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An Outdoor Game for Kids who Love Fairy Tales (with printable action cards)

An Outdoor Game for Kids who Love Fairy Tales (with printable action cards)

Guest Post by Anna of The Measured Mom How’s your summer? After a long, cold winter, we’re enjoying some beautiful weather – perfect for taking the kids outside. While my four-year-old could spend all day outdoors, his six-year-old sister often…

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Alphabet Sort & Match

Alphabet Sort & Match

This Alphabet Sort and Match activity is so simple. It is great for reinforcing capital and lowercase letter recognition and even great for fine motor control (picking up the small beads–to make it even more difficult, you could have…

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5 Ideas for Free Summer Play

5 Ideas for Free Summer Play

Guest Post by Kirsten Joy of kirstenjoyawake.com Summer is more than halfway through and for many of us vacations and stay-cations are in full swing. Usually, this means the budget is spent and we still have half the summer…

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Alphabet Squish

Alphabet Squish

This Alphabet Squish activity was actually a spin-off of our Puffy Planets. Little Brother was more fascinated with the puffiness than the actual planets. Much to his brother’s utter dismay, he squashed many planets to feel the unique texture…

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Playdough & Alphabet Stamps

Playdough & Alphabet Stamps

This was a serendipitous idea that came while the boys were playing with playdough today. As I watched them play with the cookie cutters, I grabbed our Melissa & Doug Alphabet Stamps (my favorite stamps ever) and encouraged a little…

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DIY Quiet Blocks

DIY Quiet Blocks

We’ve found another way to utilize pool noodles–making them into quiet blocks! I love it when the boys build with blocks, but we have wood laminate floors on our main floor…which means that blocks are really, really loud (especially when…

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Summer of Reading

Make the summer of 2013 a summer of reading! Encourage your children to develop a life-long love of reading with these suggestions: 1. Read aloud to your child for at least 20 minutes each day. Even if your…

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Shaving Cream + Cornstarch = Fun

Shaving Cream + Cornstarch = Fun

We tried out a new sensory experience with shaving cream and cornstarch that I originally saw on Ms. Lisa’s Musings and Mayhems (via Pinterest). The boys loved it and if we’re being completely honest…I thought it was pretty cool…

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Sticky Salt Painting

Sticky Salt Painting

This was a fun, last-minute activity for both of the boys that took all of two minutes of prep time and less than 10 minutes to complete. It is similar to our salt-absorbing fireworks but uses contact paper instead…

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67 Ideas for Fun and Learning This Summer

Summer is almost here! Woo-hoo! I love nearly everything about the summer (except for the bugs). I love the warm weather, I love the pool, I love longer evenings, I love having my kids home. I’ve compliled a list…

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Counting Robots

This simple activity is great for number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and fine motor control! We used some robot stickers to make the activity even more appealing to Little Brother. Here’s what you’ll need: craft sticks, clothespins, robot stickers,…

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Outdoor Alphabet Track

Outdoor Alphabet Track

It is finally feeling like spring around here so we decided to have some fun outside! This activity was so simple and both boys enjoyed it far longer than I expected. It was especially great for my little “mover and shaker”,…

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Paint Chip Mosaic Earth

Paint Chip Mosaic Earth

Earth Day is Monday, April 22nd. Last year we created this Earth Day project and this year we decided to try something a little more abstract–a Paint Chip Mosaic Earth. I had a few of these paint chip cards…

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S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft

S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft

Little Brother and I created this Striped Snake for our Letter “S” Craft. We conveniently used a sponge to create our stripes all while Little Brother was wearing his striped sweater (Repeat the last 2 sentences 3 times as quick as you can…go!). Actually,…

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“April Showers” One-to-One Correspondence Activity

One-to-one correspondence is a very important concept for young children and is a basic foundation for all of mathematics. Simply put, one-to-one correspondence is the process of touching one object for each number that is counted aloud. Little Brother…

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Where is Jesus? Magic Watercolor Art

Where is Jesus? Magic Watercolor Art

We have been learning all about the events leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection this week (thanks to our felt banner from heartFELT Truths). As I was thinking of ways to incorporate more Resurrection activities into our…

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Alphabet Craft: Easter Egg Stamping on the Letter “E”

Alphabet Craft: Easter Egg Stamping on the Letter “E”

Slowly but surely Little Brother is learning to recognize the letters of the alphabet. For those of you who might be astounded and severely disappointed at the fact that my 3-year old still doesn’t know all the letters of the alphabet,…

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Four-Leaf Clover Stamping

Four-Leaf Clover Stamping

I’ve been in a funk the last couple of weeks, not really feeling like my creative juices are flowing. There are so many great ideas floating around out there (especially on Pinterest) that sometimes it makes me feel like I’ve got nothing left…

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