Thoughts and ideas on celebrating life with children, by Momscape founder Susie Cortright.
My kids love Webkinz, and they make great Valentine’s Day gifts for kids. They are inexpensive, and each one gives the kids access to an online world where they can take care of their pet. For Valentine’s Day, the Webkinz Love Puppy and the Webkinz Love Frog would be particularly nice. I’ve created an online store, filled with new Webkinz (as well as retired Webkinz), plus Webkinz clothes, charms, and trading cards.
Enjoy:
Momscape’s Webkinz Store
There’s nothing like getting a handmade card, and Hearthsong.com (one of our favorite online stores) has some really nice handmade Valentine kits, including the one shown here. It’s the Giant String Lace Valentine Kit
- recommended for ages 8 and up - and it teaches kids some nice string art techniques while they make three 12×12 cardstock valentines.
If you go to Hearthsong.com and do a search for Valentine Kits, you’ll find a few different selections that your kids may fall in love with - including a Victorian Valentine Kit and a Hearthsong Exclusive kit featuring everything your kids need to make dozens of Valentines. Stickers and Decorating Chalks.)
When available, Hearthsong.com coupons are here>
One of Hearthsong’s biggest sellers this year is Connectagons. Not only is it a HearthSong exclusive product, it’s the site’s #1 seller this year. This creative building set offers limitless opportunity for fun and challenge: 240 wooden circles multiplied by 8 slots each multiplied by 5 bright colors and countless patterns of circles, stripes, dots, and diamonds. Any construction can go in any direction-taller, wider, rounder, more square-and suddenly numbers become unimportant as imagination reigns.
Learn more about Connectagons at Hearthsong
Also, visit our Hearthsong Coupon Codes page. Until December 14, the site is offering $4.99 standard shipping on orders of $50 or more with coupon code HSA056
The Namits Travel Game was invented by a mother of seven children who wanted to find a way to entertain and teach her kids while they were waiting. Her game has now won several parenting awards and is a great game for kids to play everywhere. It’s especially perfect for the car.
Namits is a set of 20 double-sided laminated cards (on a ring) that presents 165 word games. For ages 4 and up.
For older children (6 and up), try the Namits Challenge.
Read more about the Namits Travel Toy at HearthSong
Here’s a fun find for the lazy days of summer: The Towel-in-a-Bag from KooKoo Bear Kids.
Each of your kids can carry her own sunscreen, water bottle and other poolside accessories in a unique bag. The towel and bag are in matching prints, cute and festive for summertime, so everyone’s pack is easily identifiable. These are 100% cotton, machine washable, and just $18. Or personalize your bag with a single or three letter monogram for an additional $8.
Momscape is giving away one of these towels-in-a-bag during the month of June. Click here to enter >
See more Towel-in-a-Bag patterns at Koo Koo Bear Kids >
And click here for KooKoo Bear Kids Coupons and Special Promotions >
101 Place You Gotta See Before You’re 12
This book isn’t about trotting the globe in search of adventures, it’s about helping kids find treasures in their own backyards. Some of the adventures: going to your parent’s office, trying food from another culture at an ethnic restaurant, and checking out the backstage at a theater. You’ll find ideas for fun outings as well as creative activites to engage your children at home.
This is a great book to tickle your children’s imagination this summer.
Also, check out:
101 Things You Gotta Do Before You’re 12
Both are in paperback at great prices and qualify for super saver shipping (on orders of $25 or more) at amazon
This is a fun find from UncommonGoods.com, which - in itself - is a treasure trove of gift ideas.
It’s called the Living Life Game: Here’s a description from the UncommonGoods website:
“Designed to help you live life to the fullest, Living Life uses your environment as the board and your friends and family as the players. With 30 cards of “feel good” adventures, players watch sunrises, contact old friends and test drive the car of their dreams. Great as a life-long to-do list, this award-winning, one-of-a-kind reality card game is terrific as a meaningful gift to a special someone. Includes 30 oversized cards in a colorful package perfect for gift-giving. Made in the USA.