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Simple Machines Games- Counting Sheep with Pulleys

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Simple Machines Games - Counting Sheep

This post contains affiliate links. This week's STEM activity explores double pulleys. We created a pulley system that uses counting sheep to play some simple machines games. You may remember that we created a fixed pulley activity that went along with the book Little Blue Truck a few week's ago. These simple machines games are based on the Continue Reading

STEM Challenge – Spider Web Hanger

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STEM Challenge Spider Web Hanger with Free Printable Task Cards

  During the month of October, I have been sharing a STEM challenge that explores one of the books featured in the Virtual Book Club each week. There was a fixed pulley activity shared during Little Blue Truck week. Before that, there was a STEM challenge that looked at whether pumpkins can float. Today's STEM challenge explores a theme of Continue Reading

Anansi the Spider Shape Craft for Kids

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Ananasi the Spider Shape Craft for Kids

  Anansi the Spider is a tricky character from an African folktale.  We love the Gerald McDermott version of the tale. It has amazing illustrations that display great characters built with shapes. I thought it would be fun to come up with a craft that children could create based on Anansi. This Anansi the Spider shape craft has been Continue Reading

Spider Crafts for Preschoolers

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Spider Crafts for Preschoolers

With Halloween right around the corner I thought I would share with you some wonderful spider crafts for preschoolers. You may decide that you don't want to use them for Halloween. You may decide that you want to use them while you are exploring insects and arachnids. You may decide that you want use them to explore a nursery rhyme like Little Miss Continue Reading

Fixed Pulley Helps Truck Out of the Muck

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Fixed Pulley Gets the Truck Out of the Muck

The Virtual Book Club book of the week is Little Blue Truck. My son and I are exploring pulleys as a Scout enrichment project. I decided to combine an event from the book with the creation of a fixed pulley. Younger children will find the turning of the rolling pin a challenge. They will have to get both of their hands to turn the rolling pin at Continue Reading

Number Games Based on Little Blue Truck Books

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Number Games Based on Little Blue Truck

This week the Virtual Book Club is sharing the book Little Blue Truck. During the week I will be sharing a number recognition game, a STEM activity and a reading game all based on the Little Blue Truck books Little Blue Truck Game Supplies Today will be looking at the number recognition game. The game is played on a Little Blue Truck Math Continue Reading

Potato Pancake Recipe for Holiday or Everyday Meals

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My family loves loaded baked potatoes. Recently I came across an instant potato mix from Idaho Spuds called Supreme Baked that has the flavors found in loaded baked potatoes. JDaniel and I used it to make potato pancakes. You could try one of the other Idaho Spuds flavors in the potato pancake recipe. They come in five really delicious flavors Continue Reading

Social Skills Activities with Five Little Pumpkins

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Five Little Pumpkins Social Skills Activities- A set of pumpkins and emotion cards are free to download. An original rhyme about five little pumpkins and feeling is shared in this post.

The Virtual Book Club is exploring the book Five Little Pumpkins this week. A few years ago I made a pumpkin-themed emotion game for a large learning kit company. (I talk more about it in It's Pumpkin Time post.) I thought you might like some new social skills activities based on The Five Little Pumpkins.  I think you will love them. Social Skills Continue Reading

Do Pumpkins Float? Do Other Fruits and Veggies Float?

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Do Pumpkins Float? Do Other Fruits and Veggies Float? Stop by and see what we learned in this STEM experiment.

I have heard that pumpkins of all sizes can float, but seeing really is believing. I wasn't sure they would. I asked my son JDaniel, "Do pumpkins float?" He was sure they did. JDaniel even had a number of reasons why he thought they floated. When I asked him if other fruit and veggies would float. He wasn't as sure about them. Before You Start the Continue Reading

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable

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Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Last year I made cup wraps that could be used to play a backyard carnival game. I recently decided it would be fun to rework the single cup wrap into a series of wraps. Each wrap displays a number from one to ten. You will also find leaves that match each number on the wraps. While you could play a version of the backyard carnival game with the new Continue Reading

Falling Leaves Sensory Activity for Kids

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Falling Leaves Sensory Activity

  While I was brainstorming leaf themed activities to share with you this week, I remembered a sensory activity on Fun at Home with Kids.  This falling leaves sensory activity is loosely based on it. One big difference is that I did the lacing with yarn. Putting This Sensory Activity Together Supplies Scissors Brown Yarn Continue Reading

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