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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.

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.

Well, it’s that time of year again. Summer is coming to a close and it’s time to get back to school. There’s a lot to do before the summer is over starting with school shopping. But there are also a few days of summer left to be enjoyed before you get back into the busy school year routine. Here are some tips for enjoying these last days of summer while still getting prepared to start the school year.

Cooking with kids can be one of the most terrific activities that can happen in a home. Sure, there’s going to be mess and there’s always a little bit of risk when putting kids in the kitchen, but cooking with kids teaches a variety of lessons that will apply to all areas of life and education. Plus, cooking with kids helps to establish a bond between you that will last a lifetime.

Here are just some of the things that kids can learn when you cook with them:

No parent is ever ready for the day that their child goes off to preschool. But that doesn’t mean that your preschooler can’t be ready. Even if you’re nervous about the separation, you should do your best to make sure that your child is prepared to head off to preschool when the time is right. You want to do well as a parent and part of this means giving your child the tools to go off on his own, even if it’s just for a few hours at preschool. And by preparing your child both educationally and emotionally for the preschool experience, you’ll help to quell your own fears about the situation.

Here are some of the things that you need to do when preparing your child to start preschool:

Have you ever been in the awkward position of having your child make a prejudiced statement in front of other parents? This is mortifying for most adults because they want others to believe that they are teaching their children right from wrong when it comes to the important issue of prejudice in our society. But when you step away from the situation and get your ego out of the picture, you’ll usually find that your child had no bad intentions and that the statement doesn’t actually reflect poorly on your social teaching skills. Instead, it reflects on the fact that your young child is noticing differences in the people around her and she wants to know what that’s all about. Each opportunity that comes up – whether awkward or simply mundane – should be thought of as an opportunity to teach your children about prejudice.

As long as children have been defying their parents, the battle about eating their vegetables has been a regular part of the dinner table routine. For some families, this gets so bad that dinnertime is uncomfortable for everyone. You don’t want it to be this way for your family. Meals should be a fun time when the family spends time together. But of course you still want your kids to eat their vegetables. So, how do you do it without causing tears of frustration to ruin your supper?

Here are some Do’s and Don’ts for getting children to eat their vegetables:

The Internet has changed education. It has changed the way that research is done. It has changed the sheer amount of information that both parents and students have access to. And it has changed the way that parents help their children learn. So if you haven’t gotten used to using the Internet to teach your child, you’d better jump on the bandwagon. This tool is here to stay and you’ll want to start in the preschool years to make sure that your child’s educational foundation is well-laid in those early years.

But where do you start with using the Internet to teach your preschooler? After all, there is such a vast amount of information on the Internet and it often has conflicting information and confusing approaches to preschool education. You’re sure that some of it’s great and you’re equally sure that some of it is probably not good for your preschooler at all. So if you aren’t knowledgeable about preschool online, where do you begin?

Here are some tips for using the Internet to teach your child:

Summer is a terrific time of year but it can also feel like a long season. This is especially true for parents who are home with their kids all day because the days of summer are long and it’s sometimes hard to fill them with enough activities to keep everyone entertained and happy. If your kids are of school age, they probably want to have friends come over to play and then you’ve got the problem of additional kids who are complaining that they’re bored during the hottest hours of the day. Most of the time, the summer is great, but if you need to shake a little bit of fun into it to get the excitement back then you might think about planning a Summer Party.

You can pick just about any theme and run with it for planning your summer kids’ party, but here are some ideas to get you started:

If you’ve started to look in to the options for homeschooling your children, you’ve probably already realized that there are many different educational approaches that you can take to homeschooling. One of those choices is to use the “Classical Homeschooling” model. Of all of the homeschooling methods that are available to you, this is the one that relies most heavily on the major works, which are eventually studied in public schools (and even later on in college!) In order to make a decision about whether or not classical homeschooling is right for your family, you need to know a little bit more about it.

Here is what you should know about classical homeschooling: