Cutting paper snowflakes is a fun and simple indoor winter activity. Here is a great video showing you how to cut some of your own. For younger kids is is best to keep the designs simple to avoid frustration if they cut away too much and it tears.
If you want to make virtual snowflakes, check out this great website: Make-a-Flake Website
Looking for activities to do with your kids on summer break? Check out the Au Pair in America Summer Fun Pinboard
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Looking for fun things to do with your kids to welcome spring?
Check out the Au Pair in America Pinterest pin board SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Photo: Susanne Nilsson
Play dough is the perfect modeling material for children. Their small hands can pat, poke, pinch, roll and knead it into many shapes. Keep it in an airtight container to use another day, or let it air dry into favorite shapes.
Measure 2 cups of flour, one cup of salt and 4 teaspoons of cream of tartar into a bowl. Add 1/4 cup of oil to one cup of water in a separate bowl then add the mixture to the dry ingredients. For colored play dough, squeeze 10-20 drops of food coloring into the water before you add it to the mixture. Cook the dough at low heat in a wide pan, stirring constantly until it becomes rubbery. Remove the dough from the heat and knead it for a few minutes. When it cools the kids can play too!
Photo: Kevin Jarrett (Flickr)
Cutting paper snowflakes is a fun and simple indoor winter activity. Here is a great video showing you how to cut some of your own. For younger kids is is best to keep the designs simple to avoid frustration if they cut away too much and it tears.
If you want to make virtual snowflakes, check out this great website: Make-a-Flake Website
Looking for activity ideas for your host children? Au Pair in America has a variety of Pinterest boards with ideas.
Check out the Kid’s Stuff Pinboard.
Photo: Brisbane City Council
The term “bucket list” was popularized in the 2007 Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman movie. The idea is to make a list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket” (which is an idiom referring to death.) Even though that sounds kind of morbid, the idea has taken off as something much more positive and people create bucket lists to log the things they want to do at some point in their life.
With that said, a Summer Bucket list is a list of things to do before this summer ends.
Click here to print your own summer bucket list
Get lots of ideas to put on your list on our APIA Summer Fun Pinterest Board.
Looking for fun activity ideas to get the summer started off right with your host kids?
Check out our Au Pair in America Summer Fun Pinboard on Pinterest.
Planning is the key! Bored kids are more likely to get into mischief and fight with siblings. Have lots of ideas ready and avoid those problems as much as possible.
Photo: MissMessie (Flickr)
Click here to view lots of Spring Activity Ideas on the Au Pair in America Pinterest Board
Looking for things to do with the kids? Check out our Spring Has Sprung Pinboard.
Photo: Richard Barrett-Small
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17.
Here are some great ideas of things to do with the kids to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on our APIA Pinterest Board.
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