Suncatcher Heart Garland
Guest Post by Meredith of Homegrown Friends I am delighted to be guest posting on I Can Teach My Child! My name is Meredith Magee Donnelly. I am an Early Childhood Educator, mother of three and the creator…
Christmas Pom-Pom Sorting
This Christmas Pom-Pom Sorting activity is super simple and great for both cognitive and fine motor development. Classifying and sorting according to a common attribute is an important skill for preschoolers. We chose to sort according to size, but you…
Hanging Alphabet Christmas Lights
This Alphabet Christmas Lights activity was lots of fun and extremely versatile. Plus, it was excellent practice for matching capital and lowercase letters! We used it as a bathtub activity (and my boys absolutely loved it)…but it could just…
Alphabet Hop and Pop
This post was inspired by some packaging material that came in one of the many boxes from Amazon that has arrived on our doorstep in the last few weeks. I have done probably way too much online shopping on…
Counting Sun Spots Busy Bag
We combined a busy bag idea and a little learning about outer space into this fun activity. The child will count the sun spots on the sun and match them to the corresponding numeral found on the clothespin sun…
Sight Word Target Practice
Hi! I’m Kristina from Toddler Approved and I am so excited to be guest posting today while Jenae takes care of her pregnant self and rests! Can’t wait to meet her cute little baby girl. Today I am going to…
Gender Reveal Playdough
It has been an interesting few weeks, to say the least. I found out about a month ago that I have a subchorionic hematoma and with the exception of a few days, I have pretty much been on bed…
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…
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…
Make a Rain Stick
Around this time every year, people around these parts start begging for rain. Whether it is to green up their browning yards, replenish their drooping crops, or simply to have a break from the stifling heat…a forecast that includes…
Alphabet Stamps
Alphabet Stamps We love these Melissa & Doug Alphabet Stamps! They are great not only for stamping using ink, but also for stamping letters in playdough. Such a fun and tactile way to learn the letters of the alphabet!
Puffy Planets
We’re still fascinated with Outer Space at our house and we even took a day trip to a space museum a few weeks ago (which both of the boys LOVED). In addition to our Outer Space Playdough, we continued…
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…
Sight Word Dive
One of our favorite things about the summer is swimming. My parents have a pool and we live about 2 miles from a YMCA waterpark, so we are in the water a lot! Unfortunately, Little Brother has had some…
Outer Space Playdough
Big Brother is currently obsessed with learning about space. He has all 8 planets (plus Pluto and its moon) memorized in order and knows individual facts about each one. I honestly didn’t know most of this information until he…
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…
Alphabet Parking Lot: Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
One of the boys’ favorite things to play with is cars. They spend hours playing with their assortment of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Little Brother used to be the only car lover, but he has now passed along his love…
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…