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Building Words with the Movable Alphabet
Sweet Pea was about 4 years old when she was introduced to this work. From: The Movable Alphabet is a set of letters that allow children to build words before they have started either writing or...
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Cooking with Kids: Easy-Peasy Popsicles
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. From: I often freeze those tubes of yogurt for Sweet Pea. One day, when she asked me to make them, we were out of tubes, but had some yogurt cups, so I offered to try to...
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Child Friendly Kool-Aid Dyed Play Silks
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. From: Play Silks are a type of beautiful toy commonly used in Waldorf education. You can buy them pre-dyed, but at almost $15 each, it is very expensive to get more than...
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Washi Tape Pencils
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. From: I got a pack of washi tape on Black Friday last year as a door-buster at a craft store. I didn’t have any idea what to do with it until I saw this cute idea for...
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Cloud Dough
Sweet Pea was 5 years old. From: Many people have blogged about Cloud Dough, but I first read about it at Tinkerlab. Cloud Dough is a mixture of flour and oil that creates a really interesting...
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Guest Blogging @ What to Expect When You Are Expecting
A couple of months ago, I was invited to write a post for the very popular What to Expect When You are Expecting website. They wanted me to write something for their “Real Mom Stories” series, so...
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Using a Montessori Finger Chart for Addition
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. Prerequisite: This purpose of this activity is to help with the memorization of addition facts. Your child should already be very familiar with the concept of addition and...
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DIY Watercolors from Upcycled Markers
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. From: I found instructions for this fun and frugal activity from Julie Finn at Crafting a Green World. Material: Several old dried-out markers in a variety of colors....
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Salted Water Color Paintings
Sweet Pea is 6 years old. From: I saw this beautiful technique in an issue of Family Fun magazine. Material: Watercolor paper or other sturdy paper. Watercolor paints or liquid watercolors (Click...
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Halloween Charades
Sweet Pea is 8 years old. From: I was looking for some activities for Sweet Pea’s classroom Halloween party and got the idea for a game of Halloween themed charades from EasyPartyIdeasAndGames.com....
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