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One activity that your kids will surely love doing with you is cooking. You don’t need to cook elaborate food to make it fun and exciting. Making cookies is simple and easy, but will be enjoyable to the kids. This will give you time to bond with your kids, and at the same time teach them simple lessons on responsibility and helpfulness. You can do this on special occasions or celebrations like Halloween.

What you will need:

• 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp almond extract
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• Cookie cutters

How to do it:

1. Mix powdered sugar, butter or margarine, egg and vanilla and almond extracts.
2. Mix in flour, baking soda and tartar. Mix well.
3. Cover your mixture and refrigerate for two hours. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Make sure that your kids do not touch the hot surface to avoid burning.
4. Divide your dough into halves. Roll out on a lightly floured board.
5. Using cookie cutters, cut the dough into different Halloween characters or symbols (e.g., pumpkin, ghost, hands, etc.)
6. Place them on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
7. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes.
8. Give “Halloween life” to your cookies by letting your kids adorn them with colorful sweet icing tinted with your favorite Halloween colors of black, yellow, orange, red, and other dramatic colors that your kids may surely enjoy mixing and messing.

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Having a tea party is such a fun activity for kids.  We have a set especially for kids with small little tea cups and saucers.  The kids love to set up a table cloth and put water in their Tea pot and pour tea for each other.   You can make it a picnic event and add finger sandwiches to the “tea” they are drinking.  They can practice pouring the water themselves into the cup and using their table manners.  If you add some cookies at the end you’ll have a full blown tea party.  Letting the kids make the sandwiches and cookies themselves can make this a great learning activity.    Tea parties are a fun learning activity for kids.

Do you have tea parties with your kids?

These are some fun activities for toddlers.  You can use all kinds of vegetables and fruits and experiment with the prints that
they make.

Supplies:

• Potato, Apple, Cucumber, lemon, etc.
• Paper
• Paint
• Knife

Steps:

1. Cut fruit and vegetables in half.  Leave them out overnight.
2. For the potato, you can cut a shape, like a star, triangle, and circle and make prints from it.  For the other Fruits andvegetables you will see the pattern from them naturally.
3. Put a little bit of paint on a plate and dip the fruit or vegetable in it.  Be certain not to put to much paint on it, you willsee the natural texture if there is only a thin layer of paint.
4. Stamp them out on the paper and have fun!!

Enjoy!

This is a fun activity for Toddlers and preschoolers. What’s great is they can make their own music after they are done making these instruments.

This is a fun Activity for Toddlers.  It is fun for them to make, and play with!  They can even decorate it if they would like to.  What’s even better is it is made from recycled material.

Supplies:

• Empty Butter or cream cheese tub
• Dry Macaroni
• Tape
• Paper (optional)

Steps:

1. Clean out tub well
2. Have your child take dry macaroni and put it in the tub
3. Tape it shut (you want it tight, so it doesn’t break open)
4. It’s ready to go!!  You can now play your music or…
5. You can fold paper over it and tape it well, then let your child decorate it with crayons or markers.

Have fun!!