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8 Ideas for Organizing Your Child’s Room

by Maria Gracia"



Clean your room.""Ugh! Oh, Mom. I’ll do it later!"This same dialog is shared by millions of parents and their children all over the world. Do you suddenly have the driving urge to get your child’s room in order? Where do you start?

Here are a few ideas:

SCHEDULE. Schedule a specific date and time to clean out your child’s room.

Your daughter or son, if she or he is old enough, should be there to help.

DUMP OR DONATE. Have a large box on hand for items you will be donating to your local charity or selling at a rummage sale. Also, have a large plastic garbage bag--maybe two or three--for everything you will be disposing of. Your son or daughter can help here. Let them know that every item that is of no use to them, that they donate, will be helping another child. Also, tell them that it’s important to discard anything that will never be used, to make room for new, useful items.

CLOTHES CLOSET. The clothes closet is usually a good place to start. Pull everything out until it’s completely empty. Then, the only items that should be returned to the closet are those articles of clothing or other items that are going to be used again. This should eliminate clothing that doesn’t fit, is worn out, and so on. If you’re not sure if an item fits your child anymore, have him or her try it on right now.B

ASEBALL CAPS. Hang a baseball cap rack on the back of your child’s bedroom door to keep all caps neat and organized. Ensure it’s at a reachable level for your child and that he/she understands the proper way to hang the caps on it.

SHOES. A shoe rack can keep children's shoes organized, easily accessible and in one place. Show your child how to organize shoes, keeping all pairs together and separating dress shoes from casual.

STUFFED ANIMALS, TOYS AND GAMES. Put up shelves in children’s rooms. This is usually a better solution for toy storage versus containers, because the toys won’t get crushed and will be easily obtainable. Make sure the shelves are at a reasonable height so that your child can reach wanted items.

PAPER. Create a filing system for your child, to keep artwork, rock star photos, blank paper, notes from family and friends, etc. Use a portable filing container that is capable of holding hanging files and that can be transported to someplace else if necessary. The ones with handles are nice, since they can be transported to different homes, on vacation, and so on. Some of these containers have snap-shut compartments for pens, pencils, clips, and more.

RESPONSIBILITY. Teach your children to clean and organize as soon as they’re old enough to do so. If you help them do this now, you will be helping them when they’re old enough to move out on their own. Devise a simple daily checklist for maintenance. If you have two children sharing the same room, divide the room in half with an imaginary line. Describe this imaginary line to each child. Assign each one the responsibility of keeping their side clean and organized.

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Wonderful Garlic Cheese Biscuits

 

Makes 1 dozen biscuits

by Crystal Miller

 

 

1 cup milk

1/3 cup mayonnaise

1 T cane juice crystals or sugar

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (may need a bit more)

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese

1/2 t garlic powder or chopped garlic

3 T melted butter

Using a mixer combine milk, mayo, cane juice crystal's, flour, baking powder and salt. Mix until everything is smooth and completely combined. Add your cheese and using a spatula blend it in until it streaks through the batter.

The batter should be something that will drop from your spoon and it should not be pour-able. If it does not drop from your spoon add a little more flour until it does.

Using a muffin pan, divide the batter evenly into the muffin cups that have been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

In a small bowl mix melted butter and garlic and spoon this over the tops of the biscuits.

Bake at 375 for 15 to 20 minutes or until the muffins are a nice golden brown. Cool on a rack for a few minutes. These are best if they are served hot.

About the Author:

Crystal Miller ( mailto:crystal@thefamilyhomestead.com ) is a mother of 8 children and enjoys her God given role as wife, homemaker and mother! She has a homemaking and country living web site called The Family Homestead http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com 

<http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/> and has a free monthly newsletter called Homestead Happenings. You will find sign up information on her website. Copyright: Crystal Miller, 2005   

Dyeing Pasta for Craft Projects

Dyeing Pasta for Craft Projects
by Rachel Paxton Description: Toddlers and preschool-aged children alike will enjoy playing with pieces of dyed pasta and using it to create one-of-kind craft projects.

Kids love to play with pasta! Who knew something so simple and inexpensive could be so interesting to young children.

Dried pasta comes in a variety of sizes and shapes. If you don't already have some in your kitchen cupboard, you can find a variety of different pastas to choose from in the bulk section of your grocery store. Let your child go with you to pick it out.

Pasta can be used for a variety of craft projects, and it is very easy to dye. It takes only a few minutes to dye the pasta, and a couple of hours for it to dry.

