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Art Fun: Musical Activities For Kids

Sometimes parents are reluctant to include musical activities for kids because they don’t think they sing well, know enough, or might do something wrong. Do you have any of these concerns? Would you be...

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Music Activities for Kids

Parents do not need to be musicians or singers in order to include music activities for kids as part of playtime or what the family is doing. We can both listen to music or make it. Did you know that...

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Arts Play: Fun with Musical Instruments

As a parent would you like your child to play a musical instrument but think this is limited to lessons? Kids can have fun with musical instruments at home. Kids can have fun with musical instruments...

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Arts Fun: Music Activities with Kids

One of the easiest music activities with kids is to put on some music and dance around. From a very young age kids enjoy moving their body to music. Little is needed in terms of materials for babies...

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Arts Fun: Rhythm Activities for Kids

Rhythm activities for kids start from something as simple as clapping. This video shows an ultrasound of an unborn baby clapping as the parents sing! While the actions of the soon-to-be baby are...

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Art Fun: Performance Art for Kids

Performance art for kids is one way to combine singing, rhythm, dance, expression, and visual art and boost children’s self-esteem all at the same time. When children are part of an art production,...

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Art Fun: Combining Science and Art

Art activities may not be part of the play at your home or care center so how about combining science and art for more fun for kids? For a simple activity, pour a layer of milk on a big saucer or...

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Art Fun: Math and Art for Kids

Just in case there are any concerns about art not being academic enough, here are some ways to combine math and art for kids for great learning and fun.....set out a jumble of different materials,...

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Art Activities from Children’s Books

When it comes to art play and fun for your child, could you use some inspiration? How about some kid-tested ideas for art activities from children’s books? Harold and the Purple Crayon... kids might...

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Art Fun: Digital Art for Kids

Next week is Screen-Free week, so it’s timely to talk about digital art for kids. There are some definite advantages and some substantial disadvantages. I am not an expert...this is my viewpoint as a...

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Songs about Colors (and Colours) for Kids

Finding songs about colors isn’t as easy as finding games for colors, but familiar tunes can be be used to different words that work for you and your child. To the tune of London Bridge, make up a...

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Colors of Childhood: Drawing with Crayons

This year is the 60th anniversary of Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson. Reading it can inspire some drawing with crayons fun for kids. Harold even drew some fun for adults in an episode...

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Colors of Childhood: Adventure in Flying Color

This weekend, we wanted to do a nature activity but the fall weather is cool and rainy. A trip to a butterfly garden was an adventure in flying color. The butterfly garden only about an hour from where...

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Art Activities for Color Play and Learning

Art activities for color play include more than drawing. Stickers, tissue paper, and even coffee filters are inexpensive materials for playing with colors. A bag of dollar stickers can be fun for...

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October Alphabet: D is for Drawing and Kids

The words, “I can’t draw,” are more likely to be said by adults because we are focused on the product. The story is quite different for drawing and kids. For children, it’s the process that’s important...

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October Alphabet: M is for Music Fun for Kids

The next letter in October’s alphabet, is M. M is for music fun for kids. Wow, is there ever a lot of research on music for learning and brain development. A study from Germany’s University of Munster...

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October Alphabet: R is for Red – Color Activities for Kids

Even though red is hard to say for kids, it seems to be an easy color for them to know. Let’s do some red color activities for kids. After all, red is very much a fall color too. To start the day, kids...

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Dinovember: Quick Dinosaur Headband Craft

It’s Dinovember! Time for some dinosaur fun activities, like this quick dinosaur headband craft. Complete with scary teeth, kids can wear this as they play. To make this headband, kid hands or grownup...

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Simple and Easy Dinosaur Songs for Children

Dinosaurs likely didn’t sing, but here are some simple and easy dinosaur songs for children. These use tunes that are already well known. Does singing happen at your house? Not on a machine or device...

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Star Wars Toilet Paper Roll Star Craft

Star Wars has some amazing shots of stars from space, and this idea for a toilet paper roll star craft is pretty amazing too.  How can a tube shape turn into stars? These are the steps, which we used...

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