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How to Teach Toddler to Brush Teeth
This is a perfect activity to help a toddler to get used to the idea of toothbrushing. It is super fun and it shows the need of brushing teeth daily. I printed this picture of teeth and put it inside a clear plastic envelope to draw...
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Learn to Read with Blocks
Alex just loved finding words on these rotating blocks. It took me some time to come up with the best combination letters for each block (1 - pcrf; 2 - euai; 3 - tgnd), but then in just a minute, we had this fun educational toy. Every...
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Name Recognition Activity Using Tape
Thank you for your suggestions and comments to my videos. I do read them and here is the result. A new activity for name recognition, but this time Max's name is not all in capitals. Max is sticking tape over letters of his name.
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Name Recognition Activity Using Beans
This activity focuses on recognition of a child’s very own name. It’s very special to them and they feel so proud to be able to recognise or even spell it. You can use anything you have at home to cover letters, like, stickers, stones or...
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Flip Book Phonics Activity
Easy to make phonics flip book improves reading skills in an engaging and fun way. Alex loved going through pages of mini notepads to find letters and blends to create familiar words.
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How to Teach Numbers to Preschoolers
This car parking number activity had a huge success with my transport-obsessed 3-year-old Max so much so we practised counting in two languages. I cut labels to make small stickers with dots. On a plain piece of paper I numbered parking...
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How to Teach Basics of Gardening to Kids
Funny looking grass haired monters are due for a haircut.
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How to Teach a Child to Fold a T-Shirt
Chores can be fun - this is what Alex learn when learning to fold a t-shirt that has a puzzle on it!
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How to Suck a Water Balloon into a Bottle
Alex tried to put filled with water balloon inside the jar, but he couldn't. So we heated the air inside the jar and it expanded. Once we put the water balloon on top it, the flame went out and the air in the jar started cooling and...
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How to Pop Balloons with an Orange Peel
This is how to pop a balloon…with an orange peel. When I squeeze orange peeling, you can see that it is spraying something around. That liquid is called limonene and it easily breaks latex of the balloon causing it to pop.
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How to Pierce Potato with a Straw
We are experimenting by piercing a potato with a sharp pencil and a straw. Do you know what would pass through easily?
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How to Make Rising Paintings Using Dough
We are baking our paintings to add some volume to them. To make this magical paint we mixed 1 glass of salt, 1 glass of flour, 1 tablespoon of baking soda, 1 glass of water adding food colouring. After boys finished their festive...
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How to Mix Primary Colours to Get Secondary Colours
A fun demonstration how the primary colours mix and form the secondary colours. Thanks to the fact that water doesn't mix with oil we can observe how primary colours separate back into layers after mixing. For this activity water is...
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How to Melt Crayons in Molds
It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones.
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How to Make Your Own Books
For about a week Alex was making books. We have plenty of them now. One book is about everything mommy loves. There is an educational one with tests, tracing and colouring tasks. But my favourite is a cookbook with a recipe how to make a...
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How to Make Xylophone Using Water
Can you make music with water? Just pour water into jars or glasses. Each bottle has diferent volume of water in it, that is what makes it sound differently.
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How to make an Underwater Volcano
We can't stop doing amazing science experiments with Alex and Max. Today it was time for Underwater Volcano in a vase. When a bottle with coloured warm water was submerged in a vase with cold water, it started spreading colour. That...
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How to Make Simple a Secret Decoder
People have been using codes throughout history to keep their messages private and my two little spies needed a way to sent their secret messages to each other too. So I came up with this simple paper plate decoder for them to have fun.
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How to Make a Lung Model with a Balloon
Here is a quick demonstration how lungs work with a plastic bottle and two balloons I have prepared for Alex. When we pull knotted balloon, more space inside the bottle is created. To fill that space more air is sucked in thru the red...
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How to Make a Sensory Ball
I helped Max to make a sensory ball using a balloon and water beads.
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How to Make Santa Footprints for Kids at Christmas
We have done this last Christmas and children’s excitement to Santa’s snowy footprints was so rewarding. You just need to spray water on the sole of the boots. Press the wet boot into the tray of baking powder and then press the boot...
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How to Make Raw Chocolate
A beautiful raw chocolate made by Alex with love! You can add anything you like to it: raisins, seeds, nuts... you name it! Whatever ingredients you choose, you will definitely taste the difference comparing to store-bought chocolate....
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Making Playdough Using Shaving Gel and Corn Flour
I like trying new exciting things with my boys. So I gave this homemade playdough/slime to Max for a new sensory experience. Have a look at his reaction when he touches it for the first time! The greatest thing about this recipe is that...