A hands-on activity for learning the letters of the alphabet with simple items from around your home. Just grab some colorful smoothie straws and foam letters to create this ABC Fun busy bag! Here's how... Busy Bags are one of the easiest ways to help your child build the skills they will need for school at home in a hands on way! You can focus on a variety of topics and skills using everyday objects. The best part is that they are prepared and ready for play anytime for ... Read more...
How to Make a Summer Learning Board {Includes Printables}
Are you looking for ways to keep your children learning throughout the summer? How to Make Summer Learning Board Station One tip we wanted to share just with you on The Educators' Spin On It is how to make your own Summer Learning Board using recycled materials. We had an old bulletin board laying around the house that honestly needed some love so we decided to spruce it up for our Summer fun this year! We used acrylic paint and my 6 year old daughter painted the frame, all by ... Read more...
Top Pinners to Follow for School Aged Activities this Summer
Top Pinterest Boards to Follow for Summer Activities for School Ages Pinterest can be a go-to source for so many things. We highly recommend it to be one of your valued sources for summer learning. We've gathered many of our favorite bloggers who share amazing ideas for school aged children and invited them to join our After School Pinterest Board. It's been a great source of information all year long. We just wanted to take a moment to make sure it's one of the boards you're following ... Read more...
Tips for Packing a Travel Activity Bag for Kids
Looking for a way to keep your kids happy and engaged while traveling? With vacation time approaching and here are some simple ideas for creating a travel bag for your next trip. We’ve found ourselves packing a lot of activities for travel bags for kids over the years. While traveling with my 3 children in between soccer games, restaurants, visits to a friend's home who don’t have kids, road trips, hotels, and airplane travel here in the US and also overseas we’ve discovered some items ... Read more...
Blueberry Picking and Gift Idea
It’s blueberry picking season in our part of the world! We had so much fun this weekend with friends at a local blueberry patch. There's is just something magical about going with your family to pick food from the earth together. From birds, bunnies, butterflies and even baby bird just born we really felt one with nature. We even ran into Amanda’s family while we were there. I can’t believe how our girls had basically grown up picking berries together. Can you guess ... Read more...
Kids in the Garden
Discover fun and educational ways to get kids involved in gardening! From planting seeds to harvesting veggies, learn how gardening can spark curiosity, responsibility, and a love for nature in children. This is a post for all you parents and teachers sitting on the fence about whether or not you should try a garden this year (or make your current one bigger). It is time that you removed yourself from that very uncomfortable perch on that fence and come down to dig your fingers into the ... Read more...
Using Toys to Model Appropriate Behavior with Kids
We're sharing tips on how to turn "No David" by David Shannon into "Yes David" with your child. Playful ways to make a YES Book using toys to role model appropriate behaviors with kids. Each month we spotlight a new author for the Virtual Book Club for Kids. This month we're featuring books by David Shannon. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. David Shannon has written several books with a beloved character, David. Perhaps it’s because David was inspired by his own writing as ... Read more...
Announcing the Virtual Book Club Summer Camp
UPDATE: Join us for our 3rd Annual Virtual Book Club Summer Camp! Sign Up Here! The Organizers of the Virtual Book Club for Kids are thrilled to announce the launch of our first-ever Virtual Book Club Summer Camp! This summer we're teaming up with Toddler Approved and Rainy Day Mum to host a Virtual Book Club Summer Camp! You might be asking what is a Virtual Book Club Summer Camp? Over 5 weeks our blogs will feature Book Themed Activities, Games, Crafts and Snack Ideas to ... Read more...
Join our Summer Book Exchange
Kids love getting mail and we love doing amazing things with and for our kids! Join our summer book exchange called LOVE BOOKS! Here's the scoop... As Summer approaches we want to encourage our children to read and love books throughout the summer. Here's a great way to have a Book and Activities arrive at your doorstep! We will be hosting a Summer “LOVE BOOKS” Exchange for blogging parents in which we trade names and gift other blogging families with a book and themed projects to go ... Read more...
Screen Free Activities for After School
Want to see improved behaviors and more connections with your child after school? Try these screen-free activities for after school! Screen Free Activities for Kids We just completed a whole week of ScreenFree time together as a family. Ok truth be told I still had to sneak onto my computer in the evenings to get some work done but I really tried hard all week long to not look at a screen while the kids were awake and around me… iPhone was my hardest screen to avoid. For both of ... Read more...
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