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Teach Children to be Charitable
10 Keep your Family Healthy Through the Holidays 12 Holiday Gift Guide 14 Celebrating New Years Eve with Children 23 Editors Picks
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Teach Children to be Charitable It is often during times of extreme devastation when children first see how communities can join together to help one another. Such efforts may be a child’s initial exposure to charity while highlighting the importance of putting another person’s needs before your own. But children need not be exposed to charity solely during times of tragedy. Teaching children to be charitable is one of the ways to help them become good citizens of the world. By helping others, parents can instill early on lessons of kindness, empathy and compassion into their sons
and daughters. Children who are ready and willing to lend a helping hand may grow up to be more appreciative of what they have in their own lives. What’s more, they may learn to be selfless while assigning less value to material things. Youngsters who repeatedly see their own parents and other role models doing good and lending a helping hand may be more inclined to repeat that behavior, and giving will be the norm for them rather than the exception. To mold charitable children, families can employ the following techniques:
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Education • Start locally. There are people right in your own community or on the street where you live who can benefit from a helping hand. Ask an elderly neighbor if he or she needs assistance with shopping for groceries or could benefit from your child taking in the garbage cans after pickup. Children can help shovel snow from sidewalks or do other ageappropriate tasks, such as place a carelessly thrown newspaper closer to a neighbor’s door. • Volunteer as a family. The entire family can get together and spend time working at a community-sponsored carnival or cleaning debris from an area beach. Volunteer work may be available at your child’s school, where families can plant gardens around the property. When volunteering as a family,
not only is your entire family helping to do good, but you’re spending quality time together as well. • Make charitable donations. Let children see the solicitations for monetary donations that come in the mail. Read aloud the pleas for funds to help children and adults who may not have enough to eat or who may require medical care. This is an important lesson in humility and helps show children that not every person in the world is comfortable. Once kids have read about the needs of others, involve them in the donation process. They can assist with sorting clothing and toys they may no longer need and then help bag it up and donate it to an agency that takes collected Article Cont’ on pg 8
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Education Teach Children to be Charitable Cont’ items. • Give throughout the year. Charity need not be limited to the holiday season. Inform children that many people need help throughout the year, and that volunteering is a yearround activity. • Match kids’ charitable fundraising. Encourage children to start their own fundraising efforts and match the funds they raise. Find companies that will also match the amount your children have raised. * Set up a giving policy. Children can learn the importance of giving at an early age by dividing their allowances and financial gifts into different categories. They can put onethird toward savings, one-third
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Keep Your Family Healthy Through the Holidays The holiday season is upon us once again, and with it comes the season’s notoriously hectic pace. With crowded social calendars and the stress of holiday shopping, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed once the season hits full swing. Unfortunately, many people have trouble staying healthy through the hectic holiday season. With so much to do, it’s easy to put health on the back burner during the holidays. But however hectic the holiday season can be, there are ways to keep the family happy and healthy this holiday season. • Encourage kids to wash their hands. Germs are often spread most quickly through our hands, which are in constant contact with hotbeds for germs, including doorknobs. While adults might be quick to wash their hands after they sneeze or cough, kids are often lax in the hand washing department. But washing hands thoroughly is an effective way to ward off winter germs that attach to hands. Encourage kids to be diligent about washing their hands, not only after they use the restroom but whenever they sneeze, cough or arrive home from school. • Keep indoor air crisp and clean. Bringing home airborne germs, such as sickness-causing bacteria and other contaminants, is inevitable during the holiday season. School is a breeding ground for such germs, as is
the shopping mall filled with holiday shoppers. While it might be impossible to avoid bringing home these unwanted holiday guests, it’s not impossible to fight them off once they do get home. Employ electrolyzed water technology that suppresses airborne bacteria and germs while eliminating unpleasant odors in the home. Use a HEPA filtration system to remove 99.97% of airborne particles and allergens. • Circulate indoor air. Stagnant air indoors can also increase the liklihood of cold and flu. Central heating can dry the body out and lead to dehydration, making it harder for the body to flush out poisons and germs during the winter months. • Get outdoors. Even if the weather outside is frightful, it can be beneficial to spend some time outdoors during the winter months. • Squeeze in some daily exercise. While the holiday season is certainly hectic, adults and kids alike should still find time to fit in daily exercise. Kids might get their daily dose in gym class, but adults need to make time as well. Exercise can prove a great means to relieving holiday stress, and a body that’s strong and fit will prove more capable of defending itself against airborne germs and bacteria.
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2014 Kids Gift Guide
Great gift ideas for the Kids in your life!
