Canada Day is right around the corner and a great way to celebrate it is by making Canada Day themed sugar cookies! As well which child doesn’t like a tasty treat such as cookies and help bake them! Ingredients 1 cup butter 1.5 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 3.5 cups flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder Directions In an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until it becomes light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until combined. Add flour, salt and baking powder an

The following activity is a great way to get your child involved and spend good time with them. What you need: a bowl, flour, water, brush (my kids used pastry brush), scissors, paint, time and patience. Cover your working space with newspaper or any other cover. Ask your child to tear or cut the newspaper into pieces. The pieces can be any size and shape. This is a great exercise for little ones to develop fine motor skills. Make your flour mixture: combine 1-part flour with

This is a fun process art activity that kids can free paint while they watch the paint colors mix and travel along the lines of salt and glue. Supplies: Glue Card Stock Paper Paint Brush or Pipettes Liquid Watercolors or Food Coloring mixed with water Salt Directions: First you’ll squeeze your glue designs onto your card stock paper. Sprinkle your design with salt until it is covered and then shake the excess salt off. If you don’t have liquid watercolor paints for this step,

Sensory bottles are a good way to focus on the details of natural objects, such as the wrinkly textures on a lichen-covered twig or the detailed vein patterns on a leaf. Materials: Empty plastic bottles Distilled water Natural objects Directions: Go on a hunt for interesting natural objects. Be sure that whatever you choose can be folded or otherwise squeezed through the opening in the plastic bottle. Rinse the natural objects. Fill the plastic bottle with distilled water (di

A colorful, fizzy, foamy car wash will get those dirty cars clean in no time! To make Fizzy Foaming Car Wash, You Need: 1/4 teaspoon food coloring or liquid watercolors 1 cup baking soda 1 can aerosol shaving cream Small containers for the “soaps” Toy cars Large container Squeeze condiment bottles Vinegar Directions: Make colored baking soda, which will serve as powdered “soap” for the car wash, by adding 1/4 teaspoon diluted food coloring or liquid watercolors to 1 cup bakin

1. Pom poms in a whisk This activity is super simple to make and is directed towards working on your child’s pinching motion. Cotton swabs would also work instead of pom poms. 2. Popsicle sticks in a coffee can. This activity has many variations but works great for hand-eye-coordination. After washing a coffee can, peanut butter jar, or some other plastic container, cut a few holes in the lid so that a popsicle stick may slide through. 3. Cutting spaghetti Yup, this is exactl

Art projects are my favourite activity to do with the children as you never know what their little imagination can come up with. I have a few tips for making regular painting more interesting and then I’ll share some of my favourite activities that I like to do in the summer. Tip #1: Switch up the utensil in which your child is painting with. Using a brush can get boring after a while so I like to throw in different household items that make the project they are creating a li

Which child doesn’t like making a mess? I don’t know too many myself! Children love to make a mess and that’s completely okay! The most important part is that they clean up their mess after. It teaches them how to be responsible for their toys. When playing in the gym with the children, the occasional time I will take out the toys out of our storage room and have the children scatter them around the gym. Before doing so I make sure to explain to them that we need to respect o

1) Take Celery or Napa Cabbage (largest you can find) and slice a stalk halfway up the middle. 2) Place two clear containers close together. Add a few drops of food colouring in two different colours to the jars. 3) Add water to the jars to fill to about 1.5 inches deep. 4) Wait about 8 hours and observe the difference! Plants use little tubes to transport water from where they have it (the ground, usually) to where they need it (in their leaves) where it's "breathed out" thr

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival has had a history of more than 2,000 years, which is also known as the Duanwu Festival, and it falls on the 25th June 2020. It occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar. The picture below shows some tranditional elements of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars h