If you want to let your child experiment with shaving cream, but are afraid of the mess it can make, now is the time to go outside! Kate and two of her friends were having fun playing in her wading pool. I saw them pouring buckets full of water onto the plastic picnic table and got an idea. If I sat them down and squirted some shaving cream in front of them, they could use it like finger paint!

They loved it! Kate and her 3 year old friend Michael went right at it, swirling the cream...

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I picked up this fun game called Bananagrams recently. It is a cute cloth banana that contains 144 letter tiles. I thought it would be a good way to incorporate letter recognition exercises with Kate's love of tiny things. I underestimated the value of this game as Kate has already learned so much by using the letters.

We haven't been able to follow the rules that the manufacturer wrote, (since Kate is only three) but that doesn't mean that we haven't had a great time playing with...

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I had an idea today that led to a great learning activity for Kate. I seem to have many more of these ideas now that she isn't napping during the day and I need to figure out what to do with her for the extra 1 to 1 1/2 hours a day.

We were sitting at dinner when Kate made an interesting request, "Make a sad face Mommy!" So when I made a sad face she asked, "What's wrong, Mommy? Why are you sad?"
"I'm not really sad, honey, I'm just pretending!"...

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Kate recently had a birthday, and one of her favorite presents was Diggity Dog Game (3+) Since she just turned three, a whole new world of tiny toys has become available to her, and she is thrilled with all things minuscule.



We played the game three times in a row to begin with, but then she decided to make up new games with...

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