Lois Ehlert has been selected as our Author this month for the Virtual Book Club for Kids. She has a magical touch to the illustrations she creates in each of her books. The brightness of color and the simplicity of her images draw in children and adults alike into her colorful world. You could spend an entire year in her books and read about every season of childhood from Fall, Winter, and Spring and Summer and everything in between.During our Virtual Book Clubs at The Educators' Spin On It, we ... Read more...
Making an Alligator Purse, a Beginning Sewing Lesson!
A beginning sewing lesson for kids! Start your child’s sewing journey with a fun project: an alligator purse they’ll create themselves, inspired by the whimsical story, "The Lady with the Alligator Purse."Alligator Purse Learn To Sew Activity:Sewing is a great learning activity for parents to do with their children that combines fine motor skills, life skills, and creativity. In this activity, grade schoolers will sew their own Alligator Purse to go along with the story, "The Lady with the ... Read more...
Alligator Crafts and Activities for After School Fun
Alligators are fascinating animals. We're exploring alligator crafts and making alligator crafts for our after school fun this week. They tie in well with our Letter A Crafts too!Alligator Crafts and Activities for KidsWhat a fun way to end Alligator Week with a big win for the Gators last night! Confession time... we are a Gator Family. Since football season has started we had some fun this week in After School Express Have a younger child, take a look at our A is for Alligator Tot ... Read more...
Moms Fighting Hunger
Ways to Support No Kid Hungry One of the advantages of being a blogger is that you get little glances into the windows of family's lives through their blogs. However, the window that we're seeing this month is something of a much deeper level. The window some are sharing is childhood hunger. It's interesting that week after week blog link parties have literally hundreds of activities shared on them every time. They are activities that are geared toward children for both fun, and creative ... Read more...
A is for Alligator: Tot School 21 Months
Let's explore the letter A with these adorable alligator themed toddler activities. Where do you start when you decide to stay at home with your child but make sure your little one still gets all the advantages of a preschool environment... the answer is TOT SCHOOL! My daughter is now 21 months and when big sister started 1st grade this year we decided it was time for her to officially begin Tot School at The Educators' Spin On It.Now here's the key question... where do you begin?For me the ... Read more...
Pregnancy – Making Connections With Your Baby
I am now in my 3rd trimester with my 3rd baby and realizing that there are some routines that I have fallen into that have really helped me to feel connected with my baby-to-be. Each parent connects with their unborn child in a different way. Need some ideas? Here are some things that I do! 1. Sending my little one love. At least once during the day, I stare at my ever growing belly and put my hands on it, close my eyes, and think about sending all the love I can to my baby. This moment ... Read more...
Water Beads Fun for Kids
Water beads are a great sensory toy for young children. Here's how you can use water beads to help build their imagination with pretend play. Water Beads Activity Ideas for Building Imagination in Kids It's water fun this week at The Educators' Spin On It with both After School Express and Tot School. We decided it would be a great opportunity to explore water beads. I'll admit I've seen them all over on parenting blogs but had not taken the plunge to purchase. However when I visited Joann's the ... Read more...
Tips on Joining the Celebration of International Literacy Day
I am so excited to be guest posting about why you should Create Book Related Activities for Children's Books on Rainy Day Mum, our blogging friend in the UK, especially since it's International Literacy Day. It's truly amazing how many people we've had the chance to "meet" or at least "read from" through our blog in just a year. Just a quick glance at our visitors from today only and we are have visitors from all over the world. Take a Peek at ... Read more...
Making Jam – A family tradition
I have a confession to make. My children have not eaten store bought jams or jellies while at home. They are completely spoiled with home-made jams and jellies, most often made from the fruit that we have grown or picked at a local farm. There is nothing like the flavor of a good home-made jam. Unfortunately, this year of fruits was sub par and we were unable to harvest the mass quantities to eat, freeze, and can. In fact, we were only able to freeze a couple bags of blueberries compared to ... Read more...
Announcing our Year Long Virtual Book Club for Kids!
Here's your chance to bring a book and teacher created ideas right into your home for your child each month! We're so excited to announce our year long Virtual Book Club for Kids. Each month we will spotlight a new author and each participating blogger will pick a book to focus on that month. We'll share book related crafts and activities the 3rd Monday of each month and we'd love to invite you to join in! Just discovering our virtual book club? Join the 2016-2017 Weekly Virtual Book Club ... Read more...
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