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Creative Nanny: Olympic Fun
Olympic Funby Alice Shaffer Many nannies, charges and families have been watching the Olympics since Friday February 12 with the Opening Ceremonies. Have you ever thought of what there are 5 rings? How many “areas” the Winter Olympics take place on? How to be on your “own” luge, bobsled and skates? To read the rest [...]
A DOZEN POSES … Just in time for Valentine’s Day
A Dozen Poses!By Kellie Geres, Regarding Nannies Development Team Instead of a dozen roses for Valentines, which flowers only last a little while, give A DOZEN POSES which will last a lifetime! This is one of my all-time favorite Valentine projects! I had so much fun the first year I did them – mom and [...]
Decorated Purell Bottles by Nanny Gael Ann and her very creative assistant.
Decorated Purell Bottles by Nanny Gael Ann and her very creative assistant.These make great gifts for parents, grandparents, teachers, friends & co-workers. To get the directions for this project and more go to http://www.thecreativenanny.com/
Creative Nanny Wednesday: New uses for old CDs.
Have you ever wondered what you could do with old CDs that might be useful or creative?Kellie from the Regarding Nannies team asked me if I could find some ideas for what to do with old CDs.Here are a couple of mine and some links to some really great ideas. I am sure that you [...]
A favorite Creative: Integrating Music with Painting
Creative Nanny Wednesday: Integrating Music with Painting Today we are sharing a post from Cindy Wilkinson’s blogJumpin with CindyPainting to Music for Elementary & Middle School Aged ChildrenThere are some really cool ways of integrating painting with music for children in elementary and middle school. (These activities may also work for pre-school aged children who [...]
A Favorite Creative Nanny: How to use Smilebox
As we are all heading towards lots of photos being taken digitally over the winter break and holidays, we are left wondering what to do with them. Revisit this awesome post on how to turn your photos into a great little album on Smilebox for those near and far from you and your charges. How [...]
Creative Nanny: Bath Salts & Bath Fizzies
Bath Salts & Bath Fizziesby Buffi Gentry Bath Salts/Body Scrub What you need: 2 cups Epsom Salts or sugar (when I use sugar, I use organic cane sugar) 1 cup carrier oil (carrier oil is a light oil-grapeseed, lite olive oil, sunflower oil-you don’t want to over power the scent with the smell of oil) [...]
Creative Nanny Wednesday: Turkey Puppet
Turkey Puppet by Glenda Propst (Regarding Nannies Team) This is a turkey puppet I made with my now almost 11 year old when she was 4. Back then she went to Pre School 2 days a week but Monday was always craft day for us and even now when we get together we love to [...]
Creative Nanny: Cooking with Kids
Cooking with KidsBy Becky Kavanagh As a child I loved to help my parents when they were preparing a meal or baking. There’s something so tactile and exciting about getting the ingredients ready and knowing that something tasty would reward us at the end of our labors. As we were having fun cooking we were [...]
Weekend Round Up
Don’t forget to take advantage of the Fall Sale on Letters by DesignYou can get 20% off your order with the sales code FALL09Be sure to use the link above. Monday Moxie We shared with you new information on the INA Nanny of Year and who can qualify. Tuesday Tips Pat Cascio shared tips on [...]
