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DIY Shape Stamps
These DIY Shape stampers were part of a craft we made waaaaaay back at the beginning of the month before Valentine’s Day. (HOW did February fly by so fast???) We cut heart shapes from Styrofoam packaging sheets and stamped hearts. The hearts decorated our front window for a few weeks. While we stamped the hearts, I cut…
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Colorful ways to learn and play
After months of wintery gray skies and freezing temps, we are ready to play with some rainbows and sunshine! It may still be cold and the snow is still out there, but we can play with color to brighten our day! These features from Share It Saturday have colorful ways to learn and play. Look…
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Snowman Craft Fine Motor Winter Craft for Kids
Winter crafts are one of our favorites! When it’s so cold outside and the snow is blowing around, it’s so much fun to just create a fun craft with a pile of paint, glitter, and STUFF! We’ve done quite a few winter crafts around here and this cute little snowman craft is a fun one…
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Visual Motor Activity for Learning and Scanning, Eye-hand Coordination
We shared a great bubble wrap activity yesterday and are continuing again today with another fun learning through play activity with the awesomeness of bubble wrap! This time we did some visual scanning to work on letters of Little Guy’s name, letter sounds (a great pre-reading activity!), color awareness with Baby Girl, and eye-hand coordination…
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Playful Math Learning Thorough Play
It’s Share It Saturday time again! We hope you’ve had a wonderful week of fun. The links this week were very fun to look though (You guys are SO talented and creative!) This week’s features bring us creative and fun ways to learn math concepts through play. We’ve got nature and sensory-based math, items to count,…
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Painting Snow with Watercolors
We brought our water table inside one day when the weather was WAY too cold to go outside. There have been a lot of people affected by cold temps this winter and big winter storms have been making this winter feel verrrry long! And cold…really cold! We LOVE creative painting activities and this idea was…
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Valentine’s Day Snacks for Kids
We love to create fun snacks and foods for the kids. It’s so much fun to make healthy foods look fun for holidays. Valentine’s Day is coming up this week and we’ve got some non-candy snacks to share. Get ready to create in the kitchen, because the kids are going to gobble up these Valentine’s…
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Decorating Cupcakes with Kids with Less Mess
You’ve done baking with kids before, right? You know how messy a normal (sans-kids) baking session can be. Crumbs, ingredients all over the counter, semi-burned crispy-ness on the cookie sheet…It’s fun 😉 Add kids to the scene, and baking can be an all-out kitchen destroyer! You’ve got spills, fingerprints, and the inevitable, “I want a grilled cheese…
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Sight Word Sensory Bin
This sight word sensory bin is an old activity here on the website, from when our own children were just learning to read. When they were in kindergarten, sight words were all the rage. Now, these strategies are not used as much, but the practice of learning words and letters continues. You can use components…
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Random Acts of Service and Kindness for Kids
This month is all about Love and today we are talking acts of service for kids! Use these kindness activities to help kids complete service acts for others. The ideas outlined in this post can inspire random acts of service and kindness for kids. Acts of Service Love Language Acts of Service” is one of…
