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Dragons Love Tacos Playdough Recipe and Activity

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Dragons Love Tacos Themed Playdough Recipe and Activity

This taco playdough recipe is super easy! After reading the book Dragons Love Tacos, your children will have fun making it and then building make-believe tacos. I need to warn you when we made this playdough recipe my husband wandered into the kitchen wondering if we were going to have tacos for lunch. The seasoning really makes the playdough smell Continue Reading

STEAM Activity Celtic Knot Design for St. Patrick’s Day

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STEAM Activity Celtic Knot Design for Kids

This STEAM activity invites children to use three arcs to create a Celtic knot design for St. Patricks Day. Children can create their own set of arcs or use the free set we have below.  Many Celtic designs feature interlocks shapes. The Celtic knot is a very simple design that uses weaving to connect the three arcs. Children will find it easy to Continue Reading

Straw Rockets with Leprechaun Pictures

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This is the fourth straw rocket set I have created for you. This one features a leaping leprechaun with gold coins. You will find several leprechaun pictures your children can use on their straw rocket. If they really love creating this one, you may want to have them make the Firework Straw Rockets or the Leap Frog Straw Rockets or the Ski Jumper Continue Reading

Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set

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Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set - There are four tangram patterns in this set.

JDaniel loved the book Fox in Socks so much when he was little that I made in a fox sock puppet based on the book. Your children probably love it too. I have created a fun set of tangram patterns based on the book that your children can explore. They will have fun exploring basic shapes, problem-solving and working on visual-spatial awareness as Continue Reading

Binary Code Bracelet That is Out of This World

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Binary Code Bracelet That is Out of This World - The activity has a printable planning and reflection page. It is a great way to introduce your children to coding and work on fine motor skills.

Binary code is a number system made up of zeros and ones. Every letter, number, and symbol on your computer keyboard is represented by eight digits or a byte. Each of those digits is either zero or a one.  Your children will have fun exploring binary code by creating a bead bracelet. They will string the beads in three bytes or groups of eight to Continue Reading

Electric Circuit Kids Valentine

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Electric Circuit Kids Valentine Card Activity with Free Printable Card Set

  Your kids will have fun exploring how an electrical circuit works when they put together this kids valentine. Your children won't be able to mail the valentine, but they will be able to set it out at a family member's place at the dinner table. How fun it will be for them to let someone know that they are the light of their Continue Reading

Emoji Feeling Faces: Feelings Recognition Activity

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Emoji Feeling Faces Feeling Recognition Activity - The paper plate craft and activity is a fun way for children to learn and understand feelings.

Getting kids to talk about their feeling can be a challenge. This fun emoji feeling faces activity invites to display and share various feelings. This feelings recognition is an activity that will be one your children want to do over and over again. JDaniel has really had fun with it. You will want to read a book about feelings and emotions like I Continue Reading

Measuring Length in Non-Standard Units with Candy Hearts

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Measuring Length in Non-Standard Units with Candy Hearts

  Valentine's Day is only a week away I thought this would be the perfect time to explore the book Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney. It tells the tale of a big and a little sharing how much they love each other. At one point in the story, Little Nutbrown Hare stretches his arms as wide as they can go to show how much he loves Continue Reading

STEM Activity- Creating the Olympic Flame in a Bottle

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I thought I had finished sharing Olympic themed STEM activities, but I have come up with several more that I think your kids will enjoy. You have stopped by to see how to do the paper plate ski lift with a pulley, a magnetic figure skating activity, an interactive snowboarding craft, ski jumping straw rocket, and the snowboarding halfpipe I in Continue Reading

Harry the Dirty Dog Thaumatrope Printable

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Harry the Dirty Dog Thaumatrope Printable

This week I am sharing Harry the Dirty Dog activities with you. Your children will have fun creating a thaumatrope based on Harry the Dirty Dog. What is a thaumatrope? It features a different picture on its front and its back. When children spin a wooden dowel or chopstick placed between the pictures, the pictures seem to blend together. It Continue Reading

Winter Olympic Sports – STEM Snowboarding Halfpipe

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This is the fifth in a series of five Winter Olympic sports that I have created STEM activities for. Previously I have shared a paper plate ski lift with a pulley, a magnetic figure skating activity, an interactive snowboarding craft,  and a ski jumping straw rocket. Your children will have fun creating any or all of them. The STEM snowboarding Continue Reading

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