Teaching Money

MONEY ROLL – Use duct tape to create a tape belt around your child’s waist, but make sure the duct tape is sticky side out. Lay down a tarp on the ground and spread coins all over it. Let your child roll around on the tarp and try to pick up coins on her tape […]

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Child Friendly Bathroom

Take time to show baby how things work in the bathroom.  Run some warm water from the faucet, let her move her hands back and forth under the stream, and then dry her hands with a soft towel.  Show her how the toilet flushes, how you brush your teeth, how she can try out her […]

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Clean Mud Recipes

Clean Mud 2 rolls toilet tissue, torn into pieces; 1 1/2 bars Ivory soap, shaved; 2 qt. warm water   Let children help combine all ingredients in a big plastic dishpan or large bucket. Knead by hand until soft and gooey, adding more water as necessary.   Clean Mud 2 Unroll 6 rolls of white […]

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Infant Play Activities

Hold and sing to young babies. Even when babies are able to hold their own bottle, they should be held. Being cuddled frequently assists to build the child’s self-worth, security, and tactile system. Propping an infant with a bottle is a choking hazard.     Rock, sway, and swing your baby gently to help them develop […]

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Egg Dye

1/4 tsp. food coloring 3/4 cup hot water 1 tbsp. vinegar   Use to color hard boiled eggs

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Rock Candy, and Experiment Extension for older kids

Have you ever looked at rock candy and wondered how it’s made? Rock candy is actually a collection of large sugar crystals that are “grown” from a sugar-water solution. Sugar, like many other materials, can come in many different physical states. As a solid it can either be amorphous, without shape, like when it forms […]

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Fairy Dust Necklace

When Fairy Magic enters your life, nothing is quite the same.  Coincidences happen.  The unforeseen takes place.  Miracles occur at an increasing pace.  Fairies?  Of course!  All things are possible.  Fairy Dust inspires us to live our dreams and believe in the magic of infinite possibility!   Fairies seem to be pretty popular these days, […]

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Robot, Alien or Bear Magnet

Turn the front of your ‘fridge into an art gallery.   Three adhesive-backed magnetic disks Colored card stock, two different colors Colored construction paper White craft glue Scissors Pencil Circular dish, preferably with a 2 1/4-inch diameter A quarter A half dollar Two buttons for the robot, four for the alien, and three for the […]

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