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Vegan Smashed Potatoes with Avocado Pesto
We’re continuing to cook our way through the alphabet and we are up to letter V. Vegan recipes are the topic for today with the Cooking With Kids bloggers. We decided to create a Smashed Potato with Avocado Pesto. This might just be my favorite recipe that we’ve made so far in our Cooking…
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Calm the Holiday Overwhelm with a Christmas Discovery Bottle
This time of year, Moms need a backup plan. A little tool that mom can pull out of a cupboard and hand over to a kiddo who needs a little bit of quiet time. We all get overwhelmed by our environment. The constant input of stimulation from people, schedules, work requirements, holiday activities, holiday clutter,…
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Outer Space Math Maze with ReGrouping
Today we have a Wikki stick maze that supports skills like bilateral coordination, motor planning, and visual motor skills. This is one of our favorite wikki stick activities! Wikki Stix maze Want to make learning math fun and creative when the kids just want to “be done?”Sometimes we need to practice and build math concepts just…
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Easiest DIY Pencil Grip Ever!
You might have seen my kids around town with this brightly colored pencil wrapped in a crazy pencil gripper. They have a new favorite pencil and have been carting it to the karate practice waiting area, the hallways of dance lessons, and even in the wagon during our daily trips to the school bus stop. …
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Math Toys and Games that Build Skills
Today we have a list of math toys that are some fun occupational therapy toys that build math skills. In OT sessions, we might not teach math, specifically, but we do support individuals in IADLs such as cooking, balancing a budget, shopping, and safety (among every other area of living!). And guess what, each of…
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2nd Grade Mental Math Adding 10s and 100s with a Harvest Theme
Worksheets and kids are a tough mix. My second grader plows through a long school day and then brings home a math wroksheet (among other homework items) almost every weekday. We do the worksheet, but sometimes it’s hard to practice the math concepts when she needs to just practice new math ideas. One of the…
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Kindergarten Sight Words Cloud Dough
We’ve done quite a few sight words activities on this site. What’s cool is that the activities that we did with my now second grade daughter are still fun and working great with my kindergartner son this year. Today, I’ve got a sensory sight word activity using Cloud Dough. Adding a tactile (and sensory) approach to…
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Homemade Udon Noodles and Shrimp Dinner Recipe
Have you been following along as we cook our way through the alphabet? We’ve been cooking a recipe for each letter and are up to U for Udon noodles. “U” is a pretty difficult letter to cook around. Urchins, anyone? The cooking with kids team decided to give Udon noodles a try. The kids…
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To-do Lists and Coffee
Sometimes the to-do list is overwhelming. There’s preschool pick-up, after school dance class, grocery list, work duties, laundry, grocery shopping. It can get overwhelming. The oh, so very boring items on the list seem to always be there. Whether you write out a list on sticky notes or keep an on-going checklist in your brain,…
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Make Your Own Pick-Up Sticks and Work on Developmental Skills
Do you ever look around the house and think, “Why do we have so many toys??!!” If your house is like mine, your kids play with couch cushions, old cardboard boxes, and piles of paper, and cardboard tubes waaaay more than they play with toys. Sometimes, it’s the simple things that are just more…
