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Caterpillar Math with Recycled Lids

Create a fun hands-on busy bag activity for kids this spring with this caterpillar math game with lids. Start saving your lids for this eco-friendly game. We're having so much fun in BUG WEEK as part of our Virtual Book Club Summer Camp!Today is Eric Carle's Birthday so in honor of him and one very hungry caterpillar it's time for some Caterpillar fun!We created a fun and simple math game using lids!It's works perfect for siblings too.  You can adjust the level of difficulty with the little ... Read more...

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Learn with Monarchs!

A fluttering butterfly can inspire an entire week of exploration at my house. Learn with Monarchs this week! Here are a few monarch butterfly activities for your child...Monarch Butterfly Activities for KidsKnown for its bright orange colors and its incredible annual migration, the migratory monarch butterfly is now classified as “Endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In the last 20 years the the monarch butterfly population has dropped by 90%, due to habitat loss ... Read more...

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Raising Eco Friendly Kids with a Butterfly Garden

Raising kids can be quite magical in the spring and summer as we begin to explore outdoors and discover ways to connect in our garden with our children. It's a time to catch a peek at a butterfly visiting or bees buzzing by looking for nectar.  Raising Eco-friendly kids is one of my main goals, so by bringing a child outdoors and into the garden, it can be such a fun way to explore ways to take care of their environment with eco-friendly activities for kids. One way I want to connect ... Read more...

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Flower Books for Kids

The ultimate collection of beautiful flower books for kids of all ages! We've hand picked our favorite fiction and non-fiction flower books for your child. Let's get reading about flowers! Flower Books for KidsFlowers are all around us, even in our books. There's a large variety of children's books about flowers for you to read with your child. You can explore both fiction and non-fiction stories about flowers as your child explore the world of flowers. We've created the ultimate collection of ... Read more...

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Flower Activities for Preschoolers

Get creative with these fun flower activities for preschoolers this spring! A colorful collection of flower craft ideas and educational activities for learning about flowers for preschoolers.Let's explore flowers for kids! Our featured book for this Virtual Book Club for Kids Flower Theme for preschoolers is Lola Plants a Garden.  Have you joined our Virtual Book Club? Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinnIn this adorable storybook, Lola wants to plant her own garden of ... Read more...

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Madeline Math Activity with Flowers

Explore a charming Madeline-inspired math activity with flowers that helps kids practice counting, patterns, and number recognition through hands-on fun. Plus a fun 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 ... Read more...

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Simple Flower Activities for Kids

There are so many ways to explore flowers with kids. These simple flower activities for kids will help them explore science, language, fine motor skills, and more!One of my son’s friends knows me as “the flower lady.”  “Can we pick a bouquet for me to bring home?” she asks on every visit. I give her a big smile and nod. “Of course,” is always my reply. She buckles up for the car ride home holding purple flowers spouting out of a water bottle vase.Although many people don’t want kids to ruin ... Read more...

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Garden Art Flowers – Painting with Flowers

Gardening is a great way to inspire learning and art exploration. Colors abound in the vast tones of colors in leaves and flowers that can be found by children in a garden. Have you ever painted with plants? Today, Nicolette, shares her "spin" on painting with flowers and using seeds and petals to create a multi-dimensional, multi-medium art project. Did you know that Nicolette is from Ecuador, South America? I personally find gardening a great connection between people from ... Read more...

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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...

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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...

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