Musical Activities for Guaranteed Fun

Written by Deborah Shelton


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Musical Activities for Guaranteed Fun By Deborah Shelton

Music hasrepparttar 111435 power to calm, sooth, energize and make everyone have fun! Try these ideas at your child's next play date or sleepover for a guaranteed good time.

1. Jamming Art: Turn on some music-upbeat or mellow-you decide. Without looking directly atrepparttar 111436 paper, draw pictures and designs torepparttar 111437 beat ofrepparttar 111438 music. Make several drawings from different types of music.

Easter Scrapbooking Ideas

Written by Rachel Paxton


Easter is a great time to capture family photographs for scrapbooking. Even if you don't scrapbook, planning your picture taking ahead of time ensures you won't miss any of these great family memories. No family traditions? Then this is a great time to start!

Here are some Easter photograph ideas for scrapbooking:

Photograph spring flowers in bloom. Daffodils and tulips will make a colorful contrast to your other photographs.

Have your kids help you make Easter cookies or an Easter cake. Snap a picture of them working inrepparttar kitchen and then make sure to take a picture ofrepparttar 111432 finished product. We made a layer cake and arranged it on a thick piece of cardboard covered with aluminum foil. It was lemon cake with lemon filling and pink frosting. We decorated it with store-bought Easter candy. Aroundrepparttar 111433 base ofrepparttar 111434 cake we arranged Easter grass and added chocolate eggs and peeps for decoration. It made a great picture!

Gingerbread houses aren't just for Christmas! Make a gingerbread house and decorate it for Easter with pastel colors and lots of Easter candy. The possibilities are limitless.

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