With Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, graduation parties and gorgeous summer weather coming our way, I thought it would be really great to focus on fun, family games to be played outdoors. What better way to celebrate that to spend time with your family? So give mom, dad or your graduate one of these games and interact and enjoy the outdoors! It will be a gift to everyone!!!
Family Fun BlongoBall Set
Review for BlongoBall
I had never even heard of BlongoBall and the first set I looked at was inexpensive, got great reviews but fell apart easily. Not anything I want to let my readers know about I thought…then I found this set – yes, it’s more expensive than the others but according to reviews, much more durable. In fact, this game has …read more
Artwork by Matthew Gauvin-matthewgauvin.com
In keeping with the Earth Day theme, I’ve chosen an item I thought would make an nice gift from a company called Greenfeet. Greenfeet is an online retailer that offers natural and earth-friendly products.
They have a nice gift section and I was particularly drawn to these mini honeypot luminaries (different sizes and styles are available). Each luminary is handcrafted from beeswax with real, dried botanicals embedded into the shell and then signed. There are ten different flower and leaf options to choose from so these make a great gift for men or women! They are beautiful even when unlit, but light the tealight candle inside and it is transformed into a softly glowing light. Quite beautiful!
This is such an easy idea and you can personalize it in so many ways. Really. Your imagination is the limit here. All you really need is a deck of cards, a magic marker (unless you decide to use your printer), a hole punch and a way to hold the cards together (like pretty ribbon or one or more binder rings). You can add embellishments with magazine pictures, adhesive gems, stickers, construction paper, things you print from your computer, etc. If you add paper embellishments you may need to add a glue stick to your list. You can get these supplies at many retailers (Target, CVS, Walgreens, etc.) but they may be less expensive to purchase at a craft store.
Here …read more
