August 2009

Yoga for Kids

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Don’t you love it when you buy something because it looks really cute and fun, and it turns out to be even better than you expected?  That’s exactly how our whole family feels about the Yoga Pretzels activity cards.  My girls LOVE them!  We’ve had the cards for about a year, and the girls still [...]

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Time Capsule in a Tube

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One of our first-week-of-school projects was making these simple time capsules using a cardboard tube.  Start by collecting, writing, or drawing some things to go inside.  My girls traced their hands, drew a self-portrait, filled in a list of favorites, and thought of three things they want to learn about.  We also cut a string [...]

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Things to String

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What can we string? cereal (Cheerios, fruit loops, etc.) pasta (wagon wheels, penne, rigatoni, macaroni) beads plastic straws, cut into pieces buttons foam shapes with a hole punched in the center (or a slit) – see a great example at Plum Pudding String onto: shoelaces pipe cleaners coated wire yarn – for easier stringing, wrap [...]

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Hink Pink Riddles

My girls love a good riddle, especially when the answer rhymes – double giggles! A hink pink is simply that – a pair of single-syllable rhyming words that answers a riddle. Try these out on your kiddos: What do you call a crying father?  sad dad What do chickens write with? hen pen What do [...]

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Sticker Crazy!

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My five-year-old has a long-standing obsession with stickers – she cannot ever have enough stickers!  If we are going to be taking a long drive or waiting somewhere, I can throw some stickers, paper, and crayons into my purse and we are good to go!  Peeling and placing stickers is a great activity for fine [...]

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Making Books with Kids

We love, love, love making our own books!  I keep a stash of various blank books with the girls’ art supplies.  They put stickers in them, write/draw stories, collect animal facts, copy words from favorite books, and on and on.  You’re never too young to be author! If you need some inspiration, here are some [...]

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Night Sky Art

My girls loved staying up late on our recent camping trip, waiting for the sky to fill with stars.  They have since been inspired to create piles of beautiful night sky artwork. With a stack of black construction paper and any (or all!) of these materials, have fun exploring and creating – my girls love [...]

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gearing up

The teacher books are getting pulled out and dusted off, but the teaching will be much closer to home this time.  After much thought (and sleepness nights), we have decided to homeschool the girls for Kindergarten and 1st Grade this year.  I am feeling excited and overwhelmed, but I know that much of what we [...]

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bittersweet

Why didn’t anyone tell me that losing her first top tooth would make my sweet girl look so grown-up? She lost the tooth during our camping trip, which she thought was amazing and awesome!  I think she is amazing and awesome and growing up just a bit too fast for me.  This parenting thing is [...]

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