Last-minute Thanksgiving help! Everything you need including recipe help, drinks, decor, printables + crafts for the kids. Now go forth and be thankful!
If you’re like me and Thanksgiving totally snuck up on you this year (seriously, today?), fear not! The CMP team has been hard at work for weeks now, sharing the most helpful resources and great advice to help you master the big day. From the most foolproof...
The coolest free printable Halloween paper dolls with costumes from sweet to steampunk to Star Wars
Some of my favorite posts here come from the things my kids ask me to find — in this case, printable Halloween paper dolls. They loved some incredibly adorable paper dolls we’d featured here years back, but now they’ve gotten older and so have their...
A fabulous resource for cool Halloween printables, from coloring pages to banners to party games
It’s officially that time when my kids beg to decorate our door for Halloween and here come our friends from Caravan Shoppe to the rescue! Mom and graphic artist Alma Loveland — make of the Ollieblocks we can’t get enough of — has just come out...
11 truly wonderful 4th of July crafts and activities for kids (and hey, maybe you too)
Since I’ve had kids, the 4th of July has become one of my favorite holidays. I like to keep it really simple with 4th of July crafts, lots of great summer food and treats to eat, maybe letting the kids run around while the grownups hang out at the pool or in the...
24 wonderful DIY Father’s Day gifts, crafts + printables to fill him with love
DIY Father’s Day gifts are always so special, especially from the youngest kids. (Once we hit voting age or so, those handprint mugs just don’t really cut it in the same way, huh.) So for our next installment of our 2016 Father’s Day Gift Guide,...
Adorable, free last-minute Easter printables for the finishing touch on those baskets
We’re always grateful to the designers who create cute free printables, like these fun printable Easter basket gift tags. Melanie has designed them in five fun colors, all of which should go perfectly with jelly beans, chocolate eggs, and and unnaturally...
15 of the cutest and free-est Easter printables for our kids
We’ve been hopping all over the internet to find our favorite free Easter printables to help you get ready for Easter Sunday. Our hunt turned up some of the cutest printable Easter coloring pages, decorations, and DIY treat boxes that you can just click and...
We heart this free printable Valentine’s Day gift wrap!
Once you’ve found a special gift for your Valentine — perhaps from our Valentine’s Day Gift Guide? — you’ll probably want to wrap it in something other than leftover holiday gift wrap. Got nothing at home but yesterday’s newspaper...
30 super cool printable Valentine’s Day cards for the classroom, all free or close to it.
Each year, we search high and low for the best printable Valentine’s Day cards for the classroom, to make is so much easier for kids (or, ahem, their parents) to get all those heartfelt wishes ready for friends, families and classmates. By now, our readers know...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!
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