Tree a Tree  Strong scissors Craft sticks (including 1 wide craft stick) Tacky glue Green and brown acrylic paint Sequins Small wooden star or other tree-topping ornament String  Use strong scissors to trim several craft sticks to lengths ranging from around 1 1/2 to 3 3/4 inches (a parent’s job). Have your […]
 I have made these spiders for several 3rd grade class parties, but I am sure they would work for a variety of ages. The kids enjoy the activity and they turn out pretty cute. Once they are made, treats can be put inside the pocket and sent home with the kids. Items Needed: black […]
What is Halloween without some skeletons? Using about 4 pipe cleaners (chenille stems) and a little piece of craft foam, you can make a little skeleton. (these go with along with our other kid crafts from pipe cleaners -seen below) Here are our favorite skeleton stories that are perfect for young children: Shake dem Halloween Bones […]
There are many uses for little lids from bottles and jars. We wash and save the lids from Powerade and Gatorade, and keep them with the kid craft stuff. Since these were mostly orange and black, these were perfect for a little Halloween game. We just put a Halloween sticker (2 of each) and it […]
  Scissors Card stock Glue Markers  To make one, first cut a 1 3/4- by 8-inch strip of colorful card stock. Holding the strip horizontal, fold each half of the strip down at a right angle at the strip’s center, as shown. Next, use shapes cut from colored paper or card stock to […]
 PICTURE THIS: a family outing that’s great for all ages, affordable, and (shh!) educational too. Sound too good to be true? Not if you’ve got a digital camera and a sharp eye for letter shapes, as my family recently discovered they have. My 10-year-old, Ava, and 5-year-old, Harry, loved going on an I Spy […]
Letter X is a very unreliable letter that make the sounds:     /x/ as in x-ray     /ks/ as in six     /z/ as in xylophone 1. Present a capital and lower case X to your child. See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  This is a tricky […]
Materials: Plastic eggs, small dinosaurs and “sand goop” (recipe below).  “Sand Goop” Recipe 1 cup sand 1/2 cup cornstarch 1/2 tsp. alum 1/2 c. water.  Cook on medium heat stirring until thick. Cool to touch.  Put dino into the plastic egg and cover with “sand goop”. Place in “nest”. On Monday, talk […]
