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F is for Friendly: Encouraging Kindness, Sharing, and Attentive Listening

June 18, 2014 by Sue Lively

When I began this alphabetic series, Teaching Kids About Character, I sat down and listed all the positive qualities that I wanted my son to have. I came up with a great list and have been doing a lot of thinking each week about what I am doing to help encourage these qualities in my 2.5…

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Filed Under: Character Series, Parenting, Preschoolers Tagged With: friendliness, kindness, listening

Help Your Preschooler “Write” a Love Letter to Grandma

May 5, 2014 by Sue Lively

Every year since I was little, I have tried to find a special way on Mother’s Day to show my Mom how much I love and appreciate her!  Because I like to do art and make crafts, my gifts have often been “artistic projects” that were created for her.   I have done personalized zentangles, personalized…

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Filed Under: Art, Gifts, Language, Preschoolers, Writing Tagged With: grandmother, letter, Mother's Day

Spring Garden Washer Wind Chimes

April 30, 2014 by Sue Lively

Although it’s technically been Spring now for five weeks, the green season has not really hit our backyard yet!  Lots of brown mulch and many sprouts with a promise of future hostas and ferns, but not a lot of colour. So Onetime (my 2.5 year old son) and I decided to brighten up the back garden with…

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Filed Under: Crafts, Nature, Preschoolers Tagged With: garden, painting

Child-Created Humpty Dumpty Rhyming Book

April 18, 2014 by Sue Lively

I LOVE making books with my son!  To further enrich the “Egg-speriment” Egg-stravaganza we posted yesterday, my son Onetime and I created a fantastic little Humpty Dumpty rhyming book of our own that you can do too! You Will Need: 3 or 4 pieces of 12″x12″ cardstock pages in a lighter colour, cut in half…

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Filed Under: Language, Preschoolers Tagged With: early reading, making books, pre-writing

Eggy Art: Painted 3D Collage with Foam Eggs

April 9, 2014 by Sue Lively

When Tinkerlab presented their creative challenge for the month of April (to have your child use eggs in an art project), I asked my son, Onetime what he wanted to do with the foam eggs that we had. His answer? “Paint with them!” And so… here is our second entry to Tinkerlab’s egg challenge –…

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Filed Under: Art, Crafts, Preschoolers Tagged With: eggs, painting, process art

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