Activities
Family Reunions 101
Well, it's happened again. Another summer is coming and it's clear that if there's going to be a family reunion, you'll have to plan it yourself. Before you pull your hair out at the thought of matching T-shirts and meals for a hundred picky eaters, take a deep breath and read on. By the time...
Four Reasons You Should Be Eating Dinner as a Family
The simple act of gathering your family around the table to eat may make more of a difference than you ever suspected. Studies have proven that it can impact almost every area of children's lives. Check out the results family dinners can have below, then learn how you can start making a...
Weekend Family Activity: Hot Chocolate Stand
A creamy cup of hot chocolate? Yummy. A free cup of creamy hot chocolate? Even better. If there’s one thing we love in the wintertime more than people shoveling our sidewalks, it’s people handing out hot chocolate. This weekend, when the temperatures hit a frigid 25° F, pull out...
What to Scrap and What to Scrapbook: 5 Ways to Organize the Clutter and Keep the Memories
Throwing out a child's beautiful art or meaningful papers is hard – particularly if you have good intentions to scrapbook them. But how do you store it all without renting a storage unit? Get organizing with these five tips. Growing up in a family of seven, I led the pack in bringing home A’s...
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....
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