FurReal Friends Get Up and Go Go My Walkin’ Pup Pet A day together is the best day ever with this new furry friend. Kids can talk to her and she’ll bark back with sweet ruffs and other puppy sounds, or walk her with the included remote control leash for hours of pretend play. TMNT Stretch ‘N’ Shout Action Figure The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Stretch ‘N’ Shout Action Figure in the Leonardo style wields his traditional twin katana for battle. You can hear this turtle’s iconic battle cries when you pull his arms apart. Disney Frozen Snow Glow Elsa Doll Watch Elsa’s power flurry with Snow Glow Elsa. Experience the movie again and again with Elsa as she says 15 sounds and phrases from your favorite movie moments! What’s more, Elsa can sing and speak in English or Spanish. Featuring her signature song “Let it Go”, Snow Glow Surprise Elsa creates a enchanting winter wonderland! Disney Jr Doc McStuffins Get Better Talking Mobile Cart The Get Better Talking Mobile Cart gives kids everything they need to provide on-the-go care! Physicians-to-be can let friends know they’re in a hurry with the motion-activated siren that lights-up and plays the “Doc Mobile” song. Future doctors can use the light & sound EKG, otoscope, and thermometer to give on-site checkups and fix boo boos with the bandage sticker dispenser. LeapTV™ Active Gaming System Get minds and bodies moving with the educational, LeapTV Active Gaming System. Built just for kids ages 3-8, with a library of 100+ educator-approved games and videos that teach skills from reading to mathematics (sold separately). From LeapFrog, the award-winning creator of educational entertainment. Skylanders Trap Team With Skylanders Trap Team™, Portal Masters will seek out and defeat the most wanted villains, pulling them out of the game and into living rooms by capturing them in new magical Traps. LEGO FUSION Town Master Bring your LEGO creations to life with the interactive LEGO FUSION Town Master Buildable Game, which lets you use your imagination to create and manage your virtual town with real LEGO bricks. While you’re building shops, fire stations, roads and more, you can complete exciting missions and mini games to earn valuable studs and happiness for your virtual citizens. 12 alamoareakids.com Please tell our advertisers you heard about them in Enjoy San Antonio
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PAINTED FALL LEAF You’ll Need Leaves Washable paint Paper Paintbrushes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Set out a piece of paper. Grab a leaf and add a drop of paint from three or four different colors to the back side of it. Take your paintbrush and spread the paint out, but careful not to blend the colors too much. Turn the leaf over onto the paper and press down. You may have to repeat this step several times to get the right leaf print. If you have too much paint, you will not be able to see the leaf’s natural vein patterns. Peel up the leaf to reveal your very own painted leaf. Set aside to dry. Once it’s dry, you can frame them and decorate your home for the fall season.
ICICLE ORNAMENTS You’ll need: metallic pipe cleaners pony beads a thread for hanging 1. 2.
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Thread a pipe cleaner through beads. To stop the beads from sliding off the end of the pipe cleaner, twist the pipe cleaner around the bottom bead a couple of times, and do the same at the top end once the last bead is on. To give your icicle a spiral effect, have your little one wind the pipe cleaner around a pencil, and then slide it off, and stretch it out a bit. Finish by slipping a length of thread through the top bead, and knot to secure it.
NEW YEARS PARTY HAT
You’ll need: construction paper or cardstock paper stapler tape gluestick scissors hole punch (optional) crayons or markers 1. 2. 3. 4.
Create a cone shape out of construction paper. Decorate cone using the confetti, markers, or crayons. Cut out circles into a spiral shape. Tape the end of the spirals to back side of the top center point of the hat. The curls of the spiral will come out the top of the hat.
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Celebrating New Years Eve with Children New Year’s Eve is one of the most festive nights of the year, when friends and families gather to count down the waning moments of the year as they anticipate the fun times ahead in the year to come. While adults tend to look forward to New Year’s Eve festivities more than children, there are ways parents can ring in the New Year with their kids. • Invite kids into the kitchen. New Year’s Eve festivities often include food, so why not invite youngsters into the kitchen to cook alongside you? Kids may not be interested in preparing the main course, but let kids get involved when baking the night’s more delectable treats, like cookies and cakes. Little ones can choose their favorite treats and then help Mom and Dad prepare those treats for guests coming over to join in the festivities. Decorate cakes and cookies with a New Year’s Eve theme. • Pick funny resolutions out of a hat. New Year’s resolutions are a big part of the holiday, and families who want to add some fun to this tradition can sit down and write their own funny resolutions. Keep the resolutions you write down to yourself, place each person’s ideas in a hat and then pick them out before the kids go to bed or right after the clock strikes midnight, whichever happens to come first. • Make a New Year’s pinata. Many people love to watch the ball drop from Time’s Square in New York City on New Year’s Eve.
