We're learning color words with a heart theme! Here are several activities that will encourage your child to learn how to spell color words, even in a new language. A fun activity for Valentine's Day or anything time of year. During the week we worked on our Paper Bag Book About Colors which inspired several Heart Activities for Valentine's Day. There are many activities that incorporate color which made it easy to sort the colors onto each page of the color ... Read more...
Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire Book and Activity!
Discover fun, educational activities inspired by Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire! Encourage your child's love of nature and exploration with these creative ideas. My kids were over the moon excited to see this huge box in the mail waiting for them to open! As part of the "Love Books," activity and book swap, Critters and Crayons send a Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire Book and Activity package for my 2 kiddos! WHAT FUN! Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire Book and ... Read more...
Kid Friendly Ideas for Decorating for Valentine’s Day
Quick ideas for kid-made Valentine's Day Decorations! Felt hearts, beaded hearts, heart art and even a heart-shaped pizza for tons of heart-inspired fun with your child. This year, I am letting the kids do most of the decorating. We are trying to stay within a budget and be eco-friendly. This means, we are trying to use what we have to make what we want. I told my kindergartner she could design and make a themed entryway for our family. This is what she came up with! Kid Made ... Read more...
The Heirloom Life Gardener Book Review
I am a mom who is trying to grow a garden in her small backyard because... Now, I want to grow more heirlooms. I have to admit, I don't know a ton about gardening. My parents and their parents were gardeners. My in-laws in Russia have some of the most amazing gardens you have ever seen. I remember visits to the Dacha in the summer and eating the most delicious fruits and vegetables I have ever tasted. Their alpine strawberries are out of this world. But eating from others gardens only ... Read more...
Literacy Development for Toddlers
Ways to support your toddler's literacy development from an early age. Explore practical ways to immerse your little one in the world of words, setting the foundation for a lifelong love of reading. Yes, my tot scribbles and I think it is wonderful!!! Yesterday, Kim wrote about exposing your babies to pre-writing activities by giving them opportunities to write. Literacy Development in Toddlers I am reading the book Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and ... Read more...
Baby’s First Scribbles
Celebrate baby's first scribbles with simple tips and fun activities to encourage early writing skills, creativity, and fine motor development in your little one. Baby's First Scribbles Children are naturally drawn towards activities that give them an instant response. Drawing can be one of those activities. It is an importance concept for their little brains to learn and helps them to understand cause and effect. It can help to develop eye hand coordination and fine motor skills in the ... Read more...
January Wrap Up at The Educators’ Spin On It
Welcome new friends and glad to have you back good friends! Here at the Educators' Spin On It we blog about PARENTING WITH PURPOSE! We teach our children a second language, cook with books , play and learn with our babies Babytime, Tot-school, Afterschool, and garden , January was a fantastic learning and playing month. We have enjoyed learning and growing with our children and hope we were able to inspire you! In case you missed them... Not pictured, but worth a ... Read more...
Learning About Dairy Food Group~ Balanced Eating Fun Series
Teach kids about the dairy group through fun cooking and reading activities! This hands-on lesson from the 'Little Hands that Cook with Books' series explores healthy eating with engaging books and simple dairy-based recipes. Learning about dairy foods with your child or class? Here's a creative way to create a yogurt parfait and learn about the dairy food group. Plus add a little heart fun to it too! We're working on learning about all the Food Groups in our Balanced Eating ... Read more...
Making Borscht and labeling your fridge!
Explore how one bilingual family introduces culture and language to their baby through everyday moments like making borscht and using labeled objects around the home. A heartwarming glimpse into raising bilingual children with intention and love. My father-in-law taught me how to cook Borscht. Borscht is the traditional Russian Beet Soup, well his version of it! It is well known that if you put a bunch of Russians in one room and asked them to make a certain dish, each ... Read more...
The Learning Garden – Making Plant Labels to Teach Reading
A fun print rich idea for making plant labels with kids for your backyard garden. A great way to extend reading outdoors with your child this growing season. We went outside the other morning and saw that the first of our strawberries have begun blossoming!!! I just put these plants in the middle of our flower garden and they are doing well, but didn't have a place marker or label to say what they are. Although it is obvious to even a 2 year old, I am trying not to ... Read more...
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