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Plant Pokes Personalized

Personalized Plant Pokes

What better way to let your child create their own garden and adding their own touch to it?

Things you will need:

- Wooden shapes
- Wooden dowels
- Markers
- Colored paint and Glue

Take your wooden shapes and wooden dowels and paint them. Let dry. Next take your marker and write anything you want on your painted shapes. Ideas are: Jen’s Garden, My Flowers, Planted and then the date. Once you have planted your plants or seeds, stick your plant pokes in your garden.

These can also make VERY cute gifts for a grandmother’s Birthday. Enjoy!

Multi-Colored Binoculars

Multi-Colored Binoculars

Items needed:
- Two empty rolls of toilet paper
- Colored plastic wrap
- Two rubberbands
- Decorations (jewels, pom-poms, markers, etc)

Take your colored plastic wrap and cut about a 5-6 inch square out. Place the square over one end of the cardboard roll and secure it down with one rubber band. Repeat the same process for a different color on the other empty cardboard roll.

You can then decorate them by using your various decorations you have on hand. Jazz them up. Your child will be in amazement at all the things they can look at through their new binoculars.

Give your bike a glowing effect

 

Make your bike glow

Items needed:

• Bike
• Glow Sticks
• Twist Ties
• Happy Fun child

 

If your child likes to ride his bike in the dark or during sunset hours, let them spoof up their bike by adding glow sticks.

Buy an assortment of glow sticks and help them secure the sticks around their bike in an outline fashion. You can use twist ties to secure the sticks in place

Watch their face as they have fun riding their bike down the street glowing.

 

Have fun!

Spending time having fun

What is more precious then spending time with your child playing a fun game? Nothing. Your child will appreciate the times you set aside to play. Playing doesn’t have to be boring, make it fun. Break out a good board game, playing cards, or create your own game.

Scavanger hunts are really fun. This gets your child extra motor skills going. A scavanger hunt can be made up on the spot, doesn’t even need to be well thought out. Try it out, your kids will love it. Find everyday normal household items, toys, shapes or colors. The possibilties are endless.

Another fun game is hide and seek. This can also teach your child counting and can help them think. Hmm, I wonder where my mommy is. These types of games can be fun for the whole family.

Here are some more ideas that can entertain your child:

• Blow Bubbles outside or in. Make it a game, whoever can catch the most or pop the most wins.
• Make a fort inside by propping pillow and blankets up. This is a huge hit with the little ones.
• Create a cute play. Get your child involved and make a sock puppet. Let them design their own. Use the back behind of a sofa or chair as the stage.
• Get your child to help prepare a lunch. This can be fun for them if they are allowed to help. Let them make their own or make everyone’s lunch. Look at how proud they will be.
• Finger painting is always fun. (Look for homemade finger paint recipes soon)
• Play flashlight tag. This is always fun.
• Get some pasta noodles (penne, spirals, elbow, etc) and glue them on paper into various designs.

Having fun doesn’t mean you have to spend lots of money. Get creative. Find everyday household items that you can incorporate into having fun!

© Copyright 2007 Jen O.

Kid made Pizza

Pizza Tortilla made by kids:

Ingredients needed:
Tortialla Wraps
Pizza Sauce
Mozzarella Cheese
Toppings of choice

Directions:

Take a tortilla wrap and spread sauce around the tortilla. Sprinkle cheese around. Add your choice of toppings.
Parent supervision needed: For parents, place tortilla pizza in over and back for about 5-6 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve. One Tortilla can serve one child depending on size of tortilla.

Shopping with your children

One of the most challenging things is to go shopping with your child or children. Giving your child full attention while shopping is almost nearly impossible unless you sit your child in the cart seat. Your child needs your full attention. If you can’t give your child your full attention then it is best to leave your child at home while you take care of your shopping needs.

You can control your child to a certain extent if you sit them in the cart seat by giving them a healthy snack to snack on while you shop. Always use the cart strap to strap your child in. This will also help keep them safe. Not only safety in the cart, but safety while they walk around. Kids are curious and like to touch or pick up neat things. This could lead to a safety hazard.

