Summer is the best time for those extra-messy activities your toddler loves but that require a hose to clean up. Enter this shaving-cream-and-sand combo. Set your kid up on the driveway or in the backyard with a bin of play sand, then add shaving cream and mix. The blog Little Bins for Little Hands makes the process crystal clear.
Emily Westbrooks is a freelance writer and blogger from Maine. Based in Dublin, she's married to an Irishman and an adoptive mom to Maya and Noah. She writes about travel, parenting, adoption and fostering for sites like Romper and Moxie & Mabel, as well as for her own blog, From China Village.