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Take Your Child to Work Day is Thursday, April 25th

Thursday, April 25th is Take Your Child to Work Day! This is an excellent opportunity for our sons and daughters to learn about responsibility and earning an income! If you don’t work outside the home, ask your husband or…

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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

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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Consonant Digraph Garden

Part of learning to read is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget…

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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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Counting Up to Big Numbers with an Abacus

Another way to use an abacus is skip counting to higher numbers (and teaching place value in the process). If you don’t already have an abacus and don’t want to buy one, you can make your own! Write a two-digit…

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Skip Counting with an Abacus

Using an abacus is an excellent way to make skip counting tangible for young children. If you’re not familiar with the term “skip counting”, it is just another way to say counting by 10’s, 5’s, 2’s, etc. This is…

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Make Your Own Abacus

We stumbled upon an abacus at an antique store around Thanksgiving. Big Brother insisted that he needed it. When we reminded him that Christmas was coming up soon, he decided he would ask for the abacus. It was pretty humorous to…

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20 Plastic Egg Activities

Easter has come and gone, but you still probably have oodles of plastic eggs laying around your house. Don’t throw them away. In fact, you might want to grab some on clearance! They can be great for learning games,…

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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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Edible Nests

We whipped up these edible nests over the weekend for a fun treat. Despite the snow on the ground, it made our house feel a little more spring-like! However, when sending your husband to the grocery store to buy…

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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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Marbled Easter Egg Painting

After being gone for several days in the Mountains, it was time to get back into some activities…just in time for Easter! We made these marbled Easter Egg paintings using the same technique as these marbled leaves back in…

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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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Shamrock Resist Art

Big Brother and I had lots of fun making this shamrock resist art and we got to experiment with a product we’ve never used before! It was a fun activity for a lazy Thursday morning! Here’s what you’ll…

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Melted Bead Rainbow Magnet

Our church is in the process of adopting a new workshop-model curriculum for our Children’s Ministry. Several of us traveled to a training a few hours away on Saturday at the church who originally wrote the curriculum we will…

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My First Cartoon Flipbook

Big Brother and I decided we would attempt his first cartoon flip book today. It turned out just okay (mostly because he got tired of drawing his person after a couple cards), but it was a fun experiment nonetheless! Here’s…

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Conversation Heart Graphing

If you’ve spent any time around children (or read any blogs with activities for kids), you know that this idea is certainly not anything new. In fact, I did this with my first graders every year when I was…

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