When the weather is warm, these homemade bubbles are great for outdoor fun. But don’t let the weather stop you — these bubbles can be used indoors as well.

Just keep in mind that bubbles can make hard surfaces slippery very quickly and using food coloring in bubbles might stain some household surfaces. Read more..

What can kids do about Japan?

With the advent of the recent tragedy in Japan, and now military involvement in Libya – children often feel powerless and sad hearing about other kids in such situations. This is a healthy response. One way to nurture kid’s positive emotional health and sense of power in this situation is to teach them how to use their mind.

Loving-kindness Meditation
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Probably one of the most challenging things parents face is putting our children to bed…..and helping them stay there. When they are babies, they don’t have a routine way of sleeping. But, as they get older, around six months or so, they start to sleep with a regular pattern, several times each day. By the time children reach elementary school, they usually go to bed, fall asleep, and sleep al night.

But, some children do not go to bed so easily. They fight sleep and get up again and again. They become crankier and crankier, as we become more and more frustrated. It’s a recipe for disaster. We can easily forget that this exhausted, out-of-control tornado running down the hall is really just a very tired, little angel in disguise.
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Valentines is just around the corner and so is the need to come up with something interesting to give your mom, grandma, sister or that special someone you have been thinking about for a while. Today we are gonna learn how to make an origami heart.

In this tutorial we’ll use standard size 6 inch x 6 inch (15cm x 15cm) square origami paper. There are many different kinds of origami paper – solid color, metallic, tie-dye, floral, geometric, stripe, foil, washi, chiyogami, etc. Sometimes the paper you use can really change the look of the finished origami. So if you can, do try the various types of paper available and have fun with it!
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Using this simple game with your child you will be able to repeat the colors and their combinations, learn basic geometric objects. It will also help your child develops memory, concentration, and logic. At first the task seems fairly easy: correctly pick out geometric shapes to their seats. But it is important that each color is placed in its own place.
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