This is a great autumn and a Thanksgiving holiday-inspired gluten-free breakfast. If you can’t find canned sweet potato purée, just peel and chop a large sweet potato. Boil the sweet potato until it is tender, then drain. Pulse the sweet potato in a food processor until smooth. You Will Need: 3/4 cup canned sweet potato […]
Children enjoy collecting acorns in the backyard or while on autumn hikes. Each year I have the children decorate the acorns they collect to make little faces. Be sure to read children’s books about acorns including, “Because of an Acorn,” “The Acorn Thief,” “The Oak Inside the Acorn,” and “Acorn.” You Will Need: Acorns Acrylic […]
Getting laid off from a nanny job is always stressful. Losing income is scary when you have bills to pay. Missing the children can be devastating. The best way to pay bills until you find a new job is to apply for any state benefits you are entitled to. The best medicine for missing a […]
Children love Halloween! Some Halloween movies like “Ghostbusters” are classics that everyone should should eventually see. I hope the reviews below will help caregivers determine what are the appropriate Halloween movies to watch with the children in their care. Hocus Pocus Ages 9+ Hocus Pocus is one of the best Halloween movies of all time […]
I found this Halloween cupcake recipe on the Land O’Lakes website. Kids love baking so allow the children to help you with every step of this recipe. I even allowed the young boys to decorate these cupcakes themselves for their upcoming Halloween party. You Will Need: CUPCAKES 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/4 cup Land O […]
I have been doing this haunted house with window shutters and doors that open and close for Halloween while babysitting and with my Nanny Kids for years. I found this project on the sarahjanestudios web site. This year I printed out some Halloween clip art characters for the children to glue to the windows as […]
Children love baking and children love Halloween. So making Halloween cookies with this recipe from the Taste of Home web site is always a fun activity to do with little ones in October. Allow the children to help with every step of making cookies from collecting the ingredients, measuring, mixing, rolling the dough, using cookie […]
I found these super quick and easy Halloween masks on the itsalwaysautumn website. Use card stock paper and either staple elastic to the masks for the kids to wear them or paste them to jumbo crafts sticks for the children to hold the masks up to their faces. You Will Need: Card Stock Paper Printer […]
I made this fragrant and delicious noodle dinner from my Mom Boss’s recipe book. I just added a lot more chicken and a lot more vegetables. I used an entire cabbage and two pints of mushrooms. I’m sure the family you work for and your own family will enjoy it as much as mine did. […]
One of my favorite children’s books is “Stumpkin” by Lucy Ruth Cummins. It’s the story of a pumpkin without a stem trying to be sold in a store in the city that feels left out. “Stumpkin” has a stump, not a stem. So, no one seems to want to buy a stemless jack-o-lantern for their […]
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