LEGO never goes out of style, and so we love this tutorial we just found for making your own LEGO gift boxes. The free DIY LEGO gift box templates at Lines Across look super easy - You just need card stock, scissors and glue, and craft f…
We've loved the beautiful cards and invitations from Minted.com ever since we discovered them on day one, so it makes perfect, brilliant sense that they'd evolve from cards and invitations, and launch a gorgeous new Party Decor line. Hoo…
Planning a kids' party isn't for the faint of heart, even though the end results ( adorable cake-face photos! happy wee ones! ) are always worth it. Let's face it: life is crazybusy . So I can totally see why more and more parents are tu…
Confession: I once baked a birthday cake so ugly my daughter cried. I'm not kidding. So for those of you without culinary arts degrees, here's one way to make the birthday kid feel special and ensure that her cake will be exactly what sh…
I confess: I have a love-hate relationship with planning birthday parties for my kids. While picking a theme can be fun, I also find it a little exhausting to sift through website after website looking for cool activities for a superhero…
The start of the school year means once again, the hunt for creative party favors and teacher gift s begins. Well we've brought you cookies in a jar , dreidels in a jar , and pickles in a jar . Now we've got a forest in a jar-- made by y…
I am a big fan of family traditions. And one of the best parts of having a family of my own is that we can create our own traditions. Whether schlepping to Aunt Stacy's every Thanksgiving for her perfect roasted turkey or watching the NY…
I'm a big fan of superheroes, and therefore, cool superhero invitations. I'm pretty sure your kids are too. I love seeing my kids practice being good people while pretending to be courageous, powerful and strong. I mean, sure, sometimes …
This October, my youngest daughters will be turning 4 and 2 and as part of our family tradition, they will be wearing hand-me-down Courtney Courtney kids' dresses . We first featured them in 2008 on Cool Mom Picks, and designer Courtney …
I am planning a garden-themed 4th birthday party for my daughter in a few weeks. I need some creative inspiration! So far, we're going to have the kids each plant something in a pot to take home .. And that's all. I need ideas for other …
I need a birthday gift idea for my soon-to-be 5-year-old daughter. She has tons of Barbies, tons of clothes - she is a girly girl and loves all things to do with painting nails, wearing girly stuff. I feel like we have way too many toys …
I haven't thrown that many birthday parties for my kids and it's like I'm already out of goody bag gift ideas. It might be easier if you have a theme in mind--DIY capes for a a superhero party (we've recommended 6 different themes!) , a …
Looking for ideas for a child's birthday party can be both fun-- and stressful. When my kids were younger, I confess, I went a little overboard with over-the-top parties causing me to collapse with exhaustion. As I learned, it can be a l…
Girls' birthday party ideas can still be girlie, even if you want to avoid the same old princess theme. Which is why I instantly fell in love with the downloadable, customizable party kits at Creative Little Stars, based around classic s…
If you have your cake and eat it too, what are you left with? A whole lot of pretty is what, so long as you own a fab cake stand. You bakers may already have cake stands, but we promise that thse picks are worthy of a spot (or two!) in y…
The standards for kids' birthday cakes have gone up a bit since I was little, when we just stopped by the Piggly Wiggly and had the teen behind the counter misspell my name between the lumpy sugar roses. Now we want them to be beautiful,…
We're honored to be working with our sponsor the American Cancer Society , who's doing such good work in ensuring that all of us continue to have many more birthdays. My mom hit the big 60 birthday milestone last year (don't kill me for …
We are honored to once again be working with our sponsor, the American Cancer Society, on their More Birthdays campaign since if we could make one really big wish, it'd that cancer never steals someone from us again. But wishes alone wil…
We were so impressed with the gorgeous eco-friendly holiday cards from Night Owl Paper Goods last year that we ordered them for our own CMP contributors. So when I heard they added a few new items to their collection of goodies, I couldn…
It's time for first birthdays! I have two parties coming up; one boy and one girl. Then my own baby girl will celebrate her first this fall. So what are some gift recommendations for this new stage of development? -Elaine Yay for first b…
When my newly minted 7-year old daughter asked me to throw her a Harry Potter birthday party with only two weeks to plan, I said "absolutely!" And then ran straight to my computer to try to figure out how the heck to pull this off for ab…
I need ideas for my daughter's 10th birthday..something original and wow. She's a girly girl, loves to sing, very creative, honor student, responsible and loving. Over the years, we've done the bead parties, craft parties , clowns, art p…
A few years ago I got really ambitious and made birthday crowns for my two children. Flash forward a bit and I've now got a third child and still only two birthday crowns. Any guesses where this is going? Yeah. I'm kind of thinking these…
We weren't kidding when we said we had a week's worth of awesome birthday giveaways to celebrate Cool Mom Picks' fifth birthday. It's been so fun for all of us to read all your comments and suggestions in your entries and get to know you…