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Ice Cream Art

My daughter has been making characters out of her food for years now. As an example, she'll arrange her breakfast plate to look like a face, with bacon lips, eggs

Art Therapy - for kids and adults

When using visual arts materials to not only identify, but also to treat emotional trauma and mental disorders, it can be called Art Therapy. By creating images

The CHEESEBURGER paragraph - writing about a person - Creative writing tips for Grade 4 learners

When you write about a person, organize your ideas into a paragraph.  A paragraph is a group of sentences about one idea.  The first sentence tells a

Magical things happen when children PLAY

During 'play', children get the opportunity to develop interdependence and to interact and communicate with other children. While sharing affection with others,

Rocket launch in the park!

Today I'm showing off our latest adventure in the park. We launched another rocket and we had an audience to! Click the linky(It's a safe YouTube video). The first

Easter Eve Tradition

Every evening before Easter, the kids dye eggs. I'm not sure why we started doing it this way, but we've done it for probably 8 years now. Ultimately the eggs just

Peg + Cat Live

Took the family to see Peg + Cat Live. It was put on by one of the Bay Area Children's Theatre touring companies, based out of Oakland, CA. I have seen other productions

LOL Surprise Ruckus Card Game

Had anyone else's daughter (or perhaps a few Steemians) become obsessed with LOL Surprise dolls? My then 7 year old daughter received one as an early Christmas present

The Home Depot Kids Building Project and an SBI Contest

I took my kids to The Home Depot this weekend for their monthly kids building workshop. This month the kids made a mini easel and whiteboard. Since then, my son

When My Daughters Hold My Hand ...

My youngest daughter asked me to get her a drink of water before finishing up her bedtime routine. Instead of getting the water for her, I invited her to walk with

Today is My Son's Half Birthday

This year, for some reason, my wife and I have decided to start marking the kids' half birthdays. We don't do anything too elaborate, but usually just do some activity

Would You Let Your Child Attend a Sleepover?

The kids have stated to get invites Recently Mini Me 1 and Mini Me 2 have received a few invites to birthday parties that involve a sleepover. Personally I feel

Why is homework so hard for the kid???

My son is having a terrible time keeping up with 6th grade homework. Particularly in Social Studies. He loves history, just not the ancient history they are studying

Where to start? In your dome...

For the most part all of us insert ourselves mentally somewhere on the social/vocational totem pole. And for the most part all of us have this problem with judging

To ALL the Steemit Parents - Bullying at School

Hi to all my Steemian friends I hope you have all had an amazing week, It's "Black Friday" and I am staying indoors and away from the masses of people.

Putting Together Comics Lego Sets with my Kids

My son had a brief period where he was into Legos. He assembled and disassembled his sets many times. He has since decided it's not really his thing, so I thought

Little Guy Is Here!

I am proud to announce that my son has arrived. Stats 9 pounds 4 ounces - he was the biggest of all of our kiddos 21 inches loves to eat and sleep the most loved

Tomorrow's The Day

The last 40 weeks have been leading up to this moment. My wife I will leave the house about 6:45 tomorrow morning and head to the hospital. We will enjoy the quiet

Animal Tracks in the Corn Maze

We hit a local corn maze this evening, and it had metal casts of animal tracks hidden throughout. I thought it might be fun to post the tracks up and see if you

GET TO KNOW ME

Big shout out to @anomadsoul for putting this contest together...while I may not be in as much torment as some with this HF20...I am enjoying reading through the