Mummification: Let’s Mummify Barbie!

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I think the number one reason why Ancient Egypt is so popular with kids are the mummies. There are seemingly a million books on this topic, but my favorites (so far) have been – Mummies Made in Egypt and You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy. I had my daughter Izzy use the information that [...]

Learning and playing with food

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It’s another week of It’s PLaytime! I love browsing the posts that you link up each and every week! Many thanks to my co-hosts for creating this collaboration kids meme with me: . Hands on: As We Grow The Imagination Tree Let the Children Play Messy Kids As always, by linking up you give us [...]

Chemistry Fun: Copper-plate a nail

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What cool thing can you do with some old pennies & a nail? Chemistry doesn’t have to be intimidating or limited to older kids.  There are lots of fun experiments for the whole family to participate in! Today, you’ll see what happens when you put an iron nail in a penny-laden cup of lemon juice. Materials: [...]

Lego Math Activities

Legos are great for developing spatial reasoning skills, great for building grand castles, boats, even Rapunzel’s hair (yes, my daughter has demonstrated multiple times, you can make “hair” out of legos).  Legos are also great items to use for developing addition and subtraction skills.  Here are some of the ways we used our legos this [...]

Camping for the fun of it: Another It’s Playtime

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Kids love nooks, nooks for reading, nooks for pretending, nooks for re-grouping (time-outs), nooks for having magical lunches in whimsical places, nooks to bring the outdoors in. Last week in It’s Playtime we had a couple of really nifty nooks and forts submitted. Like these forts? Come chat in the KOA Campfire community about the [...]