Creative Wednesdays Kids don’t have to be Christian to decorate eggs, but decorating eggs is a common Easter activity. Most egg dyes stain, so have the kids wear aprons and protect the work surface and the floor where you will be dying the eggs. Before dying eggs simply hard boil them and let them cool at […]
Creative Wednesdays Teach children opposites to help them understand that not everything is the same. Go to the library and borrow the children’s books about opposites, sing the opposite songs, and play the opposite games for preschoolers we have listed below. Once they have a grasp on the concept of opposites, help kids make an opposite […]
Creative Fun for Kids The kids I care for love having taste tests. All you need are two or three similar food items that are just different colors. Cover the child’s eyes with a blind fold or just ask them to close their eyes. Then, put a piece of food in their mouth and let them guess […]
Creative Wednesdays My four-year-old charge was begging to make gingerbread cookies, but the problem is that she hates the taste of gingerbread. So, I found this unique and easy sugar cookie recipe online. I let the little one and her best friend roll out and cut all the cookies themselves so they turned out in […]
Creative Halloween Thanks to Heather Marinkovic, formerly a hard-working nanny and now a devoted mother, we have shared quite a few footprint crafts with our readers this year. For Halloween, she made this adorable footprint Frankenstein with her son. Here are her simple directions to do the craft with the kids in your care. You […]
Cooking With Kids I love allrecipes.com and they have some wonderful Halloween treats to make. Click here to see how to make these easy popcorn balls that are colored orange to make them look like pumpkins. Check out how to make cute mummy cupcakes by watching this how-to video by clicking here. See how to make adorable […]
Creative Projects Wednesday There is no treat better for a Halloween party than homemade cupcakes. Store bought miniature cakes just don’t cut it like the homemade version. Kids love helping mixing, baking, and decorating all Halloween treats. By far the easiest way to make a bunch of Halloween cupcakes, whether it be bats, mummies, witches, or jack-o-lanterns is by using a cupcake […]
Creative Wednesdays It’s officially October so it’s time to start doing Halloween crafts with the kids. The family I work for had left over Easter egg dye kits sitting around the house so I used a Sharpie marker and orange and green egg dye we made some Halloween themed hard boiled eggs. You might not want really little kids using Sharpie markers. But, […]
Creative Wednesdays At every nanny job I have worked at it has been my responsibility to bathe the kids left in my care. In my early days working as a nanny I wasn’t too creative if a child complained about taking a bath. I would sing songs and try to distract them. Now, there are […]
Creative Wednesdays Don’t throw away empty toilet paper rolls. Recycle them to make bowling pins and sorting games. If you don’t have toilet paper rolls, cut empty paper towel rolls in half to create two toilet-paper-roll-sized tubes. Click here to see how we made binoculars out of paper towel rolls. What You Need: 10 Toilet Paper Cardboard Tubes […]
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