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Building A Moving Polar Express Train Ride with Preschoolers

Building a Moving Polar Express Train Ride with Preschoolers

The Polar Express Train is a classic tradition in many homes for the holiday season. Create your own moving Polar Express train ride to create special memories with your preschooler.  Here's how to make. Affiliate links to amazon usedOur featured book this week for the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids is the popular book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. We've shared so many fun learning ideas about trains on The Educators' Spin On it.  It's such a popular theme for ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math, STEM Tagged With: cardboard Crafts, Christmas, grade school, Preschool, Trains, Transportation, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

If You Give a Mouse Themed Fingerprint Ornament

Fingerprint Mouse Themed Ornament for Kids to Make for Christmas

This keepsake fingerprint mouse themed ornament is so simply yet adorable and is inspired by one of our favorite characters from the If You Give a Mouse books by Laura Numeroff. Create your own mouse ornament to give to a loved one this Christmas.Here's how to make... Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. There's a popular quote from one of our favorite Christmas books, I'm sure you know it too."Twas the night before Christmas when all through the ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Christmas, Laura Numeroff, mouse, ornament, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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Snowmen Candy Bars Make Great Teacher Gifts

Snowman Chocolate Bar Gift Idea

For less than $5. let your children make Snowmen Candy Bars, a small gift for their teachers, neighbors, or friends. Affiliate Links Included in this postLast year, I saw these (well, Martha's version of Snowman Candy Bars) in Martha Stewart Living magazine.  We like to put OUR SPIN ON IT! Instructions are online here. We made them last year, and again this year for teacher (and neighbor) gifts.  Inside is a yummy chocolate.  Martha recommends an organic fair trade variety, ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Amanda, Christmas, Gift Ideas, Winter

By Kim Vij

Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies

Christmas Roll Sugar cookie Recipe with red and green sprinkles

Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies with sprinkles! A super simple recipe for Christmas Cookies this holiday season with your child! Here's how to bake. I love spending time with the kids in the kitchen during the holiday season, I especially love when I find a recipe that they can mostly do on their own. This holiday cookie recipe is one that turned out so colorful and super fun for the kids to make to share with someone special. Disclosure: This post contains amazon affiliate links. Christmas Roll ... Read more...

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, cookies, Cooking with Kids, Recipe

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Holiday Learning Activities for Toddlers

Christmas Toddler Activities

Discover engaging and educational holiday learning activities for toddlers! From stamping and number games to crafting pasta ornaments, these fun ideas boost fine motor skills, number sense, and creativity. Perfect for busy parents this season!Busy this holiday season? Me too. But when my toddler is busy learning and playing - he is sooooo much happier.  Here are a few Holiday Learning Activities for Toddlers that we have been doing. Holiday Learning Activities for Toddlers : STAMPINGThis ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Amanda, Christmas, toddlers, Tot School

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DIY Kids-Made Star Ornament and Math Game

handmade star ornament with noodles for Christmas

Help children learn the value of giving to others with this simple DIY Kid-Made Star Ornament and Math Game. Great for toddlers to big kids (see math game rules below!) DIY Kid-Made Star Ornament and Math GameSince the simple gingerbread ornament post was so popular last week, I thought I would post another one that is very simple and easy for toddlers to do.I really want to instill the value of "It is better to give than to receive" in my children's hearts.  It is SO hard for a 2 year ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Kids Activities Tagged With: 3 to 5, Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Christmas, Creative Crafting, Eco Living, Ornaments, Playful Preschool, Tot School, Tutorial

By Kim Vij

Stocking Themed Sight Word Activity

Sight Word Stockings for Christmas Activity for Kids

Create a Christmas themed sight word activity for your child for hours of fun.  Using Stockings can be a playful way to practice sight words at home this holiday season.  We're sharing with you a special story and sight word activity to create special memories at home.  This post contains affiliate links Stocking Themed Sight Word Activity Sight words are so important to your child's success in reading. You can research the words your child should be working on.  ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Christmas, Kim, Love Books Basket, Sight Words

By Kim Vij

Personalized Name Ornament for Kids to Make

Personalized Ornament Craft by Kids for Christmas

There is something so precious about handmade ornaments that kids create hanging on your Christmas during the holiday season. They take such pride in them as they gift them to a loved one. Then year after year they truly are a treasure you uncover from the kid made ornaments from your ornament box and watch your child proudly hang on the tree. I must confess my heart melts just a bit looking at them.  Capturing how a child writes at each age is so adorable as well.  I'm going ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Christmas, grade school, Kim, Ornaments, Personalized, Personalized Name Ornament for Kids to Make, Preschool

By Kim Vij

Alphabet Activities for Christmas

Christmas Alphabet Activities for Kids

Christmas time is here and finding ways to still sneak in learning can be fun with these Christmas themed Alphabet Activities for your child. Read more to find 10 ways to learn letter recognition with your child. Did you know that we have a Teaching the Alphabet Pinterest Board? We took at peek at our favorite Christmas Themed Alphabet Activities on there to share with you for the After School Linky Party. There are so many ways to learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet you and your ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, After School Activities, Alphabet, Christmas, grade school, Winter, xmas

By Kim Vij

Christmas Themed Sight Word Activities

Christmas Sight Word Activities for Kids

Learning sight words with a holiday theme can be just the thing to get your child focused on memorizing them. Find a few they love and offer it to them during their winter break. You'd be surprised how much free time there is over the Winter Break for sight word practice when kids are exciting about doing the activity.Each week we gather Sight Word Activity ideas on our Sight Word Pinterest Board for you.  Here are some of our favorites that are Christmas Themed for Sight Words. We ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: After School Activities, Christmas, grade school, Kim, Sight Words

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