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Doodle Crate Review: Creativity Delivered to Your Doorstep

Solar Imagine with Kiwi Doodle Crate

My kids are in LOVE with Kiwi's Tinker Crate Subscription Boxes: bringing math and science to your door every month. When Kiwi asked if I would be willing to try out the Doodle Crates too - we said YES!  We love crafting and exploring different art mediums after school. It is a great way to unwind after a busy day, explore new art techniques, and use our creative side of our brain! Affiliate Links included in this post. Doodle Crate brings a new project to your doorstep ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Kids Activities Tagged With: After School Activities, Art projects, Creative Crafting, Kiwi Crate, Review, Summer

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5 Ways For Kids to Volunteer with Senior Citizens

5 Ways to Volunteer with Senior Citizens

Our family is very passionate about raising children with grateful hearts and service is a priority in our household. Today, we are excited to have Alexandra Beane, of Wheels for Wishes sharing ways to get kids involved and helping us on National Senior Citizens Day. The reality is, that our families can (and should) be doing these things for others year-round! 5 Ways For Kids to Volunteer with Senior Citizens A Guest Post by Alexandra Beane National Senior Citizens Day makes ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Community Outreach, Family Adventures, Grandparents, Gratitude, Parenting with Purpose, Volunteering

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A Novel Idea: Old Cards as Bookmarks : An ECO Craft for Kids

A Novel Idea: Old Cards as Bookmarks : An ECO Craft for Kids to help them keep their place in their favorite book. Great for rainy day craft and reading!

Let your child's creativity shine while re-using old cards as bookmarks.  Use what you have on hand - no special trip to the store needed. Then snuggle in with a good book and make use of your new bookmark! A Novel Idea: Old Cards as Bookmarks Remember the ‘crafternoons’ of yesteryear? They tended to be rainy days at home during the holidays, or after-school activities with friends and they were nearly always loads of fun. The fact is, very few of us take time out to just enjoy ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Art projects, Creative Crafting, Eco Living, grade school, Preschool

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Teaching the Alphabet Activities for Children

Learning the ABC's. Teaching the Alphabet Activities

Learning the letter names and sounds is a very important part of early childhood learning. Teaching the Alphabet Activities for Children can be done in a variety of ways. We like to provide kids with numerous opportunities to interact with letters and the sounds in a variety of ways throughout their early years. These are just a few ideas to get you started. Teaching the Alphabet Activities for Children It is my firm belief that there is no one right way to teach letters as all children ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities, Reading Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Activities for School Ages, Alphabet, Literacy

By Kim Vij

Back to School Fun with PicMonkey on Pinterest

It's time for Back to School! One of my favorite photo editing tools as a parent and a teacher is available to anyone online for FREE. There are tons of ways to use it as you prepare for the first day of school. Plus a fun way to preserve memories with your photos. The question is are you using it?   This Back to School campaign is sponsored by my friends at Picmonkey, all opinions expressed are my own after using this tool for over 3 years and completely falling in love with it, seriously ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Back to School, Giveaway, Kim, Photo Ideas, PIcmonkey, Pinterest

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Shut Eye Strategies for a Better Night Sleep

Shut Eye Strategies for Better Sleep

Sleep is vital to my overall health and well being. It has been a goal of mine to get more uninterrupted shut eye in for the past month. Last month, I highlighted the sleep problem in not just my house, but in homes all over the US. Nearly 4 million Americans suffer from insomnia - we have a huge sleep problem in this country! The good news is that there are shut eye strategies that can help individuals sleep better. I have and will continue to make these shut eye strategies a priority in ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Amanda, Parenting, Parenting with Purpose

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Brown Bear Brown Bear Inspired DIY Pool Noodle Animal Stamping Book

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do you See? Art Project for Kids

A fun brown bear brown bear art project with pool noodles! Learn how to make all the animals in the popular book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do you See? We are back again for this month’s Virtual Book Club for Kids and our featured author of the month is Bill Martin. We are highlighting one of his most popular books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? My First Reader. Brown Bear Inspired Pool Noodle Animal Stamping Book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a great ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Creative Crafting, grade school, Pool noodles, Preschool, reading activities, Virtual Book Club

By Kim Vij

After School Activities for Kids {Week 32}

After School Activities for Kids

It’s hard to believe it’s time for the kids to go back to school.  One glance at the shelves the stories and it’s definitely time for school supply shopping for the new school year.  Did you get your supply list yet?  We have quite a few back to school resources on The Educators’ Spin On It to help prepare your child as they start the new school year.  We hope you’ll take advantage of them.  If you have any questions about starting school just ask!  We’d love to help you out.  What is your ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: After School Activities, After School Link Up, Kim

By Kim Vij

Making Time to Order Family Pictures Online

Making Time to Order Family Pictures

Having three kids makes life filled with fun and adventure and tons of photo opportunities. It also makes you a bit busier than you ever anticipated at time.You are often making sure that what you’ve done for each child, you’re doing with your third child. One area that I know I’ve not done my best is with printing formal photo portraits for my third child. Truthfully getting pictures done with our whole family is a challenge in itself. When was the last time you ordered a large photo ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Making Time to Order Family Pictures Online, Parenting, Photo Ideas, Photography, Pictures

By The Educators Spin On It

Summer Science Projects

DIY Thermometer: A fun STEM Activity for Kids

Get ready for some extra fun with these simple summer science projects for kids. Summer is a great time to add more STEM (Science, technology, Engineering, and Math) into your child's everyday play and learning. These activities are great to do with children during the warm weather months. Summer Science Project I am sharing hands-on activities that you can do related to the temperature at Sylvan Source blog. As a Sylvan Source blogger, I am always excited to be challenged ... Read more...

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Amanda, grade school, Preschool, science, science experiments, STEM, Summer, Sylvan Learning

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