How Kids Can Benefit from Art After School Courses

Arts and creativity is part of our youth, children love illustrations, colors, shapes, animations and graphics. Studies prove that early exposure to arts program can help on our kid’s growth. Let us not ignore the fact that our left brain is for analytical thinking while the right part of the brain is for creativity. So how do you nurture the right brain of your child?

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Enter arts after school programs, a very good way to nurture your child’s artistic wisdom and creativity. Though art classes are available for some school, you can opt on extra art programs that will teach your kids many arts fundamental like basic drawing, painting classes, crafts, and even computer graphics.

If you are thinking of art activities now, here are the benefits that you need to know on these type of after school activities:

Creativity

Art classes are opportunity for your kids to nurture their creativity. Kids get a chance to use their creative mind and imagination during activities. It allows students to explore things based from his or her visualization. Creativity push inventions and innovations, a forward thinking that we need to have a better future. Continue reading

15 Healthy Snacks for After School Kids

Kids need the right nutrition to have that extra energy and perform well on after school activities. Parents should watch what their kid is eating; store-bought food and snacks may not be nutritious and insufficient on our kids need. If parents will let their kids buy their own snack, they could just buy a soda or junk food.

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Here are fifteen healthy snacks for your kids who are busy on extra after school activity.

Cheese – A very good source of energy and protein. Cheese slices can be used on sandwiches or be sliced on fun shapes and could go together with other fruit slices on a stick.

Spreads – Peanut butter, cheese spreads and fruit jams. Kids will love their sandwich if it comes with flavorful sandwich spread.

Baked Muffins – Add flavor and color to breads. Kids love banana flavored muffin, or any fruit taste your kid love. Continue reading

Growth Hack #9: Teaching Kids to Love Sports

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Sports can teach children many important things – fitness, discipline, motivation, socio skills and team work.  Indeed sports have so many advantages and can help our kid grow healthy, physically, emotionally and socially. If you are looking for an after school activity for your kids, you will probably go for sports, but not all kids are fond of sports. How do you teach your kid and able them to try sports? This post will give important pointers on how to make kids love sports.

Start Early

To start early is to determine which sports our kid will love. Parents and kids should get involved early in sports, may it be swimming, basketball, martial arts kids’ trying out sports is not a bad idea. This could later on give your kids options on whether to go strong and specialize on a particular sport or be good and have extra options when getting involved at sports. Continue reading

The Complete List of Outdoor Adventure Essentials for Kids

Is your kid going out for an outdoor activity? Make sure that your kids have all these essentials before going out for an adventure so that they will have the best fun experience and safe outdoor activity.

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First aid kit

Sanitizer, band aids, cotton balls and alcohol, these are just some of the lifesaver materials that you need to put on your kids first aid kit. We all want our kids to be safe, but scratches and bruises is a normal thing that occurs in outdoor activities that we can’t prevent. For our kid to have a ready first aid kit could become a lifesaver. Continue reading