When I was teaching Kindergarten, I was often surprised at how many children came to school never having held a pair of scissors before. I get it, why would you hand your 4-year-old a sharp pair of scissors and expect them not to cut themselves or someone else? It can be stressful to teach! How […]
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The Best Sticker Name Activity for Kids
When we have young kids at home, a skill we are often teaching them is recognizing and writing their name. It is a super important skill to know going into Kindergarten (their name will be everywhere in the classroom, and they will be expected to write it on everything!). But sitting down at a table […]
The Best Number Monster Activity for Kids
I am all about creating activities for my littles. Even better when I can make them academic! This number monster activity checks those boxes and then some. My kids love it when I let them use the googly eyes. They don’t even care what the activity is. As long as they get to grab, sort, […]
Easy and Fun Muffin Tin Alphabet Activity for Kids
If I had to pick just one skill that was the absolute most important foundational skill for learning, I would say that it was this: Learning the Alphabet. Of course there are many important skills for young learners to master, but the alphabet is the foundation for reading and writing. It doesn’t matter who you […]
How To Teach Letters with Letter Monsters
Learning the alphabet is one of the first skills that children are expected to learn when they enter Kindergarten. There are countless ways to teach this all important skill, but every child learns differently. That can make it challenging, as the teacher, to teach a roomful of 5 year olds when they are all at […]
5 Quiet Bin Activities for Your Busy Child
It is amazing how much one little body can change the dynamic and flow of a day at home. And with us nearing the end of the school year (when did that happen?!) I’m already looking ahead to summer. With the big boys being in school, my 2 littles at home have gotten into a […]
Easy Preschool Letter Match with Animals!
We all have those days when things are chaotic and Mommy just needs 10 minutes of quiet so she doesn’t explode, right?! On those days, quick and easy activities are ESSENTIAL. What is my go to with a toddler and a preschooler? It is always play dough or stickers. Without a doubt! When I need […]
Christmas Tree Salt Dough Fine Motor Activity
Christmas is, by far, my favorite time of year to create activities. There are so many fun materials and themes to use! From snowmen to reindeer and jingle bells to ornaments, I just love it all! Another one of my favorites is making salt dough creations. It’s extremely cheap to make and super easy too! […]
Kid’s Halloween Play Dough Invitation to Play
Halloween is right around the corner, and you better believe that my kiddos are already getting excited! The stores have been full of costumes, candy, and decorations since before school started (necessary, definitely not, in my opinion). My littles are already narrowing down their costume selections and brainstorming on how we can decorate our yard […]
Easy Preschool Halloween Spider Web Letter Match
I absolutely love October! And not just because it’s my birthday month (wink, wink). I love how the season slowly changes with a colorful leaf display, the morning air is crisp and cool, apples are prime for picking, and warm drinks are found in abundance. It’s just such a beautiful time of year! As a […]
Marker Check Activity
You know how whenever your kiddos settle in to color, they constantly find dried marker, after dried marker, after dried marker? Ugh. The worst! If I had a dollar for every time I heard one of my children say, “Mommy, the orange is dried out!” I swear I would have a whole bunch of dollars, […]
Name Building Activity with Cars
My 3 year old is currently deep in letter exploration. We are specifically focusing on his name. There are so many different ways to explore letters, that it can be hard to choose sometimes! One thing is for sure, the more active my little jumping bean can be while learning, the better! He is always […]
How to Create an Invitation to Play
Do you want to occupy and engage your kiddo so you can have a few minutes to drink your coffee, go to the bathroom without a mini shadow, or start dinner? Well, of course you do! An easy solution is always to turn on the tablet or TV and let your little veg out on […]
Sticker Match
When I need an activity that is quick, easy and sure to be a winner, I always reach for: the sticker. My kids love stickers! They some how have this magic power to turn crazy kids into calm ones, and a bored child into an engaged one. There is just so much you can do […]
DIY Rainbow Chick Pea Name Activity
We love DIY activities in my house. If I could create something new for my children to explore every day…I would! But, with a kindergartener, preschooler, toddler, and baby, I just don’t have that kind of time! So, one of my favorite things to do, is to take the DIY materials that I have already […]
Winter Alphabet Search Sensory Bin
Winter is in full swing here and with the new baby, we are spending plenty of time inside. It’s a bitter sweet situation really. On one hand, I feel like my older kids are missing out on some much needed energy burning time in the cold. On the other hand, I get to stay inside…where […]
Kid’s Christmas Activity Advent Calendar
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and I can barely contain myself! I refrained from putting my decorations up until after Thanksgiving, but there were some houses in my neighborhood that started decorating the day after Halloween! That’s just a bit too early for me. I like to enjoy Fall all the way […]
Feed the Ghost – Halloween Activity for Toddlers
Fall is upon us! I feel like the first official day of Fall came and we got hit with cool temps and days of rain. As much as I love Fall, I was kind of hoping for a few more weeks of summer weather! Even though the weather is not ideal right now, Fall always […]
Apple Stamping – Easy Kid’s Fall Activity
We made a trip to the apple orchard and it was wonderful! Not only was the weather perfect, but it was a much needed opportunity to get out of the house and spend some quality family time in nature. One thing is for certain when we go to the apple orchard; we will come home […]
Balancing Dinosaurs – Bridges
One of the things that all of my kiddos love to play with is dinosaurs! It doesn’t matter if they are big or small, realistic or solid colored; they love them all the same. At the beginning of 2020 I posted this quick and simple activity featuring dinosaurs and it has become one of my […]