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Bird Feeder Craft

Celebrate Spring AND give your kids a chance to help the birds with this project…. Empty quart sized cardboard milk carton Scissors String or cord Hole punch or pencil Bird seed How to make it: Help you child cut a hole in the bird feeder – it should be big enough so a bird could […]

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Time Capsule

Recycle an old oatmeal tub and fill a time capsule together that will give you a chance to reflect on your relationship years later. You can even decorate the capsule together and plan on when you will remove it from its location. One year…two years….graduation? Decide together! Here are some items that can be included,

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Tag….you’re it!

I imagine that everyone knows the simple game of TAG. You probably even played it during recess when you were a kid! I remember playing tag…..I would get so scared when I was being chased that many times I would just sit down and say, “Time out!” Well, it’s a twist on tag that may

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HEART LESSONS

During the month of February all you need is a bag of candy conversation hearts and you can fill up the hour doing many different activities with them…. MATH- add, subtract, greater than or less than, sorting by colors, graphing the different colors, estimate- fill a small glass jar with hearts and let them guess

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Mosaic

Here’s an easy craft project that can be adapted to any age and can be done together… make a mosaic. Mosaics are usually created using small square tiles, but you can use different shapes, too. To create your project use small, brightly colored squares of paper. Squares cut from magazines can also be used to

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