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Homemade Face-Paint

Homemade Face-Paint

Looking for a fun new tradition to add to your 4th of July festivities? Why not paint a patriotic design on your child’s face…using ingredients you probably already have on hand. What kid doesn’t love face-painting(well, besides my 18-month old…

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Weather Song

Please excuse (a) my terrible singing voice and (b) our sloppy, beach-like attire. We just got back from the waterpark. And I was too lazy to put shorts on Little Brother.

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Who needs a water table, anyway?

My mom, in all her brilliance, came up with this great idea for keeping Little Brother occupied while still having loads of fun. It’s a cooler (or as some might call it, an ice chest). Filled with water. With cups…

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Mixing Colors!

Mixing Colors!

This idea came from Weather Wiz Kids (though it doesn’t really have anything to do with weather). It didn’t work exactly like it was supposed to, but it was still really cool nonetheless. Here’s what you’ll need: a bowl, milk,…

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Toilet Paper Roll Book (with pull tabs)

Toilet Paper Roll Book (with pull tabs)

An amazing scrapbooking friend of mine (who has known me my entire life) made some adorable miniature scrapbooks for all of my little sister’s friends for their graduation a few years ago. I had completely forgotten about them until…

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The "Why do we need sunscreen?" Experiment

The "Why do we need sunscreen?" Experiment

If your kids are like mine, they can’t stand it when you put sunscreen on them. I was so excited to find this activity from Sid the Science Kid to illustrate to kids exactly why they need to wear sunscreen! We…

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Make Your Own Tornado

We were under a tornado warning for almost 2 straight hours last night with the sirens blaring about a half-dozen times. Living in tornado alley, this isn’t an uncommon occurrence during spring evenings. But after seeing the devastation in Joplin…

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Homemade Marbled Bouncy Balls & Ramp

Have I told you how much I love Pinterest??? Oh, I have? Well, I’ll tell you again. It is such an amazing way to share cool ideas from amazing bloggers around the web…and it takes literally no time! This craft/activity…

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The Little Squeegy Bug {Book & Activity}

We stumbled upon this adorable fable at our local library. Big Brother has wanted to read it over and over and over again! The story starts out with the little squeegy bug, who was having trouble finding his place in…

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Stained Glass Butterfly

Stained Glass Butterfly

This craft sorta happened on accident. It is a combination of a leftover tie-dyed coffee filter from this post and the Bob & Larry Stained Glass. But boy, am I glad we stumbled upon it! I would like a few…

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Tie-Dye Butterfly Magnet

Tie-Dye Butterfly Magnet

Big Brother’s favorite part of making these butterflies was, hands down, using the spray bottle! And I just love how the colors blended together. The rest of it was pretty fun too, especially seeing the end result! And the best…

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Semi-Safe "Sword" Fighting

I honestly believe that pretend “sword fighting” must be programmed into the DNA of boys. I don’t recall either of my boys ever seeing this on TV, so I’m just blaming it on the Y chromosome. The same is true…

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Caterpillar Counting

Caterpillar Counting

Those foam pool noodles are quickly becoming my favorite “manipulative”. For just $1, we’ve gotten three different uses out of one noodle (the rest of which I’ll share later this week). For this activity, we created a number game that…

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Edi-Dough {aka Edible Playdough}

Edi-Dough {aka Edible Playdough}

Who says you can’t play with your food??? We had so much fun making, playing with, and eating this playdough! This was an activity I did with my first graders when we were exploring the life cycle of a butterfly…

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Cup-Painting Caterpillar

First of all, this wasn’t my idea. The amazing Deborah from Teach Preschool came up with this awesome activity. And we just had to do it since we have some caterpillars of our very own! Here’s what you’ll need: 2 sheets…

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Recommended By You: Family-Friendly Board Games

Board games are an excellent learning tool for preschoolers. Not only do many of them include aspects of cognitive development (one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, etc), but they also teach social skills like taking turns and being a good sport when…

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Letter Scavenger Hunt at the Park

It’s supposed to be almost 100 degrees today, so we went to the park early this morning. While there, Big Brother and I went on a “scavenger hunt” to try to find all of the letters of both his name…

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Jumping through Hoops

I bought three hula-hoops at the dollar store a few days ago and the first thing Big Brother did when we brought them in the house was to lay them out and jump from one hoop to the next. What…

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