Posts Categorized: Sanity Savers

Sanity Saver: Shake Your Own Butter

We all have our favorite Easter or spring time tradition. For many of us it is getting a butter lamb at the Broadway Market. Through this activity you will learn more about the history of the butter lamb and how to make your very own!

Sanity Savers: Make Your Own Piggy Bank

In this project, children will create a piggy bank they can use for keeping coins and money. This bank will be creatively decorated and be able to hold actual money. Aside from the actual construction of the piggy bank, children can learn how to count money and place it in their newly created bank all while celebrating one of our favorite farm animals – the pig!

Sanity Savers: Salt Dough Unicorns and Easter Eggs

Today, we are decorating salt dough unicorn ornament. It is national unicorn day and there isn’t a better way to celebrate than making your own unicorn!

Salt dough is a simple recipe with ingredients most of us have in our homes. This recipe can be used to make countless keepsakes including foot or hand-print memories, holiday ornaments or special decorations for your room!

Sanity Savers: Shaving Cream Easter Eggs

Dying Easter Eggs is a favorite tradition for many across Western New York and the globe. This lesson will teach you and your family a new technique to try out this year! The great thing about this technique is it can be used on real hardboiled or blown eggs AND on paper to have a keepsake that will last a lifetime.

Sanity Savers: Recycle Creations – Dinosaur Park

Do you love dinosaurs!? Well, this project is for you. Ralphie the raptor is looking for something fun to do. He would like to build a park just for him. Children will love using their imagination and their STEM skills to build a dinosaur park!

Field trips are back! Please be aware that it will be busier than usual.