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Counting Caterpillar - A Fun Way to Practice Counting Skills
11 November, 2017
The colored pom poms you use to make your own Counting Caterpillar will help you introduce or reinforce...
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Caterpillar Painting Activity
09 November, 2017
Use a muffin tin, cotton balls, and clothes pins to create paintbrushes and a paint palette that are...
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Caterpillar Crafts - Bug Club Month #3
02 November, 2017
I had great plans for an engaging, fun craft project for my granddaughters that would keep them entertained...
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Read Aloud Tips For Parents: Think-Aloud When You Read-Aloud
21 October, 2017
If you are an inexperienced parent, or grew up in a home where positive parenting skills weren’t...
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Snail Salad: Introducing New Foods in Fun Ways
17 October, 2017
Escargot is a read-aloud book that introduces the idea of trying new foods, and this fun snail salad...
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Escargot: A Read-Aloud Favorite with a French Accent
30 September, 2017
This fun Read-Aloud book will give you a chance to try the art of using different voices for characters...
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Snail Safari: Grandpa Goff's Bug Club Month #2
28 September, 2017
Make a snail salad with shaped croutons, concoct a batch of snail slime, and more.
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BugDance Party - Music and Movement For Bug Lovers
26 September, 2017
Enjoy a BugDance with your toddler! It’s a bug-inspired way to burn a few calories and build a...
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Off-Season Adventures
19 September, 2017
The Labor Day weekend has traditionally been a great time for us to go camping as a family. Temperatures...
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Two-on-One Adventures: An Unusual Aid for Bonding with Children
12 September, 2017
With five children in our family, we learned early that family vacations were the number one method we...
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Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!!
06 September, 2017
Welcome to Grandpa Goff’s Bug Club! If you have found this page, you are now an honorary member...
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Imagining Grandpa Goff's Bug Club
30 August, 2017
It has been said, and I agree, that gift giving is not my love language. I think it has less to do with...
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The ROAD Road Trip to Gather Family Stories
13 July, 2017
For my 80-year-old Dad, a trip down memory lane is not a meandering path along tree-lined streets with...
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8 Great Reasons to Rent a Trailer This Summer
08 June, 2017
My parents gave my husband and me a tent for our first anniversary. It was intended to be the gift that...
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Mother's Day Surprise: Mini Strawberry Shortcakes
11 May, 2017
Dad, here’s a fun and simple treat that will make the perfect Mother’s Day surprise: Mini...
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Living History - Creating Connections with Family Stories
20 April, 2017
Even grownups play, and one of the ways I have always “played” as an adult is via my hobby...
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Teach a Two-Year-Old To Text. Really.
06 April, 2017
Two-year-olds can text. Here’s why you should teach them how: I may be one of the few children’s...
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Special Advantages: Why The Wright Brothers Were Encouraged to Play
30 March, 2017
Bishop Milton Wright loved to bring toys home from his long church business trips. Typically, he’d...
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Blackout! Family Fun When the Power Goes Out
24 March, 2017
A blackout or power outage is an almost inevitable inconvenience, and from the perspective of a young...
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Connecting With Your Teenager
16 March, 2017
I have learned that connecting with your teenager can be a lot easier than you may expect. As one teen...
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