Yet again, Cackleberries.com is providing great kids snack recipes for you and your family.  By offering weekly snack and appetizer recipes, we at Cackleberries.com aim to make the hectic lives of all you parents just a little bit easier.  To accomplish this, we’ll provide new snack recipes that are guaranteed to satisfy while also being tasty, time-friendly, simple, and fun to make!  So as always, Cackleberries.com presents another family snack recipe.  Enjoy!

What child doesn’t like a delicious Banana Bread Treat?  Well thanks to Barkley, we have a great banana bread recipe to share with you and your family.

Barkley’s No Blender Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 4 ripe bananas
• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• 1/3 cup of butter
• 3/4 cup of white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp of Baking soda
• 2 tsp of vanilla
• small pinch of salt
• 3 tbsp of peanut butter chips

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees farenheit
2. Grease a bread pan with butter
3. Mash the bananas in a large mixing bowl
4. Add the butter and mix together
5. Add the following and mix:
   1. Sugar
   2. Egg (beaten)
   3. Vanilla
6. Add the baking soda and salt and mix
7. Add the flour and peanut butter chips and mix thoroughly
8. Pour contents into the greased bread pan
9. Bake for about an hour (stick a fork in the middle to test doneness)
10. Allow to cool slightly before serving

It’s Friday and that means Cackleberries.com has its weekly children’s stories and bedtime stories feature.  Every week we present a new children’s story  in a read-along video format as well as a text and picture book layout.  If you’d like to view all of our previous releases, make sure you click the ‘children’s stories’ category tab. These stories offer a great way to teach your child to read in a fun and entertaining manner.  Stay tuned next week for our latest children’s stories and bedtime stories release and thanks for visiting us!

After a short break in our video releases, we’re fully back in action as we present to you yet another brand new children’s story video.

Today, we’re visited by Captain Jack as he tells us all about his personal exploits as well as Oville’s love for music.  From classical chords to magical melodies, he shares it all in…….

Crooning With Captain Jack

A Video Storybook

We hope you enjoyed today’s Children’s Stories and Bedtime Stories Feature!

Scouring the Internet for your enjoyment, Cackleberries has located some of the most popular video doing the rounds on the World Wide Web.

This first video is a song written and composed by a child phenom named Declan Galbraith.  He was just twelve or thirteen years old when this song was released.  Enjoy.

The second video is exactly what the title indicates – star wars according to a three year old.

Video # 1

Video # 2

We hope you enjoyed these video clips!  Be sure to check back tomorrow as we release yet another new children’s story video!

As always, Cackleberries.com is providing yet another article covering a topic near and dear to parents everywhere.  Our How-To Series aims to enlighten and enrich your families lives by offering insight and ideas into how to make your household run a bit more smoothly, providing more time for you to relax or spend some quality time with the kids.

With technology becoming intertwined in our children’s lives these days, it seems as though even the youngest of children want a cell phone. Whether you agree with this or not, there are arguments to be made about whether or not a child should have a cellular phone at school. Listed below are some positives aspects of allowing your child to take a cell phone to school.

Some of the benefits of allowing your child to take a cell phone to school include the following:

* In case of an emergency, a cell phone provides a means to communicate with your child easily and instantly. This helps provide great peace of mind as well.

* With a personal phone, your child can reach you in case of an unexpected early dismissal due to inclement weather, power outages, or ay other random occurrence.

* You can schedule a pickup time and location and keep your child posted if you’re running late. On the other side, children can also keep you abreast of their situation and whereabouts.

* In today’s age of technology, it’s much easier and more practical to contact your child directly rather than calling the office and having them page your child or relay a message that may or not be received in a timely manner.

* Most new cellular phones can operate silently so you can reach your child without interrupting any classroom activities. Just be sure to make your child’s teacher aware that your son or daughter may be using their phone if required.

So having reviewed some of the benefits, make sure you know the negatives of allowing your child to take a cell phone to school before you make any final decisions on the matter. You’ll need to know the negatives of allowing your child to have a cell phone at school before you decide what your piece of mind is actually worth so stay tuned next week as we provide part 2 of this article series – The Cons.

After a short hiatus, we’re pleased to be back as once again, Cackleberries.com proudly presents our ‘Drawing Lessons & Drawing for Kids‘ Series.  Every week we offer a new and exciting video tutorial as we teach you and your children the basic steps and processes behind drawing.  These art lessons are specifically designed with children of all ages and skill levels in mind as we teach you how to create and produce quality artwork.  For our entire collection of drawing lessons and how to draw features, check out the drawing lessons tab on the right of the page.

Today, we feature Oville’s loveable yet somewhat grouchy and temperamental toddler, Snoggler!

How to draw Snoggler

A Cackleberries Video Drawing Lesson

We hope you enjoyed today’s drawing Lessons and Drawing for Kids Series Feature.  Check back next Tuesday as we teach you how to draw another exciting object!