Toddler Tip of the Day

When making Easter eggs, rubber bands around the eggs make nice stripes. On plain eggs for a white & colored egg; or dye once, rubber band, and then dye again for the stripes.

From: parenthacks.com

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Holiday Potpourri is positively scrumptious and so rewarding to the senses.

Punch holes in a couple of oranges with a fork and fill the holes with whole cloves. Arrange them in a beautiful basket or a classic glass bowl, along with cinnamon sticks, boughs of rosemary, anise, and pine cones for a fragrant display.

From: pattiewack.com

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Let the kids make their own Christmas tree.

Find some wall space, get a nice sized roll of paper, (however big you want the tree to be) and paint, color or draw a tree.

From: thriftyfun.com.

Put all breakable ornaments up out of their reach and hung non-breakable ornaments where young children could touch them and play with them.

From: creative-home.net.

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Develop their musical skills with instruments like maracas, drums, xylophones and toddler tape players with big fat buttons for them to push.

From: families.com.

Develop their small motor skills with toys like stacking toys, wooden puzzles with knobs, shape sorters and pop up toys with dials and knobs that their fingers can manipulate.

From: families.com.

This is the time to put aside the fragile glass and ceramic holiday ornaments, or at least put them up high on the tree away from exploring toddlers. The bottom half of the tree should be decorated in paper, plastic, cloth or yarn ornaments.

From: associatedContent.com.

A hook can be screwed into a wall stud and the holiday tree can be secured to the hook with fishing line or sturdy string.

For extra security, two or three hooks can be used to anchor the tree at several points down the length of its trunk.

From: associatedContent.com.

Make a great quick snack for the reindeer, while they are waiting for Santa to return to his sleigh.

Take 1 cup of oatmeal, 1 tbsp. of brown sugar and 1 tbs of cinnamon and add some colored sugar or edible "glitter sugar" just before spreading on front lawn on Christmas Eve.

The glitter will sparkle under the moonlight and will catch the eye of the reindeer.

From: thriftyfun.com.

Give your kids their own budget. Spending their own money on small, thoughtful gifts helps children to understand buying
From: Today’s Parent.com