Making Learning Fun childcareland.com - Home Pikadilly Charm: Paper Bag Fall Tree Help your Children decorate for fall with this easy craft. What you'll need: -Brown paper lunch bags -Scissors -Glue -Paper (Fall colors) The how to: 1- Cut lunch bag into half inch strips. Start at the opening and cut half way down the bag. 2- Open bag and stand it up. 3- Hold base of bag with one hand and twist the middle of bag to create the trunk of the tree. 4- (example of finished trunk) 5- Twist two of the bag strips together to create branches. 6- (example of finished branches) 7- Rip strips of colored paper into tiny pieces and glue them all over the branches of the tree. Done.
Juice Fasting Fasting is the single greatest natural healing therapy. It is nature's ancient, universal "remedy" for many problems. If one is fasting for health purposes, it makes sense to support our body's needs while we reduce or remove some necessary elements from our diet. The basic elements that we need to remove from our diet for the sake of our health are cooked food and animal products. What is Juice Fasting? A juice fast is a type of detox diet. In addition to promoting the excretion of toxins and decreasing congestive symptoms, juice fasting is believed to have the following benefits: Eliminates most food allergies and sensitivities. Enhances mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Releases pesticides, drugs, and other chemicals from stored fat, which can then be eliminated. Reduces the burden on the digestive system, allowing it to heal. It has less severe withdrawal symptoms than water fast. Enhances natural beauty with glowing skin. Clears mucus discharge. Pregnant women Nursing moms
Speech Therapy | Language Development | Speech Therapist Mom | Tips for Parents Children Teachers Pre-K Pages: Preschool | Kindergarten| Education | Teacher | Early Childhood Fun Family Certificates to Print Here's something a little different! Your favourite family member will know they are appreciated if they receive one of these lovely certificates and diplomas. Choose from black and white diplomas for the kids to colour in themselves, and ready-to-go certificates. Tell Grandma she is special by printing out and colouring our Best Grandma Diploma! Here is our Best Nanna Diploma to print and colour, with a UK, US and blank version (great for children to decorate with their own words and pictures). We have three versions of our pretty best sister diploma to print and colour - one for UK visitors, one for US visitors, and one "blank" for kids to fill in with the words or pictures tha This pretty certificate is fun to print to let your sister know how much you appreciate her. Let your mother know she's the World's Best Mom with this lovely colouring diploma! Your child can award Dad with one of these fun new diplomas, colouring it in to make it extra special.
You hold the key to my heart Valentine Printable Hi! My name is Ashley, and I blog over at Mommy By Day Crafter By Night. I love to craft and sew when my two kids go to bed each night… and then I blog about the things I make. I am so excited to be here at Skip to my Lou to share a fun Valentine gift idea with a free printable to go with it! I came up with this idea because I was trying to think of something cute my my girls to send for Valentines Day to their aunt who is living in Tennessee right now. I love keys, so when I saw these key necklaces I thought it would be cute to send one with a gift tag that said “You Hold the Key to my Heart” tied onto it. I found the gold one with the bangles on it at Forever 21 ($5), the brass looking one at American Eagle ($17), and the silver looking one at American Eagle ($15). Your gift doesn’t necessarily have to be anything “key” related- you could totally just tie this tag onto anything and it would work just fine… I love the way it looks tied with the twine on this cute gift box! xoxo, Ashley
Top Alternative & Augmentative Communication iPad Apps The iPad continues to make communication more accessible and cost-effective for persons with developmental and speech disabilities. Mobile apps provide many of the vocabulary building and text-to-speech features of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) devices for far less than products such as the Dynavox Maestro. The following apps help persons who struggle to speak due conditions such as autism, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and stroke. They provide ways to choose words, symbols, and images to express moods, needs, and thoughts. 1. I Can Speak, Lazy River Software, ($29.99) iTunes I Can Speak is an easy-to-use AAC app designed to meet most of the communications needs of those unable to speak. 2. iCommunicate, Grembe, Inc., $49.99) iCommunicate lets you design and customize such things as visual schedules, storyboards, communication boards, choice boards, flash cards, and speech cards. 3. iPrompts, Handhold Adaptive, LLC, ($49.99) 4. 5.
KinderGals Styrofoam Cup Spring Bonnets I learned how to do this several years ago. I’ve made pilgrim hats, leprechaun hats (will post those soon too), and these springtime hats. These springtime hats are the perfect craft for spring, Easter, and Mother’s Day. They are really fun to make and the kids love watching them bake. It’s like having Shrinky Dinks in the oven! Most common question: Does it smell? Not really. Styrofoam Cup Spring Hats printable version You will need Styrofoam cups acrylic paint in pastel colors small silk flowers small beads pastel or sheer ribbons hot glue gun magnets (optional) What you do Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Note: The temperature and instructions in this craft are based off of a dark coated cookie sheet at 250 degrees F in an electric oven. Place Styrofoam cups upside down (open end of cup down) on a dark coated cookie sheet, placing them about 1-2″ apart. Bake in the oven for approximately 3 minutes, don’t walk away! Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and set aside to cool completely.
Parmesan Chicken Recipe When we were kids, my mother used to make this Parmesan chicken dish that was so good we would fight for drippings, every last crumb. She would start with a whole chicken, remove the skin and bones (and use them for making chicken stock), and then cut the meat into small pieces. (She made “nuggets” before anyone called them that!) Then she she would dip the pieces into melted butter, dredge them in breadcrumbs and Parmesan, and bake them. My god were they good. Several years ago when I asked mom for the recipe, she hadn’t made it in so many years she had completely forgotten how. Updated from the recipe archive. Note that the color of your roasting pan may make a difference in your results. Ingredients Method 1 Preheat oven to 450°F. 2 In a small bowl, stir the minced garlic into the melted butter. Note that if your chicken pieces are cold, they may cause the melted butter to thicken, leaving too much butter sticking the chicken pieces. Hello!