Celebrants can bring a taste of this beloved tradition into their own homes come New Year’s Eve by creating a pinata that looks exactly like the ball in Time’s Square. Fill the ball with treats and games for youngsters, who can take chances trying to break the pinata once the clock strikes midnight or earlier if they aren’t likely to still be awake by the time the new year begins. • Make predictions for the year to come. Another fun and wholesome New Year’s Eve activity parents can enjoy with their children is making predictions for the year to come. Ask young sports fans to predict which teams will win championships in their respective leagues while encouraging other youngsters to share their predictions on awards shows or other popular social events for the coming year. Younger kids might not be able to make such specific predictions, so ask them to write down what they hope to see happen in the new year. • Ring in the new year under the stars. Families who live in warm climates might want to forgo television countdowns in favor of spending the final hours of the year under the stars. A New Year’s Eve camping trip is a great way for families to bond and spend time together at the end of what is often a hectic time of year. Instead of hoisting champagne or sparkling cider at the stroke of midnight, share some s’mores and hot chocolate around the campfire as everyone gazes up at the stars.
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CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER ACORNS Ingredients Hershey Kisses Nutter Butter Bites Butterscotch Chips Peanut Butter
Instructions Take Nutter Butter and adhere Hershey Kiss to one side and Butterscotch Chip to the other side with Peanut Butter.
WHITE CHOCOLATE POPCORN RECIPE
Ingredients 2 Bags of Light Butter { Microwave } Popcorn. 1 to 1½ Cup of Colored Sixlets 1 (11.5 oz) Bag White Chocolate Chip ½ Bag Marshmallows 3 Tb Butter or Margarine ¾ Cup Corn Syrup Instructions 1. Follow the instruction of the popcorn box and microwave it. Then put aside. 2. In a sauce pan, mix the corn syrup, butter and white chocolate chips. Bring to a boil on medium heat, stirring often. Add the marshmallows and keep stirring until they melt. 3. Remove from heat and pour the white chocolate mixture on the popcorn. Mix all together. Add your Sixlets and stir carefully trying not to break them. 4. Sprinkle some more Sixlets on top of the popcorn for presentation.
GRINCH KABOBS
Ingredients Green Grapes Strawberries Bananas Mini Marshmallows Toothpicks Instructions 1. Wash grapes and strawberries. 2. Slice bananas and cut off the green end of the strawberries. 3. Poke a toothpick into the top of the grape, thread on a banana slice, then the strawberry top, followed by the mini marshmallow.
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CHRISTMAS PRESENT PRETZELS Ingredients Snap Pretzels Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips Christmas M&MS
Instructions 1. Cut M&Ms in Half 2. Melt Chocolate Chips 3. Dunk the top pretzel edge in the chocolate. 4. Remove the pretzel and lay it on a flat surface. 5. Place two m&m halves along the top edge into the chocolate, then place two more half m&m’s angled on the front. 6. Let them sit for a while for the chocolate to firm up. You can put them into the fridge to hurry it along.
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Ingredients 12 Sugar cones (ice cream cones) 22 Ounces melted and tempered pure white chocolate (with cocoa butter) or melted White confectionery coating/candy melts Variety of colored sanding sugars White modeling chocolate Tall glass (a little wider than a sugar cone) Parchment paper or wax paper Rimmed baking sheet (helps to keep the colored sugar contained) skewer Instructions 1. Pour melted and tempered white chocolate into a tall glass. 2. Hold onto the tip of a sugar cone and dip it into the glass, coat all but the very tip of the sugar cone with white chocolate, allow the excess chocolate to drip off. 3. While wet, sprinkle colorful sanding sugar all over the cone Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. 4. Refill glass as needed. 5. Create your modeling chocolate blowers. Pinch off pieces of white modeling chocolate and roll them into 1 1/4”-1 1/2” long logs. Insert a skewer into the log, creating a hole. Move the skewer around making the hole a bit bigger. Remove the skewer. Press one log onto each dipped cone. 6. Reshape the log, if needed.
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Events NOVEMBER Nutcracker Nov 29 and 30 Majestic Theatre San Antonio Award-winning principal dancers and corps de ballet bring Tchaikovsky’s master score and the holiday season to life! Family Flashlight Night Friday Nov 7 Botanical Gardens See a different side of the Garden. Encounter nighttime insects, create a constellation craft and test your directional skills in a light maze. Thanksgiving/Christmas Holiday Camps The Parks and Recreation Department invites youth, ages 6 to 14, to participate in active games, traditional sports, nature and science activities, and holiday craft projects during the holidays. For more information call (210) 207-3000 for San Antonio or (830) 221-4370 for New Braunfels. Downtown New Braunfels Holiday Lighting Friday Nov 21 Main Plaza Downtown New Braunfels The annual Downtown Holiday Lighting and Santa’s Arrival is a free event celebrating the spirit of the season in Historic Downtown New Braunfels. Puppy Playland Doggie Carnival Saturday Nov 22 1240 Landa St New Braunfels Dogs and their owners will enjoy carnival games and booths. The carnival is a fundraiser to help construct future phases of the new dog park. Mother & Son Glow Golf Saturday Nov 22, 7 - 9pm Landa Park Miniature Golf Course, New Braunfels Mothers and sons will enjoy glow in the dark golf and an ice cream social on the greens! $10/couple $5/additional son. Ford Holiday River Parade & Lighting Ceremony Friday Nov 28 Riverwalk For over 30 years, this spectacular onehour parade along San Antonio’s River Walk has featured illuminated floats with celebrities, bands and lavishly-costumed participants. Wurstfest November 6 - 17 178 Landa, New Braunfels A unique celebration rich in German culture and full of Texas fun! During this 10-day salute to sausage, you’ll find a variety of entertainment options including a polka contest, games, rides, and food.
