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admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:41:00 +0000

Lindsay article, brought to you using rss feeds. It’s got some great activity ideas.
Here’s a brief portion of the article
Instead of staying at home and having the kids go trick or treating as usual, why not spend a night or so at a Halloween-themed resort or hotel? Great Wolf Lodges is known for its Halloween parties for families. …

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Making Colored Sand or Salt

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:23:47 +0000

mamarati wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Here’s a movie of my kid and I making some colored salt…

As you can see, these are pretty easy to make. I know the big name guys like Discount School Supply sell this stuff inexpensively, but really, you can make it yourself and use the money you’d save on some colored butcher rolls. (Always seems like there’s never enough of that…)
Home Depot or Lowe’s will have sand in different grades (play sand is fine to use but white sand is way better) in giant bags… and generic salt is pretty cheap. If your center has a Sam’s account, go ahead and invest in the ginormous bag of salt for a project like this. Better yet, just have parents pick up a 30 cent tub of salt on their next grocery run and bring it in… that way each child has their own.
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Making Colored Sand or Salt