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Exciting After-School Activities You Have to Try This Year

As a parent, you are constantly performing a balancing act of finding after-school activities that are exciting AND educational. It’s a difficult task, but you can do it! When you’re looking for an activity that’s fun, healthy and promotes learning, try out one of these activities.

Create Healthy and Silly Snack Art

When your child rushes through the door after a long day at school, one of the first things they’ll want is a delicious snack. Instead of simply handing them a granola bar and calling it a day, make an activity out of it.

Image credit: Pinterest

Image credit: Pinterest

 

You can create a variety of art projects/landscapes/images with snacks. Who knew that combining snack time and play time

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10 Rainy Day Activities You Can Do With Your Kids

You know how unpredictable the weather in Middle Tennessee can be. One minute it’s absolutely gorgeous outside, and the next it’s a torrential thunderstorm. Since school is over, the kids need something to do and keep them occupied! What do you do if they cannot go outside and you’re not a fan of letting them play video games or watch TV all day? The answer: one of these awesome rainy day activities!

 

1) Indoor Scavenger Hunt

This activity takes a bit of preparation to accomplish, but with just the right amount of effort you’ll have your children entertained for hours! Use prizes like:

  • Stickers
  • Candy
  • Gold Coins
  • Trinkets
  • Movie Tickets
  • Their Favorite Snack

 

Make sure the clues

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4 Tips Gardening Beginners Can Use This Summer

Gardening beginners can easily use these tips during the summer weather
The summer weather is finally upon us. Temperatures are rising and the weather, aside from a few storms here and there, is absolutely beautiful. If you’re like many Middle Tennessee residents, you cannot wait to get outside and tend to your garden.

 

If you happen to be an avid gardener, you have already started prepping and getting ready for a beautiful garden weeks ago. However, in Middle Tennessee, the temperature and weather difference between spring and summer can be drastic — especially for your flowers and other plants.

 

Don’t take the summer heat and the sunshine lightly! Use these tips to ensure that your garden stays beautiful all summer long.

 

Weed Your Garden Regularly

When

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5 Funny and Witty Signs You Need to Add to Your Home

We’ve all seen the inspirational, cute, and heartwarming signs in our homes, and the homes of our friends and family. From “Home Is Where The Heart Is” to “Live. Laugh. Love”, we’ve seen it all! If you have a great sense of humor, try adding these five hilarious signs to your Middle Tennessee home.

Humor In the Kitchen

Ready to joke about your cooking abilities? This hilarious sign takes care of it for you. Know someone who’d love this sign in their home? Share it with them!

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Who Has Time to Organize Anyway?

Sometimes we just don’t have the time or energy to keep our home organized. Is this the perfect sign for your home?

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A Sign For the Funny, Witty and Quirky Families!

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Everyone loves pumpkin pie, but this year consider making some of these easy, creative desserts as well:

 

Oreo Turkeys

Oreo Turkeys

Ingredients: Double Stuff Oreo Cookies, Candy Corn, Whoppers, Peanutbutter Cups, Chocolate frosting, Yellow Frosting, Optional: Red frosting, Optional: black sprinkles for eyes

 

Pilgrim Hat Cookies

Pilgrim Hat Cookies

 

Ingredients: Shortbread cookies (the circle cookies that have fudge stripes on one side), Big marshmallows, Chocolate chips or melting chocolate, Yellow frosting

 

 

Turkey Cake Pops

Turkey Cake Pops

Ingredients: Cake Pops, Caramel Candy Corn, Coated Espresso Beans, Rainbow Candy Coated Chips, Mini Hearts from Casino Sprinkles, the “l”s from ABC Pretzels

 

 

Candy Corn on the Cob

Candy Corn on the Cob

 

Ingredients: Candy Corn, Banana

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It’s amazing what some people can do with pumpkin carving. Some go the scary route, others do homages to famous movie scenes or people. Here are some incredible ones I found for your enjoyment!

 

A Cannibalistic Pumpkin

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A Football Player’s Head

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A Sick Pumpkin

 

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An Apple Core

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Tinker Bell

 

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Pumpkin Jail

 

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There’s nothing like feeling more organized and decluttered than to get things off the floor. Here are some inventive ways to do just that!

 

 

Hang your automatically-sorted laundry above the washer instead of keeping hampers on the floor of your closet.

 

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Instead of the floor being your child’s toy chest, hang decorative baskets on the wall to hold toys, stuffed animals and books.

 

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Bicycles take up a lot of floor space – so hang them instead!

 

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Strap an extension cord to the leg of a table so the many plugs coming out of it don’t take up a whole foot of space. Plus, it looks so much neater.

 

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The entryway is one of the worst clutter offenders – so build hanging options for storing shoes, coats,

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Halloween is just around the corner! Do you know what the whole family is going to dress up as? Here are some clever ideas to spark creativity:

A Delicious Family S’more!

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Sully, Mike and Boo from Monsters, Inc.

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The Yellow Brick Road Gang from The Wizard of Oz

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The Cutest BLT

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An Adorable Shark Attack

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Tissue-Paper Pom-Poms

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These pom-poms are super cute and so easy to make! Simply make an accordion out of several sheets of tissue paper, bundle them together in the middle with a small ribbon, cut off the ends into a triangle shape, and voila! A gorgeous flower.

 

Corkboard, Yardstick-shaped

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Do you have lots of corkscrews lying around, waiting to be put to use in some project or another? Well, look no further! Buy a wooden yardstick or ruler, and hot-glue the corks on it. You now have a conveniently-shaped corkboard that can fit into tight places and looks so clever!

 

Word Art

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Step 1: Pick a quote/lyrics/verse. Step 2: Buy the required wooden letters and a blank canvas from an art store. Step 3: Glue the letters on the canvas. Step

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Are you thinking of putting your house on the market?  Naturally if you speak with a real estate agent or read articles online you will find several great ideas of things to do to improve your curb appeal and increase the value of your home’s listing price.  Well, there are some things you might consider doing that will not improve the value of your home.  Here are a couple:

 

Repaint in bright, unique colors.Master Bedroom

Painting your child’s room in Thomas the Tank Engine Blues and Red is one thing, but having your entire kitchen burnt orange and your living room deep sea blue will send many house hunters running.  If the time has come to refresh your paint colors, check out the popular colors for the year and lean towards the more neutral tones.  Its

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