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While the goodie bag is the highlight of any school holiday party they are a pain for any parent to put together.
Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane so eloquently articulates the feelings most of us parents share towards them stating " am in charge of the goodie bags for my 6 year old’s holiday party. I was racking my brain for filler because I didn’t want to just buy some junky little toys that would probably never be played with (those tiny pinball things, plastic tops that do not spin."

I really do love children's holiday books. We fill our humble living space with decorations and a full basket of themed books we've collected over the years. At this point we have such a nice collection of books for each holiday that we are, perhaps, even slightly more excited about the books than the decorations.

With two popular cookbooks (Secret Life of Food and Hey There, Cupcake!)

Dollar Store Crafts has posted a link to a genius idea from member Care for making baby leg warmers out of a dollar store scarf. Yup, for practically pennies and with very minimal sewing skills you can whip up a pair of cutie-pie leg warmers or "baby legs" from a cheap scarf...Those sweet socks can cost a pretty penny.

They Might Be Giants drops their new audio/video album for children on iTunes this week making this their fourth kids' album, if you count my favorite No!.

Build/Make/Craft/Bake recently posted an interview with 7-year old Holden Lee...a kid breathing new breath into the ol' lemonade stand idea. With his mom as his business partner this mini-entrepreneur/philanthropist sells killer tees in his Etsy shop. The shirts cost around $18 and feature special creatures imagined up by Holden complete with their own unique bios...also created by the kid.

"Haven't Got a Pet Yet" is the second video released off of the new album "Field Trip" from Seattle's kindie rock band Recess Monkey. The song laments the common childhood dilemma of convincing one's parents he responsible enough for pet ownership.

"Marshmallow Farm" is the first video from Recess Monkey's newly released CD "Field Trip". It will also be included on their upcoming DVD for "Field Trip" set to release sometime this summer.

Released on June 9th, "Field Trip" is the fifth album from Seattle's own kindie rock gods Recess Monkey.

What happens when Robert Schneider, self-proclaimed mathematician and front man of indie-rock band The Apples in Stereo, takes his special blend of heavy synthesized, Beach Boy-ish sounds to the tot level? All sorts of kooky-goodness...beginning with a comic book alter-ego of Schneider named Robbert Bobbert. Robbert Bobbert is a scientist whose curiosity about the world leads to his passion for inventing fun.