter Craft: Cone Cup Bunny

While Easter is certainly the time to fill baskets for our children with enough candy to put a grown person into a full sugar coma, a book or two, or some small toys or other festive items, it is also a great time to give our children the opportunity to get a little creative as well!

Here is an easy-to-do craft for young children that will definitely be taken out for years to come and used either as a knickknack to decorate an end table or coffee table or even an Easter dinner table centerpiece.

You will need:

Paper cone cups or construction paper
Additional construction paper in two colors
Scissors
White craft glue
2 wiggle eyes
Craft paint or markers

1. If using cone cups, skip down to step number 2. If using construction paper, roll 2 pieces into cone shapes and glue or tape in …

Adorable, Non-Toxic, All Natural Plush Toys for Baby & Child

We all want the very best for our children but many parents, while making sure you are providing them with the necessities they need as well as the best care, the best educational devices and so on, some areas are often overlooked–including toys.

With the amount of recalls of children-related items in the past few years alone, it is becoming more and more apparent that parents must start thinking twice about the activities and toys we provide our children with. While it is surely impossible to know what many manufacturers are putting in and on the toys we are buying in stores all over the country, we do have other options. We can start purchasing from companies that embrace all natural, organic materials; materials that will not pose any harm to children and infants who will undoubtedly form a bond and have a long …

Bella Sara Expands Line with Treasures Series & Mini Horses Collection

Attention, all parents with horse-loving young girls, I have a treat for you! If you have never heard of or introduced your young girls to the magical, whimsical, safe and adventurous world of Bella Sara, now is the time to do so.

Bella Sara is the leading trading card product ever created for girls ages five to twelve. The World of Bella Sara is a magical place full of beauty and joy that offers positive, inspirational messages from horses from North of North. Selling over 80 million cards to date, Bella Sara is expanding their line even further with two new exciting features for girls who love Bella Sara.

Not only are Bella Sara trading cards horse-themed, you can now start collecting, trading, displaying, and cherishing miniature, palm-sized velvety horses from the Bella Sara Miniatures Series 1 Collection. These horses …

Get Your Kids Interested in the Environment

Remember the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax? We may have had no idea what it was about when we read it on our own, but if you had a parent who read the book to you and explained that it was about the steadily decreasing environment or you figured it out as you got older. I still love that book and it is now more than ever before where we really need to pay more attention to the world around us. More importantly, as we become more and more passionate about the environment, we will want to instill those same priorities in our children and the most exciting and fun way to do that is to share the love of books.

Children learn a great deal from books, including books that are read to them when they are younger. There are a …