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Activities And Games |
Activities and Games is written by
Nancy Blakey. For more activities and
games for kids go to http://www.nancyblakey.com
Handmade Holiday: gifts kids can make
Kids making gifts for parents and friends is far more meaningful for everyone than the usual 'just buy something' that usually marks birthdays and Christmas. Nancy Blakey has lots of great ideas on involving children in gifts plus teaching a sense of valu more...
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The Power of Green Time
Watch kids playing outside with no rules or coaches to govern their behaviour and you will see the magical unfolding of bodies swinging, stooping, throwing, racing, and twirling in space. more...
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Travelling with Tots
Children are wired to move, so when we confine them on an airplane or strap them into their seats in the car, it can feel like a prison to those little wriggling bodies. Some people use handheld electronic devices for amusing their children while travelli more...
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The Gift of Time
One of the most important gifts we can give our children is time. By turning off the television you have automatically granted a child several hours a day for fostering an imagination that will lead to a lifetime of possibilities.
When our children wer more...
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The Waiting Game
Waiting in a restaurant, a traffic jam, an airport or any confined space with restless children can be a challenge. The clamour is rising, your head is spinning and your precious child is letting you know in an escalating voice that he is hungry, bored, o more...
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The road well travelled
I do believe that the journey is more important than the destination. I even try to live that way, but when I traveled with our four frisky children in a confined space, I sometimes found it hard to remember. Today, some parents rely on hand-held games, s more...
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Rainy Day Activities and Games
On good days in the winter I wrestled our four children into rain gear and we would splash outside into puddles and parks. On bad days I wished fervently (along with every member of my family) for cable TV. ‘Give me thirty channels of clamour to keep my k more...
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Taking Care of the Earth
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. These three simple concepts can help us to live more lightly upon the earth. The following projects honour the earth by reusing materials to create something new. We are never too old or too young to consider our environment and to more...
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Comfort and Joy: Making time for handmade gifts
Families live at a fast pace these days. For many of us there are sports practices and games, appointments and meetings, homework and play-dates crammed into an already overfilled schedule. Throw the holiday season into the mix and you have a recipe for s more...
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Instead of TV: Projects and Activities for Better Brains
Children are the best teachers of creativity. Watch them! They are unafraid to ask questions, even if they sound like dumb or obvious questions. They follow their interests and passions like a bird dog when given the freedom. Most children seek out new ex more...
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Fifteen-Minute Field Trips
‘Tell me and I will forget: show me and I may remember: involve me and I will understand.’ Confucius. Some of the most robust learning opportunities for children begin with hands-on experiences. Take field trips for example — adults remember them from the more...
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Expanding the World with Science
Even more than school, it is the home that is the seedbed of curiosity and wonder. When you set aside a few moments a week to do in-home science experiments, uncertainty is welcome, not just a quiz with one answer. When the results are unexpected, it is a more...
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Christmas holiday activities
The holiday season is much more than a single day or event. It is a season of rites, traditions, and of anticipation. The remembered glow of candles on a festive table, the mysterious heft and weight of a wrapped gift are images we carry with us all year more...
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A Handmade Holiday: Slow Down and Live!
A wise mother once told me in order to make the holidays more meaningful for her family, she was going to limit her multi-tasking, beginning with making eye contact with her family. ‘What does that mean?’ I asked her. ‘That means I stop doing dishes when more...
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Birthday Camp-Out Party
For a different kind of birthday celebration, have a party under the stars. There are many advantages to an outdoor party: there is space for children’s energy to unfold, there are fewer concerns about mess, and the dark offers a place of mystery and ad more...
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Are We There Yet???
Successful travelling with young children largely depends upon three things: healthy snacks (we all know a hungry child is a cranky one), plenty of stops to stretch little legs if you are travelling by car or walks down the aisle of an airplane, and diver more...
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The Chemical Maze
Over 70,000 copies of Bill Statham's shopping companion, The Chemical Maze had been sold by March 2007. 'Our mission is to assist people from all walks of life to become more aware of the potential health effects of food additives and ingredients in
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Nappy Free! DVD
Nappy Free, a half hr dvd, explores a method of baby hygiene called 'elimination communication', which can reduce or remove the need for nappies (cloth or disposable, and all the potential allergens and environmental costs they carry), depending how
Price: $ 46.00
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Qld Doctor says No to Fluoridation
As a family doctor and often Acting Government Medical Officer in Rockhampton over in the 1950s, I wrote a letter praising fluoridation published in the local The Morning Bulletin. This prompted the late Jack Harding and others to show me books that warne |
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Saying What’s Real: An invitation to conscious communication
Communication between people is a multilayered process. Because of this fact, many of us feel inadequate in our attempts to understand others and be understood. Whenever any two people try to communicate, there are at least two levels to that communicatio |
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Facts and Myths about Special Needs Children
• Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that children with Down’s Syndrome are born to women over 35 years.
• Two-thirds of all children with Down’s Syndrome are born to mothers under 35 |
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Nuclear Power (d) Australia – the World’s Nuclear Dump
Since the 1980s the US has spent some $5 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologically stable Yucca Mountains in Nevada, and still issues arise over the ability to maintain an air- and watertight environment for the minimum 100,000 |
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Bringing the Economy Home
When we think about our children today, it is difficult to feel optimistic about their future. The crises all around us seem to increase day by day - from unemployment and community breakdown to global warming and terrorism - problems that seem insurmount |
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