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Magnetic Uppercase and Lowercase Matching

Magnetic Uppercase and Lowercase Matching

Have you made our Build-a-Word Magnetic Tray yet? If so, you can help your preschooler/early-elementary student match uppercase and lowercase letters! Not only is this great for learning letters, it is also excellent fine motor practice. The idea for this…

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Build-a-Word Magnetic Tray

Build-a-Word Magnetic Tray

This Build-A-Word Magnetic Tray is perfect for your beginning reader! Teach your child to both spell and decode using this easy-to-make tool! Making your own Magnetic Build-a-Word Tray is a great way to promote pre-reading skills with your…

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Book Club for Moms: Week 1

Book Club for Moms: Week 1

This week we started a brand new book: Be the Mom by Tracey Eyster. Within pages, I already identified with Tracey’s described role as a mother–the highs, the lows, and everything in between! Chapter 1: My entry into motherhood was quite…

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Starting School is a Big “Dilly”: Printable Tags for Dilly Bars

Starting School is a Big “Dilly”: Printable Tags for Dilly Bars

Dairy Queen Dilly Bars were always a big treat for us growing up. Rarely do our kids get to indulge in them, but the first day of school calls for an extra-special treat! These printable tags (which were born…

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Stretchy Band Shapes

Stretchy Band Shapes

If you want to include a little learning in your gross motor play, try making (and playing with) some of these Stretchy Bands. They are super easy to make and can be used for a variety of purposes! I found…

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Coloring on Hot Rocks

Coloring on Hot Rocks

Big Brother acquired quite the collection of rocks during our recent vacation to the mountains. We had plenty of rocks to choose from, so we used a few of them to make some hot rock art! Here’s what you’ll need: a hot sun…

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The Word ‘Diaper’ Spelled Backwards…

The Word ‘Diaper’ Spelled Backwards…

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Birthday Numeral Photo Collage

Birthday Numeral Photo Collage

Make a fun birthday collage for a child or adult of any age using just a few materials: foam board, black and white photos (from birth through current age), and Mod Podge! Prince Charming recently turned the Big 3-0. We…

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Book Club for Moms: Week 4

Book Club for Moms: Week 4

It’s the last week of our book club (for this book anyway)–this week we finished Cleaning House: A Mom’s 12-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement. I personally gained so much from this book and I will recommend it…

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Choosing Safe Baby Products

Choosing Safe Baby Products

Guest Post by Claire Baby products and children’s toys are frequently made from plastics, as plastic is durable and fairly easy to clean. While it’s great that plastic products can often be thrown into the dishwasher for an easy clean…

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Back to School Feast

Back to School Feast

Guest Post by Courtney of A Work in Progress Two years ago, I started a tradition with a nervous smile and fake confidence. I was sure my family would think I had read one too many blogs about crafty parenting….

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Busy Bag: 3 Letter Lacing

Busy Bag: 3 Letter Lacing

Guest Post by Melissa at mama♥miss One of the things I enjoy doing with my kiddos is incorporating learning into a fun activity. And if that activity can be incorporated into a busy bag – well, I love it even…

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Bioluminescence – Science Related Artwork

Bioluminescence – Science Related Artwork

Guest Post by JDaniel4’s Mom My son has recently discovered the juvenile non-fiction section at the library. He has been drawn weekly to books in that section on animals life. Books on sea animals in particular have ended up in our library…

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Wet, Dry, Now You Try: Learn to Write the Letters of the Alphabet

Wet, Dry, Now You Try: Learn to Write the Letters of the Alphabet

Guest Post by Malia of Playdough to Plato They say, “practice makes perfect” and as I watched my kindergarteners learn to write the letters of the alphabet year after year, that saying certainly proved to be true. To learn…

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Book Club for Moms: Week 3

Book Club for Moms: Week 3

Chapter 7 gave me a good punch in the gut. The entire chapter was on the fact that when we don’t allow children to help us with tasks, we are really instilling in them the fact that they can’t do it. My…

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Quick & Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids

Quick & Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids

Looking for a few quick and healthy snack ideas for kids? Here are a few of our current favorites! Rest assured they are SUPER easy (otherwise, I wouldn’t be making them). :) Snack #1: Frozen Blueberry Yogurt Bites This…

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Will You?

Will You?

There’s a war raging all around us. It’s the war of competition, of doubting ourselves, of an “I’m not good enough” attitude. It’s a war that pits sister against sister and friend against friend. It’s the war that draws…

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Free “First Day of School” Printables

Free “First Day of School” Printables

It’s that time of year again! School is starting! Print one of these “First Day of School” signs to take a picture of your child on their big day! Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st through 8th grade are included! Click…

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