Decorate your house or garden this Hallooween with these very realistic and spooky home-made tombstones! Adults needed to make these..
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Littlest Pet Shop - games, printables and ecard fun
We think the Littlest Pet Shop characters are really cute, and enjoyed playing the online games and doing some sweet coloring pages at the official site, here.
If you want still more Littlest Pet Shop coloring pages, have a look at our Coloring Page Database listing.
Littlest Pet Shop coloring pages
If you want still more Littlest Pet Shop coloring pages, have a look at our Coloring Page Database listing.
Littlest Pet Shop coloring pages
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Parenting Lessons Learned From a Piece of Pink Cake
By Terre Grable
Yesterday was a definite eye opening day. It was the first day back from summer of a mother’s group I attend at church. You could sense the excitement in the air of catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. Then it hit me, this would be the first year I would be attending without my oldest daughter. For five years, we had attended together. There would be no more chasing my daughter up the lobby stairs to catch her before she independently went to her classroom. There would be no more midday surprise lunches after my group, or meeting up with friends at the park afterwards. It had all been replaced with growing up and pre-kindergarten.
So I did what any other self respecting and grief stricken mother would do...
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Yesterday was a definite eye opening day. It was the first day back from summer of a mother’s group I attend at church. You could sense the excitement in the air of catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. Then it hit me, this would be the first year I would be attending without my oldest daughter. For five years, we had attended together. There would be no more chasing my daughter up the lobby stairs to catch her before she independently went to her classroom. There would be no more midday surprise lunches after my group, or meeting up with friends at the park afterwards. It had all been replaced with growing up and pre-kindergarten.
So I did what any other self respecting and grief stricken mother would do...
Read the rest of "Parenting Lessons Learned From a Piece of Pink Cake"
Dice Games for Kids
We have just added 15 brilliant dice games for younger children to the website (previously only available as a purchasable download). Many are printable and most are educational - although the children will be having so much fun with them that they won't realise! These first 15 games are aimed at younger children (although many are adaptable for older kids); we have more games for older age groups coming soon.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A Most Important Word
By Mark Brandenburg
There have been countless debates about how to help your kids become happy, healthy, successful people in their own lives. And one effective method of preparing them for their own lives is to give them a heavy dose of the word that not enough kids are getting today.
The word?
There have been countless debates about how to help your kids become happy, healthy, successful people in their own lives. And one effective method of preparing them for their own lives is to give them a heavy dose of the word that not enough kids are getting today.
The word?
Blackberry picking and recipes!
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but blackberries are out now in our region of the UK, and there are buckets and buckets of them within a few minutes walk of our house. There is something so satisfying about taking the kids out for a walk and coming back with overflowing containers of delicious, free blackberries, and then piling into the kitchen together to make something yummy with them.
Here are some blackberry recipes to get you started:
Fresh blackberry lemonade
The blackberries make this lemonade unusual and special.
Blackberry smoothie
Delicious, quick and wholesome - great for a snack or a quick breakfast.
Berry Brulee
This isn't a true brulee recipe, but a quick version which is still delicious and probably more popular with children.
Apple and Blackberry Crumble
As the evenings begin to draw in, take comfort in the smell of this crumble cooking in the oven! Serve with cream or vanilla ice-cream. You can also make up extra of the crumble mixture and store it in the freezer, ready for an almost instant pudding next time!
Blackberry Whip
This is a wickedly good desert! You can obviously vary the berries according to what you have in the fridge.
And here is a Blackberry colouring page too, in case the kids want something to do while you are busy in the kitchen preparing something special...
Hand Gestures Dramatically Improve Learning..
Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they've learned.
In today's issue of the journal Cognition, a University of Rochester scientist suggests it's possible to help children learn difficult concepts by providing gestures as an additional and potent avenue for taking in information.
"We've known for a while that we use gestures to add information to a conversation even when we're not entirely clear how that information relates to what we're saying," says Susan Wagner Cook, lead author and postdoctoral fellow at the University. "We asked if the reverse could be true; if actively employing gestures when learning helps retain new information."
It turned out to have a more dramatic effect than Cook expected.
Read more
In today's issue of the journal Cognition, a University of Rochester scientist suggests it's possible to help children learn difficult concepts by providing gestures as an additional and potent avenue for taking in information.
"We've known for a while that we use gestures to add information to a conversation even when we're not entirely clear how that information relates to what we're saying," says Susan Wagner Cook, lead author and postdoctoral fellow at the University. "We asked if the reverse could be true; if actively employing gestures when learning helps retain new information."
It turned out to have a more dramatic effect than Cook expected.
Read more
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