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Teach Kids How to Make Friends

Two lessons all children need to learn are how to make friends and how to navigate through the challenges of friendships. As parents we all want to teach kids how to make friends. Often our children learn hard lessons when they have to move to a new state or school. My kids have become all too familiar with this through military life. Every three years they have to make new … [Read more...]

Virtual Music Lessons for Kids (On Sale THIS WEEK!)

Virtual music lessons for kids with South Pasadena Music Arts Academy.

This post is sponsored by South Pasadena Arts and Music Academy. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. The sound of the piano while I make dinner is so calming. I do not play, but my older kids do. As a homeschooling mom, it was important to me to get my children a good exposure to music education. Learning to play the piano is where we started. There are great … [Read more...]

Homeschool Writing Prompts & Creative Learning Ideas

This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. I knew when I saw it. My oldest daughter created an entire calendar on poster board. It was all drawn free hand. She was a list maker like me. My daughter likes seeing reminders of what tasks she needs to complete. This inspired me to use my Poooliprint pocket printer to get creative with our … [Read more...]

Fall Preschool Activities

Fall is my favorite season. We get into nature, explore and learn so much. Seasonal themes are fun activities for preschool because they cover so many subjects. This collection is a list of my favorite fall preschool activities. I taught these in my preschool classrooms and my children loved them when we did preschool at home. … [Read more...]

Chemistry Activities for Kids: Multi-Age Learning Unit

chemistry activities for kids: multi-age learning unit on chemistry. Perfect for science enrichment or homeschool chemistry unit.

These chemistry activities for kids are a great introduction to chemistry and the periodic table of the elements. A kids book inspired me to put this chemistry unit together as our first homeschool science unit of the year. We really dived into some meaty science topics and it was all centered around books. … [Read more...]

Learning Greater Than Less Than with Playing Cards

Learning greater than less than with playing cards builds number sense and math skills with a hands-on activity for kindergarten and early elementary age kids. Math skills are crucial to school success - and real world adulting let's be honest. Helping even preschoolers develop a love for learning numbers and math skills builds their future math success. We started with … [Read more...]

Color Sorting and Learning Activity

Color sorting and learning color names is one of the first skills we teach our toddlers. It was one of the first activities I created for my oldest way back when he was my only child. I loved being able to teach him at home. He thought we were spending quality time together, playing a game. We were! We were color sorting and learning color names...and more too. This … [Read more...]

ABC Seek and Find Letter Learning Activity

ABC seek and find letter learning activity for preschool to help preschoolers get prepped for kinderarten.

Getting your preschooler ready for kindergarten is on the minds of many parents. It certainly was a focus for me. We did not stress too much about structure during our homeschool preschool time. Even if you are not homeschooling, this ABC Seek and Find Letter Learning activity for preschool kids is simple to do at home. Preschool at home was fun. Just think of all the money … [Read more...]

DIY Sensory Box Activity for Kids

{Guest Post} My girls are growing up, faster than I like to admit. They’re outgrowing clothes at an alarming rate. Their tastes change by the hour. I created this DIY Sensory Box Activity for kids to foster that brain teaser type challenge as the girls are getting older. Coming up with activities that challenge their minds while also being age appropriate can be … [Read more...]

DIY Alphabet Memory Game

Because I love the memory game and I also like opportunities for learning,  I created a memory game that teaches matching lowercase and uppercase alphabet letters. I came up with this easy DIY Alphabet Memory Game to play with my youngest (but my oldest also loved it). I remember playing Memory with my parents when I was a kid. I always loved trying to test my memory … [Read more...]

12 Fall Activities for Toddlers

12 Fall toddler activities

Toddlers can have so much fun in the Fall. Many craft projects are a little too advanced for these little ones, but there is still much hands-on learning for toddlers in this season. These Fall activities for toddlers are simple and fun. … [Read more...]

40 Days of Sensory Bin Fillers: Oats & Table Salt

My older two will get their hands in just about anything. This oats and table salt sensory bin was easy to set up and fun for fine motor play. There are 40 Sensory bin fillers ideas for you too! Playing with textures and getting their hands dirty is fun for tall of my kids. There is so much learning that takes place when children get hands-on with their environment. A … [Read more...]

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