Learning Colors with Swimming Pool Dive Rings
As I’m sure most fellow homeschooling moms would agree, every moment is a teaching opportunity! So I took advantage of the multi-colored diving rings that I found yesterday on sale. Dee loves colors....
View ArticleFun with Pasta & Paint
Today, while the older children were gone to their vocal/acting/Bible classes, the youngest three stayed home with me creating their own one-of-a-kind jewelry, while learning about color mixing and...
View ArticlePasta and Playdough
My kids LOVE play dough! I am always on the lookout for new ideas and projects involving play dough. So, on a rainy afternoon while my older children were at dance class, I decided to try out this...
View ArticleSensory Bin: The Zoo
We made our very first sensory bin this week! While studying “the zoo”, I thought that “ZOO” would be a perfect theme for a sensory bin. I perused the internet (don’t you just love google?) for ideas,...
View ArticleChocolate “Dirt” Playdough Recipe & Zoo Activity
As our zoo study continues, I thought it would be fun to make dirt colored play dough to play with our zoo animals…and it WAS! We re-purposed our zoo animals and “grass” from our sensory bin, and used...
View ArticleMore Zoo Learning Fun
“Dee” [age 2] (and several of the other children) have had so much fun learning about the zoo! What a fun theme for toddlers and preschoolers! We have continued our zoo study with these activities. A...
View ArticleLearning About Monkeys and Caps for Sale {BFIAR}
As often happens in a child-led learning environment, while studying the zoo the children enjoyed learning about monkeys so much (and “Dee” especially LOVED the book Caps for Sale — I’ve renewed it...
View ArticlePreschool On-the-Go Activity Bag
Dee has a new pink travel purse…and she’s pretty proud of it! I found it in with the scrapbooking supplies at Big Lots for around $8 and re-purposed it to be an on-the-go activity purse for my sweet,...
View ArticleRainy Day Fun: Marshmallow Tinker Toys
When you’re stuck inside – in Florida – on a rainy day, you do what you can with what you have on hand. I first saw the idea on Pinterest several months ago, and filed it away (or “pinned” it) for such...
View ArticleABC Bunny {BFIAR}
I started our BFIAR (Before Five in a Row) book study inadvertently while learning about the zoo, then reading Caps for Sale, one of the BFIAR books. I subsequently dusted off my Before Five in a Row...
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