DECEMBER Dine & Flick with St. Nick Saturday Dec 20 Landa Haus,New Braunfels Enjoy appetizers, cookie decorating and photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Participants will take a train ride through Landa Park where they will stop at the Dance Slab to enjoy hot chocolate and the movie ‘Polar Express.’ Dinosaur George Saturday Dec 6th Phil Hardberger Park Dinosaur George will present his world renowned dinosaur program, bringing some great replicas of dinosaur skulls and teeth to show as he engages his audience. A kid-friendly craft is included. The Lion King Dec 10- Jan 4 Majestic Theatre San Antonio Experience the phenomenon and marvel at the breathtaking spectacle of animals brought to life by award-winning director Julie Taymor, whose visual images for this show you’ll remember forever. Santa’s Railroad Wonderland Weekends in December 11731 Wetmore Road Santa’s Railroad Wonderland is an extravaganza of Christmas activities. Experience night time train and hay rides, and meet Choo Choo Claus. Cowboy Christmas Dec 20-21 Enchanted Springs Ranch, Boerne, TX Experience the season “Old West” style with a cowboy Santa (and his reindeer) at a working ranch. Santa’s Ranch Nov 7 thru Jan 3 North New Braunfels Bring the family to Santa’s Ranch and celebrate the holidays from the comfort of your vehicle. Drive through nearly a mile of spectacular holiday scenes with over 1 million lights and over one hundred displays and animations.
JANUARY Pinkalicious January 9 - February 21 Magik Theatre A little girl named Pinkalicious finds out what happens when she can’t stop eating pink cupcakes, despite her parents’ warnings. Based on the book by Victoria Kann.
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The Bilingual Child Academy is a Dual Language & Language Immersion center which offers preschool and school-age language enrichment classes, workshops for kids and adults, as well as language related educational services and products using the operating system they have developed. BCA is not a day care, it’s focus is to maintain small classes on a limited weekday basis. BCA is dedicated to providing language enrichment classes in a learner centered environment by implementing a carefully selected curriculum and creating a nurturing atmosphere where children of all ages can flourish both socially and emotionally in a global world. The children served by The Bilingual Child Academy will be surrounded with experiences that will foster physical, social, academic, emotional, cultural and cognitive growth to build a community of learners for the future. (210) 701-8461 · 96 Trailcrest St, San Antonio, TX www.bilingualchildacademy.com
Allegro PiAno Music makes an important impact on how we think, how we feel, and how we believe. It plays a role in the development of children from the strains of the first lullaby. Music enters a child’s life from experiences in the family, from the media, as a part of religious worship, in school curriculum, and in play. In addition to its social value, recent research suggests that music also is important for intellectual development. Through piano study the child can learn much about the process of learning and develop an awareness of how self-discipline and daily practice can improve skills. The joy of musical expression and building self-esteem are also enhanced by combining muscular, visual and aural development. Allegro Piano Studio of San Antonio has been in business since 1999. Teachers are qualified with many years of experience. 210-364-4415 • 11230 West Ave, Ste 2108, San Antonio, TX www.allegropiano.net
The Natural Bridge Caverns are the largest known commercial caverns in the U.S. state of Texas.The name was derived from the 60 ft natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern’s entrance. The caverns are located near the city of San Antonio, Texas in the Texas Hill Country next to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch, a drive-through wildlife safari park. The caverns feature several unique speleothems and other geological formations. The temperature inside the cave is 70 degrees year-round and the humidity rate is a constant 99%. The deepest part of the public tour is 180 feet below the surface. The caverns are still very active and considered living. Due to the porosity of the limestone, rainwater travels downwards through the layers of rock, where it dissolves out calcite, a weak mineral that makes up all of the speleothems at Natural Bridge Caverns. (210) 651-6101 • 26495 Natural Bridge Caverns Rd www.naturalbridgecaverns.com 22 alamoareakids.com Please tell our advertisers you heard about them in Enjoy San Antonio
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