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Robot Building Kit From Green Kids Craft – Love It

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Robot Building Kit From Green Kid Crafts - This fun kit comes with the materials to make three robots.

    This is a sponsored post. JDaniel is supposed to build a robot as one of his Scout projects. When we had the opportunity to review a robot building kit from Green Kid Crafts, I jumped at the chance. The robot building kit came with directions and most of the supplies to create several different robots. (The supplies that Continue Reading

Teaching Numbers with Rainbows and Gold Coins

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Teaching Numbers with Rainbows and Gold Coins

Earlier this week I shared a printable roll and cover rainbow themed activity that focused on color recognition and fine motor skills. I thought it would be fun to end the week with another rainbow themed activity. This one focuses on teaching numbers to your child. We used this teaching numbers set in a muffin tin.  Muffin tins hold the Continue Reading

Preschool Color Activites – Roll and Cover Rainbow

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Preschool Color Activities - Roll and Cover Rainbow with Simple and Challenging Printables

Building a rainbow is a lot of fun when you build it on a roll and cover rainbow. Your children will have a blast playing either of these preschool color activities. Preschool Color Activities I love to read my children a book before starting an activity. Since this activity has a rainbow theme, I would read a book likeA Rainbow of My Own. Next, Continue Reading

Horton Hears a Who! Listening Activities

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Horton Hears a Who! is a great book to read right before setting out this fun listening activity. After hearing about Horton hearing a Who, your children can tell you what they hear as they listen to the sounds made by shaking a small metal bucket. Horton Hears a Who! What Do You Hear Activities Links below are affiliate links. You will probably Continue Reading

Code Activity for Kids- Gruffalo Coding Sheet

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A great way to work on story retelling and building an algorithm is to select a story that your children love already. The Gruffalo is one on my son's favorite books. I bet your kids love it too.  This code activity for kids asks children to connect the events in the story from its beginning to end. Links below are affiliate links. If Continue Reading

No Bake Cookies – Gruffalo Paws

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No Bake Cooke Guffalo Paws - Kids will love helping you bake these cookies based on a favorite book.

  Kids love to bake! There are times when that baking urge hits them and there isn't a lot of time to put together the recipe and then wait for something to bake. These no bake cookies take no time at all to bake. Kids will love that they are based on the Gruffalo! Links below are affiliate links. If your children haven't had the book Continue Reading

Pre Writing Worksheet Set and a Gruffalo Writing Tool

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Pre Writing Worksheet Set and a Gruffalo Writing Tool - This set includes dotted line tracing sheets and solid line tracing sheets for kids to use as guides or to trace on.

  Your children will have a wonderful time using this set of pre writing worksheet and the Gruffalo writing tool to create a variety of different lines. If you think it will be easier for your children to use a single Gruffalo claw or chopstick to copy the lines on the pre writing worksheets , please feel free to do that. Links Continue Reading

Cardboard Craft -Crafting a Campfire to Read By

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Crafting a Campfire to Read By- Painting the Fire Flames on Cardboard

Whether you are camping in the woods or camping in your backyard, it is nice to have a fire to sit down by. Recently my son and a friend help me craft a campfire to read by and enjoy in our backyard. Once this cardboard craft was finished, they brought out a favorite dinosaur book to explore. The campfire is made of three pieces of cardboard cut Continue Reading

Marshmallow Recipe – Fruity Marshmallow Cloud Fluff

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Your children will love helping to make this fun marshmallow recipe for fruity marshmallow cloud fluff. It is so easy to make.

When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to make this marshmallow recipe.  She called it ambrosia. I think other grandmothers called it marshmallow fluff. It has been renamed by my family. We call it Fruity Marshmallow Cloud Fluff. We follow her marshmallow recipe with one exception. My grandmother loved coconut. She made lots of desserts that Continue Reading

Sensory Activity- Blowing Clouds with a Straw

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-Blowing Clouds with a Straw Sensory Activity

Blowing Cloud like puffs with a straw from one cloud to another is a wonderful sensory activity and a science exploration. Your children will experiment with how strongly they need to blow each puff to get it to get to the paper cloud. Let me walk you through this sensory activity and share with you how to turn into a science Continue Reading

Coding for Kids- The Day It Rained Hearts Algorithm

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The Day it Rained Hearts Algorithm Activity Featured

  Teaching children how to write an algorithm or set of rules for completing a task doesn't have to been challenging. You can take a book that they are familiar with The Day It Rained Hearts, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, or Going on a Bear Hunt. Then you can have them connect the events in the story in order. Let me walk you through Continue Reading

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