OYOY Silicone Placemats

• $28/set of 2
• Huset

When young kids are at the table, cleanup is more than sweeping up crumbs. I like easy-to-wash and easy-to-wipe silicone mats and am digging these stylish, Danish-designed ones from OYOY.

If your child had the chance to give you any, ahem, additional facial features, what would she choose? I'm guessing you might end up with some kind of old-timey mustache, maybe a nose piercing, or perhaps some villainous eyebrows. With this DIY crazy family book, you'll be able to find out... and your child can indulge his creativity and sense of humor.

The Mad Hatter is always ready for tea time, so maybe you and your kids should be, too. If you stock up—or DIY it!—on these cute tea party essentials, your kids will certainly not echo Alice's sentiment: "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"

Do you remember building stilts out of cans or wood? That has to be in one of my top happy memories. So when I saw my kids finding out how to do this, it made me smile really wide. 

I think I'm becoming strawberry-obsessed. It's part of my spring awakening every year: when affordable organic strawberries begin to appear in the stores. Thank heavens for fresh fruit! 

There was something so beautifully simple about the design of Fisher-Price's Little People in their prime: that circle face and peg shaped body that has allowed for so much imaginative play for so many children across the last 60 years. But Little People haven't always looked the way I remember them, or how my kids know them now. So...just what happened to the Little People?  

Placemat & Portion Plate

• $15/$18
• Georgie Porgie

Promote healthy eating habits with these colorful reminders on your table. The plate is melamine; the placemat is linen cotton canvas. "Eat a Rainbow Every Day!"

It's that time again — when parents wish their kids would just go outside and play already! When I was a kid, building forts was a major part of my outdoor life. Living on the East Coast with plenty of wooded areas helped. Often, we didn't even need to build anything, and just found an overgrown nook somewhere.