Activities, Lifestyle
Wooden Photo Ornament Idea for you and your extended family Want to make these perfect, sentimental, memory-filled wooden Christmas ornaments? These block ornaments are a beautiful way to share your children’s photos and family memories from the last year. They make great gifts for grandparents, aunts, uncles, and godparents. They always turn out gorgeous, and every year you get a …
Activities, Early Childhood Education, Homeschooling, Preschool, Toddlers
When I was a child learning math concepts for the first time, I don’t recall ever using math manipulatives as part of the learning process. In fact, the only real memory I have of using a math manipulative was when my parents gave me a multiplication chart. This helped me tremendously in understanding the basic ideas and rules of multiplication…
There are a number of benefits to the use of manipulatives in math instruction and practice. This is especially true (but not limited) to early…
Activities, Toddlers
Since my son is sure to bring home something like a stick, a rock, grass, mud, leaves, bugs, picked flowers, bark, and just about any other imaginable thing he can collect from a nature walk, we have loads of loot hanging out around our home, just waiting for a creative activity.
So, without further ado, I present you with some fresh new and simple leaf activities for preschoolers. These are all activities you can do when your little one brings home a fresh new pile of leaves. And what’s really special about these activities is that none of them are seasonal! In other words, you can complete each of these activities whether it is fall, spring, or summer (and maybe even winter depending on your location).
Activities, Toddlers
Guess what! It’s fall! And along with fall comes a huge number of fallen leaves. Leaves of many varieties of colors, sizes, shapes. They are golden, red, orange, purple, brown. These leaves are dropped from grand and gorgeous trees like the elm, oak, aspen, maple, and willow. The rainbow of leaves line our walkways, curbs, roads yards and parks. They also drop onto our cars, window ledges, and into our gutters. Although it is not the only thing that signifies the arrival of Autumn, this colorful array of fallen leaves is a very clear sign that Autumn is here. And let’s be real-anyone who appreciates natural beauty can appreciate Autumn for its natural beauty. That is why I love preserving leaves and have put together this tutorial on how to preserve leaves…
Activities, Food, Habits, Lifestyle, Parenting, Recipe, Toddlers
I just added four additional free parenting and lifestyle goodies for you to enjoy! I have listed them below with clickable links. You can also find them…
Activities, Toddlers
…what mom doesn’t need a few more fun and simple sensory play activities for your toddlers to add to your afternoon play fun. And so I have taken some time to share below some of the fun we have been having in these last few weeks.
Activities, Love & Marriage
Let’s face it women! We expect a lot from him on that special day. But rarely do we put much thought into how we can make that day special for him…To make the day special, do some meaningful things for him that make the day as special for him as it is for you. Below are Four Secrets to Making your Man Feel like your Valentine!
Activities, Food, Motherhood, Recipe, Toddlers
This was such a fun party to host for my son’s third birthday. He loves dinosaurs and several months prior to his birthday we did the salt dough fossils activity together, which was so much fun for us both. From that activity came the inspiration for this dinosaur birthday party including the Salt Dough Fossils, Dinosaur Eggs (with baby dinosaurs inside), Ice Eggs, and of course a Dinosaur Excavation.
Activities, Toddlers
Digging and chipping through sand in search of dinosaur bones and skeletons. Once the kids meandered over to the excavation/favor table to open their excavation kits, they were kept very busy for nearly the remainder of the party…
Activities, Toddlers
Ice shaped eggs with colorful dinosaurs inside…This was the first big hit of the party, partly because it was the last thing I set up and all the kids saw me put the eggs into the water table. Of course that drew their attention. Nearly every kids spent about the first 45 minutes, (possibly an hour) working on this activity.
