Activities
Outdoor Cooking with Food Storage
Make delicious and easy meals outdoors and rotate your food storage as well. If you're planning a weekend getaway or a large family reunion, how about pulling out some of your food storage and giving your camp meals a delicious new twist? Food storage should be first on your list of things to...
Ideas for a Fun and Christ-centered Easter
Here are a few ideas for a more Christ-centered Easter, along with a few of our staff's family traditions. Easter is a fun holiday, filled with celebration of spring renewal, color, and sweet things. But, more importantly, it is a celebration of the resurrection of the Savior. We talk a lot about...
Successful Winter Camping
Camping is popular anytime of the year, but winter camping requires special preparation and equipment. Get educated about the precautions involved and prepare for a fun and successful camping trip. Winter camping is a challenging adventure. A camper must have a healthy respect for Mother...
Sunday Idea: Study a Christmas Message
This Sunday during your down time, consider bringing the spirituality of the day together with Christmas by reading and studying a Christmas message. Here are some great resources for Christmas stories, devotionals, and even a little family history. Celebrating Advent If you haven't been...
{Lifestyle} Christmas Crafts for Kids
10 Christmas crafts to keep your kids entertained this holiday season. Photo from Parents magazine Christmas Finger Puppets Photo from Martha Stewart Snow Globes Photo from The Other White House Handprint Christmas Tree Photo from Pepper...
Preparing for a Christ-centered Christmas: A Beginner's Guide to Celebrating Advent
Do you want to focus on the true spirit of Christmas this year? Consider celebrating Advent, a celebration that uses the four Sundays prior to Christmas as a time to contemplate Christ’s birth. Get ready to start this Sunday! Stores and radio stations have already begun to prepare us for...
Weekend Craft: Chalk Plates
This craft is brought to you by Oh My Crafts . Supplies Used: Chalk Board Vinyl and White Vinyl Chalk Ribbon Adams & Co: Metal embossed tile - lime green and hot pink Alphalicious Cartridge (Use coupon code LDS10 at ohmycrafts.com to get 10% off supplies...
The Upside of Video Games
Note: This is an excerpt from "The Upside of Video Games" in the LDS Living magazine May/June 2011 issue. Nintendo Wii. iPod Touch. PSP. Xbox 360. If your family is anything like the majority of American families, odds are good that your home contains some technology meant to entertain through...
Summer Reading List for Kids
Check out this awesome book list both you and your kids will enjoy reading and discussing. Summer is coming! Here’s a list of great kids’ reads to keep the kids busy, beginning with picture books. There are a lot of great and newly published picture books, but I look for inventive, interactive,...
Summer Reading List for Adults & Young Adults
(For our Summer Reading List for Kids, click here .) Band of Sisters by Annette Lyon; 2010 Whitney Award winner. When the war on terror calls their husbands to duty, five LDS women are left behind to fight battles of their own: Kim, newlywed and pregnant, frightened of what the future...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Preschoolers
Last summer my friends and I met with our preschoolers weekly at a local park. We chatted as our kids cavorted in the sand. But when fall came and cold weather followed, our play dates at the park were disbanded. The prospect of a long winter stuck inside brought out the grizzly bear in all of us....
Daddy Daughter Date Night
What begins with a prayer and ends with ice cream? If you ask that question at our house you'll hear three young girls enthusiastically shout, "Daddy-daughter date night!" That response would quickly be followed with, “Whose turn is it next?” While Monday night is set aside for family home...
Indoor Camping Trip
It’s the middle of winter and your kids are probably starting to feel a little cooped up in the house. This weekend, pretend like it’s summer again and plan an indoor camping trip, s’mores and all! Setting up Camp Whether you choose to set up camp in your living room or bedroom, make sure...
Eating Smart When Eating Out
Here are tricks you can bring to the table to order a tasty, healthy, and wallet-friendly meal from any menu. After a hectic day, dining out can be just what everyone (especially Mom) needs. Yet the choices that restaurants offer to kids are often loaded with calories and fat. A cheeseburger kid’s...
Weekend Craft: Neighbor Gift Pails
These small pails are just the right size for Christmas treats or any other special gift packaging you might need! Decorate all the same or make each one an individual treasure – they are sure to please the recipient! Below are instructions for the snowflake pail. Supplies Needed: Any...
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