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Eclipse Viewer – Camera Obscura Made From a Cereal Box

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Eclipse Viewer - Camera Obscura Made from a Cereal Box : It is easy to put together.

Earlier in the week, I showed you how to make a pinhole camera with an oatmeal container and a STEAM solar eclipse paper plate craft. If you have young children, it is a little bit easier to make then the camera obscura it. Your children will probably notice that the cardboard is thicker on the oatmeal container. The cardboard on the camera obscura Continue Reading

Sun and Moon Crafts- Total Solar Eclipse Painted Paper Plates

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Sun and Moon Crafts Total Eclipse Painted Paper Plates

  We live right in the path of the total solar eclipse taking place in August of 2017. I know that some of you are too! Before the eclipse, you might want to do some eclipse related activities with your children. Earlier I shared with you a simple way to create pinhole camera out of an oatmeal container and a camera obscura out of a cereal Continue Reading

How to Make an Oatmeal Container Pinhole Camera for Eclipses

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How an Oatmeal Container Pinhole Camera for Eclipses

  We happen to live in a wonderful area to see the total eclipse in August.  It will be so exciting to watch it. You can't look directly at the sun during an eclipse. You can use a pinhole camera or camera obscura to watch it. Today I am sharing with you how to make a pinhole camera. Later in the week, I will share with you how to make a Continue Reading

LEGO Braille Alphabet – Three Blind Mice STEM Activity

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LEGO Braille Alphabet -Three Blind Mice STEM Activity : This is a fun way to explore Braille.

  I  was reading about a set of Braille bricks created for literacy and inclusion for blind children. That got me thinking about how our children might like exploring the Braille alphabet with traditional LEGO. While they could explore all the letters individually, but it might be fun to try to create words with LEGO. That leads me to think Continue Reading

Let’s Explore Math Concepts! Preschool Patterns with LEGO

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Let's Explore Math Concepts! Preschool Patterns with LEGO - Exploring the AB pattern

Patterning is something that children will be exploring over and over again as they grow up. There are so many math, science, and language patterns that they will encounter.  This simple math activity was designed to use LEGO to explore preschool patterns. I am going to share with you a I am going to share with you an activity that explores AB Continue Reading

STEM Engineering- Houses for the Three Pigs with LEGO

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Your children will have a great time doing a STEM engineering project based on a familiar fable. It is always fun to take something familiar like the Three Little Pigs and create something based on it.  This STEM engineering project is based on the original version of the tale. You could adapt it to work with other versions of the story if you Continue Reading

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

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Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

Last week I started sharing some ocean themed printables with you.  Today I have some ocean themed counting worksheets to share with you. They were designed to be used with LEGO, but you could easily use a variety of counting materials with them. You will find a list of counting materials listed later in this post. Ocean Themed Counting Continue Reading

Magnetic Games for Kids- Pipe Cleaner Fireworks in a Jar

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Magnetic Games for Kids- Pipe Cleaner Fireworks in a Jar : This activity has a serious of magnet games for your children to play with this jar.

Your students in class or children at home with love exploring these magnetic games for kids. They all feature a magnet wand and a jar filled with pipe cleaner fireworks. Some of them are really easy and would be great for young children. Some of the magnetic games will tricky and may take some concentration. They would be better suited for older Continue Reading

How to Make Fireworks Straw Rockets

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How to Make Fireworks Straw Rockets That Soar

You really seemed to enjoy the Leap Frog Straw Rockets I shared with you a few weeks ago. With the 4th of July right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy fireworks-themed straw rockets.  It might be fun to have your children do a 4th of July picnic early in the day or right before it gets dark and the real fireworks go off. The leapfrog Continue Reading

5 Ways to Use Sensory Bottles to Learn

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5 Ways to Use Sensory Bottles to Learn- These are fun way to explore a number of concepts.

Children love to explore sensory bottles.  They can spin, shake and stare at the objects that they contain.  I have come with 5 Ways kids can use sensory bottles to explore a variety of learning concepts and skills. The links below are affiliate links. Supplies for the Sensory Bottles  I started with La Looks Gel blue hair gel (I found it at Continue Reading

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab? Telling Time Worksheets

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This is the second in a series of five printables being share this week. Each of them has an ocean theme. 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo are also sharing ocean themed printables during this week. Today's telling time worksheets have a crab theme. You may remember I recently shared a number of hermit crab themed activities based on the book A House Continue Reading

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