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Here you go….. here are some of my favorite Easter crafts and activities to do with my children for the Easter Holidays. Kids love the Holidays for many reasons. But, I like to remind my children that bottom line the Holidays are about "Family". So, remind your children of that fact by involving the entire family in these fun Easter Crafts and Activities.

St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th this year which is in another couple of days. In honor of the festivities I thought I would list a tons of super fun crafts to do with your kids to celebrate St. Patty’s Day. So, without further ado….. feast your eyes on St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids!!

	Pot Of Gold Collage - This pot of gold collage is an easy craft for kids of all ages.
	Handprint Shamrock - The kids will love making this shamrock craft for St. Patty’s Day. Fun & messy too!!
	St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Hat - Help your kids make a Leprechaun Hat for St. Patrick’s day that they could play dress-up in.
	Leprechaun Wands - Children love wands and this is the perfect wand for St. Patrick’s Day.
	St. Patrick’s Rainbow Mobile - Make a rainbow mobile with a hanging pot of gold and shamrock to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
	Rainbow Streamers - Kids of all ages will enjoy this raibow streamer craft perfect for your little leprechauns on St. Patrick’s Day.
	Blarney Stone Craft - A Blarney Stone is a very famous stone. If you kiss the Blarney Stone, it is supposed to give you the gift of eloquence. Help the kids make this Blarney Stone Craft and tell them the story behind the Blarney Stone.
	St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Wreath - Don’t you just love handprint crafts? Use your children’s handprints to make this St. Patrick’s Day Wreath and you will cherish it for years to come.
	Shamrock Rubbings - Cool craft to make a crayon rubbing of shamrocks. A ton of fun and looks awesome when finished. Great project to do with the kids.
	Pony Bead Rainbow - This pretty rainbow is so easy even little ones can make it. Not only is this a fun craft perfect for the St. Patty’s Day Holiday, but it is also great for teaching kids their colors.
	Shamrock Luck Charms - Great St. Patrick’s Day Crafts that kids will have tons of fun making. Help your children make Shamrock Lucky Charms to place around the house. Nothing like a festive house for the Holidays.
	Clay Pot Leprechaun - Very cute clay pot craft that you and your kids will enjoy making for this March Holiday.
	Magnet & Door hanger - this pot of gold refrigerator magnet is the perfect companion to our St. Patrick’s Day door hanger.
	Leprechaun Hat for Chips - Help your child make this really great Leprechaun Hat that holds chips…. perfect for your March party.
	Pom Pom Shamrock - Fun & Easy craft to make with your Preschoolers for St. Patrick’s Day.

It is December 11th and it is the 8th and final day of Hanukkah 2007. Before Hanukkah was over I wanted to make sure to offer my viewers tons of links to Hanukkah / Chanukah Crafts and Activities to enjoy. Each link takes you to a site that will offer you and your Preschoolers a ton of Hanukkah fun!!

Whether you practice Judaism or not these Hanukkah Crafts and Activities are an excellent way to teach a bit about Judaism and the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah to your Preschooler.

I came across this Website today that I just had to share with my Preschool Education Blog viewers.

Tiny Prints is donating up to $50,000 this Holiday Season to Children’s Charities. And, they are asking the World Wide Web to help them decide which Children’s Charities a portion of the money should go to.

With every charity choice click from a viewer they receive Tiny Prints will donate $0.10 to one of three Children’s Charities.

• Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation
• Ronald McDonald House at Stanford
• Big Brothers Big Sisters Mass Bay

It is Simple and totally free. And, you do not need to make a purchase to participate.

It’s fun, simple and free. Not to mention you are helping Children. It doesn’t get much better than that.

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Fall may be a terrific time of year for fun crafts but you don’t want to be so focused on the fun that you forget about the great educational opportunities that the season presents. Sure, it’s great to carve pumpkins and make Thanksgiving turkeys out of construction paper during these months. But in addition to these arts and crafts, you can come up with a number of different fall activities which give your children great educational skills. In fact, there are fall activities to cover all of the basic school subjects and then some.

Here are some educational fall activities for each subject:

Do you use the terms “fall” and “autumn” interchangeably? If so, you are just like most other people in America who agree that the two words are meant to mean the same thing (the season that comes after summer and before winter). But there is another school of thinking which says that autumn and fall are two subtly different seasons. How many people agree with this depends on where in the country you are living. In some places, the seasonal shift between the two is too subtle to warrant a difference in the name. But in other places, such as New England, there is an obvious difference between autumn and fall and people will tell you that this means there are five seasons instead of four.

Fall is a terrific time to incorporate leaf crafts into kids’ daily activities. You can take kids outside to get some fresh air and physical activity while they collect the leaves. Then you can come indoors again and keep them busy with the crafts. Leaf crafts are fun and they also help to build motor skills in young children. Plus leaf crafts can be used in conjunction with learning other lessons like how the seasons change.

There are many different leaf crafts for kids and you can probably think up many more on your own but here are a few to get you started:

• Leaf rubbings. Take a leaf and place it on a table or desk. Cover it with a blank piece of paper. Kids can use charcoal or crayons to rub over the paper and the impression of the leaf will come out. This will seem magical to young children who can then draw or decorate the new leaf. A variation on this is leaf tracing.
• Leaf scrapbook album. Use construction paper and yarn to create a scrapbook. Kids can glue their leaves to each page to create their own album. One variation on this is to create a fall story, writing the text underneath each leaf on the page. Another variation is to have children glue one leaf on each side and to describe what is the same and what is different between the two leaves that are facing each other.
• Leaf Strings. For this you’ll need string or yarn and the leaves as well as a hole puncher. Punch holes in the tops of the leaves and then string them to make a decoration. Eventually, the leaves will crumble and fall off; you can use this to reinforce lessons about the changing of seasons and the way leaves fall off of trees.
• Leaf Wreath. All you need for this one is the leaves, some glue or tape and a paper plate or other round shaped object. Have the kids glue or tape their leaves to the plate to create a wreath (cut out the center to make it more wreath-like). Add decorations such as ribbon, glitter or coloring. Variations on this leaf craft include the Thanksgiving Wreath in which you write “things you’re thankful for” on the leaves or on the center of the plate where there aren’t any leaves.

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Your children are going to inherit the earth that we are living on today so you obviously want it to be as healthy as it can possibly be for them. Although it’s great that you’re doing your part to take care of the environment, it’s equally as important that you teach your children about the environment. If they learn form an early age about the importance of taking care of the environment and the ways that they can do so, they’ll be more likely to carry that behavior on into later years. Additionally, if they can do their part to help care for the environment now, they will feel productive and involved which helps to build self-esteem.

October just might be the most fun month there is as far as fall preschool themes go. It’s early enough in the year that there are still plenty of outdoor activities that can be done with preschoolers. It’s also early enough in the year that you’re not suffering the stress of the upcoming winter holidays so you can relax some and really enjoy creative lessons with your kid(s). But it’s a busy month with a lot of fun kid-oriented activities (mostly centering on Halloween) so there are plenty of different things that you can incorporate into the day to keep things fun and interesting.

What better time to teach your child about fall than when we’re right about to enter the midst of it? Fall is a great teaching tool because it applies to so many different areas of life. Not only do kids learn about the seasons, but they also learn about the nature behind the seasons changing. As kids get older, these lessons can be used again and again in different ways. For example, as adolescents, they will learn about literature and poetry and the images and lessons of fall will play a big part in that. And when it comes time to learn hard lessons about death and loss, your kids will have a better grasp on it if they can compare it to the changing of the seasons.