Did you know that today is recognized as the day the first set of traffic safety guidelines were established? Don’t feel bad, we were suprised to find out traffic laws had a birthday too! Learning all those traffic and safety rules can get complicated, but teaching some traffic safety fundamentals to your kids early will give them a [...]
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While it might be too cold to play outside, you and your child can keep busy by celebrating the season with these easy winter-themed recipes!
Peanut Butter Snow Balls
What You Need:
Regular-sized jar of peanut butter
Honey
Dry milk
Coconut shavings
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Does OJ complete your breakfast too? Orange juice really has some neat properties besides being refreshing. It’s available, it’s sweet, and it’s packed with Vitamin C. But, have you tried OJ frozen before? This experiment will give you and your child the chance to give it a taste, and to compare and contrast straight ice [...]
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It’s certainly Thanksgiving when the family is cooking, the game is on, and the kids are scrambling around. Why not reel in the children and have them help you make dinner with this entertaining science experiment!
Make Your Own Butter
All you need is:
½ pint of heavy cream
1 clean pint jar or other similarly-sized container [...]
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Candy is always fun to share with friends on Halloween night, and surprising your little goblins and ghouls or the mummies and zombies you call friends with imaginatively put-together treats is always a blast. Here are some great, innocent ideas for your Halloween party this year!
Popcorn Witch Hand
What you will need:
1 box of clear [...]
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G is for Gingerbread
This sweet bread is a definite favorite of mine
And don’t worry, it’s not just a recipe for Christmas time,
This bread isn’t like the cookies that are shaped like men
But isn’t it fun to change it up every now and then?
Gingerbread is sweet and spicy all in one
I promise there won’t be a [...]
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This year, make afterschool snack time a little bit more exciting and educational with our silly animal cracker game! It is just like charades, but more fun and much more delicious. All you will need is a box of animal crackers.
How To Play:
Have your children and their friends sit around a table so everyone can see [...]
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Welcome back, our chef extraordinaire.
We have new recipes to try if you dare!
To keep with the theme we’ll start out at “D”.
Followed by “E”, continue cooking alphabetically!
Can’t wait to get started and kick off the fun,
The rhyming and cooking has now begun.
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An Ode to Cooking…
Cooking with mom, cooking with dad,
Cooking with grandma can even be rad.
Try out a recipe, give it a go,
Rhyming and magic help cook our dough.
Grab mom grab dad count to two,
Baking and boiling, creating a stew.
Boring snacks and the same old grub?
Make these new munchies and join the club!
We’ll start at A [...]
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