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30 Breakfast Ideas for a 1-year-old

October 28 by Kaley

30 Breakfast Ideas for 1-Year-Olds. Tons of great ideas!

Our post, 30 Meal Ideas for 1-Year-Olds, has been so incredibly popular that I asked our contributor, Kaley, to follow it up with a breakfast version. What I love most about this is that we have breakfast for dinner on the regular around here- which means that now we have 60 great kid-friendly meal ideas! Here she is with her list (and if anyone knows healthy kid food, it's Kaley, so it's a great list). We have two go-to breakfasts in my house. And they are both super simple formulas that can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Kaley, Meal Planning Tagged With: baby food, breakfast for toddlers, easy breakfast for kids, easy breakfast recipes, easy recipes, meal ideas for 12 month old, meals for one year olds, one year old, toddler recipes, toddlers

Parenting Hack: Do-able DIY Homework Stations to Set Up at Home

August 18 by Annie

I don't have to tell you that this school year is going to be unlike any other. This year, it's not only wise to establish a space inside the home that's a suitable study environment, it's essential. Without an efficient place to do homework, kids can struggle to focus, can lack the motivation to attend to their work, and can be prone to household distractions. They can also, in reaction to insufficient workspaces, develop exceedingly strange study practices which will raise eyebrows for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Annie, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: art and homework station, distance learning, distance learning design, distance learning desks, distance learning ideas, distance learning setup, DIY homework stations, DIY roundup, live simply by annie, schoolwork

Why You Should Make the Dining Room an Art Room

January 6 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

This is the time of the year that we're all thinking about organization. So today I'd like to bring back I had a few years ago and see what you guys think... Turning the (often underused) dining room into an art room for the kids. Here's my original argument for the change.... I finally did it - I got rid of the old green couch (which was essentially a glorified dog bed) in our play room and replaced it with the mother of all tables and some clever storage benches. Thus creating the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizing, Parenting, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: DIY art center, DIY creativity center, DIY playdoh, DIY playdough, kids art center, kids art organization, play dough recipe, playdoh recipe, playdoh tools, playdough tools, soft playdough, super soft play doh

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: How to Get Rid of Your Paper Piles for Good

September 5 by Kristin

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: A simple strategy for totally getting rid of your paper piles!

Five people live in this house.  That's five times the amount of paper a single person sees in one day. That means I have to organize my way through bills, business items, personal correspondence and all the paper it takes to make one's way through middle school and high school. It can be a lot to handle. I consider myself a fairly organized person, but before I created a system for my house there were tears over lost homework, stress over client invoices and the embarrassment of a late RSVP.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kristin, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: How to get organized, how to organize paperwork, organization hack, organization tips for moms, paper organization, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

How To Organize Reusable Bags

May 23 by Annie

great tips for neatly storing all my re-usable bags

For those of us environmentally minded folks on the west coast of the United States, reusable bags are like the law. But actually, they are the law. With the ban on plastic bags in full effect in some cities, stores now operate as BYOB—that’s: bring your own bag—establishments. It’s not just here, either. People the world over are beginning to wake up to the fact that using reusable bags is a small way they can be kinder to the planet. The only hitch in all of this is that reusable bags are a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: folding reusable bags, how to organize your life, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, storing reusable bags

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Principles of An Organized Playroom

January 14 by Annie

Now that Christmas is over, the inevitable question lingers - what to do with all those new toys?   Never fear, our in-house professional organizer, Annie, has us covered with some pro tips and she's here today to help us launch our best year yet. Here are her pearls of wisdom... If you feel you're in an ever-losing battle with your children's games and toys, take comfort in the fact that you're not alone. I've encountered few families who've had difficulty navigating the toy jungle. Before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Annie, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: board games, live simply by annie, organization, playroom organization, playrooms, toy organization, toy storage

DIY Personalized Alphabet Book

January 8 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

It's so hard to believe I first shared the personalized alphabet book I made for my son 7 years ago.   It's been an extremely popular post ever since so I thought it was time to bring it out of the vault. And with all the options out there for creating photo books now, it couldn't be easier to do!   But it can still be surprisingly hard to think of something that's salient to your child for each letter - I'm hoping sharing my picks might help. Please enjoy and let me know if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photography & Memory Keeping, The Make & Play Vault, Tutorials Tagged With: custom alphabet book, Custom photo alphabet book, DIY alphabet book, DIY photo alphabet book

30 Meal Ideas for a 1-year-old

October 23 by Kaley

30 Meals to for 1-year-olds: I have such a hard time coming up with new meal ideas for my young toddler- love this list!!

Every once in a while my team and I put together a resource that I am especially proud of- this simple round up is definitely one of those times. As straight-forward sounding as this list is, Kaley has really done an incredible job of rounding up 30 recipes that are as healthy as they are varied and (most-importantly) uber kid-friendly. Reading through Kaley's list I got so excited to try each and every one, and not only for my 1 1/2 year old, but for my 5-year-old and 7-year-old too! I think … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Kaley, Meal Planning Tagged With: baby dinner ideas, baby food, dinner recipes, easy recipes, first foods dinner ideas, meal ideas for 12 month old, meals for one year olds, one year old, toddler recipes, toddlers

Keep Kids’ Art Organized All Year with DIY Artist’s Portfolios

October 2 by Julee

This is such a cool way to keep track of all my kiddo's oversized art from the year! Love that you can use dry-erase and chalk on it too!

Are you struggling with what to do with all that art and school work coming through the door when the kids come home from school? Never fear - today Julee's with us sharing a simple DIY project we think you're going to love. We create - and save - quite a bit of art at our house. With school just starting, the volume of paintings, drawings, and other crafts is only going to increase. My current storage solution for keeping my children's creations is to pile them on my desk until it becomes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Julee, Organizing Tagged With: art, art organization, diy, How to get organized, organizing kids art, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

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