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Water Table For Kids

April 9, 2012

There is something about standing at a table playing with water that kids love. Every once in a while we make the trek into the Children’s Museum and they have a great room with all sorts of fun things to do with water and soap. There is a bubble making station, a place to make [...]

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Beach toys that won’t break

July 23, 2011

Tired of all those cheap beach toys that break the first week of summer? I long ago decided that when it comes to sand toys, quality is more important than quantity. I have since found that a lighter beach toy bag (that can be easily carried by each kid) is a great thing too. My [...]

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Beach Toys

May 21, 2010

When you have three kids who each need their own sand toys the beach toy bags can get a little bulky. There are many toys that can be shared, but everyone realy needs their own bucket and shovel. I am seriously considering, in the interest of saving space in the beach bags, switching to collapsible [...]

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More Melissa and Doug Sand Toys

May 19, 2010

Melissa & Doug Sunny Patch sand toy week continues. I really like the general baking set. Officially called the Melissa & Doug Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks Sand baking Set, it performs all the basic functions of any sand bucket set. It has a mixing bowl/bucket with a lid that doubles as a sifter. It has [...]

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New sand toys

May 17, 2010

The Melissa & Doug Sunny Patch collection includes some great new sand toys perfect for the beach (or sand box) this summer. Every year I like to put together beach bags for the kids. I salvage anything that can be saved from last yer and pickup some new sand toys. We spend a lot of [...]

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Sand Sac

June 23, 2009

I saw this on Cool Mom Picks last week. The Sand Sac is a 100% cotton pail that comes with a bamboo shovel (admittedly it looks more like a spoon but it will still shovel sand). It also comes with fabric markers so you can decorate yourself. It is such a perfect sand toy, especially [...]

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Beach! Beach! Beach!

June 16, 2009

“Tis the season for beach toys (not that we have had much beach weather here yet, and have I mentioned that all the rain has made me cranky?). I am going to round up some of our favorite beach toys for you, the ones that get used not the ones that get left in the [...]

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