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Kindergarten Readiness: 33 Ways to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten

Is My Child Ready For Kindergarten? First published June 2012. A few months ago I shared a post called “71 Things a Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten” based entirely on an end-of-the-year assessment given in the Pre-K program where…

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Diving and Fishing for LEGO

We are participating in LEGO Week with some blogging friends! We are simultaneously in full VBS mode around here (and pretty exhausted), so we aren’t able to participate every day but we will get some fun LEGO learning and…

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Entertaining My Children is Not My Life’s Mission

We are only a week into summer and I texted my husband at 8am this morning saying that I am ready to officially resign from my position as cruise ship director. I am so done trying to keep my…

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Outdoor Slider Counting

We made it! Today is Day 31 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series! For today’s activity we did some Outdoor Slider Counting using a mock abacus that we hung outside on our fence. This is…

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Water Soaker Painting for Toddlers

For Day 30 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers, Little Sister enjoyed this Water Soaker Painting for Toddlers activity. In fact, it looked like so much fun, her brothers decided they should get in on the…

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Alphabet Target Practice with Water Guns

Even though the calendar says it is still spring, we are in full SUMMER mode now that school is out! For day 29 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers, Little Sister had some fun with…

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Whipped Topping Painting (and Paint Fight)

Why not make art and have dessert all at the same time?!?! For Day 28 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series we enjoyed this Whipped Topping Painting activity that very quickly turned into a Whipped Topping Family Paint…

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Fine Motor Bird Feeder

It’s Day 25 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers! We just discovered two beautiful bird nests in our yard in the last few days so making another DIY Fine Motor bird feeder seemed like a great…

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How to Make Giant Bubbles

It’s Day 24 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series and it also happened to be the last day of school for my older two kids! We celebrated with our neighbors and friends with popsicles, outdoor…

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Interactive Summer Fun Printable Planner: 50+ Summer Activities for Kids

I am SUPER excited to share this with you today! Even though I am totally on board with letting my kids be bored some this summer, we also want to have a little fun too! After all, we…

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Sidewalk Chalk Roller Painting

It’s Day 22 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers and today we attempted some Sidewalk Chalk Roller Painting before it started raining again. This is a great activity to recycle chalk pieces! Here’s what…

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Bicycle Spin Art

We did this Bicycle Spin Art activity as Day 20 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series, but let me assure you that this is something that kids (and adults) of all ages will LOVE. My boys…

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Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt

It’s Day 19 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers! It has been stormy around here the last couple of days, but we managed to get outside this morning before the weather turned nasty again. …

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Treasure Map Capital and Lowercase Letter Matching Activity

Ahoy Matey! We joined up with some blogging friends for a special Pirate-themed day! Be sure to check out the bottom of the post for links to all our friends’ great ideas! We are also double-dipping and counting…

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Nature Impressions in Playdough

It’s Day 16 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers and today we made nature impressions in playdough! This was such a simple activity but something I know we will come back to again and again…

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Outdoor Alphabet Match for Toddlers

Today is Day 15 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series. The last couple of days have involved fun and unstructured outdoor play (both in the backyard and then at the park), so today we…

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Dirt and Worms Sensory Tub

Today is Day 12 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers. Today we got DIRTY with this Dirt and Worms Sensory Tub. I originally saw this idea for using spaghetti worms over on Learning 4…

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May Blessing Bags

Another month…another set of blessing bags! We are sharing a new mini blessing bag idea each month this year along with a free printable to include. We have found that the sandwich-size blessing bags are much easier to…

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