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preschooler
Recycled Robot Craft
My son likes to make crafts: flowers, butterflies, sharks, dragon monsters, and robots. After collecting paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, small boxes, bottle caps, milk jug caps, old straws, egg crates, plastic scoopers, and paper shoe shapers, we had enough parts to make a pretty robust robot craft. Artwork, taping, google eye selection and [...]
Carving a Pumpkin
Last October, when I purchased a pumpkin carving kit . . . it was past the season to do so. But, my three year-old son clung to that pumpkin carving knife and seed scooper as if they were the most precious tools in the world. They were identified as “his” kitchen tools. He’s probably had [...]
Phonics and Reading Fun
Learning letter sounds has been a blast for our three year-old with fun (and FREE) programs like the Starfall.com website, Word World via PBSkids.org (episodes available on Netflix streaming), and LeapFrog: Letter Factory DVD–where every letter makes a sound–to the tune of Farmer in the Dell. Every day (and multiple times throughout the day) our [...]
Sunrise Bento Lunch
My husband doesn’t think I’ll keep up this trend longer than a couple of weeks. Sure, there’s going to be crazy busy mornings where I don’t feel like using a veg cutter to make cute designs (although, it only takes 10 seconds). However, the appreciation I receive from my son…and the empty-upon-return lunch box tells [...]
Crash
Hardware failure that crashed my hard drive on my blogging laptop…right before we traveled out of state for a family wedding. For the moment, I’m microblogging on Facebook (Traveling with Baby) and Twitter (@drdolly), but I’ll be back up here shortly. Quick update: Calvin’s just started preschool and loving it! I’m having fun being creative [...]
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