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Toilet paper roll building blocks
(April 11, 2013) Nico loves when we buy a big pack of toilet paper because it’s a nice seat in the shopping cart. Normally he brings it in the house and the bathroom, then he’s happy to have done his job. Today, before dinner, he wanted to open the whole pack and play with it, since we had ordered in, we just played until it arrived. He learned that he had to put them on straight … Read entire article »
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Discover the world through food, places & locals
On Glittering Muffins, we like to discover the world but it can get expensive to actually go everywhere, so we came up with a few collaborative series to help us do so and hopefully you can enjoy them too -Our first one was something most people don’t think about when looking at new places, the food. We decided to TRY and introduce new food to our then 2 year old and created a series called Around the World in 12 Dishes. We also wanted a series that hadn’t been done yet and at the time it hadn’t. Around The World in 12 Dishes takes you on a journey around the world, (loosely) following in Phileas Fogg’s footsteps, exploring 12 different countries with our children, by cooking 12 dishes with them. … Read entire article »
Kids On the Go! – Exploring the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
It’s me, PlayDrMom, and I’m back to share another one of our favorite places to visit. This time it’s a wonderful place that I’ve been visiting since I was a child … Cranbrook Institute of Science which is located in Bloomfield Hills, MI. The science institute is part of (and located within) the campus of Cranbrook, which includes the Cranbrook schools (one of the largest private schools in the U.S … PK-12), Cranbrook Academy of Art (only … Read entire article »
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“Barrel of Monkeys” educational fun?
(Sept. 14, 2012) So we got the old classic “Barrel of Monkeys” game the other day during our visit in the States (we probably have it here, too, never looked, just saw it there in passing and grabbed it). I knew Nico probably wouldn’t be able to grab monkey to monkey but I was sure he would figure out a way to play with it. Last night he wanted to open it, so we did and … Read entire article »
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Pompom toss (pocket lounge mat)
So we got this pocket lounge mat for Nico for our trip the other day, since one of the hotels only mentioned 1 bed. A few days before I set it up to make sure he likes it and gets used to it. I was preparing another game with pompoms for him to bring, so he grabbed it and made his own game. Pompoms toss! At first he tossed them in randomly, then we had … Read entire article »
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Learning fun with soup cans
The other day we got a bunch of tomato soup and vegetable soup cans as they were on sale and we use them a lot, to make our vegetable soup rice for example. Nico normally helps me to get the grocery out of the bags, but once he got to the cans I lost him. He ran off with two cans, came back and forward like that till he got all the cans, he was … Read entire article »
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Ice cream tub sorting/stacking
He came up with this one on his own, I kept the tubs for paint mixing when I repaint furniture. He got the tubs, the blocks and we asked him if he could sort them by color. He did. When that was done he wanted to stack them of course (he loves stacking!)… He wasn’t tall enough so he went and got the little steppy stool and stacked higher! (You can see 3 more behind him on … Read entire article »
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