Today's post is full of yummy drink recipes for the little leprechauns in your life! Recipe 1: Rainbow Punch You will need: food coloring (several colors) seltzer water white grape juice straws clear colored cups (so you can see the rainbow!) Steps About a day before you intend to make this punch, fill an ice cube ...

Welcome to ''B'' week at our school, where the focus has been on beans, beads, bears and the color brown! For our speech and language group lesson this week, we made our own very round and very delicious ''Brown Bear'' face. I developed the idea after I Googled ''bear recipes for kids'' and a polar bear recipe came up! It requires a rice ...

This week's recipe comes directly from one of the dedicated moms at our preschool! Last Friday for ''I'' week at our school, she brought in two huge barrels of ice, different sized plastic bags and a whole container of salt, which at first looked like the makings of a homemade science experiment! However, it wasn't. This combination of items ...

During the month of December we have been celebrating the holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa at our preschool. The holiday of Kwanzaa, like any holiday, embraces certain symbols that embody the message and purpose of the holiday. Here you can find a complete description of these symbols, one of which is corn. I decided to use ...

At the preschool where I work, we teach about the three holidays of Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas during the month of December. As you may or may not know, each holiday has various foods that are an important part of the core celebration, just as turkey is a key part of any traditional Thanksgiving meal. Last December I shared two ...

Earlier this past week, one of the teachers I work with, Jamie Zarmanian, shared with our preschool classes this fabulous recipe for pumpkin spice Play-Doh. The entire classroom smelled like cinnamon cookies! The texture was perfect - soft, but not sticky and children really seemed to enjoy using a different type of Play-Doh to roll, ...

A few weeks ago we had a visit from Greener Partners, which isthe local farm that comes to visit our students about once a month. I wanted toshare with you the most recent recipe they made with us because it was sodelicious, and the kids really enjoyed both making it and eating it. Sunflowerseeds are the main foundation of this yummy treat and are ...

This week at school we made ''Yummy YAMS'' for Y week. We peeled, mashed and of course tasted them, and I must say, it was a bigger hit than even I anticipated! I think adding some marshmallows to the recipe really helped get some of my speech kids with sensory-based texture food aversions on board and willing to both participate and sample ...

I have put smoothie recipes on here before, but this is a new one and it has a twist! Our Greener Partner (www.greenerpartners.org) friends paid us a visit this past week and shared with us a delicious berry smoothie concoction that includes fruit, protein/dairy and veggies. Here is the recipe, with a few modifications including my own therapy ...

One of my dear coworkers who I work closely with every day recently became a grandma for the second time! Over our Easter spring break, she traveled across the country to visit the two little loves of her life. One is 18 months old and the other is just under a month old. Not only did she return from her most recent trip with smiles and ...