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Fingerprint Train Ornament for Kids

Keepsake ornaments are my favorite thing to make with my kids. This fingerprint train ornament is so adorable and inspired by one of our favorite train book Freight Train by Donald Crews.If your child loves TRAINS, come see how much fun this train ornament is to make!Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. This train ornament craft was inspired by our featured book at The Virtual Book Club for Kids calledFreight Train by Donald Crews.  In the story the author uses ... Read more...

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Hot Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Easy Hot Chocolate Cocoa Cookies Recipe! Plus they are a fun holiday cookie recipe to go along with your favorite holiday movie... Polar Express. These delicious cookies are perfect to bake for a holiday cookie exchange or a special treat for Santa on Christmas eve. Here's how to make this recipe with your child this holiday season. Hot Chocolate Cookie Recipe There's something that happens this time of year with the kids, perhaps it's the change in weather to cooler nights but we become a ... Read more...

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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...

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If You Give a Mouse Themed Fingerprint Ornament

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...

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Snowmen Candy Bars Make Great Teacher Gifts

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...

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Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies

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...

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Stocking Themed Sight Word Activity

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...

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Alphabet Activities for Christmas

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...

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Christmas Alphabet Games

Children need many opportunities to learn the letter names and sounds through play. They also need repetition for learning the alphabet. These Christmas Alphabet Games are hands-on, fun holiday themed learning activities that can be played again and again. Christmas Alphabet GamesLesson Objectives for Christmas Alphabet Games: The children will identify the letter names and sounds.Materials Needed for Christmas Games:Prior to the activity the adult or child must cut the Christmas tree letter ... Read more...

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Christmas Themed Sight Word Activities

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...

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