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How to Throw the Best Baking Quarantine Birthday Parties for Kids
Even though most of the world is in full or partial lockdown and implementing social distancing, the calendar keeps moving, and your kids’ birthdays keep coming. It can be tough to explain to children why they can’t have a birthday party with their friends and family, especially younger kids. Still, you can get a little creative with virtual hangouts with the child’s favorite people, and still throw a kickass birthday party. A virtual baking quarantine birthday party is a creative way to host a birthday for your child. The reason is obvious: since you can’t go around sharing a slice of cake with each of the attendees, they will get to enjoy the delightful treats they make during the virtual coronavirus birthday party.
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Using Baking Kits as Part of a Homeschool Curriculum
Homeschooling gives parents a unique opportunity to teach their children the values they believe in. You also have the flexibility of shaping certain aspects of the curriculum to suit your children’s unique learning styles. While doing this, you get to spend time together and grow closer as a family, and include fun teaching activities within the curriculum. Baking with kids is one of the activities you can engage in to support classroom learning and teach real-life applications of these classroom concepts. Using baking kits for various treats, you can include educational and fun baking to break the monotony of classroom teaching.
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What Is A Subscription Box?
The idea of subscription boxes is becoming more popular, particularly because it can be applied to many industries. Customers love subscription boxes for several reasons, including the anticipation of waiting for a product they love to come with the mail every month. What kind of subscription boxes are there? Well, there’s probably a subscription box for every interest or product that you can call to mind. Some come from niche manufacturers catering for specific interests, but larger retailers are also jumping into the market with their store subscription boxes for gifting purposes. In this article, learn about what the best subscription boxes have and what you can get/do. In addition, if you’re asking yourself, “What is the best subscription box?” you’ll find your answer in the coming sections. Finally, we’ll highlight Baketivity baking subscription boxes for family and kids.
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Activities for Kids at Home
The outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought the world to a screeching halt. Schools have been closed, and large/public gatherings are discouraged. As much as possible, the government and the WHO have advised citizens to remain indoors and only make necessary trips out of the house. With the kids home from school so abruptly, parents are looking for fun activities that will keep the children occupied and out of trouble. Since outdoor activities should be kept to the minimum, trips to malls and parks, sleepovers, or playdates must be replaced with indoor activities throughout the quarantine period.
View moreKitchen Safety for Kids
Cooking and baking with children is an excellent way for teaching important life lessons and bonding. We spend lots of time in the kitchen, and so it’s never too early to start equipping your child with the kitchen skills they’ll need later in life. However, the kitchen is one of the most dangerous rooms in the house, and so it pays to be careful in there. There are sharp objects, spills, fire and many other potential hazards.
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Easy Baking For Kids
Baking with children provides unique opportunities for learning and bonding, for the parent/caregiver as well as the child. Depending on how old your child is, you may be in for a little more work along with the fun, but the experience pays off dividends in the end. There are many teachable moments, and you’ll find the experience more rewarding if you prepare for the mess (psychologically) and commit to being a happy teacher. In this article, learn the reasons why you should invest time in baking with children from a young age. Then, find out tips and ideas to help make the process easier for both you and them. Where the rubber meets the road, it’s about the quality time and the process, not the perfect-ness of the result. Happy reading!
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Baking Ideas for Kids
Think back to your own childhood; I bet some of the best memories you have are memories of baking with an older relative – your parents, grandparents or other relatives. Baking with children is a fun way to pass time, bond and teach them their way around the kitchen. As an added bonus, there are yummy treats to be enjoyed at the end, so your kids won’t be fighting you on that!
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