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Making a paper doll chain is a perfect activity for dads and children on a sleepy afternoon. It is simple and does not require either time or money. Most importantly, it will be an exercise in creativity that the children will surely enjoy.

Things you will need:

• Some cardboard or hard paper
• A pair of scissors
• Pen, crayons, markers, and color pencils
• Glue
• Colorful paper or fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, sequins, and stickers to decorate the dolls

Steps to make the doll chain:

• Cut out a broad strip of the cardboard or paper. This could be about 10 cm high and as long as you want to make your doll chain.

• Fold about 6 cm of one end of the strip. At the point where the folded end overlaps, fold the strip again, but in the other direction. Go on making similar, alternating folds, so that the entire strip is folded into accordion style panels.

• Hold the folded panels bunched up tightly, with the top panel facing you. Help your children to draw the outline of a doll on this top panel, with the hands and legs spread out so that these extend to the panel borders.

• Carefully cut around the doll, taking care to retain the folds where the hands and legs touch the borders.

• Now unfold the strip to see your chain of dolls, joined by their hands and legs.

• Let your children decorate the dolls using the crayons, markers, color pencils, pieces of fabric, beads, ribbons, etc.

• You can even help your kids cut out little shapes from fabric scraps that they can use to create colorful dresses for the dolls.

You can use this chain to decorate the walls of your living room. You could even stick it around a lampshade, hang it as a mobile, or use it to decorate your child's door.

Hand-made crafts are an instant hit when it comes to gifts-they not only are beautiful but also appreciated more because of the effort put into creating them. Introduce Valentine's Day craft ideas in your family and convert your home into an activity center.

Knowing what to feed your baby in the early stages is a little easier because she will be on liquid diet of breast milk or formula (preferably breast milk when possible). But what happens when it's time to start introducing soft solid foods? Your pediatrician will help guide you on when to start introducing solids but generally the main diet for babies up to six months should be breast milk or formula.

When you start introducing solid foods it should be foods like soft cereals -- rice, barley or oat -- and pureed or mashed fruits and vegetables. Watch baby to make sure there isn't a reaction to the new foods and note anything you notice. Fruits that are good starters include bananas, applesauce, avocado, peaches, mango and plum to name a few. Vegetables that are good starters include sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots and peas to name a few. The fruit should be mashed and pureed and the vegetables should all be cooked, mashed and pureed.

Many are finding that homemade baby food is cheaper and many feel healthier than commercial baby food. Homemade baby food is fresher and you have complete control of the ingredients so you know exactly what's in the food; there aren't any fillers just nutritious food.

Don't panic, making baby food isn't that difficult. Choose the foods you want to make, cook those foods until they are somewhat soft, let them cool, then put them in food processor or blender and puree. You can also use an immersion blender to puree the foods to make it that much easier. You can use water, breast milk or formula to mix the puree if needed.

Baby feeding with homemade foods can be a lot of fun as you create combinations and start learning your baby's likes and dislikes. It also feels better feeding your baby something you made instead of something that came in a jar. It's easy to freeze and store so you can have food on hand and ready at any time.

Baby feeding is an important part of your baby's first years. After all baby is quickly growing and developing, needing nutrient rich foods to help the little system become it's best. You don't want to feed empty calories. Everything baby eats should have nutritional value.

There are many baby feeding products out there to choose from. There is bottles, plates, bowls, silverware and cups. There are many brands you can pick out of. It is now your choice to decide what brand, style, quality and price you are looking for.

From infant on up you will find you are buying and replacing items all the time. As an infant you will purchase them bottles and will know what ones you want to purchase with your money. At age 4 months you will buy bowls and spoons; your little one will be eating baby cereal and you want them to have their own special items to eat with.

There are rubber coated spoons that are made just for your little ones gums. You will also get him/her their own small bowls. As they get older you will start buying them plates that are there size and silverware as they are learning to try and feed themselves, as well as, their own sippy cups. Your little one is learning so much and with the help of them having their own baby feeding products will help your child and is much safer than handing them a medal fork or a big plate they could hurt themselves with.

In this time you will decide what brand you prefer and will know which one is of better quality for the price you pay. You will than decide what the quality is on each of them and start to make sure when you purchase new that you get a certain brand.

Trying to choose a toy for a baby or toddler today is much more difficult with all the options available.  Technology is not only affecting the grownups, but is even making its way into baby and toddler toy selection.  The jump from playing with blocks to interactive computer games is not a bad thing, but does take away from some of the most elementary learning principles found in a lot of these old classic wooden childrens toys.  This is why these toys are so essential because they give our kids the adaptive skills needed later to handle a lot of these technological toys.

There are some obvious things that  wooden toys have that a lot of the new toys out there don't have.  Many of those old wooden toys give children a hands-on, simple way of solving problems.  Whether it is putting an old puzzle together, or building something from a bunch of little pieces, there are hands-on tools to stimulate thinking and problem solving.  Often the hands-on approach is the only way that certain individuals can really learn.  For many children this is essential to their understanding work ethic and creativity.

Besides being great for developing motor skills and education, natural wooden toys are highly rated for their quality and endurance.  It's hard to imagine giving a kid a computer game and expecting it to last longer than a year or two.  However, with these old toys you can expect that they are not only going to last the length of that child's early years, but can even be expected to be around for generations to come.

The advantages of handmade wooden toys speak for themselves in the value received for the cost, over the flashiness of some plastic or electronic toy requiring batteries that is soon broken or forgotten.  There is also something about that feel of a wood toy that brings back the easy way of life.  Many adults even find sentimental value in the classic wooden childrens toys that just do not exist in many toys of today.  You can be assured that this kind of gift is essential for a child's learning and ability to understand the more technological toys that they will have later in life.