Homemade Snowflake Activity
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Looking for a fun winter activity you can do with your family? Look no further! Today I’ll be teaching you how to make homemade snowflakes! Snowflakes are simply a form of crystalline water ice. They begin as snow crystals and come in a variety of sizes and shapes. As the flake falls through the cloud, tiny changes in...
World’s Greatest Artists
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Looking for a fun, kid friendly study of our World’s Greatest Artists? We did a super fun study on Van Gogh this month and I wanted to share some of our art projects with you! This year for art, we are going to study 8 different world famous artists. We have chosen to do art twice a week, and we’ll cover one artist...
Delaware Memorial Bridge Craft
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The Delaware Memorial Bridge is the longest twin span suspension bridge in the world. It opened in 1951 and stretches 13,200 feet to connect Delaware and New Jersey. Due to the high traffic volume a nearly identical second span was completed in 1968 which parallels the original bridge making eight lanes of roadway. Over 80,000...
Kid’s Summer Boredom Buster: Giant Bubble Wand
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Are your kids getting bored with summer yet? Mine were about 30 seconds in, we’ve done just about everything there is to do. Zoo trips, museums, aquariums, movies, swimming pools, play-dates, even summer testing (not so popular). But I think our favorite thing was the “Do-It-Yourself giant bubble wand”! This thing was a...
Arctic Polar Bear Art Project
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Polar bears roam on the Arctic ice and swim in the freezing waters of the Arctic Circle. They are excellent swimmers and use their webbed-front paws to help paddle through the water. They can swim hundreds of miles from land, and float on sheets of ice to rest. Polar bears have a thick coat of insulated fur that covers a...
Sponge Art Project
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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world and is located off the northeastern shores of Australia. It consists of more than 2,900 coral reefs, 900 continental islands, 300 coral cays and thousands of species making it one of the world’s most complex ecosystems! The animals found in the reef include...
Teaching Children Responsibility
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Are you constantly running around like a chicken with your head cut off? Do you spend most of your day running from one mess to the next, barely keeping up? Do you see all those kids over there lounging on the couch while you clean their smashed goldfish crackers? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then read...
Venezuelan Waterfall Craft
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Did you know that Venezuela is home to the highest waterfall in the world? That’s right, Angel Falls, discovered by American Pilot Jimmy Angel in 1935, is located in Venezuela. It is 3,212 feet high and drops over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain in the Canaima national Park. Angel Falls is so high that much of the water...
Amazon Rainforest Diorama
Did you know that the Amazon rain forest in Brazil produces about 20% of the earth’s oxygen supply? The Amazon river is about 4,000 miles long and covers 2,700,000 square miles! It’s drainage flows through Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the three Guyana’s. The Amazon rain forest is the...
DIY Pom-poms!
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Pom-poms! Oh, I remember making tons of little funny animals and things using pom-poms! While I remember it being easy, I had to Google how to make them again, but it was as I remembered, super easy! And a great project for kids too! Supplies: Cardboard piece (mine is about 1.5” wide and yielded a 2”...
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