Create a beautiful paper flower arrangement to share with someone special! A step by step tutorial for how to create paper flowers with your child.Finding ways to encourage our children to think of others is a social skill we focus on teaching our children. This post contains affiliate links to AmazonThis months' book Madeline gives an opportunity to talk with your child about expressing concern for a loved one and sending them well wishes from your heart. We are enjoying the classic ... Read more...
Gardening With Kids and the Flowers We Plant
Explore the best flowers to use for kids to experience in your garden. These flowers provide opportunities for picking, inviting wildlife, seed collecting and more. Our family really enjoys vegetable gardening. We started adding vegetable gardens and fruit trees and bushes. Next came the flowers. In fact, these are our top 10 favorite flowers to grow with kids. The Reason to Grow Flowers for Kids in Your Garden The rule in our house is that if you ask first, then you can pick it. We garden FOR ... Read more...
LEGO Garden Preschool Math
Work on number recognition and number sense with this fun hands-on LEGO Garden Preschool Math Game with LEGO Flowers! Beginning reading and math skills are a big part of our daily playful preschool activities. In fact, we often start by playing and end up learning and discussing. LEGO Garden Preschool Math with Flowers Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.Just this morning we brought the giant bucket of LEGO bricks outside and dumped them out on the deck. My one-year-old ... Read more...
Painted Flower Craft for Kids – A Book Activity Inspired by The Tiny Seed
Create this easy and colorful painted flower craft for kids using a few recycled items around your home to create a keepsake hanging flower for someone special. This book activity was inspired by the popular Eric Carle book The Tiny Seed.Here's how to make your own Hanging Painted Flower Craft This post contains affiliate links to Amazon where we get a small commission when you make a purchase. All opinions expressed are my own. This week's featured book activity is focused on ... Read more...
How to write a letter for classroom placement or teacher request with a sample letter
Some schools allow parents to write a teacher or placement letter request. In my humble opinion, if your school should allow this opportunity, then you SHOULD write one. Here are a few guidelines and a sample classroom placement letter to get you started. I believe that it may or may not help in making your next year's teacher a better match with your child, but it is worth the chance. So, as the time is now for most schools, how should you write a placement request letter?Disclosure: Amazon ... Read more...
Learning about the Moon | Making Moon Bread
A tasty way to learn about the moon with kids! Connect science, literacy and life skills by making moon bread with your child today! Today, the kids and I made moon bread. But the lesson was so much deeper than just whipping the bread together (which you can see in the video). It was learning facts about the moon, reading stories of moon celebrations around the world, and then sitting down at the family table to eat our moon bread and share about the things we had just learned.This lesson may ... Read more...
Action Songs for Babies
Music time with your baby teaches more than you think. Take time with these baby songs each day and watch your baby grow.Here are our favorite action songs for babies that your baby will fall in love with for hours of fun and developmental growth. Let's explore how to add these baby action songs into your baby's routine at home. Baby SongsThere are so many fun songs for babies out there but I bet it's been years since you've sung them. As a new parent, these baby songs listed below are some of ... Read more...
Baby Time: Let’s Make Music
Making your own instruments can be so much fun with your little ones. All you have to do is save your snack containers to make an instrument! Eco-friendly and fun for everyone!Make your Own Instruments for Babies & ToddlersIt's so important for babies and toddlers to have music in their everyday lives. With some of your child's favorite action songs you can have some fun with making your own instruments for shakers. We found all sorts of containers over the past month to save for our ... Read more...
Painted Cinder Blocks Fun Garden Project for Kids
Add some wow factor to your patio or balcony with these fun & colorful painted cinder blocks. This is such a wonderful garden project to do with kids and makes a great spring or summer outdoor family activity. We had so much fun making these planters and picking out our flowers. They look amazing on our balcony and bring in some much needed color after all of the cold winter weather.This is a great project for kids of all ages, but because the cinder blocks are quite heavy kids will need ... Read more...
6 Ball Games Your Kids Will Love to Play
One toy that all children are drawn to are balls. Big, small, textured you name it, balls are a sure hit with kids. Here are 6 Ball Games for kids that they'll love to play outside.One gift that we tend to get as a family each spring is a new ball. There's just something pretty special about bouncing balls that scream come play. Let's be honest at the store the bright shiny fully inflated balls scream, buy me!Have you seen some of the new designs they have come up with? I think ball games are ... Read more...
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