Titillating Tongue Twisters

Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pleasing Puzzles

A Pack of Pleasing Puzzles Peter Piper Picked

Blue Back Pack

Black Back Pack

Willie's Really Weary

The big black bug bit the big black bear,

but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!

Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

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Proper Tea Party Planning

"Do Come in for a Cup of Tea!"

Fisher Price Magical Tea Party for Two

A tea party?  How delightful!  Will it be in the parlor or the garden; will there even be dancing? 

American Girl Kirsten

Be sure to wear your tea gown - soft, feminine and flowing - with plenty of expansion room to allow for an extra slice of cake.

Who will you invite?  As soon as a hostess decides to give a tea, she selects two friends to pour the tea and chocolate who are, in her opinion, decorative in appearance and also who, very importantly, can be counted on for gracious manners to everyone and under all circumstances.

A Victorian tea ceremony requires the proper tea-drinking accoutrements: cups, saucers, pots, jugs, spoons, tongs, strainers, and napkins – in the season’s styles and colors.

Disney Princess Tea Cart

An Afternoon Tea, served in the "low" part of the afternoon, must offer a tasty assortment of gourmet tidbits, such as cakes, scones with jam, wafer-thin crustless watercress and cucumber sandwiches, and shrimp or fish pates.

It does not matter if a guest going into the dining-room for a cup of tea or chocolate does not know the deputy hostesses who are “pouring.” It is perfectly correct for a stranger to say “May I have a cup of tea?”

And the one pouring should answer very responsively, “Certainly! How do you like it? Strong or weak?”

Emily Post Etiquette 1922

Aarghhh!

If the pirate's life is for you, there be plenty of swashbuckling events to shiver your timbers. 

Enjoy a glass of grog and pirate swordplay at the Sterling Renaissance Festival in New York during their Pirate Invasion this weekend, July 24 & 25 (http://www.sterlingfestival.com/). 

Head south to the Town of Rock Hall on the Isle of DelMarVa for the Pirate's and Wenches Fantasy Weekend August 14 & 15 (http://www.rockhallpirates.com/) and learn about the Legend of Greybeard while you attend the Buccaneer's Ball.

Or pillage and plunder like the Canadians do, eh, at the landlocked pirate village of Dry Bluffs in Milton, Ontario July 31 - August 2 (http://www.thepiratefestival.com/).

And be sure to take your own Pirate Pocket Farkel Dice Game along for the ride!

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Travel Toys!

Piling the crew in the car for a family trip?  After everyone has settled in and the excitement has waned, compact toys that travel well are a parent's savior from "are we there yet?"

Children can get creative with Clip-On Doodle Pro and Mini Aquadoodle.  These toys pack easily in a child's backpack and don't make a mess!

Games are always great fun!  Try 4-Mation, the underhanded rummy card game, or Pocket Farkel, a fast-paced dice game.

Kids look forward to opening little gifts along the way!  At Bubbadah's Buys, we offer an assortment of Neat-Oh mini playmats that store in a small cylinder and offer easy clean-up.  We also carry a great selection of Imaginext Mini Super Friends (like Batman) and Littlest Pet Shop packs of three adorable friends to play with.

Have a safe and happy trip!

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Let's take a trip to the Zoo!

IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY

WE WANT TO GO TO THE ZOO,

PACK A PICNIC LUNCH...GRAB A HAT

SEE LOTS OF ANIMALS...BIRDS TOO.

 

 

 

 

WE WILL STOP AND VISIT THE ELEPHANT

WATCH THEM DO A TRICK OR TWO,

WALK PAST THE ZEBRAS....THERE STANDS FOUR

SEE THE PEACOCK...FEATHERS SO BLUE.

 

 

THERE LIES TWO OLD HIPPOPOTAMUS

SLEEPING IN A VERY MUDDY PEN,

WE SEE THE LION SITTING ON SOME ROCKS

IN HIS CAGE I HAVE NEVER BEEN.
 
 
 
 

WE SEE LOTS OF SNAKES, TURTLES AND SPIDERS


WE VISIT THE PENGUINS IN THEIR COLD SPOT,

IT IS FUN TO WATCH THEM WADDLE AROUND

FLY TO THE OUTSIDE, THEY CAN NOT.
 
