Week Of The Young Child on Shine

Bring on the Culture

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Week of the Young Child: Day Five.We're having a local festival here this weekend, complete with arts and crafts stalls and parades and all sorts of fun activities. Tomorrow night is a family camp out in our neighborhood. And next weekend is the annual "Touch a Truck" event. These...

Week of the Young Child (Day 4): Make a wish jar

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Veronique over at Little Elephants inspired today's activity for Week of the Young Child. Check out the Wish Jar that her kids made for a school project. All you need is a small jar and a piece of paper that can fit inside the jar when rolled up. Or like Vero, you can attach their wishes to the...

Take it outside

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Now that spring is here and the weather is starting to get warmer it the perfect time to get outside. Some of the activities we enjoy almost daily are playing sports, going to the play ground, swimming (in the summer) and having picnics. But if your family is anything like mine, and we love those activities, but sometimes we want to mix it up and make it a bit more fun for both grown ups and kids. We have a State Park about a half an hour away from our house and love to go there for walks in the woods. We quickly found the kids needed something to do on these walks so I searched the internet and found all sorts of links for "Nature Scavenger Hunts."

Week of the Young Child (Day 3): Someone's in the kitchen with mommy (or daddy)

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Day Three in Week of the Young Child: Cooking with your kids. Cooking with your kids is a great way to keep them entertained, spend time with them and teach them healthy eating habits. And basic "help" can start as soon as they can stir a spoon. And as they grow, they can help more and more.

Getting the sillies out

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[Ed. Note: We're helping to celebrate Week of the Young Child with ideas to let your kids know they rock. Today, Shine user Mimi-pz share an activity and it's my pick for Day Two: Storytime at your local library.]Day two of "Week of the Young Child": Story Time The local Parks...

Week of the Young Child (Day 1): Simple and crafty

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I've talked to many moms who aren't keen to get all craftalicious with their children because one, the kids get their art fix at school and two, they don't dig the clean up effort. I get it because it does bite to clean up paint splatters and bits of paper tossed everywhere. If there...

Celebrate Week of the Young Child, April 13-19

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Until a few days ago, I'd never heard of an annual celebration called Week of the Young Child. My youngest son's preschool sent home a flyer informing about their activities to commemorate the week and it sounded pretty rockin': baking cookies on day, special arts and crafts the next, a...