Legos… They are both a parent’s best friend and worst enemy. The Pro: They allow our children to let their imagination loose and build, build, build The Con: They make a quick mess and hurt like a B when you step on one. Our Legos were a mess. They were all thrown into a plastic …
Bear {4.5} can sometimes be hard to get involved in learning activities. To meet this challenge, I have to create activities that center around his favorite things: anything with wheels. We have used our alphabet milk caps and simple word flashcards to practice the alphabet and spelling words in our Little Blue Truck and Garbage …
We love the book Verdi by Janell Cannon. Verdi is a little yellow python who didn’t want to grow older and turn green like the other elder snakes. they turned green and lazy and Verdi does all he can to try and escape the inevitable. His daredevil antics end up getting him hurt. That’s when …
There are so many amazingly talented entertainers, but I had no idea how many of them have actually created quality children’s books. Here are just a few of our favorites: Freckleface Strawberry by Julienne Moore As the parent of a redhead and the owner of a freckle face, this book is a favorite of mine …
I love creative endeavors… Especially when I get to do them with my favorite little artist. Many times, we take our cues for learning and art activities from books. Here are a few of our favorite inspirational books about art and creativity for kids. Ish by Peter H. Reynolds The book tells of a …
We love the Otis the Tractor series by Loren Long. After we read the main book, Bear {4 yrs} retold the story to me with the plastic characters. This is a book that we’ve read eleventy-billion times, so he knows it well. We also did an Otis the Tractor math activity using the following items: …
I got the awesome opportunity to become a contributor over at the Kids Activities Blog last year. The experience has been awesome and I’ve been able to share even more ideas with others. I just wanted to share the posts I’ve written for them so far in case you’ve missed them…{I’ll update this as I …
A few weeks ago, I shared activities for The Little Blue Truck Leads the Way. Since then, Bear {4 yrs} wanted to do an activity with the original Little Blue Truck big book. We dug through all of our plastic animals and found one to represent each animal in the book. We used our blue …
I saw this alphabet car game from Little Family fun on pinterest and immediately got an idea on how I could adapt it for Bear’s {4 yrs} current interest in phonics and learning to read. File folder games for preschoolers are great resources because they can often be made without too much time and materials. …
Bear loves everything garbage trucks! When they come thundering up the street, he goes tearing off to the window to catch a glimpse of them. So what better theme than garbage trucks for me to plan learning activities around? For a garbage truck literacy activity, I got out some of our easy word flashcards with …
