I love my daycare. My son is in a licensed daycare center close to home which we fell in love with the moment we saw. He had to be in a waitlist for almost a year but it was completely worth it. Every day I went to pick him up before the pandemic, they would print and put on the walls what they had done that day or week and I loved every second of it. Now we can't go into the daycare but every Thursday or Friday we get a printed page of what the kids did that week! They tell you what they did, why they did it and what they are learning by doing that. It always gives me ideas of what we can do at home too, and it teaches me so much about how every little play is teaching our kids something :)
I recently got a National Geographic Crystal Garden Kit courtesy of Incredible Novelties. Even though the age recommendation is for kids 8 years old or older, we decided to try it out as a family. So dad, mom and 3 year old, we all sat together to have fun with it. The kit comes with 2 different tree patterns, markers to paint them, the liquid to grow the crystals, 2 bases for the trees, a geode sample, a booklet regarding crystals and the instructions on how to use the kit. To use it, you need to take the trees, paint them however you want, give them some shape by folding branches, put the 2 parts of each tree together and stand them on the bases. We all took different parts of the tree and started painting. My son had a lot of fun painting everything in orange, while my husband did a very minimalist look and I went as heavy as I could on color. After you put it together, the instructions say to set them wherever you are going to leave them when the