Parenting Healthy

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Whether you need soft light inside or outside, you will love the color choices and amount of light the LED Ball Lights from LOFTEK puts out. We had a weekend of nice weather and I decided to use my LED lights outside. It is so pretty lit up at night. I love the soft pink and blue colors. There are 16 colors total to choose from.

Of course, you can use indoors also. There is a protective cap when you use it outside so that water stays out of the charging port but I plan to keep mine in our guest bedroom for fun when we have the older kids over and then I can easily carry outside when we entertain.

Not only is this a great party or decor light, it is also eco-friendly. These LED lights are completely free of UV, IR, lead, mercury, and other toxic elements. Choose from round, cube, stump, mushroom, pyramid and Christmas tree shapes. You can really put life into a space with a few different shapes lit up in different colors for your home. These are available on Amazon and are a Prime qualifier.

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Gift Guides, Kids, Kidz Bop

Kidz Bop 34 children’s music album release

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 Erin Sluka

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Are you ready for the newest Kidz Bop 34 children’s music album release? Like their other music albums these bring you familiar songs sung by kids. Kidz Bop 34 is available now.

My son is a huge fan and we already own several Kidz Bop albums. See all of our reviews here!

What song would your child look forward to most in this track list?

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Education, Gift Guides, Kids, STEM Learning, Toy Reviews

Learning Science in a New Way with Basher Books and Toys

March 6, 2017May 14, 2017 Erin Sluka

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Learning should be fun. When I was school aged, science was always my favorite subject. It was the one class where we were constantly tinkering, getting out of our seats for labs and just using our kinesthetic learning skills to experiment. One of my favorite science teachers was so wacky and loved having us up and moving. The kind of teacher who years later knows you are getting married and is thrilled to attend. Simon Basher has the same passion for teaching science in a way that is fun and engaging.

The best part is that the new Basher toys and card games to go along with his books he has been creating are here in the US at Target stores. My son is already anxious to collect more science toys in the Series 1 of characters. You know about collecting toys by series-they have levels of blind boxes or mini building block bags that are released in a series and that concept applies here too. We have Gas, Liquid, Aton, Ion and Molecule for Series 1 Basher Figureines.

Mattel offered to join Basher Science to create these toys. The toy line includes Basher Science figurines, card games, collectable cards, play sets and experiment kits. They feature characters from Basher’s Periodic Table, Physics, Biology and Rocks and Minerals books.

Basher Science also has over 30 science and learning books from preschooler to older children. We have the book, Chemistry: Getting A Big Reaction. It is our nightly reading book and are about half way through it now. My son is 8 and is loving everything about the book and toys. The card games are a science twist of the games Uno and Memory. It is a great addition to the book to keep the learning going. He has not started Chemistry in school yet, but I can’t help to think Basher Science will now have him well prepared when he does as we continue to collect and play with the new toys and games.

Make sure you visit the toys aisle at your local Target on your next visit and find the Basher Science products. You can also find some Basher Science products on Amazon.

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Food, Gift Guides

6 Ways to Gift Girl Scout Cookies

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Erin Sluka

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I bought several of Girl Scout cookies from our niece and some girls in front of our local stores. I will not eat all of these cookies so I started browsing for creative ways to gift some of them. I came across some great ideas and wanted to gather my favorites and share them with you.

This is a fun printable to attach to boxes of cookies. It reads “Thanks to you I’m one smart cookie”. Makes a fun teacher of care provider, tutor gift. I found this at Pearls on Pigs Blog

Here is a fu Thank You gift idea to attach to a box or two of cookies. It reads, “Here’s a SHOUT OUT from us to you. With a great big THANKS for all you do. So eat a cookie. Make it two. And with each bite know that WE LOVE YOU.” I found this at Green Acres Hobby Farm

Grab some fun ribbon and wrap up some boxes of cookies. Then attach simple tags that read, “We were ‘mint’ to be”; “You are the Caramel deLite of my life”; Cookie variety is the spice of life”; “When life gives you lemons, eat Lemonades”-source unknown with image I found.

Everybody loves Thin Mints! How about attaching a simple tag that reads, You are MINT to teach. You can modify that to read more than just a teacher gift too. I found this at The Sweatman Family

Cookies always look good behind a little cellophane. How about this idea to wrap the cookies and attach a tag like these for Teacher? I found this at Happy Home Fairy.

How about a gift basket? I found a fun post that shows you which wines to pair with each Girl Scout cookie type. See it at HerCampus.com