Today I have the winner of the Adorable Kinders Ragdoll. I want to thank everyone who participated in the contest. It was a fun contest I enjoyed reading who your favorite dolls were. Some of your reasons made me look at the dolls in a new light.

I want to say a huge thank you to Adorable Kinders for sponsoring the contest.

Now lets get to the winner! The winner was chosen by Random.org. Congratulations to Beth who says her favorite doll is Hope.

Thank you Beth for participating in the contest! I’ll be contacting you in the next day or so to confirm Hope is the doll you’re choosing.

Thank you to everyone who participated! I know I have another giveaway coming up in the next couple days! We’re just hashing out the details. So stay tuned, and subscribe to the Play Library feed if you haven’t already!

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Playmobil’s most popular playset this Christmas is the Pyramid set, but they have a few other playsets that debuted this holiday season. One of those sets is a wedding playset.
There are actually several different wedding sets children can choose from, or they can combine them all together to make one big set.

The Playmobil wedding playsets available include:

The Church (pictured here) – Kids can pretend to cheer on the newlyweds as they make their way out the Church. If they press the windows of the church tower they’ll hear church bells and organ music.The playset  also comes with three figures, …read more

I love hand print crafts, and there are several really cute ones out there for Christmas, so I thought I’d put together a list of them to share here. They’re wonderful projects for preschoolers and kindergartners with grown up help.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

Handprint Santa Claus here at Play Library
Handprint reindeer here at Play Library
Handprint reindeer treat jar from Amazing Moms
Handprint angel craft from Party Animal
Handprint Christmas tree from The Kids Birthday Fun Review

Handprint crafts make great gifts for grandparents, and excellent keepsake gifts, especially if you put the child’s age and the date on the back.
You …read more

It’s always fun to keep holiday snacks in the spirit of the season. Keeping them healthy at the same time is even better. Today I have some fun tips to share with you from Kim Kirchherr, Supervalu’s Corporate Dietitian.

I had a wonderful phone conversation with Kim, and she shared several great ideas for making holiday snacks fun, festive, and healthy all at the same time.
Kim says one fun thing you can do is break out the holiday cookie cutters. They’re not just for cookies. Here are a few healthy kid’s snacking ideas you can make more fun with a simple …read more

Betty Crocker sent me a couple cans of their new Cupcake Decorating Icing to try out the other day. They sent Ivy Green and Rose Red, which were perfect colors to create some Christmas wreath cupcakes. My son and I decided to use them to decorate some cupcakes this afternoon.
Each can comes with four tips, a star tip, a leaf tip, a round tip and a tip that’s flat on one side (for ribbons, flat lines, etc) with the other side  perfect for basket weave.

I used the green with the star tip to make the wreaths, then used the red …read more

Today I have the winner of the Barney Please and Thank You DVD. I want to thank everyone who participated in the contest. It was great fun reading what everyone had to say.
I want to say a huge thank you to HIT Entertainment for sponsoring the contest.
Now lets get to the winner! The winner was chosen by Random.org. Congratulations Adrienne to who says her favorite Barney episode is the one where a fireman came to visit.
Thank you Adrienne for participating in the contest! I’ll be contacting you in the next day or so to find out where to send the …read more

Yesterday I shared a few ideas for handmade Christmas ornaments you can create with your kids this time of year. There are tons of other Christmas crafts you can also create if making ornaments isn’t your thing. One that’s fun to create for a keepsake is a handprint-footprint reindeer. They’re easy to make, and you can save them to show your children how much their hands and feet have grown.

All you need is some construction paper, some paint, and some little hands and feet to trace around.You can also use glitter for the nose, but you can also just use …read more

Some of my favorite ornaments on my tree are handmade. We have ornaments that my husband and I made when we were kids, and we have quite a few ornaments we’ve made with our son through the years. Some of my fondest Christmas memories are painting ceramic ornaments, making salt dough ornaments, and stringing beaded ornaments.
I love making Christmas ornaments and other Christmas crafts with my son this time of year, so I thought I’d gather up some handmade Christmas ornament ideas you could do with your children.

Here are some of my favorites:

Sparkling Beaded Ornaments from AmazingMoms
Cookie Cutter Ornaments from …read more

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a project you can do with your kids delivered to your door each month? We love crafting and doing projects at our house so it seems like a fun idea to me. Especially this time of the year when I enjoy crafting, but I don’t have time to go shop around for all the little things I need to create a craft or project.

The Project of the Month Club (POMC) lets you choose from science projects, wood working, or arts and crafts projects to do with your kids. The club sends you a kit …read more

The other day I wrote a review for the Adorable Kinders doll, today I have one to give away to a lucky Play Library reader! Woot!
The lucky winner will get to pick their choice of dolls from the 26 Adorable Kinders dolls at the Adorable Kinders website. These dolls are sooo cute! You’ve got to go take a look for yourself. I love the one they sent me.

So how can you win your choice of one of the Adorable Kinders Dolls? Here are the rules:

To be entered to win hop over to the Adorable Kinders website and check out …read more