Make a Rain Stick

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

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…

Sight Word Dive

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…

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…