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Teaching Children the Difference Between Wants and Needs

Teaching Children the Difference Between Wants and Needs

Although our boys are relatively good about not constantly asking for stuff, I want them to know the difference between “needs” and “wants”. “Needs” are the things that we rely on to live (comfortably). “Wants” are not essential to our life,…

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Personalized Mother’s Day Tea Towel

Personalized Mother’s Day Tea Towel

I love giving my mom and mother-in-law something cute and personalized from the boys each year. Two years ago, we made personalized pot holders and candles and last year we made refrigerator picture magnets. We were running out of…

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Leaving One Paradise for Another

It’s amazing how a little break from the mundane day-to-day tasks of child rearing can help one’s perspective on parenting. For the first time in several years, Prince Charming and I took a (non-business related) trip just the two of…

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Counting Robots

This simple activity is great for number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and fine motor control! We used some robot stickers to make the activity even more appealing to Little Brother. Here’s what you’ll need: craft sticks, clothespins, robot stickers,…

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Books for Brand New Readers

Finding books with engaging content for brand new readers is tough. If you regularly read high-quality picture books aloud to your child, she can easily become frustrated with the simple storylines in easy readers that she reads herself. But…

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Outdoor Alphabet Track

Outdoor Alphabet Track

It is finally feeling like spring around here so we decided to have some fun outside! This activity was so simple and both boys enjoyed it far longer than I expected. It was especially great for my little “mover and shaker”,…

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Your Family’s Biggest Investment

April is Financial Literacy month. Although there are lots of wonderful posts on teaching our children how to manage money, sometimes we as parents need a reality check as well. We spend countless hours worrying and researching the biggest purchases in our life, when…

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5 Steps to Making the Most of Your Child’s Curiosity

Guest post by Christie of Childhood 101 Just recently my five year old daughter could not attend the swimming lessons that were part of her school program due to a nasty head wound. As she was so disappointed to…

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Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Puzzle

Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Puzzle

I’ve had this bean tub in our closet for over 2 years now. Big Brother used to love playing with it, and still does on occasion. Little Brother had not had a chance to play with it yet…until now…

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Take Your Child to Work Day is Thursday, April 25th

Take Your Child to Work Day is Thursday, April 25th

Thursday, April 25th is Take Your Child to Work Day! This is an excellent opportunity for our sons and daughters to learn about responsibility and earning an income! If you don’t work outside the home, ask your husband or…

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Paint Chip Mosaic Earth

Paint Chip Mosaic Earth

Earth Day is Monday, April 22nd. Last year we created this Earth Day project and this year we decided to try something a little more abstract–a Paint Chip Mosaic Earth. I had a few of these paint chip cards…

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S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft

S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft

Little Brother and I created this Striped Snake for our Letter “S” Craft. We conveniently used a sponge to create our stripes all while Little Brother was wearing his striped sweater (Repeat the last 2 sentences 3 times as quick as you can…go!). Actually,…

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Consonant Digraph Garden

Part of learning to read is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget…

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Top 20 Craft Supplies Every Home Should Have

I received a comment from a reader on last week’s Craft Organization post wondering what our “must-have craft supplies” are: “Have you ever done a post on how to organize craft supplies or what things are essentials and…

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“April Showers” One-to-One Correspondence Activity

One-to-one correspondence is a very important concept for young children and is a basic foundation for all of mathematics. Simply put, one-to-one correspondence is the process of touching one object for each number that is counted aloud. Little Brother…

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Spring Cleaning: Kid’s Edition (Day Four)

Spring Cleaning: Kid’s Edition (Day Four)

Today is the last day of this challenge…hooray! I am tired of organizing (and making trips to Goodwill), but I am so glad to have a clutter-free house! This last task was definitely the easiest for me, probably because I feel…

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Spring Cleaning: Kid’s Edition (Day Three)

It’s Day Three of our Spring Cleaning: Kid’s Edition Challenge (be sure to check out Day 1 and Day 2 if you missed them). I am already feeling sooooo much better about the clutter in my house! Here is today’s…

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