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Fun Family Camping Activities 

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Board games

Board games like Scrabble and Monopoly are interesting ways to while away the hours.  In fact you can take it as an opportunity to introduce new games too. Alternatively, give your kids some blank notebooks and pencils, and encourage them to write or sketch during designated quiet time.

Movie night

Portable DVD players along with campfire popcorn make it easy to have a campsite movie night. Moreover, popcorn is a great alternative to traditional s’mores, especially if you don’t want your kids to get pumped up on sugar, right before the bedtime.

Scavenger hunt

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Who does not love to go on quests and adventures? Make a list of items to find- all with different shapes, sizes, and colors and head on for a walk in the wild full of discoveries. Leaves of specific shapes or rocks of certain colors are definite winners. For a fun yet educational twist, consider playing the alphabet game. The idea is to look for a natural object that starts with a particular alphabet.

Build a campfire

What’s camping without a campfire? Teach your kids how to safely build a fire. They will enjoy the responsibility and will learn an important survival skill at the same time. Toddlers and preschoolers can help by collecting sticks and twigs, whereas, older ones can get closer to the action. But make sure to strongly enforce the rule that children are never, ever to build a campfire without the presence of an adult. Don’t forget to make s’mores! The classic camping favorite of graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows. Smores recipe

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While these are some ideas that you can use during your family camping adventure, the most important thing is to enjoy and spend quality time with your loved ones. So, take this mini-vacation as an opportunity and strengthen your family bond.

For more family camping ideas on Stagetecture, click here.

Home staging goes beyond cleaning and decorating. It’s about creating certain moods. It makes your house look brighter, warmer, and bigger and makes homebuyers want to buy it. When looking to sell your home, stage every room and not just the main ones. Even your child’s bedroom has to be in tiptop shape. If you are limited for ideas, here’s how to do it.

How to Perfectly Home Stage Your Kids’ Room

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Decluttering your Kids’ Room

If you haven’t rented a storage unit yet, it is time to. Pack up your child’s toys and sort them by type. You can put dolls and their accessories in one container, cars in another, and action figures in another. For every toy you pack, keep one for your child. Put the smallest and largest toys in the storage box. The smallest ones create the biggest mess, and the largest ones take up the most space. Keep the toys your child remains with out of sight when showing buyers your home. These include electronics in teenagers’ rooms.

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Create a Theme

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Parents love kids’ rooms with themes like sports or cartoon characters. It is therefore important to consider these when staging your child’s room. However, make sure that the room does not feel one-sided as you may put off some buyers. Focus on creating a look that will appeal to the masses. Your child will enjoy staying in the room and homebuyers will be attracted to the perfect look you provide for their children.

Let in Natural Light

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Kids’ rooms with little light look dull and unappealing. They may be beautifully decorated but send the wrong message to the buyers. Use bright and cheery curtains or sheers to let in plenty of light. Place only a few items on windowsills to avoid blocking light. If the room does not have windows, paint its walls a bright hue like orange, yellow, blue, or light green. You can also mix two or three coordinating colors.

Home staging should be an enjoyable experience and not a difficult process. Look to the above tips when staging your child’s room. You’ll transform the place into a sanctuary and make homebuyers want to make an offer.

For more kids’ rooms ideas on Stagetecture, click here.

When the whole family comes together on Thanksgiving, there is meant to be a happy and cheerful chaos. But, to keep that chaos – as fun as it can be – under some control for at least a few minutes, you can always give the kids something creative and entertaining to do.

Here are some easy, fun and all-about Thanksgiving kids’ craft ideas and activities for the little ones to do, but the grown-ups could also enjoy, if they want to take part.

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Thanksgiving Kids’ Craft Ideas

Cute Pilgrims And Native Americans

To make adorable Pilgrims and Native Americans, you will need to provide the kids with some craft supplies, like scissors, cardboard tissue tubes, coloured paper, glue, and markers. If you want, you can make some of these in advance, so the kids will have an example, in order to create their own village people. Another way could be preparing in advance some of the items, like the hats and hair, so that the kids can arrange them however they want.

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Flower Pot Turkey

The kids will have a lot of fun making this cute turkey on Thanksgiving! Just give each kid a brown flower pot, some googly eyes, coloured cardstock or felt, scissors and glue. If you want, you can pre-cut the decorations and have them ready for the kids to glue on the pots. As an addition, give the kids some markers, so they can give thanks, writing what they are most thankful for on the turkey’s feathers.

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Pine Cone Turkeys

A simple, yet very fun, Thanksgiving craft idea is to make turkeys using pine cones. Each kid gets some pine cones, a lot of autumn coloured feathers, glue, googly eyes and orange felt beaks that you will have already cut out – or let the kids make them giving them scissors and orange felt.

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Colouring Fun Table

Another entertaining idea is to cover the kids table with kraft paper or use printable Thanksgiving place mats. Arrange a variety of craft supplies – as a centerpiece or individual for each kid -, like stamps, markers, coloured pencils, crayons and stickers and let the children use their imagination!

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Thanksgiving Turkey Hunt

This game may not be a quiet one, but it is just plain fun! Print or draw some turkeys on cardstock and cut them out. Next, hide them all over the areas where the kids are going to be, in the house or even outdoors, if the weather is nice. Whoever finds the most turkeys, wins. You can replace the turkeys with other relative items, such as coloured feathers or miniature pumpkins.

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Glove Turkey

Now, this is a very original, fun idea! Get a white work gloves for every kid and give them some felt accessories, glue, googly eyes and markers. Let them decorate the glove to look like a turkey.

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All of those activities and crafts are easy to prepare and fun to do! Whether the kids do one or all of these, they will remember one thing about this Thanksgiving: that you were all together and had a wonderful time!

For more Thanksgiving ideas on Stagetecture, click here.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! To all of the wonderful Mom’s, Grandmother’s, Aunts, and special females in your life – Happy Mother’s Day. Today’s DIY Saturday is about planning a surprise Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. There is nothing more relaxing for Mom then to get a few extra hours of sleep, and more fun for the kids to be able to make Mom a breakfast in bed.

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Look at this video from Kin Community for planning the perfect surprise breakfast. Then see below steps to make the morning perfect for her!

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Video – Recipe for a Magical Surprise Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed

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Steps for Planning the Perfect Surprise Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed

1.) Let Mom have a few extra hours of sleep:

2.) Let the kids make Mom a homemade Mother’s Day card. Here are plenty of ideas on Stagetecture.

3.) Look for the perfect Mother’s Day breakfast recipe for Mom.

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4.) Cook or prepare Mom a Mother’s Day breakfast in bed.

Get the Whole Wheat Blueberry pancakes recipe here.

5.) Surprise Mom with her breakfast, homemade card and you!

For more Mother’s Day ideas and recipes, click here.