Activities

This time of year my day­care friends always love play­ing this game. Luckily I do not have to remem­ber the words or melody. I just watch the YouTube video that morn­ing and I am set! (How ever did we man­age before YouTube?)

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Snow Painting!

March 1, 2009

There’s not enough snow for sled­ding or snow­men this morn­ing, but there is enough for snow paint­ing. You can find detailed instruc­tions else­where online, but our ver­sion is much sim­pler: Send child out­side with paint and brush. Watch from comfy chair just inside the door. Remove gloves BEFORE the kid comes back inside. Have fun!

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I put a lot of thought into how to cel­e­brate tomorrow’s inau­gu­ra­tion with my kids. We debated for months about whether going into DC to expe­ri­ence the excite­ment of the crowd would be mon­u­men­tal or mis­er­able, and finally the thought of the potty to peo­ple ratio and the pos­si­bil­ity of chang­ing pull-ups in the cold […]

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We kicked off October with a trip to explore my Pennsylvania roots. In addi­tion to qual­ity fam­ily time with my really cool aunts, the kids expe­ri­enced their first touristy week­end in Venango County. Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad & Caboose Motel may not be worth the 6 hour drive from Northern Virginia on its own […]

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We had lots of fun mak­ing kick-the-can ice cream at the Rust Nature Sanctuary’s spring Eco Fair a few months ago, and finally drank enough mediocre cof­fee for a repeat per­for­mance at Playschool. I found recipes and instruc­tions at Kaboose.com and dairyspot.com and then co-mingled and finessed them to work with the con­tents of my […]

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A local mom shared a site with me that could prove use­ful given all the upcom­ing sum­mer movie screen­ings. kids-in-mind.com reviews movies and rates their appro­pri­ate­ness for chil­dren. I have looked over the reviews of a few movies we have seen recently and they seem to be accu­rate and thor­ough. Summer Family Movie Screenings: Regal […]

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Better than Elefun!

October 6, 2007

My 3 year old and I think we dis­cov­ered the inspi­ra­tion for Hasbro’s game Elefun. We head to a local trail head at least once a week and read books in the shade while my lit­tle one fin­ishes her nap in the car. Sometimes he uses his fish net to try to catch bugs, but […]

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Jardinains

September 9, 2007

Jardinains is not good for adults. Jardinains is not good for kids, but man-oh-man is it fun. Sometimes on a lazy Sunday after­noon the kids pull up a bench to watch and we bounce gar­den gnomes up and down and lis­ten to them say “ouch!” When we intro­duced our 5 year old niece she loved it! […]

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Starfall

September 9, 2007

Starfall was rec­om­mended to me as tool for preschool­ers to prac­tice let­ters and mouse con­trol at the same time. It is a cool site! I appre­ci­ate its sim­plic­ity, and my almost four year old son has given it his stamp of approval.

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