Kids Activities - ZOOs
Young children are fascinated with Zoos. Help your children make a toy animal zoo in the sandpit.
What You Need:
- Toy zoo animals
- Boxes
- Polystyrene cups
- Scissors
- Poster or acrylic paints
- Drinking straws
- Sticky tape
- Small pieces of plants
What To Do:
If your children haven't visited a zoo take them along. After the visit help them make a zoo in the sandpit.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Tips for dining out with your toddler
Tips for dining out with your toddler
Most parents with a toddler have faced an embarrassing situation with their toddlers while in public. Dining out can sometimes be a stressful event. Before dining out with your toddler, especially if it's the first time, take some time to get prepared.
Be prepared
You know that you'll have to wait while you're in the restaurant. You wait for the server to take your order and you wait for the food to be cooked. All this waiting can make any hungry person cranky so think of how your toddler is going to feel! Bring some light snacks and small, non-invasive toys along. I always have a small baggie of Cheerios or a pack of Gerber's puffs in my daughter's bag. Only give them the snack if they are hungry and you want them to nibble. I also grab a book or something quiet that she likes to play with. This will keep your toddler occupied while you're waiting.
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Most parents with a toddler have faced an embarrassing situation with their toddlers while in public. Dining out can sometimes be a stressful event. Before dining out with your toddler, especially if it's the first time, take some time to get prepared.
Be prepared
You know that you'll have to wait while you're in the restaurant. You wait for the server to take your order and you wait for the food to be cooked. All this waiting can make any hungry person cranky so think of how your toddler is going to feel! Bring some light snacks and small, non-invasive toys along. I always have a small baggie of Cheerios or a pack of Gerber's puffs in my daughter's bag. Only give them the snack if they are hungry and you want them to nibble. I also grab a book or something quiet that she likes to play with. This will keep your toddler occupied while you're waiting.
Read more tips for dining out with your toddler
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Kids Activities - Backyard Mazes
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Backyard Mazes
Most young children love to wiggle and squirm through small places and if this applies to your children, try this activity with them in the backyard.
What You Need:
- Garden Furniture
- Cardboard Boxes
- Buckets
- String or Thin Rope
What To Do:
Set up a backyard maze by using some of your outdoor furniture. The children have to crawl underneath the furniture and reach the end of the maze in an allotted amount of time.
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Backyard Mazes
Most young children love to wiggle and squirm through small places and if this applies to your children, try this activity with them in the backyard.
What You Need:
- Garden Furniture
- Cardboard Boxes
- Buckets
- String or Thin Rope
What To Do:
Set up a backyard maze by using some of your outdoor furniture. The children have to crawl underneath the furniture and reach the end of the maze in an allotted amount of time.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Baby Clothing Basics
Great article for new parents about what baby clothing to choose for your new arrival.
Hey Gorgeous - Baby and Kids Clothing - Baby Clothes Basics:
"Baby clothes basics - Needs and proper care
If you are a first time parent to-be, there are numerous tasks that must be accomplished before your new baby's arrival. One important, and fun 'labor of love' is purchasing baby clothing. However, with such a large selection of baby clothing, you may be asking yourself which of these adorable little items are essentials. This is crucial information to know, as well as their proper care.
Onesies
'Onesies' are basically baby t-shirts and are a necessary baby clothing purchase. To keep the onesie from creeping up and exposing your baby's belly, most onesies have easy close snaps. They can be worn alone or as an undergarment. Onesies, also known as rompers, come in basic white, colored or patterned varieties. For your basics, you should have between 5 to 10 onesies.
Sleepers
Sleepers are one-piece items with long legs and long or short sleeves. They usually have snaps down the legs for easy accessibility for late night diaper changes.
When preparing your basics, you should have between 5 to 8 baby sleepers. These are necessary as it is recommended that a newborn not sleep with thick blankets. This could inadvertently cause suffocation. The best material for both your baby's warmth and comfort are cotton or fleece sleepers."
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Hey Gorgeous - Baby and Kids Clothing - Baby Clothes Basics:
"Baby clothes basics - Needs and proper care
If you are a first time parent to-be, there are numerous tasks that must be accomplished before your new baby's arrival. One important, and fun 'labor of love' is purchasing baby clothing. However, with such a large selection of baby clothing, you may be asking yourself which of these adorable little items are essentials. This is crucial information to know, as well as their proper care.
Onesies
'Onesies' are basically baby t-shirts and are a necessary baby clothing purchase. To keep the onesie from creeping up and exposing your baby's belly, most onesies have easy close snaps. They can be worn alone or as an undergarment. Onesies, also known as rompers, come in basic white, colored or patterned varieties. For your basics, you should have between 5 to 10 onesies.
