I'm always looking for cool stocking stuffer ideas for my kids. I mean, we all know that you can get bubbles and Play-Doh and packs of stickers but I like to get a little more more creative when I can. So I've put together these 40 stock…
We love Thanksgiving, but we'll admit it can get the short end of the stick, sandwiched between the Halloween sugar-fest and the merry-and-bright excitement of the holidays. While one of the nice things about Thanksgiving is that it's ab…
Whether you're like me and need some holiday gift ideas for the little ones on your list or you just want some new music for kids to dance away the winter chill, I've found six recently released kids’ albums that will keep any ears happy…
One of our great joys with this site is supporting small businesses and fellow indie publishers. (Hey, we still have a blogroll. Remember those?) And now one of our favorite bloggers and friends, Mari Richards of the fantastic design sit…
I know, Halloween is barely over and here I am talking about Christmas. But before you know it we'll all be pinning cookie recipes and gift wrap ideas , so we might as well get ahead of the holiday craft game too. Washi tape crafts have …
With Halloween behind us, it’s time to collect our gourds and go home. If you haven’t already carved yours, now is the perfect time to gather your pumpkins and put them to (actual) good use by roasting those pumpkin seeds for a nutritiou…
I realize that kale does not need any more positive publicity these days, but now it's not only super healthy and delicious (mostly, anyway) but it's funny too, thanks to this reusable grocery tote bag at West Elm. Especially perfect for…
Looking for the original "I gave you life, you give me your Reese's" Halloween meme? Well, here it is. Because we wrote it. Even if you see it out there with someone else's name at the bottom (ahem). Happy Halloween to all the cool paren…
You know what's hard to find? Awesome Halloween apps for kids. So we've spent a good deal of time on Cool Mom Tech tracking down some of the very best ones apps you and your little ones, whether they prefer silly or spooky fun. Click ove…
We have featured so many fun Halloween posts this year--and years past, too--featuring our favorite Halloween ideas of all kinds. Including the last minute ones. We're talking dozens of recipes for treats both healthy and uh....well, you…
Candy may be the only Halloween treat that my kids are interested in, but with Halloween falling on a Friday night this year, I’m also looking forward to a fun Halloween cocktail to usher in the weekend. Whether you want a sweet sip, a s…
With my daughter finally ( finally! ) deciding on going trick-or-treating as Iris, the Goddess of the Rainbow , we've been trying out different temporary hair color options to figure out what makes sense for her. Especially on her dark b…
My kids came home this week excitedly telling me they could hand out something in school to their classmates for Halloween, provided it was gluten-free. So I started perusing the candy aisle before I thought...wait a minute! I'm supposed…
As a kid who saw creatures in my bedroom shadows at night, I always identified with the protagonist of Bedtime for Frances, who saw monsters in her bathrobe and had all kinds of other excuses for not going to bed. The new scary story for…
When celebrating Halloween with little ones, there’s a fine line between fun creepy and scary creepy. Lucky for me—a firm believer that the creepier the better—my kids are finally old enough to handle scary Halloween. I’ve spent a lot of…
Of all the throwback candies, candy corn reigns supreme. More than just nostalgic, it is among the most popular Halloween candies year after year. (Because it's awesome, that's why.) It’s also the inspiration for these fun, delicious can…
Pumpkin decorating might be my kids' favorite part of Halloween--second only to gorging on candy, of course. So I've been on the lookout for new and different ways to dress up our pumpkins this year, and in addition to last year's round …
Looking for last minute Halloween awesome? Follow our Pinterest boards for these 5 fun Halloween pins, plus lots more of our daily picks and more coolness from around the web. 1. Helpful tips for taking great Halloween photos of kids . 2…
If you're having a big Halloween party this year, it's always so much fun, but it can be crazy trying to get all that appropriately fun, spooky food pulled together in time. So I'm happy to share some of my favorite semi-homemade Hallowe…
We sat down in the theater to see The Book of Life movie, and as the lights dimmed, my nine-year-old daughter whispered, I have literally been waiting to see this since the day we saw the preview ! And indeed she had. After that many mon…
Last year I threw an awesome Halloween party for my kids. (Really! There’s video , complete with Halloween dinner recipes , to prove it.) It was a blast, but now my kids want to do it again. I'm game—anything to show off my rockin' Cleop…
I love fun, fashion-forward jewelry, but I don't love when the jewelry--or my skin--changes colors after a little wear. Metallic temporary tattoo jewelry is a fun new trend and smart solution that we're seeing everywhere--the logical, fa…
Halloween means lots of clever costume ideas circulating for babies, but chances are that no baby under a year--or her costume, for that matter--is going to last long for trick or treating. However the hilarious new animal-themed baby ca…
Once your kids get too old for our awesome Baby Halloween Costume ideas , they may want to come up with a group costume that involves their friends, as is the case with my own kids this year. So gather them around the computer--or just s…
