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Tips for Choosing Kids Backpacks

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Tips for choosing kids backpacks

  When it comes to choosing the right kids backpacks, the sheer number of backpacks on the market may make it seem overwhelming. It seems like there are backpacks available in zillions of colors and styles. Before you head out with your children to select a backpack there are seven tips that I would like to offer you. Choosing Kids Continue Reading

Fun for Kids with Science and Math- The Sunday Showcase

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Science and Math Fun for Kids

Kids love to explore concepts hands on. Making math and science discoveries and sharing what they learn as they learn it helps kids connects concepts that they may have already started to build an understanding of.  Several amazing posts that tie fun for kids with science and math were shared on The Sunday Showcase. I totally thought they deserved Continue Reading

Changing to Olive Oil- Making Quesadilla Pizza

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Changing to Olive Oil Making a Quesadilla Pizza

  My husband and I started using Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil a few years ago in place of butter or margarine. He really wanted us to focus on preparing foods in healthier ways. I confess I had been using butter and margarine because I was used to it. My mom used both when she was cooking. If I had known about this simple conversion Continue Reading

12 Back to School Clothes Shopping Tips

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When it comes to making sure that you have your children ready for school, these twelve Back to School Clothes tips should really help. They cover a variety of gathering and assessing tips. While gathering may make sense to you, you may be wondering why you need to assess your children's clothing. In many ways assessing is important than the actual Continue Reading

Math Games- Plastic Jug Flip Chute

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Math Games- Plastic Jug Flip Chute

One of the really cool things about this plastic jug flip chute is that you can watch the cards flip inside the jug. A second cool thing about it is that is can be used for a wide variety of math games. Let me walk you through how to make a flip chute and then various math games that you can play with it. How to Make A Plastic Jug Flip Chute I Continue Reading

Preschool Activities with Bugs-The Sunday Showcase

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Preschool Activities With Bugs- The Sunday Showcase

As I scrolled through the amazing collection of activities shared last week on The Sunday Showcase, I noticed that many of them had to do with bugs. My son just loves searching for, learning about, and creating bugs. I decided that I just had to share them with you in this round up. If you have a bug lover at your house, I know they are just going Continue Reading

Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

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Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

As shared earlier in the week in my Educational Games- Color Sorting Turtles, learning games for kids that feature movie, book, or television characters catch children's interest. Just as in that post I went with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In this post I only focused on one Ninja Turtle called Raphael who wears a red head band. Teenage Continue Reading

Science Experiments for Kids- Turtle Balancing

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Science Experiments for Kids- Turtle Balancing

Turtle balancing is one of those experiments for kids that looks easy, but is tricky.  Coming up with ways to balance them is easy, but what ways will  allow the turtles to stay standing. It is easier to get them tumble than it is to get them to all to stay stacked. We found two ways that worked right away. Coming up with more was Continue Reading

Educational Games- Color Sorting Turtles

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Educational Games- Color Sorting Turtles

Taking characters like the Teenage Ninja Turtles that kids are excited about  and using them in educational games peaks children's interest in the skills covered in the game. This educational game invites children to sort through a bowl of treasures and match them to each turtle's mask. Each of the treasures in this game are intentionally small. Continue Reading

Kids Crafts- Potato Print Turtles

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KIds Crafts- Potato Print Turtles

  Kids crafts done with vegetable stamps are a lot of fun. We found potato is the perfect shape for carving a turtle shell onto  that you can use as a stamp to a shell onto a paper turtle's back. We also found that sometimes the shell gets right on the turtle's back and other times the shell can be slightly coming off the turtle kind of Continue Reading

Kindergarten Activity-Exploring Positional Words

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Kindergarten Activity Exploring Positional Words

While this kindergarten activity may simply look like blowing water around a blue plastic block, it is so much more than that. This kindergarten activity explores what will happen when you blow an object from various areas around the object. Each of those areas represents a positional words that kids in kindergarten need to learn. During this Continue Reading

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