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New Year’s Drink For Kids- Firecracker Sparkler

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Firecracker Sparkler New Year's Drink for Kids

My son loves special drinks. I think it is because he is served milk at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A special drink for New Year's needed to be super special and have a super special name like the Firecracker Sparkler.  This New's Year's Drink for Kids is something super special. It includes ingredients my son will love celebrating with. What is Continue Reading

New Year’s Customs Sheet and Activities

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New Year's Customs and Activities

It is fascinating to explore the customs and traditions people celebrate during New Year's Eve and New Year's Day around the world. I made a New Years Customs Page that shares what people do to celebrate around the world. The customs sheet could  be read and discussed or it could become part of a learning activity that you could do at home or with Continue Reading

Angels Among Us

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Angels Among Us- Angel Craft for Kids

    While we totally celebrate Jesus’ birthday on Christmas day, it is the angels like the one displayed in this craft JDaniel made it school last year that are on my mind. I know that God sends his angels to look over us. The Bible shares numerous encounters with angels.  I have never seen an actual angel with wings and halo. They don’t Continue Reading

Five Little Christmas Trees Craft and Song

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Five Little Christmas Trees Song and Craft

  Have you heard the five little Christmas trees chant or song? My son loves the five little pumpkins chant so much that I searched and searched to find a Christmas themed chant that he would enjoy. I found one called the five little reindeer while searching. It is really cute, but I decided to keep looking.  When I found the Five Little Continue Reading

{Christmas Ornament Activity} Positional Words

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      As you get ready to put away our ornaments, you may want to try this activity. It asks children to place objects in an ornament storage frame based on position words that I wrote on index cards. Non-fragile ornaments in our Christmas ornament collection worked out best for us. Many of them are ones that JDaniel made Continue Reading

Christmas Themed God’s Eye for Mom

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        Years ago my aunt made a Christmas themed God’s eye as a gift for my mom. When I tried to come up with some Christmassy to hang in my mom’s hospital room, that craft from long ago came to mind.  God’s eyes are said to have the power to see and understand things unknown. I am not sure that the weaving that I created with yarn Continue Reading

Last Minute Stocking Stuffers

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With Christmas just a week away there isn't much time to gather the items you want to put into your children's' stockings. I thought I would share with you some of the items JDaniel will be getting his stocking as well as some old favorites. The old favorites didn't necessarily come into our house as stocking stuffers but have been dearly Continue Reading

Christmas Meals and Snacks for Kids

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I haven't had as much time this year to make JDaniel special Christmas meals and snacks. What with going back to work and my mom being in the hospital things have been hectic and crazy. I decided rather than share a new Christmas meal or snack  for kids with you I would share some of my favorites from previous years. A layered Christmas tree Continue Reading

Decorating Gingerbread Activity

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Decorating Gingerbread Activity

  Gingerbread men design activity came to mind as a traced cookie cutter shapes to make the number tally math matching activity. There had to be another way to use our Christmas cookie cutters. When we went to a big box craft store recently, JDaniel just had to visit the Crayola aisle. I had told him that all of our crayons were Crayola and Continue Reading

{Christmas Craft} Candy Cane Reindeer

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Christmas Craft - Candy Cane Reindeer

I saw candy cane reindeer like this in the hall at my school.  I knew immediately that we need to try to make one at home. They were just too cute. I am not sure if it was the hand print antlers or fact that it combined to wonderful Christmas elements. Candy canes and reindeer are such a fun!The ones I saw at school had paper noses and paper Continue Reading

Kid Made Ornament – Branch Bracelets

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Kid Made Ornaments -Branch Bracelets

  The idea for branch bracelets came to me as we were decorating our Christmas tree last week.  When we came to a kid made ornament that JDaniel had created himself, he face just lit up. He was so proud of each kid made ornament he had made in preschool or with me at home.  It occurred to me that we hadn’t made any new ornament this year and we Continue Reading

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