FEATURED LEARNING GAME
Zingo! 1-2-3
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WINNER! 2010 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award
Ages 4 and up
With Zingo! 1-2-3, players must match their numbered tiles to their corresponding challenge card. The first player with a full card wins the game by yelling “Zingo!”
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FUN FAMILY ACTIVITY
Movie Night At Home
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Make it official. Set a movie start time and stick to it. At our house, Friday nights are movie nights....
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PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Learn The Letter "A"
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We've got everything you need for your child to practice writing the letter "A" including blank handwriting sheets.
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Fun Family Crafts - Valentine's Tissue Paper Flower Bouquet
 Difficulty: Easy
These flowers are quick to make and the children enjoy making them. Younger children may need some help with accordion-pleating the tissue paper.
What you'll need:
- Pastel colored tissue paper
- Chenille stem
- Scissors
- Ruler
How to make it:
- Cut tissue paper into rectangles of desired size (5"x7").
- Stack around 15 pieces of tissue paper. Use the same color or different colors. If you want to use a smaller number of pieces of tissue paper, flower will not be as full.
- Accordion pleat the tissue paper working from the long side.
- Wind one end of the chenille stem around the middle of the accordion pleated tissue paper.
 
- Trim the ends of each side to give the pedals a unique look. Trimming the ends into a point (like a triangle), or a bump (like a half circle) will look very pretty.
- Gently separate each layer pulling upwards toward the middle of the flower.
Do the second side.
- Let the children make a couple of flowers and put them in a May Basket. Early on the morning of May 1st hang on your mother's door, a neighbor's door, a friend's, or anyone special to you. Remember, it's supposed to be a surprise!
Tips:
- If you want to give your flowers some leaves, include a stack of green tissue paper folded accordion style during step 3. Trim the green paper into a shape of a leaf.
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