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Remembering Last Year, Planning for Next Year

funfelt — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:40:50 +0000

Use these questions as prompts for discussion around the dinner table (adapt them for very young children), or have older children write down their answers. REMEMBERING 2009: What was your biggest accomplishment in 2009? What was the smartest decision you made in 2009? What is one word you would use to describe 2009? What was the greatest lesson you learned [...]

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Poem for Stay at Home Moms

funfelt — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:59:00 +0000

What Did You Do Today? Today I left some dishes dirty, The bed got made around 3:30. The diapers soaked a little longer, The odor grew a little stronger. The crumbs I spilled the day before, Are staring at me from the floor. The fingerprints there on the wall, Will likely be there still next fall. The dirty streaks on those window panes, Will still [...]

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Symbols of Christmas Season

funfelt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:00:22 +0000

Do your children understand the meaning behind the symbols we use each Christmas? In my Story Time Felts business we sell a Christmas Tree Advent Calendar that includes all of these symbols. It comes with a sheet explaining each one so that each night in December you can teach your children these symbols. Here they [...]

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Reindeer Cookies

funfelt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Very cute idea for easy cookies to make for the holidays! Jyl from Mom it Forward shared this and I am passing it along! If the embedded video isn’t showing, click here: http://whrrl.com/whrrlMini/experience/18699238?s=large&sharer=18265723 Karen Powered by Whrrl

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Thanksgiving Activities

funfelt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:05:31 +0000

The following worksheet and handouts were made by Sharon Cunningham, a Story Time Felts consultant in Canada. She has a website there called PlayFeltPlus. She is an in-home childcare provider and is always coming up with creative things to do with our felt figures, and extension activities! This particular kit is based on our Holiday Fingerplay [...]

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:47:46 +0000

A SLEEPING-BAG can be improvised from one's blankets by the use of safety pins

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Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

funfelt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:42:59 +0000

Easy Hallowe’en Crafts for Kids Stuffed Mummy Hand: Take a transparent latex glove, put a candy corn in the tip of each finger, then fill with popped popcorn. Tie with an orange ribbon and attach a spider ring to the ring finger. Mr. Pumpkin Head: Instead of carving all of your pumpkins this year, simply insert Mr. Potato Head [...]

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Make Your Own Moccasins

Outdoor Kids Fun — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:48:27 +0000

The ordinary moccasins known to the general public is the style worn by the Canadian Indians and these are not difficult even for a boy to make.

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Make Use Of The Poncho

Outdoor Kids Fun — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:10:10 +0000

I can not recommend highly enough the use of the military Poncho. If it's good enough for the army, it's good enough for our camping needs.

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Catch That Rabbit

Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:06:22 +0000

Although this will be viewed by some as cruel, when you have to eat by trapping a rabbit, this method works well and can be used to great effect when in an area with an abundant supply of rabbits.

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A Hunter Gatherers Basket

Outdoor Kids Fun — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:25:37 +0000

Having got to the stage of foraging for your food, you will need something to carry it in so it is time to make a basket of some sort. Gather the spokes and weaving material, sit by your camp fire and get to work.

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Eating From Natures Food Store

Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:58:27 +0000

There is only so much flora you can eat before you want meat for protein and that means catching, killing and cleaning a living thing so if this is not in your nature you should bring a good supply of preserved meat etc. with you.

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The Art Of Tying Trout Flies

Outdoor Kids Fun — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:31:26 +0000

We are now prepared to commence work on a fly. Let us suppose we are about to tie an Orange Grouse, which is a very good fly for the high, roily waters of the spring months, April and May.

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Lets Make A Kite

Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:36:47 +0000

We will begin first with the most important in the kite, which we call the Backbone.

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Build Your Own Fishing Rod And Reel

Outdoor Kids Fun — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:46:02 +0000

To rig up a home-made trout rod, you need a straight, slender, elastic pole, such as can be found in any wood or thicket, some pins, and a small piece of wire.

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Build A Raft You Can Sail

Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:33:22 +0000

The Raft is Just the Thing for Camp Life. A Pleasurable Occupation for a Camping Party Where Wood is Plentiful. You Will Need Axes and Hatchets and a Few Other Civilized Implements.

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Useful Knots And How To Tie Them

Outdoor Kids Fun — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:58:55 +0000

Much depends on knowing how to fasten quickly, simply, and thoroughly. We give a description of some of the ties and knots most needed by the camper. They should be studied with a piece of small rope until thoroughly learned, so thoroughly that you can make them naturally, easily, and without stopping to think how they are to be made ; also, make them as they should be made, for often the slightest variation from the correct way is fatal to the security of your knot.

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Every Outdoor Kid Needs A Gun

Outdoor Kids Fun — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:39:47 +0000

A Toy Pistol can also be made out of a tongued-and-grooved board. Some such shape as shown in Fig. 235 should first be drawn upon the board,

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Cooking Outdoors

Outdoor Kids Fun — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:07:41 +0000

make a good, rousing fire in the barrel, and keep adding fuel until all the staves are burned out and the surrounding clay is baked hard.

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A ‘Cottage’ Shelter in the Woods

Outdoor Kids Fun — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Fig.107 represents part of the framework of one of the simplest forms of rustic cottage. In this case, two trees serve for the two posts of the rear wall.

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Lighting a Fire.

Outdoor Kids Fun — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:25:12 +0000

....after that they proceed to whittle these sticks, cutting deep shavings.....

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:04:05 +0000

Take three forked sticks (A, B, and C, Fig. 12), and interlock the forked ends so that they will stand as shown in Fig. 12.

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:23:22 +0000

A watch in the woods and fields has another use, for it can be used as a compass.

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:40:53 +0000

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:15:27 +0000

When outdoor kids play one of the first things they do is organise a meeting place.

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:25:10 +0000

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Outdoor Kids Fun — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:21:37 +0000

The San Carlos Apache Indians build a dome-shaped hut by making a framework of small saplings bent in arches.

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