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 […]
 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 […]
1. Present a capital and lower case U to your child. See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  Explain that U is one of the letters that can make different sounds. One sound it makes is the same as the name of the letter. Give examples of hard […]
The Letter Y is an unreliable letter that acts as both a consonant and a vowel. It makes a wide range of sounds including /y/ /e/ and /i/.  1. Present a capital and lower case Y to your child. See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  Explain […]
Ripe avocado pit 3 toothpicks Glass of water  Stick toothpicks into middle of pit, spacing so that pit can balance inside the rim of the glass, large end down. Fill glass with enough water to cover bottom of pit. Place in warm spot-not in direct sun. Replace water as it evaporates. When a good […]
