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Christmas Activity – Balancing Pom-Pom Tree

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  Green colored craft sticks of various lengths glued symmetrically onto a green craft stick make a wonderful Christmas tree craft and a science experiment. Yes, a science experiment. We could have simply glued the stick together and then glued pom-poms on the trees branches. We could have, but we didn’t. What I did ask JDaniel to do Continue Reading

Sight Word Christmas Tree

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  Being able to build a sight word what you have learned to read is important to building an understanding of the word’s sounds and letters. Recently JDaniel and I sat down to build a sight word Christmas tree. We started by cutting out the trunk and four tiered levels of green for the Christmas tree with green and brown paper. The tree Continue Reading

Thankfulness and Joy

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When the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to grow maize and live the new land they had moved to, I believe the Pilgrims were filled with thankfulness and joy. Recently JDaniel and I went to Roper Mountain Science Center's colonial garden.  The weather was warm and sunny probably nothing like the November the Pilgrims had. The master gardeners were Continue Reading

Science Kids- Exploring Turkey Basters

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  Playing with kitchen tools and water has been a favorite activity at my house for years. JDaniel used to play with a tub of water while I made dinner when he was little. Now that he has started school there hasn't been as much time for it. Science is something we can talk and learn about while playing with water. Just last week JDaniel Continue Reading

Science Kids: Dyeing Corn Experiment

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  We wondered if we dyed popcorn on the outside if the popcorn would be the same color as the outside of the kernel was or would it be white? We also wondered if the dye would seep into the inside of the kernel. These seemed like great questions to find answers to right before Thanksgiving. The pilgrims and Indians are said to have had corn at Continue Reading

Advent Calendar Ideas – 25 Blessings

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  Every year my sister Shell sends my son an Advent calendar with chocolate pieces tuck behind its tiny doors. He loves it. JDaniel looks forward to hearing scripture verse behind each door while he is enjoying a piece of milk chocolate every morning. Why not come up with something special for us to do in the evening each night during Continue Reading

{Five Little Turkeys} Stick Puppets and Rhyme

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Have you ever sung the song the Five Little Turkeys with hand print turkey puppets? If you haven’t you, really should. It really is a lot of fun.  We did it recently at our house. We put this activity together, because JDaniel loves the Halloween book Five Little Pumpkins .When I clear out the stuffed animals on his bed, I usually find the Five Continue Reading

12 Wonderful Building Toys For Kids

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There is something wonderful about a pile of building materials being transformed into a building, tower, track, or bridge that a child has imagined in their mind and then created. When JDaniel was really little I started scouring yard sales and consignment sales for building toys. I wanted him to have wide toys to create, build, and display Continue Reading

Turkey Craft and a Thanksgiving Book

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    We have a large supply of magazines at our house to look through and search for pictures in. Recently we searched through the food related magazines for pictures we could use to create a food full turkey. It was a little challenging to find large pictures of food. Why large pictures? I had created feather templates out of an old Continue Reading

I Am Grateful for Family {21 Days of Gratitude Challenge}

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I am participating in the 21 Day of Gratitude  Challenge Hop hosted by Inspired by Famila.  Today’s theme or focus is gratitude for family. I am truly fortunate to have a loving and supportive family.  When someone is in need or needs support, my family rallies around them. I saw that happen when my brother-in-law was sent to Afghanistan last Continue Reading

Thanksgiving Science Activity – Sink or Float

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There are so many fun objects associated with Thanksgiving. JDaniel and I took some outside to explore in his water table on a beautiful fall day last week. The focus of this Thanksgiving science activity was sink or float. "Which of these objects associated with Thanksgiving are going to float and which of them will sink?" I asked him.  What Continue Reading

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