Sleepers
Sleepers are one-piece items with long legs and long or short sleeves. They usually have snaps down the legs for easy accessibility for late night diaper changes.
When preparing your basics, you should have between 5 to 8 baby sleepers. These are necessary as it is recommended that a newborn not sleep with thick blankets. This could inadvertently cause suffocation. The best material for both your baby's warmth and comfort are cotton or fleece sleepers."
Read more
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Hey Gorgeous - Baby and Kids Clothing - 8 Fun ways to keep your kids learning
A great article in view of the upcoming holiday season!!!
Hey Gorgeous - Baby and Kids Clothing - 8 Fun ways to keep your kids learning
"Summer Learning - 8 fun ways to keep your kids learning all summer long"
Most kids look forward to three months of nothing but fun and games, but, as a parent, you know that learning should take place year round.
And while it can be hard to get your child's attention among all the swimming pools, video games and television shows that they'd rather be spending their time on, it's important that you keep the learning going (at least at some level) during the summertime. That way, when they return to school in the fall, they'll be enriched and ready to learn."
"Summer Learning - 8 fun ways to keep your kids learning all summer long"
Most kids look forward to three months of nothing but fun and games, but, as a parent, you know that learning should take place year round.
And while it can be hard to get your child's attention among all the swimming pools, video games and television shows that they'd rather be spending their time on, it's important that you keep the learning going (at least at some level) during the summertime. That way, when they return to school in the fall, they'll be enriched and ready to learn."
Hey Gorgeous Kids - Because parenting should be fun!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Fun Activities for Kids: Exploring Through The Senses
Every child loves to have fun. As a parent, you can motivate, teach, and empower children through the use of fun activities. For children under the age of 10, there are many things that are fun but at the same time teach them something useful or help them to explore their surroundings. A good way to do this is by using their senses.
The following activities are interesting, unique ways to help your child of any age to learn about their senses. Even after the child knows them, they can learn about themselves through these fun activities for children.
Exploring the Sense of Smell
For younger children, the sense of smell can be an amazing thing, something that they don't think about. The sense of smell is not just a simple sense. There are many ways to have fun exploring it. For example, blind fold a child and ask them to find a specific scent within a room. Place strong smelling items in various corners throughout the room. Let their nose guide them from place to place.
For younger children, it can also be fun to have a smelling contest where parents give each blind folded child something to smell and they have to guess what it is. Exploring the sense of smell can be a lot of fun and educational, too.
Using Your Eyes
For children, being able to see is something they take for granted. Take this away and your child is in a world that is completely foreign to them. After removing all of the harmful objects from a room, have the child close their eyes and have to identify certain objects. The other senses are heightened when they can't see.
For older children, purchase or find online a book of optical illusions. From moving surfaces to objects that look like others, this is a fantastic way to explain how the inner eye works and why the brain and eyes have to work together to understand the image.
Feeling Something New
There is nothing more fun than getting dirty and for this activity kids can get a bit messy. To teach them about the sense of touch, take an empty shoe box and turn it upside down, open side down. Cut out just a large enough hole in one end to allow the child's arm to reach in. Then, secretly put different items under the box and have them guess what they are. Try cold spaghetti, homemade slime and cold, round ice cubes. They are sure to be wondering just what you having them touch. This is a great way to get children to learn through play.
Hearing Something Fun
Kids learn through creative play. You can teach your child about their sense of hearing fairly easily. A kids game to play is to simply have them close their eyes and listen to sounds over various areas of the room. Or, head outside in a very safe area. Blind fold them and take turns calling the individual to come towards your voice. See how long it takes until they find you! Keep an eye on them to be sure they are safe, of course.
For younger children, boys and girls play can be as simple as guessing what sounds are from a recording. For older children, even teens, have the child listen to a chord of music and try to mimic the sound with their voice. Ba…ba.ba.ba….
Tasting They Will Love
Since children learn through play, a great way to help them learn the sense of taste is trying new foods. But, how do you get a child that is picky willing to taste new foods? There are several things to do here. First, invite them into the kitchen. Allow the child to help peel and cut (age appropriate and safe) and have them help with any other method of preparing meals. Encourage them to make their own foods, too. Perhaps they would like to make something with you, that they create. Good or bad tasting, they still get to see the transformation of taste in their mouths.
With older children, explore textures, too. The crunch of a carrot mixed with the softness of bread creates a unique texture in the mouth. What happens when vegetables are cooked instead of eaten raw? Explore each of these areas thoroughly with them.
Fun activities for kids can fall into that learning category, too. Kids love to explore new things and play games, especially when mom or dad gets to help them with it. Best of all, you will want to spend your time explaining why things happen the way they do. These kids fun games and projects are something you can do with your child!
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