Tips for a Successful Holiday Season Take an inventory of everything. This includes tape and pens! The last thing you need is when you finally have the time to write out cards, notes or lists to find out you’ve lost your favorite pen. Or you sit down for an afternoon
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Double Chocolate Cookies Ingredients: 1 box of devil’s food cake mix ½ cup of oil 2 eggs 1 cup of chocolate morsels Important: Do not follow the box instructions for making a cake. Mix cake mix and oil in a mixing bowl; add eggs and mix until well blended Add
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Shining Stars What you’ll need: Yellow construction or card stock paper Glitter Glue Cut star shapes out of yellow construction or card stock paper and add gold glitter. You can use either glitter pens, glitter glue or rub a glue stick on the star and sprinkle glitter onto the glue.
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Keep It Fresh With Themes It can be a challenge to come up with ideas for fun activities to engage your child in learning. Let’s face it, some days you just don’t want to pick up another flash card! Having a theme for each month can help to keep your
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Holiday Shopping Tips Unless you have your heart set on one particular item, skip standing in line for the store to open. Instead, plan to arrive after the first wave of crowds have swarmed in and left; like 10AM. A bonus is a lot of stores extend their door buster
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Do you have children who love to help you in the kitchen but their definition of help is different from yours? One helpful hint is to let them each pick one dish that they would like to help make. Allow them in the kitchen one at a time to help
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“Okay, boys and girls,” Miss Nell said to get their attention. “It’s time for Circle Time to begin.” When they were all settled she said, “Who can tell me the holiday that is coming up?” Several hands went up. When his teacher pointed to him, Brian said, “Halloween?” Everyone else
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