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Joyful Journeys: Kids’ Essentials and Fun-Filled Must-Haves
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items Juggling the responsibilities of home and family can be challenging, but fear not—there are tools that can turn this into a rewarding and fulfilling experience. As a seasoned stay-at-home mom (SAHM), I've discovered some essential items that can make...
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Essentials
This is a quick list of favorite essentials for our kids from toy storage to school items!
Toy Storage/Organizer is an absolute must have! It helps me keep all our kiddos toys picked up!
Toy Organizers - Toy Storage
These toothbrushes are so great, they have a timer and will shut off when the kids have brushed their teeth for the correct amount of time! We love them!
Quip Kids Electric Toothbrush
This is the perfect little chest for little treats/ goodies. We use this treasure chest for small toys or treats if our kids do well in school and do their chores for the week they get to choose something from the treasure chest!
Treasure Chest
My kids love these night lights, we change the sound for wakeup and it automatically turns on at night and they know time to get ready for bed!
Hatch Rest Baby Sound Machine, Night Light
The best colored pencils for littles!
PRANG be-be Jumbo Washable Colored Pencils
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These are the best backpacks and lunchboxes the quality and longevity is top notch!!
School Backpacks | Bags & Travel at L.L.Bean
These are my daughters absolute favorite colored pencils for her drawings and coloring.
Faber-Castell Triangular Ecopencils - 24 Colors
Both our kiddos have If Lost Bracelets with my name/phone number and my husband's for when we travel or go to crowded attractions. You can never be too safe!
Lost Child Bracelet
This has been a lifesaver for school drop off! My son is still in a carseat and this tool has been great for him to easily get himself out of the carseat and making drop off so smooth!
Bucklebee Car Seat Buckle Release Aid
Love these Wheat Straw containers, they are perfect for homemade Lunchables for my kid's school lunches!
Wheat Straw 4 Compartment Meal Prep Containers
My kids love getting sandwiches in their lunch cut in cool shapes! These have been awesome for making their school lunches fun!
20Pcs Sandwich Cutter and Sealer Set for Kids
These are the best dinnerware we've gotten for our kiddos!!
Wheat Straw Dinnerware Sets for 8
I love these containers for packing sandwiches and other snacks for the kid's lunch. The large container is perfect for their sandwiches.
Bento Lunch Box, 4pack 3 Compartments Reusable
Bath Time
Love these for making bathtime fun and less stressful!
Must- Have to keep all those bath toys organized! After every bath my kiddos clean up their toys and have the perfect spot for them with this toy organizer!
Bath Toy Organizer for Tub
The Ultimate Non-toxic bath fun for kiddos! These are my favorite because they are non toxic so it puts my mind at ease when they color in the bath!
Honeysticks Bath Fun Set - Crayons & Color Tablets
The BEST bath time essential for kiddos to keep water off the floor and bath play fun!
Tub Topper® Bathtub Splash Guard Play Shelf
Love these bath crayons!
Endangered Species by Sud Smart Bath Crayons
LOVE these bath bombs for my kids! With no artificial dyes or nasty ingredients I can rest assured that bath time will be great!
Artificial Dye Free- Natural Bath Bombs
Kid's Shows
These are our favorite shows for our kiddos when they get screen time!
This technically isn't an activity BUT it's great for the kiddos to watch and a fun way to learn! My kids love watching School House Rock just like I did as a kid!
Schoolhouse Rock
My kids also love this YouTube Channel, it helps them learn about the bible in a fun way that is easy for them to understand!
Minno - Bible Stories for Kids
We also love the Bible Kids Channel too for Bible Stories!
Bible Kids
And of course, the Official Bluey Channel is one of our favorites!! We are definitely a Bluey Household!!
Bluey - Official Channel
Toys & More...
We typically don't buy our kids a ton of toys we like to put value on activities and experiences but here's some that we have gotten & our kiddos love!!
I'm sure everyone's heard about Nugget Play Couches. And I'm here to day they are definitely worth it!! My kids make obstacle courses, lounge for movie nights, create some amazing creative play with play panels that you can set up with the couches! T...
The Original Nugget Play Couch
We love getting our kids creative/imagination play toys to grow their little minds and foster creativity and felt toys are awesome! They create life-like items that aren't plastic or hard that helps our kids play together in real life like play.
Felt Quiet Pretend Play Toys, Montessori, Kitchen Market Take Away Maccas, McDonalds Cheese burger, Healthy Snack, Fast Food Happy Meal Gift
This is the cutest little felt pasta!! My kiddos love playing with it!!
Ruffled Felt Mafaldine – Fun for Playtime Pasta Dishes! Spaghetti, felt pasta, felt food, felt dinner set, Montessori toys and food
We just love all the cute felt pastry items! My husband and I love going to coffee shops and of course our kiddos tag a long so they in turn love playing coffee shop with all the felt pastries
Felt Bakery Box, 9pcs : Cookies, Cinnamon Rolls & Donuts, Toddler Play Food, Play kitchen food, fake food
You can't play coffee shop without felt coffee right!!! We love the felt cake pops from this shop too!!
Felt Coffee and Scones, includes coffee cup, two scones, and felt pastry bag
We love these felt coffees and everything this shop offers for felt play too!!
Felt Coffee Cup, Latte Cup, Pretend Coffee Cup, Felt Coffee, Pretend bakery, felt cup, take out coffee cup
My kids love playdough, me not so much. Ha. But I do like to get these natural playdough sensory bean kits for them. I love that they come in their own storage that's nice and neat. They come with other cool things the kiddos can use to make cool cre...
Mermaid playdough sensory box
Both my kids have their own personalized wooden sensory tray where they can play with playdough, dinosaur or rock digs and any other messy things. It's nice to the mess contained while the kids get to have fun creating and exploring things.
Kids Sensory Kit, Construction sensory bin, montessori play kit, personalized sensory kit, personalized sensory tray