Valentines Day Kindness Challenge

We are all about celebrating Valentines Day at Peekaboo Beans! How can you argue with a holiday that is all about spreading the love? So, in honour of the holiday tomorrow, we've created a Kindness Challenge just for you. We want to encourage you to spread some LOVE and kindness within your community this weekend! Challenge yourself and see how many ways you can spread some love this Valentines Day weekend by checking off as many of the activities below as possible. Don't forget to let us know how you do in our comment section!

Click here to download our printable PDF version!

Tools for a playful holiday season

With the holidays fast approaching we are all starting to think about our never ending to-do lists.  As the weeks turn into days, the days turn into hours and the hours turn into minutes... Christmas will be here before you can blink twice.  And if you are a Mom (or Dad), like all us dedicated hard working Moms at Peekaboo Beans, we might need a little extra help keeping us all on track and playfully organized over the holiday season.  With so much to do, our fabulous marketing department created this wonderfully helpful printable that lets you keep track of all the holiday to-dos in one handy spot.  

We have created it so that you can choose from the list on the side and plunk in the tasks/baking dates/wrapping dates/play dates all according to your own schedule.  We lovingly grilled all our Momma Beans at the Peekaboo Beans Playground (our head office) and asked them what are some of the regular activities and must dos that are always on their list during the hustle and bustle of the holidays. We then compiled the most common tasks and created this playful planning calendar.  

Remember though... don't feel like you have to fill up every single day... we must leave time for PLAY!  

Click HERE to download your printable holiday calendar

24 days of PLAY!

At Peekaboo Beans, we are all about PLAY and the importance of it. So in order for you to take some time and remember to still have fun through all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, we have created this playful Holiday Advent Calendar for you to print, create and share with your Beans.

We have included some simple activities such as making paper snowflakes, and baking cookies to more playful creations like indoor snowball fights and balloon paddle ball. We love to keep the play alive for you and your Beans, so take advantage by creating some playful memories for your family this holiday season.

Click HERE to download your printable copy of our 24 days of PLAY Advent Calendar.

Happy Holidays!

Join our 31 Day PLAY Challenge in May!

Peekaboo Beans is on a mission to rescue children of today from a play deficit and help bring daily unstructured play back into their lives. A way we can help do this is by raising awareness of the importance of play and encourage parents to get their Beans playing outdoors and having fun. Children need this free time and free play in order to grow into happy healthy human beans! Play is not a option, it's a necessity!

 

So, we encourage you to join this months 31 Day PLAY Challenge with your family and embrace the opportunity to experience some creative outdoor activities and fun adventures during this last month of the Spring season.  Peekaboo Beans 31 Day PLAY Challenge is here to help bring fun back into your life and connect with your children through sharing time together, having fun with one another and PLAYING!  And with this new PLAY challenge we are encouraging the use of reusable & eco friendly items found around the home... since doesn't need to be FANCY to be EFFECTIVE!!  

 

Click HERE to download your printable 

31 Day PLAY Challenge and get playing! 

Dreaming of Beans!

With the exciting launch of our new Spring collection, Endless Summer, decision making is going to be the toughest part in this whole Bean buying process!!  With so many gorgeous and playful pieces becoming available this Friday, March 1st, we want to help you get started with laying it all out and deciding what your Spring must-haves will be.  Print our Endless Summer Wish List and don't forget to bring it with your to your upcoming Beans Soiree and have your Stylist help you make those final decisions.  We love that Spring is in the air!!

 

Print your Spring Wish List HERE

 

 

Visit Peekaboo Beans to find a Play Stylist in your area.

 

 

Paperdolls in our spring attire.

One of the things I love to do most with my wee beans is to sit, color, cut and dress. There is nothing more therapeutic than the simple act of see beautiful colors pop from a clean white page, especially when all that color gets encased in cute little fine line drawings! 

 

Today, we are sharing the latest addition to our Peekaboo Beans paper doll collection.  Print yours HERE, just for you and your beans! 

 

 

The girls (and boy - yes, the "big bag of chips") at Peekaboo Beans created a list of things that they would LOOOOOVEE to receive as a gift on Valentine's Day. So we are sharing it with you - and who knows what will happen if you JUST "happen" to leave it lying around for your better half (or Beans) to see after you've checked off your favorites! We also added 3 extra spots to add your own goodies!

 

 

 

Get your printable PDF Valentine's "If only i had..." list HERE

 

 

A Valentines surprise for you!

From us to you this Valentines Day... we've created a super cute printable Valentines Card of Jack and Lilah Bean.  Print the double sided PDF  and then just sign, cut and hand out to friends at school, at the playground, in your neighbourhood, to your family members and family or anywhere your Beans want to spread the love!

 

Download your PDF copies HERE

 

 

Paying it forward with compliments

 

There is no better feeling than making someone else smile!  It's such a simple act, but we find that in this day and age, perhaps it's not done quite often enough.  So let us help you spread some love and joy, with CiCi Bean's printable compliments. 

 

Just print, cut, fold and give to someone who is special to you. And don't stop there, why not give one to a friend or family member secretly, or a random stranger on the street in need of a smile.

 

It doesn't take much to spread the love and pay it forward.

 

 

 

 

Download your printable PDF version HERE

And don't forget to visit the CiCi Bean blog, Let Your Heart be your Guide, for more fun and playful printables!

A year in review - for your Beans

Who likes free printables!  We have created this "Year in Review" printable for you to fill out with your Beans and have as a keepsake for the years to come.  This is a great way to reflect on the year just passed and to also look forward to the year ahead and perhaps set a few important and kid friendly goals. Almost like a New Years Resolution worksheet for kids, but way more fun!  

Print your Peekaboo Beans copy HERE

Print your CiCi Bean copy HERE

Paper Dolls Printables

 

Free Printable for You!

 

The perfect rainy day activity.  From our Fall 2012 Collection, we bring you a printable coloring sheet of our favorite boys and girls Peekaboo Beans items.  Print them for your Beans and get creative!  Get out the glitter glue, the color crayons or markers, use sequence or fabric scraps, attach them to Popsicle sticks to make puppets... there are no rules, just have fun!  Feel free to show us your creations on our Facebook page.

 

Click HERE to print our Fall 1st Crop Collection Paper Dolls

Click HERE to print our Fall 2nd Crop Collection Paper Dolls

In honor of Gratitude Day

"In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy"

 

Every day we are given many opportunities to make someones else's life a bit brighter, but we don't usually recognize it at that very moment.  It's truly amazing how just the smallest kind gesture can capture's a person's heart and put a real smile on their face, but we are often so busy needing to get where we are wanting to go that we forget how many people we need to pass in order to get there.  So for this week, in honor of World Gratitude Day on September 21st we are launching the Peekaboo Beans Pay it Forward Challenge.  Lets remember... simple things leave lasting impressions. 

 

Print our Pay it Forward Challenge and see how many of these small kind gestures you can can get done this week.  Keep us in the loop by posting your comments below.  Perhaps we will highlight your good deeds and share with the world the bit of sunshine you are bringing to the people around you. 

 

 

Download your printable copy HERE and be sure to pass along to family and friends

and keep the kindness going!

 

 

Today is Grandparents Day!

In honor of Grandparents Day today, we bring you little poem and a fun printable. 

Grandparents and grandchildren,
Together they create a chain of love
Linking the past,
With the future.
The chain may lengthen,
But it will never part.

Find a cozy spot and fill this in with your Grandparents. What a wonderful keepsake it will make. 

Have your kids fill them out with their Grandparents for a fun activity. Print yours HERE