Category Archives: Toys-apps-games

Print this game next time you travel with kids!

Will you travel with kids any time soon? If so, print this little game and take it with you on your next plane trip. It will be fun. I promise. I don’t know about you but for us, when we travel … Continue reading

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Kids outdoor activity: Painting with chalk

A quick and easy way to turn chalk into paint with your kids On a hot summer day a while back Victoria had one of her friends over on a play-date.I thought it’s a nice opportunity to try out a … Continue reading

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Our all-time favorite household baby toys

If you have, or had, a baby already, you know that they would grab just whatever is in their reach and play with it. Babies investigate any object they can find, especially those they are not supposed to find 🙂 … Continue reading

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Easy DIY toys for a mini-explorer baby!

Sure, a good selection of “real toys” can offer great educational stimuli to kids (I own an online toy shop  would you have expected otherwise?) and on top they don’t require preparation besides buying them. However, there is also a whole … Continue reading

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Baby playtime – 3 Activity tips to play with a small baby

Our third mini-explorer is not a baby any more, she’s turning into a toddler. So before I forget all about how it is to have a baby in the house I’d like to dedicate some posts on this blog to … Continue reading

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Make bedtime a fun game for your kids

How we tweaked our 30-count technique to make bedtime routine a fun game Is bedtime also so tough for you? Until recently bedtime for us was a fairly easy time, we had our method figured out and it worked well. … Continue reading

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Top 20 Educational Baby Toys (0 -1 year)

With Christmas coming closer, 3 kids in the house and lots of toys to test, I’m often asked how I manage the Christmas presents. So I thought it might be useful to share my list of our favorite educational baby … Continue reading

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How to turn your supermarket shopping trip into a kids game?

In my previous posts, I already talked about making sure you are well prepared and I shared several tricks you can use once at the supermarket to avoid trouble with your toddlers. Here I want to tell you about how we turn shopping into … Continue reading

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15 great black & white ideas for babies…

Babies love high contrast objects in the first months of their life You probably heard it before. Newborn babies don’t see so well and their sight rapidly develops in the first months of their life. Before their sight is completely … Continue reading

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A Good Sticker Book can be the Perfect Toy for on the Road or at Home.

How can a good sticker book save the day. This is a review of our favorite Usborne sticker books. Lately my kids are into stickers and if you ask them what they  like most they’s tell you that they want … Continue reading

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