My daughter (she’s three) loves to play matching games. I mean, she is always playing one on our rug or on my phone. She even tells people that her talent is matching. It’s that serious to her.

So, when she was using my phone the other day giggling at emojis with me, it hit me. Why not make an emoji matching game? Two wonderful things merged together? Um, YES please!

So, I got to work. Basically, I just took a few standard Emojis and threw them on a grid, printed them on cardstock, and cut them out.

Once they were finished, my daughter couldn’t wait to get her little chubby hands on them.

Everytime she made a match, she would tell me the expression the Emoji had on its face, and then try to make the same face. It was hilarious on some of them.


I loved how proud this game made her feel, and she felt pretty awesome that she was playing with “mommy’s pictures”…how embarassing that she knows I use them to text, right!?

If you want to download your own emoji game, just click here!

Or, if you’re not quite ready to make your own yet, pin the image below to save it for later.

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My youngest turned two last week (I’m still in denial) and I wanted to make her day special without throwing a huge party.
I decided that we’d just invite two of her closest friends over (their parents are some of my closest friends, luckily) and eat cake-Store bought cake. I told myself I wouldn’t even feel guilty about it. In fact! I didn’t even send any invites out. I just texted my friends and asked if they wanted to come over for some cake, and I quote “don’t expect anything cute!”

Well…Then I started perusing Pinterest and found THIS cake by CoCo Cake Land…And, I knew right then I had to copy it. There aren’t any directions on her site, but it was pretty simple to just eyeball.

From there, it spiraled and I just had to make the girls some kitty ears and kitty tails for this mini kitty party.

I’m pretty proud of myself for just stopping there and not going crazy…Because I was close!

Overall, I loved the feel of a smaller party and being able to actually interact with the guests. I think small parties will be the new rule of thumb around here.

What about you? Do you go all out for parties or try to keep them simple?