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How to Make a Boat with Recycled Materials

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The boat in the book Toy Boat is made using a variety of recycled or upcycled materials. You can make a boat similar to the boat in the book and it is easy to put together. Let me walk you through how to create it with your children. How to Make a Boat Supplies Links below are affiliate links. Empty juice box container Duct tape, Continue Reading

Plant Cell Model Activity for Kids with Printables to Use

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Plant Cell Model Activity for Kids with Printables - Kids will have fun crafting a plant cell.

  This week the Virtual Book Club is exploring the book The Tiny Seed. Earlier this week I shared a flower and worm number activity that could be explored with young children based on the book. Today I wanted to share a plant cell model that could be done with older children after sharing the book with them. How to Make the Plant Cell Continue Reading

Parts of a Flower Craft for Kids

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  It is probably easiest to start by teaching your children the parts of the plant that they can easily see.  Creating a craft or illustration of those basic parts of a flower will help them remember each of the parts. Today I want to share with a craft that focuses on the parts of a flower.    Your children will create a flower, some Continue Reading

Number Activities with Printable Flowers and Worms

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Number Activities with Printable Flowers and Worms- This set is a wonderful way to work on number recognition and counting. Kids will have fun planting flowers to match the number on each worm.

  After reading a book about plants and flowers, it is fun to do a learning activity with the same theme. This set of number activities focuses on number recognition and counting. The links below may be affiliate links. I am sure you can come up with a wide variety of other math related number activities.  Older children might Continue Reading

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

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