Preschoolers Painting with Feathers Activity
Paint is our favorite medium. It is the good ole’ standby at our house. As we are learning about birds this week, we decided to paint with feathers. … Materials Needed: Paint, we used our shaving...
View ArticleMini-Whiteboard becomes Animal “I Spy”
We are going to be filling this week with “animal” activities. I love Charles Harper’s masterpieces! They are perfect for a game of “I Spy.” You can get the print for your wall or use our...
View ArticleMake Your Own Animal Matching Game
Found another terrific free printable! Want to make your own animal matching game? This is a great resource! Guissell over at Designing Moms created a PDF you can print on cardstock at home, have your...
View ArticleMake Your Own Felt Shape Board
My kids love tactile learning! I saw an example of this (much classier) somewhere – I can’t remember where the inspiration came from, it’s not entirely original, but it stuck in my head. The craft...
View ArticlePainting with Bugs, literally!
I think this was one of my kids favorite activities so far. We went outside to one of our flower pots by the pool where we can easily find bugs, frogs, geckos, etc. gathered a couple worms,...
View ArticleHow to Make Coffee Filter Bugs and Flowers
This is a great activity to teach our kids color, what bugs need to eat (nectar) as well as the important roll of bugs as pollinators. All while having fun with a craft project! Materials Needed:...
View ArticleGross Motor Skills for Preschoolers: Exercising Dice
This is a spin off of a previous post. The kids have a ton of pent-up energy today! Time for a variation on the boredom buster dice. We made an exercising dice. … With a dice and labels, we...
View ArticleSci-Tech Discovery Center – Grossology
A few months ago the Sci-Tech Discovery Center opened it’s doors for the first time with the traveling show, Grossology. It is located in Frisco in a warehouse setting that will be getting a complete...
View ArticleWays Your Preschooler can Learn Through Chores
I have three kids all under four and they love being useful, feeling needed, knowing that they contribute to our family. And, I love to look for the sneaky ways to help my kids learn without...
View ArticleHow to Organize Your Life/Learning with Binders
Binders are a great way to organize and showcase what your children are learning and doing. The binder method that is used in The Well Trained Mind is something that I have always thought was a great...
View ArticleDishwashing with your Preschooler
Our “theme” for this week is doing chores with our kids, what ways can we use chores and reoccurring daily events to teach our children educational concepts (math, verbal skills, reasoning, etc.) as...
View ArticleScience Experiment with Old Candy: Use Halloween Leftovers
Have you accumulated candy that no one will eat (or you’d prefer that they not eat it)? Jennifer has a great idea! Use it for science experiments! …. … We have a lot of Halloween candy we can’t...
View ArticleLearning through Cooking with Toddlers & Prechoolers
My kids love cooking with me. So how can I use those moments adding ingredients, mixing and stirring to teach my kiddos? Here are some of the learning ideas I came up with: Cooking with your toddlers:...
View ArticleHow to Include Kids in House Work
More ways to use chores to teach your kids… … Mopping, wiping, vacuuming and learning: I use mopping to work on memory skills. Did you already mop here? How can you tell? With our table top we can...
View ArticleActivities for Preschoolers to learn about Color and Sight
Here are more than ten activities you can do with your preschoolers to learn about our sense of sight and how we use it to see colors and interact with the world. Paint the fingers on a white glove...
View ArticleFruit Loops – Edible Color Activities for your Preschooler!
We rarely eat sugary cereal, which made this activity even more fun for our kids! It was great, better than a babysitter! Kept my preschoolers entertained for over an hour! Maybe these Fruit...
View ArticleCleaning Money: Sensory Science Activity
This activity kept my kids happy and playing for well over half an hour! It was so easy to set-up. All we needed was some white vinegar, a couple tablespoons of salt and some coins. For my sanity, we...
View ArticleLearning about Earthquakes with Cutting Board, Blocks and Train set
With the earthquake that happened in Haiti last week, I wanted to talk to my children about it, I wanted them to learn what an earthquake was and to encourage empathy for those in need. We also have...
View ArticleStop and Go: The Perfect Rainy Day Preschool Activity
This is a super simple activity I remember playing when I was a kid. Basically, we created a stop/go sign and one person got to be “in charge”. When the sign said go we ran around like crazy...
View ArticleWays for your Preschooler to Practice Penmanship (part 1)
As we are working on learning our letters we have been having fun learning how to write them. Here are several ways that you can help your preschooler or kindergartener have fun while learning to write...
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