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Play With Play Dough
Play With Play Dough
Play dough is endlessly entertaining for toddlers -- especially when you press in various object and use cookie cutters to make shapes.
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Media Macaroni
February 18, 2012, 11:22 pm
Olive packed her Totoro doll into her Totoro purse this afternoon, and we headed down to Times Square to see the latest Studio Ghibli film, The Secret World of Arrietty. Judging by the half-full theater on this, its opening weekend, I’m sensing that...
February 17, 2012, 12:58 am
One theme that emerged as I walked the aisles of Toy Fair this year were toys to get kids enjoying the great outdoors, in all seasons. Uncle Milton and National Geographic teamed up to equip kids with gear for the great outdoors. There’s a magnifyin...
February 14, 2012, 11:44 pm
As with last year’s Toy Fair, one of the things I’m most excited about is Activision’s Skylanders. Of course, last year I was just getting my first look. This year Olive and I have been playing and loving it, and are clamoring to hear wh...
teach mama
February 22nd
We were so thankful for the gorgeous three-day weekend to slowly get us back on track and to allow us to (kind of) regain control over the mess that had become of our home. After being away last week, the game nights, our movie night, book-reading, erran...
February 19th
It has been tough go for us over here for the last few weeks. Maddy, Owen, Cora, Brady–everyone–has unfortunately felt the ‘funk’ that I conveyed throughout the last weeks, especially when Susan became very ill. It was hard. So ha...
February 17th
The last few weeks have been a blur–and an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I‘m back at the home front now–admittedly wishing for a little snow this weekend–and ready to share the fun things we’ve been doing to snea...
No Time For Flash Cards
February 22, 2012, 2:13 am
I love rainbow crafts and with St. Patrick’s Day fast approaching they seem to be one of the more popular searches on my site right now. Even if you aren’t celebrating St.Patrick’s Day rainbows are great preschool crafts for kids. To mak...
February 21, 2012, 3:01 am
We love penguins and was one of my favorite themes for daycare and preschool when I was teaching toddlers. My daughter loves the penguin bath toy you see in this post so we decided to use a penguin to paint a penguin. This was a huge hit with my toddler w...
February 20, 2012, 3:01 am
This sensory activity allows kids to use their imagination to give you or themselves a new hairdo with playdough. My toddler is a huge fan of playdough play and it’s great stuff for toddlers and preschoolers… but my 5 year old gets bored easil...
On Our Minds @ Scholastic
February 22nd
During the workweek I live online. My job is creating digital content, but I'm not just engaging with the myriad of editing and production tools I need — I'm also, by necessity, on Twitter and Facebook, while orbiting the galaxy of Googlemore... full post
February 21st
BREAKING ‘CLUES’ NEWS: We welcome back a very special guest blogger, bestselling author Peter Lerangis, who is here to share some very exciting news for fans of The 39 Clues series: The winter may be in full swing, but The 39 Clues: Cahillsmore... full po...
February 21st
Is there a specific moment in time we can all point to when a book becomes part of our culture? As I take a look at the latest Hunger Games news, I can't help but think that moment is now for the best-selling, award-winning trilogy by Suzannemore... full ...
Parent & Child Magazine
February 2012
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Growing up with an adopted sister led this actress to adopt a baby of her own.
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