 

WE PASS BY THE CAMELS CHEWING SOME FEED


SEE MONKEYS SWINGING ON A ROPE,

THEY SWING WAY OVER THE SMALL POND

INTO THE WATER, THEY NEVER FALL-I HOPE.
 
 
 
 
 

SOON IT WAS TIME TO GO HOME


BUT WE WILL RETURN ANOTHER DAY,

THERE WILL BE NEW BABY ANIMALS

WE WILL STAND AND WATCH THEM PLAY.
 
A Trip to the Zoo, Author: Adine Cathey
 
 

 

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Rainy Days and Family Fun

Rainy days, there's bound to be at least one during your vacation day at the beach.  I think families secretly crave them after days of crisping our skin under the sun.  They provide us with an excuse to escape to a movie or play a game together or, my favorite, peacefully settle around a jigsaw puzzle while listening to the pounding drops of a passing thunderstorm.

Leave it to the ingenuity of a dedicated teacher to invent what we now call the "jigsaw puzzle."  "For the purpose of teaching geography," John Spilsbury, a teacher in England, created the first jigsaw puzzle in the year 1767. Adhering his maps to flat hardwood, he used a fine saw to cut along the borders of the European countries, and the jigsaw puzzle was born (until the jigsaw was actually invented, however, this was called the "dissected puzzle.") Hand-painted and made of wood, the puzzle was a map of England and Wales, with each county making up a separate piece.

People actually seemed to enjoy this learning tool enough to begin creating jigsaw puzzles for entertainment.  The earliest known light-hearted puzzle was a 1785 depiction of John Gilpin's wild ride on a runaway horse from a comedic ballad by William Cowper.  None of these were interlocking, of course, until nearly a decade later when power tools were invented.

The first jigsaw puzzle for children, "The Smashed Up Locomotive," was designed by Milton Bradley in 1880.  By printing a lithograph of a steam engine locomotive and cutting it into pieces, the "smashed up" effect was achieved when a child opened the box and saw the locomotive all in pieces. Because of his Puritan upbringing, Bradley's nature was to seek order. Therefore, the object of the "The Smashed Up Locomotive" was to make the locomotive whole once again.

And I guess, maybe, that's why so many of us enjoy our "puzzle time" - it allows us a brief respite, one quiet moment to piece together a little jigsaw island of order in the sea of our crazy chaotic lives.

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Keep the Kids Cool! Play a Musical Sprinkler Game!

Like Musical Chairs, but a whole lot wetter!

Hook up a sprinkler to your water source, but don't turn it on yet. Instruct players to move around the sprinkler area, dancing, hopping, or striking funny poses. When the sprinkler is turned on, kids must freeze in position without moving until the sprinkler is turned off again.

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Happy 4th of July from Bubbadah!

Check out these links for Holiday coloring pages and crafts for the kids:


http://holidays.kaboose.com/july4-color.html

http://www.coloringcastle.com/july_4th_coloring_pages.html

http://coloring-page.net/america.html

http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/cp4july.shtml

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/july4/

We hope you have a safe and happy holiday!

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Summer Games - Monster's Ball Bonanza

This is a great game for 4 or more kids to play in a swimming pool!  All you need is 3 or more beach balls. (Try to maintain a “3 balls” to “4 kids” ratio for this game. For example: 6 kids = 4 balls, 8 students = 6 balls etc.)

Make sure you have everyone except one child, called "the Monster," go to the same end of the pool. The Monster gets all the beach balls.

The objective is for the kids in the pool to make it to the other end of the pool without getting hit by the balls the Monster is throwing. On “go,” they must swim to the other end of the pool. If they choose to swim underwater, they must surface at least twice. This gives the Monster a fair chance as he/she throws balls at them.

Once the Monster throws all of the balls, he can't get them out of the pool until everyone gets to the other end of the pool. When the Monster hits one of the swimmers with a ball, they must get out of the pool and become a Monster in the next round, and help him/her in the next round. Play until there is only one child left in the pool, and that person is the winner.

Make this game even more exciting by playing at night with Swimways Light Up Beach Ball! 

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(These are awesome for those outdoor summer concerts too!)