To dye the pasta all you need is:

- Pasta in different shapes and sizes
- Food coloring
- Rubbing alcohol
- Several small bowls

Pour approximately 1/2 cup rubbing alcohol into each bowl. Add 10 or so drops of food coloring into each bowl, one bowl for each color. Drop the pasta into the bowl and stir gently with a spoon for a few seconds.

Remove the pasta from the bowl and allow to dry for several hours on a paper plate. The colors will brighten as the pasta dries.

Your kids will enjoy playing with their colorful pasta. They can use it to create macaroni necklaces or they can glue pieces of pasta onto a sheet of paper for a creative work of art.

Children as young as two years old will enjoy counting and sorting the pasta into different piles. Have them separate the pasta by color or shape. They will have fun moving the pieces of pasta from bowl to bowl.

Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. For scrapbooking, card making, gift-giving ideas, and more family memory-making activities, visit http://www.crafty-moms.com.

Oct. 20th Georgia Child Identification Program in Vidalia

Georgia Child Identification Program Event Name:	Lyons Masonic Lodge/Toombs County Fire-Rescue CHIP
Organization:	Lyons Masonic Lodge # 149
Event Location:	Lowes
Starting:	Oct 20, 2012 at 08:00 a.m.
Ending	Oct 20, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
Event Address:	280 East
City:	Vidalia
Zip:	30474
Sponsoring Lodge:	49

Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft

Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft
by Rachel Paxton Description: A fun scarecrow craft you and your preschooler can make with paper plates.









Kids love scarecrows, and fall is a great time to do scarecrow crafts with your preschool aged child. With a paper plate and some other items you may already have laying around your house, you and your child can create this scarecrow craft in no time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies needed:

• Paper plates
• Google eyes
• Brown construction paper
• Orange construction paper
• Raffia
• Red pipe cleaner
• Craft feathers
• Scissors
• Rubber cement
• Glue gun (optional)

Note: Many of the above items can be substituted with things you might already have. For instance, you can use felt or craft foam instead of construction paper, or straw or shredded paper instead of raffia. Your child could also draw the face with markers instead of gluing it on.

To get started, cut several pieces of raffia about 3-4 inches long. This will be the scarecrow's hair. Next glue the raffia to each side edge of the plate, toward the top. The hat will cover the top edge of the hair. I chose to use hot glue for this step and did the gluing for my children. The hot glue works the best to get the raffia stuck on there quickly.

Next use the scissors to cut a hat out of brown construction paper. You can make any shaped hat your child would like. If your child is old enough to cut out a shape, draw the hat on the paper for him and let him cut it out himself. Then have your child brush some rubber cement on the back of the hat and glue it on top of the scarecrow's hair.

After you have the hair and hat in place, have your child brush glue where the eyes will go and have him stick the eyes on. Next cut a small triangle from the orange construction paper and have your child glue the nose on the scarecrow's face.

Next cut a red pipe cleaner in half, have your child shape one half of it into a mouth, and then have him glue it on the scarecrow. Last but not least, have your child place some glue on the end of a feather and have him slide it under a corner of the scarecrow's hat.

That's it! Your preschooler will be so proud of his scarecrow, he won't be able to wait to show it to everyone!

Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. For scrapbooking, card making, gift-giving ideas, and more family memory-making activities, visit http://www.crafty-moms.com.

Hunters Urged to ACTT for Firearms Safety

 

During the most recent hunting season, Georgia reported 36 hunting incidents, 16 of which involved firearms. With the upcoming Oct. 20 opening of firearms deer season, hunters are encouraged to review the ‘Four Primary Rules of Firearms Safety’ before heading to the woods.
“Ultimately, each hunter is responsible for keeping themselves and others safe while pursuing deer this hunting season,” says Walter Lane, hunter development program manager of the Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. “This includes respecting all firearms safety rules and being absolutely certain of their target and what is in front of it and beyond it.”
The following checklist, comprised of only four items, is covered in all hunter education courses and easily can be remembered with the acronym ACTT:

1. A – Always treat every firearm as if it were loaded.
2. C – Control the muzzle of the firearm at all times.
3. T – Be certain of the Target and what is in front of it and beyond it.
4. T – Keep your finger outside of the Trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.

For more information on firearms safety, visit www.gohuntgeorgia.com/hunting/education or contact the Wildlife Resources Division Hunter Education office at 770-761-3010.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (10/10/2012)