funforkids

One of the most imporant things you can wear is your expression. 

Smile even though you are finding it hard to do so. 

Someone is sure to smile back at you and lift your mood.

You might also make someone else’s day a bit brighter.

YOUR CHILD’S ART-WORK AND ANSWERS MAY APPEAR IN MY CHILDREN’S BOOK AND/OR HERE ON FUNFORKIDS.TODAY.COM.

 Everyone knows that a child’s imagination is the best and I need some GREAT KID’S answers to two questions.  I would really appreciate as many answers to this question as possible as I am writing a children’s book about the topic of the tooth fairy.  Your child’s name and answer MAY appear in my book should it be accepted by a publisher.  I do not have a publisher right now, but am hoping for the best!

Here are the questions I would like your children to answer:

1.   What does the tooth fairy look like?   Submit a picture too as an attachment to the email.

2.   What does the tooth fairy do with the teeth that she takes from little children?

You can send all answers to my email address:  lovemyryan02@msn.com  Please put TOOTHFAIRY in the subject box of the email so I do not delete it thinking it is spam.  Please include your child’s first name and their answers to the questions and picture if they submit one, as well as your personal email address and your full name (the parent) and home address so that I can contact you if your child’s answer is chosen.  Obviously I can’t promise that the book will be published but with God’s intervention maybe–just maybe it will!  I may even choose to self-publish if it isn’t too expensive.   Children who submit answers that are chosen and published in the book will receive a certificate for their responses.  Your submission via email will grant me permission to use your child’s answer or picture for the book and/or on my site:  funforkids.today.com.  Children whose answers are chosen to be included in the book or the website will be notified via email. 

Please don’t tell your children that this is a contest—I don’t want broken hearts if answers aren’t chosen.  It would be too much pressure on me to pick ”winners”.   The simple answers are best.  Remember its a kindergarten/first grade level book so fewer words are best. Answers should be only one or two sentences long.  Pictures of the tooth fairy will also be accepted!  Answers that aren’t chosen for the actual book as well as your child’s tooth fairy picture MAY be posted here on my funforkids.today.com page so please have them sign their pictures.  When you submit an answer or picture you also give me permission to post the answer and/or picture here on funforkids.today.com.   Pictures and answers that appear on funforkids.today.com will also be notified via email so that the children can stop in and see their work!  

Thanks for your interest and answers!  I hope your children have fun submitting their work and I can’t wait to see all of their submissions!  

THERE IS NO FEE to enter your child’s work.  PLEASE feel free to forward this link to your friends: www.funforkids.today.com  and tell them all about the submission process.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS PLEASE DIRECT THEM TO ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS:  lovemyryan02@msn.com.   God bless!

Tired of spending money on bubble solution?  It is ridiculous to pay $1.00 Plus for a small bottle of something that you can make in huge volume for less money using your own dish soap.   This recipe for bubble solution comes from GORDON on Sesame Street.

Take 1/2 cup of dishwashing liquid soap and add it together with 4 cups WARM tap water,  stir, and there you have it:   Instant bubble solution!   Have fun! 

A friend of mine passed this one on to me and

I thought you would all get a kick out of it.   

Which way is the bus below traveling?  To the left or the right?

Can’t make up your mind? Look closely at the picture again. Still don’t know?Pre-schoolers all over the United States were shown this picture and asked the same question. 90% of the pre-schooler’s gave this answer:

“The bus is traveling to the left.”When asked: “Why do you think the bus is traveling to the left?”They answered:“Because you can’t see the door to get on the bus.”

Some interesting facts were recently passed onto me through an email.  Some I found absolutely useless —some were interesting.   

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ‘lollipop’ with your right.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.The words ‘racecar’, ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’
There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

She makes is look so easy!

   With the recent death of Jett Travolta still fresh in my mind I thought I would take a look on the internet and research Kawasaki Disease which is an illness that he was diagnosed with at age 2.    According to kidshealth.org Kawasaki disease is an illness that “involves the skin, mouth, and lymph nodes” and usually affects kids under the age of 5 years old.  It’s cause is unknown.  Kelly Preston has alleged that chemicals found in carpet cleaners and fertilizer brought on the illness in her son Jett at age 2.  Once diagnosed, Kawasaki is easily treated and the child can make a full recovery in a few days.  If left undiagnosed and untreated, the illness can lead to serious complications that can affect the child’s heart.    According to kidshealth.org  19 out of every 100,000 kids in the United States is diagnosed with Kawasaki disease.  The illness is most commonly found among children of Japanese and Korean descent, but it can affect all ethnic groups.   The illness can not be prevented.

      Some of the symptoms of Kawasaki disease are:

Phase one includes a “persistent fever higher than 104 F and lasts for about five days.  The fever may be accompanied by:

severe redness in the eyes, a rash on stomach, chest and genitals, red dry cracked lips, swollen tongue with white coating and big red lumps, sore and irritated throat, swollen palms and soles of the feet with a purple-red color, and swollen lymph nodes.

The second phase comes usually within 2 weeks of the fever and includes the peeling of the feet and hands in large pieces, joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain.  If YOUR CHILD HAS ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS, CALL YOUR DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY!

      Luckily, if the illness is treated within 10 days of the beginning of the symptoms, heart problems usually do not develop.   If a case goes undetected it can lead to more serious complications such as “vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels which can be particularly dangerous because it can affect the coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart.  It can also cause inflammation to the heart muscle, lining, valves, and the outer membrane  surrounding the heart. ”

     There is no single test for the disease; doctors have to rule out other illnesses and evaluate the child’s particular symptoms before he/she can make the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease.  A doctor usually orders an echocardiogram to monitor the child’s heart, and takes blood and urine samples in order to rule out other illnesses such as  scarlet fever, measles, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, or an allergic reaction to a drug.

     Once diagnosed with Kawasaki disease a child is treated with “intravenous doses of gamma globulin (purified antibodies) which is a natural ingredient in blood that helps the body fight infection and a high does of aspirin to reduce the risk of hear problems. “

The information above was based on an article by Joel Klein, MD (October 2008)

I hope you found it useful and/or interesting.