We've ALL sent our Summer Love Book Packages. Did you see what everyone received in their BOXES? We've shared a few books and activities on our site from the exchange. Now it's time for a few more great books and activities for your child from our exchanges. 3 Readers shared Officer Buckle and Gloria with Adventures in Reading with Kids3 Readers sent Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann to Adventures in Reading with Kids. Here's a fun book to talk ... Read more...
Love Books: Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
What would your children think if a box full of spoons, art supplies, a book and even a special snack arrived at your front door one hot Summer Day? It means only one thing, you're participating in our Summer LOVE BOOKS Exchange. Here's how it works: You pick one of your favorite books, come up with a few activities to go along with it and mail it off to someone special as they get one ready for you. Then you wait and see how much fun they had with your package. Trust me your kids ... Read more...
Building Your Child’s Imagination Outside
Did you know READING and WRITING start with IMAGINATION? It’s watching a child holding a wooden block to their ear as a toddler and pretending to talk on the phone or using a big lego as a camera. It’s taking a box and making it into a house, monster, castle or dragon. It’s making a cake from mud or popcorn from pompoms or mulch. It's building a tower, a car a rocket or a stage out of pieces of wood. It's gathering sticks to create a camp fire ... Read more...
Sending Our Summer Love Books Box
I can't tell you how much fun we've been having with the Summer Love Books Exchange. My daughter was so excited to send her special 10 Little Rubber Ducks Book Box to Mommy and Me Book Club for our Exchange. Here's what our package looked like just before we taped it up. She even came up with the idea to create a duck mailing label! My daughter really enjoyed coming up with games and activities to go along with the book 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric ... Read more...
Creating Hope with your Child: Snapshots of Parenting with Purpose
Our Snapshot of Parenting with Purpose is about a whole group of creative bloggers who decided to join together to support and make a difference by forming a team, created by MaryAnne of Mama Smiles, to support the American Cancer Society’s lifesaving work in research, education, advocacy, and patient services. There is more HOPE than ever for people facing cancer. Together they created Small Hands Creating Hope, a special book full of Child Created Crafts to help foster Hope in Cancer ... Read more...
Don and Audrey Wood: Summer Virtual Book Club
This summer we are excited to be joining with 20+ bloggers to share a Virtual Book Club with you! Each month we will be studying a different children's author and we will share a variety of books and related activities. In July we will be reading books by the authors Don and Audrey Wood. We would love for you to join us!1. Pick your favorite book by Don and Audrey Wood and read it with your child. 2. Create an activity, project, craft, cooking project, etc. related to the book and do ... Read more...
How Do You Get Kids to Try New Foods?
10 Ways to Encourage Your Kids to Try New FoodsHere are a few quick ways to encourage your child to try something new at the dinner table!We have many ideas for your in our Little Hands that Cook with Books Lessons on The Educators' Spin On It. We encourage you to check out the following activities with your child. They will encourage your child to learn about nutrition, encourage them to try new things, and be a great cook in the kitchen with you!It is also ... Read more...
Summer Love Books: Whoooo’s Been Sharing?
Packages are in the mail and arriving on doorsteps all over the US and UK as part of our Summer LOVE BOOKS Exchange ! As they are being received they are sharing the Book and Activities that were sent to them for the Summer LOVE BOOKS Exchange.Whooooo's Sending the Boxes?Here's are a few of our participants just to give you a sample of the FUN that's happening with READING during the SUMMER. We invite you to check out what they received in their ... Read more...
Painting with Spices – a great sibling activity
Get creative with spice painting! A fun sensory art project for your child. A great way to use up some of those old spices too! There are so many ways to get painting with spices. It has been done. Many times, many ways...Here are just a few!But have you done it? Painting with spices that is? If not, it is time to shake those spices out of your pantries and put them to work today... in your kids artwork that is! Remember it is SUMMER - time for fun projects and making memories. I know that ... Read more...
Make your Own Friendship Tea Party
Little Hands that Cook with Books worked so very hard to learn all the skills needed in class to host their very own Friendship Tea Party. The goal was that all the things on the menu would be created by them as they worked together. Before our Tea Party we discussed what should be on the menu. They decided to create these four items for their menu. Friendship Tea Party Menu Ideas Chicken Salad Tea Sandwiches Princess Fruit Wands Fancy Cookies Friendship Tea Once the ... Read more...
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