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Cooking with Kids: Flatbread Pizza
Benefits of Cooking with Kids Cooking with your children offers a wide variety of benefits that go beyond simply preparing meals. Letting them help prep for and prepare a meal teaches them safety in the kitchen. Children are also more likely to try new foods if they are involved in the process of preparing and… Read more
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Summer Hands-On Learning Activities to do at Home
The summer months can seem long and endless with bored children in the house. Their boredom often comes from the sudden lack of the school year’s structured routine. Without the daily engagement of classes, extracurricular activities, and social interaction with friends, kids can struggle to find meaningful ways to occupy their time. Oftentimes, screen time… Read more
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My Top 5: Educational Games to Play With Elementary Students
As I talked about in my blog My Top 5: Educational Board Games for Early Elementary Students, one of my family’s favorite activities is playing games. We enjoy family game night and like to play a variety of different games. Since my kids love to play, I started using games as a teaching tool when… Read more
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Life Skills: Laundry
As both a cleaning and a personal hygiene task, washing laundry is an activity that everyone must do. Because this is such a basic task that we repeat regularly, it can slip our minds to actually teach our children how to do it themselves. This can lead to our newly independent children running into issues… Read more
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Creative Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Teaching Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, also known as the “3 R’s”, promote resource conservation and the minimization of waste. Learning to reduce means trying to minimize the amount of materials that you use. This includes things like using a reusable water bottle instead of plastic ones, using a reusable shopping bag,… Read more
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Cooking with Kids: Calzone
No matter how picky of an eater your child is, I can almost guarantee that they like pizza. Every kid I have ever known has loved pizza. I mean, who doesn’t. Unfortunately, having pizza every day is not only unhealthy and costly, but also would get boring very quickly. To give my family that pizza… Read more