5 Activities That Teach Your Kids about World Culture
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Learning about world cultures and customs is fantastic activity for kids. They need to learn to appreciate diversity and how many different people there are in this world. It can be hard to comprehend just how many different world cultures there are in this world!
Easy Ways to Explain to Your Kids How the US Presidential Elections Work
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Elections can be hard for adults to understand, so you can imagine that explaining to your kids how the presidential elections work can be even harder. It's quite a complex process, but since we have a presidential election in 2020, now is a great time to discuss the process.
Learn about US Presidents: 19 Important Yet Fun Facts
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Are you studying the US presidents with your child? The presidents are a fascinating topic that kids often don't think is as interesting as adults. To interest your child, try introducing some important facts!
7 Activities to Teach the Days of the Week and Months of the Year
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Learning the days of the week and months of the year are often taught to preschoolers and kindergarteners. It's simple memorization, and it's a great way for teachers and parents alike to start their day. I promise that teaching your kids the days and months doesn't have to be hard.
5 Fun Ways to Teach Kids to Tell Time
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Learning to tell time is a rather important skill for your kids. While we do, in most cases, have digital clocks, it's still a crucial skill for kids to learn how to use an analog clock. Those hands can sure be confusing at first! Teaching your kids to tell time shouldn't be a confusing or troublesome task.
5 Fun Ways to Teach the Periodic Table
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Do you remember having to memorize the sections of the periodic table in school? I remember it vividly in school, thinking about how boring and how it wouldn't be helpful throughout my life. Who knew that learning he period table could actually be fun?
Winter Themed Learning
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Winter may be dreary and drab since we are stuck inside more often, but that doesn't mean it's lacking in learning opportunities. It's the perfect time to focus on some winter themed learning with yo
7 Games and Activities with Snow
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If winter means anything, it means there will be plenty of snow. Rather than being upset with the snow, use it to your advantage and find fun games and activities with snow. Snow can even be educational.
8 Creative Ideas to Decorate Your Kid's Room
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Kids love a decorated room as much as an adult. Their bedroom should be a place where they want to go enjoy themselves. Whether they go in there to play, read, snooze, or hang out with their friends, it needs to be just right.
7 Ways to Celebrate New Years Eve with Kids
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Before you had kids, New Year's Eve might have been spent at a party or at a bar, dancing and drinking. Now that you have kids, the celebration changes and becomes low-key. I prefer celebrating New Year's Eve with kids at home. We make plenty of memories.
5 Favorite Christmas Traditions
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Christmas is the time for traditions and memories. While presents are fun, the kids remember the traditions for years to come, and as adults, those traditions will stick in their minds. Our family has five favorite Christmas traditions that we look forward to each year.
5 Bath Tub Games and Learning Activities
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Taking a bath is often a child's favorite activity, but it doesn't always bring happiness to all kids. Whether your child finds bath time a friend or foe, finding some fun bathtub game and learning activities makes the time even more interesting.