This activity works for me for a long car ride or a long wait. Use a piece of sand paper (8 1/2 X 11) and yarn (different lengths) to create different designs/pictures on the sandpaper. The yarn sticks to the sandpaper, but you do have to press it down. I cut the yarn in …
I found these Movement Cards at The Home Teacher and love them! There are 3 different sets you can choose from to print out. I chose this set because I liked that it had one movement for each letter of the alphabet, the pictures really went with each movement (so hopefully one day B can …
Muffin Tin Monday – People and Faces. yogurt smoothie (milkshake), chips, dog shaped peanut butter sandwich, pretzels, pickles, turkey dog, cheese cubes, and grapes B has really been into the concept of “Our Family” lately so I drew these little toothpick family members and let him choose which food was our favorite. Simple I know, but …
These free, printable racecar letters will be a huge hit with your little car lover! I think these Highway ABC Cards are so cool! I found them at makinglearningfun.com. You can print all of the letters (uppercase and lowercase) and they are available in numbers and shapes too. Dr Jean (I love her!) has …
This free, Wonder Pets Printable Math Game makes counting practice so much fun for your toddler or preschooler. I came across these Wonder Pets pages at Makinglearningfun.com and thought they would be perfect. They are actually called Magnet pages (which would be really fun if I had a bunch of circle magnets!). How To …
Alphabet cereal, Apple, Pancakes, Yogurt Smoothie, Scrambled eggs, & Raisin Toast The benefits of Muffin Tin Monday are a breaking up the lunchtime routine, serving foods in smaller more manageable portions for little ones, and introducing new foods in a fun and interesting way. Sometimes there is a theme for Muffin Tin Monday, but this …
B has been really into his shadow lately. He loves to watch it “chase him”. So today we had fun with shadows and tracing them. (B’s shadow is on the left and B traced mine in pink on the right). For B this experience was just about experimenting with chalk and practicing the skill of …
You call THIS an activity? Yes! We did this activity a few months ago and I never wanted to post it because I thought it was a little lame to actually be considered an “activity”. However, I figured since it involved paper, glue, one-to-one correspondence practice, and letters that those things made it official …
I made Ice Treasures by freezing a few of B’s toys in a bowl of water and letting him use his tools to get them out. The hammer and chisel method is what we were teaching and hoping he’d use, but in the end it was just the hammer that B had the most fun …
There is a lot of talk right now out there in blogger world about organization (must be back to school time) and I wanted to show you the one inexpensive organizational tool that is working for us right now in this room of organized chaos. My hubby bought a big heavy duty cardboard cylindar from …
I’ve heard great things about Letter Factory from other moms so I bought it online to take on vacation with us and let me just say, Letter Factory is my hero! After 10 days of vacation, B (28 months) knew almost all 26 letter sounds (he already knew the letters but can now name them faster) …
Making reusable activity pages is great for traveling or waiting at a restaurant! Toddlers and preschoolers will love using the dry erase markers and erasing their marks to try again. Materials: Dry Erase Markers, Contact Paper, Paper or Cardstock Simply cover a piece of paper, cardstock, or coloring book page with a piece of …