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    Cute Fishing Jokes for Kids

    These adorable fishing jokes for kids are a cute way to show your kids you are thinking about them when they are at school, or camp. There’s nothing quite as useful as comic content for kids when it comes to socializing. What’s the first thing that your niece and nephew tell you at every single family function? “Hello Auntie Paula or Uncle Jim” and then they launch right into the jokes, right? I love this about my youngest niece and second youngest nephew. It totally reminds me of my own childhood because my brother used to love jokes. I was…

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    Funny Lunch Box Safari Jokes for Kids

    It’s time to head back to school. So, I thought I’d share these adorable and free Lunch Box Safari Jokes for you to share with your kids. I have shared several sets of lunch box jokes over the years. Recently, I posted these adorable karate lunch box jokes to brighten their week when you add them to the lunch box, or bento box. You loved those so much that I thought I’d add more here for you to help brighten the back to school in 2020 mood. Don’t forget to print these Lunch Box Safari Jokes out and add to…

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    Happy New Year 2020 Colouring Doodle

    Happy New Year 2020 to all of you! How did you spend your New Year’s Eve? Last night, we went skiing as a family, well mostly…my one girl went to a friend’s sleepover party and chose to stay there. It’s a New Decade – Welcome to 2020! So the rest of us, the remaining three members of my family, went skiing at Boler Mountain in town here and had a great time together. At 9:30 pm roughly every New Year’s Eve they have a family New Year’s Eve event and we have enjoyed it a few times. Last year, we…

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    Welcome Winter Colouring Page

    Do you love winter or hate winter? There are pretty much two camps on that. Some people can’t stand the cold and the relentless snow. Others, like me, can’t get enough of the snow. Bring it on. The more snow the more skiing and skating and outdoor snow sports. And that makes me happy. This season, I thought I’d share a fun welcome winter colouring page. Over the last year I shared all the seasons as colouring pages. The year before that,  it was the Months of the Year colouring pages. I shared one every month for all of the…

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    Cute Christmas Owls Colouring Page

    What is it about owls? Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated with owls. Not sure when that started, but I definitely recall being a Brownie and following along to a leader called Brown Owl. She was wise and smart. Then, as an adult along came the Harry Potter series and frankly Harry’s Owl is one of my favourite owls of all time. If you like owls, then don’t miss this roundup of Harry Potter gifts this season. When my kids were little we would go to Storybook Gardens and there was always an owl there –…

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    100 + Best Christmas Printables to Share

    When I launched this site over ten years ago my main goal was to talk about saving money. I was a stay at home mom then working hard at raising two little girls we had recently adopted from London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society. Over the last decade, my site has evolved dramatically and now my posts are largely travel writing, health writing and parenting stories that resonate with readers. However, I know my audience and you LOVE to give, but you also love giveaways and saving money. Every year I share some of the best Christmas Printables here. This year, I…

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    My Christmas Wish List Activity for Kids

    My Christmas Wish List. If there was a single phrase that could evoke childhood and the spirit of Christmas long ago for me, then I think it would be My Christmas Wish List. Post may contain affiliate links as a service to readers. I receive a small commission via qualifying links. Do you remember being small, poring over catalogues or flyers that arrived in the mail, circling items you dreamed of owning? For me, as a child, it was always dolls and Barbies. Meanwhile my brother lived for the latest race cars and trucks and puzzles. I have a daughter…

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    A Travel Printable for Kids – How I Spent 2019

    Oh my goodness we have rarely travelled as much as we did together in 2019. Now that ski season is almost here again my youngest daughter keeps asking: “Hey Mom, can we do a trip like we did last season?” Kids Can Reflect on a Fun Year Too! Last season, for your information we took an epic trip of 12 Days, nine to ten of those were straight days of skiing!” Yes, ski season was fantastic this year! I wish we could do an epic trip like that every single year, but it seems unlikely. Sometimes, these trips come together…

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    16 Easy, Fun, Dinosaur Crafts for Kids

    WE are huge dinosaur nuts here. We can’t get enough of them actually. Ever since we watched the first Jurassic Park movie the kids have been mesmerized. Well, to be honest they were both super into dinosaurs when they were small. But then they kind of lost interest for a bit. In between all of our Marvel movie marathons and the Harry Potter phase too (which frankly is still ongoing), we rediscovered a love of dinosaurs. My youngest daughter’s latest obsession with dinosaurs is drawing them and she’s getting pretty good. Of course dinosaur crafts are a huge hit too.…

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    Sign Language Flash Cards and Memory Game

    Use these Sign Language Flash Cards and Memory Game to nurture a love of languages this year. These are perfect for any age. I have been a language lover from the time I was young. At about 7 years old I wrote a booklet with a male classmate. It was grade two, I think, and we made a big splash with our words and storytelling and I knew pretty much from that age that I’d be a writer in some capacity. In those early days language and learning and words were everything to me. Family too, of course. Things haven’t…