Damon and Kenna: Doing dishes

Quick and Easy Kid's Activities

let kids "carve" with a bar of soap and a plastic butter knife
make "spy gadgets" out of empty toilet paper rolls
freeze army men or other small toys in a one gallon ice cream bucket then give them kid appropriate hammers and let them go to town trying to get the toys out
make up funny names (see my post "New Name" it's quite fun)
make up your own stories
make fruit loop necklaces
have your kids fold cloth napkins while you fix dinner
play "going on a bear hunt"
kids love empty boxes!
push your kids around or let them push each other in a laundry basket
do jumping jacks (this can be hilarious)
let your kids get messy while playing with shaving cream on a cookie sheet
paint your sidewalk/patio with water on a hot day

My Favorite Books

The Help
These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Poisinwod Bible by Barbra Kingsoler
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
Girl with Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
the Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
The Measure of a Lady by Deeanne Gist
A Bride Most Begrudging by Deeanne Gist
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden