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Butterflies in Crafts and Activities

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butterfly sun catcher

We haven’t seen any butterflies since the temperature here started to yo-yo back and forth so, we made a cupcake liner sun catcher butterfly to remind us that spring is here. We can’t see the butterfly flitting around the yard, but we can see it superimposed over the view of our yard as we look out the window. Maybe when the temperature warms up we Continue Reading

Science Experiment for Kids- Floating or Sinking Eggs

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Science Experiments with Kids

It is egg experiment time at my house. Maybe it is Easter and the desire to dye eggs that lead us down the path of experimenting with eggs. This is the first of a series of posts on science experiments for kids that focuses on eggs. Each experiment we do will have a printable instruction/ recording sheet. This particular experiment tests out Continue Reading

Fun Craft- Cupcake Liner Flowers

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Fun spring crafts brighten your kitchen, classroom, or anywhere else you care to hang them. Cupcake liner flowers like the ones in this spring craft that use brightly colored liners that do just that. The stores around here are filled with holiday themed cupcake liners along with brightly colored ones. This craft could be used to create flower Continue Reading

Science Experiments for Kids: Coffee Can Catapult

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Getting ready to launch

      Homemade catapults like this coffee can catapult are great fun to explore and create science to use in experiments for kids. We have previous explored making homemade catapults by making a rolled paper catapult and an egg carton catapult. This homemade catapult continued our exploration of using recycled materials to create catapults. The Continue Reading

Worksheets for Kindergartners- Counting Leaps

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Worksheets for Kindergartners: Counting Leaps

Leaping just seems like something we should all do in the spring. I recently put together a movement activity that explores the different types of leaps that animals make. I am calling it Animals That Leap or Counting Leaps. The Counting Leap activity involves more that just moving like each animal. Children are asked to predict how many of each Continue Reading

Easter Game- Egg Toss Bottles

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Fun Activities for Kids with Chicks and Eggs

  This is a sponsored post. JDaniel and I had the opportunity to go to JoAnn’s Fabrics and Crafts to hunt for treasures. We searched up and down every aisle and found way too many amazing things.  I was just looking for the material needed to make an Easter Game with Egg Toss Bottles . JDaniel wanted to see what they had beyond my supply Continue Reading

{Worksheet for Kindergarten} Saint Patrick’s Day Math Activity

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Leprechaun Roll and Draw  is a worksheet designed for children in K4, kindergarten and first grade.  It could be used to work with any child. You can change the numbers above the facial features if you like to represent numbers your children need to work on. None of the facial expressions that children are asked to draw to match the number that Continue Reading

Five Little Shamrocks Craft and Song

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    Have you heard the Five Little Shamrocks song before? Have you ever made a hand print shamrock? We hadn't done either until we started to work on this Five Little Shamrocks craft and song. We love Five Little... so much that I searched and searched until I found one for St. Patrick's Day.   Five Little Continue Reading

Saint Patricks Day Snack: Leprechaun Dust

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Saint Patrick's Day Snack- Leprechaun Dust with Yogurt

    Leprechaun are known for having magical and precious treasures.  Among those treasures are leprechaun gold and leprechaun magic dust. I decided to create a leprechaun magic dust snack with my son for Saint Patrick’s Day. One of the special things about leprechaun magic dust is that it transform a simple snack like yogurt into a snack swirled Continue Reading

Worksheet for Kindergarten-Writing Words on a Rainbow

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Worksheet for Kindergarten - Writing on a Rainbow

  Writing sight words on a rainbow is one of the ways we are working on learning sight words at home. We have been playing a game using the tiles in our kitchen as game board spaces too.  (I will tell you about that one later in the post.) Mastering sight words will help my son become a stronger reader. This simple activity of writing sight words Continue Reading

Second Hand Birthday

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Second Hand Birthdays

  JDaniel has done it again. He has chosen to add another year to his age forcing both of us to now use a second hand when describing his age.  It is true! When you turn six you can’t just hold up one hand.  You have to hold one finger on the second hand. I totally remember helping him figure out how to hold up two fingers when he was turning Continue Reading

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