If your child gets cranky or your shopping at a time where they usually take a nap, simply wait until the appropriate time to shop. The needs of the child should come first before taking that trip to the store.

Children need to know about strangers while shopping. You should be teaching your child about strangers as soon as they are old enough to know to understand. The younger the better. It should be repeated every time you go out about how not to talk to strangers while we shop.

Take your child to a section where they can relate. Make it a fun trip, not a boring one. Stop by the toy section and let your child hold a toy while you shop. This can only work if your child understands that the toy can be taken back and your only allowing them to hold it while you shop. Otherwise you are creating a huge temper tantrum that you don’t want to deal with while shopping. Another good thing to try is giving them a book to read or look through while your shopping.

Trying to keep them busy, not cranky is a daunting task at hand and at times challenging. Stay strong and remember always put their needs first.

Creating a stick reindeer

A simple yet fun craft you and your child can make during the holiday Christmas season.

A few items you will need:
* Glue
* 3 popsicle sticks
* 2 wiggly eyes
* one red pom pom
* Red or green ribbon
* Brown Paint (optional)

Optional step: Paint the three popsicle sticks brown. Let dry!

Take the three popsicle sticks and glue them in a triangle shape as seen in above image. Let dry!
Next, glue on the two wiggly eyes and glue on the red pom pom on the very tip to form the nose.
Take about a 6 inch piece of ribbon and glue it in the center back of the top of the reindeer forming a loop. This will be used to hang the ornament on your tree. Let dry!

After all is dry, hang on tree. You will now have a cherished ornament that can be passed down to your child when they have grown and have their own tree to hang in on. Makes a great heirloom.

Getting your child active

In today’s society, if your child is overweight you are looked at as a bad parent. Not all cases are a result from overeating. It can also be a matter of family history or other serious issues at hand other than just overeating.

If your child is overweight due to overeating, there are some things you can do to help your child over become it. You can help your child by cutting out most sugar items such as candy, cool-aid, soda/pop and other high sugar content items. You will be amazed how how fast one can lose weight by just cutting out high sugared items. Cutting these things out can also help keeping your child less hyper. Don’t let your child eat past a certain time at night. If your child goes to sleep at 8pm, limit the food intake no later then 7pm. Let their stomach try to digest the food eaten so it doesn’t sit overnight.

Get your child active in some extra curricular activities. These day’s it doesn’t necessarily have to be an after school activity, simply take your child outside and throw the ball around. The possibilities are endless when it comes to your child getting some exercise. These day’s there are some nice educational toys that can help your child get your child active.

You can also make activities fun. It doesn’t have to be the same ol’e boring exercises, incorporate fun into it. Play tag/it, hide and go seek, create a scavenger hunt, play baseball/basketball/football, fly a kite, during the summer go swimming. The possibilities are endless. Help your child stay healthy. Your the only one they can depend on.

What to look for in a quality daycare.

As parents, we all know the importance of a daycare. Not only are we sad or distraught about sending our children to a total stranger, the search for a quality daycare can be a tedious job, but nonetheless an important one at hand.

One would ask, should I send my child to an established chain daycare facility or should I look into a home daycare? Well the answer is it is up to you, the parent. Myself coming from a background of running a home daycare, they are more personal, the amount of children that can be watched under one provider is much less then a chain daycare facility.

Do you want a childcare provider that is responsible for 5-6 children or a provider that is responsible for 10+ children at once? My choice is the less children being watched means greater child/provider interaction. More attention can be given to your child. Not only attention, but the children seem to interact much better with a home daycare vs. a chain daycare.

Here are some things to consider when looking for the right daycare for your child.

• Cleanliness
• Amount of children being watcher per provider
• Licensed or registered (we will discuss the difference in a later issue)
• Flexible schedule (good for the parents who have an weird work hours)
• Safety reports
• Do they provide transportation to and from school?
• Strict on rules or payment issues
• and most of all Caring…

When choosing your childcare provider ask if you can sit a day with your child to test the environment out. Making sure your child interacts nicely with the other children. Watch, study how the provider interacts with the children, what they feed them, etc. These are all important factors when choosing the right daycare provider.

We all go through the tough decision for choosing a childcare provider so we all feel your pain of letting your child go

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