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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

Cookie Themed Alphabet Letters and Activity

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  Kids love baking or at least my son does. I created this fun cookie themed set of alphabet letters in honor of the Virtual Book Clubs cooking week. You can cook up ways to use the letters with your children. I have few ideas of ways to use them I want to share with your too. Cookie-Themed Alphabet Letter Activity Ideas After you Continue Reading

How Animals Eat Their Food- Let’s Explore Macroinvertebrates

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How Animals Eat Their Food- Let's Explore Macroinvertebrates- Children will learn how five different macrointvertebrates eat at these interactive learning stations.

Not all animals eat their food the same way. Animals that are big like elephants or as small as macroinvertebrates eat in a variety of different ways. Let's look at how animals eat their food. Wait! What is a macroinvertebrate? They are small organisms that don't have spines and are large enough to see with your naked eye. Here are some Continue Reading

Water Pollution Experiments for Kids

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Water Pollution Experiments for Kids

While it would be nice to think that cleaning water is an easy task to do, it can actually take a number of steps to get it clean.  Your children will have a better understanding of cleaning water after completing these water pollution experiments. Links below may be affiliate links. Before starting this experiment, you may want to read Continue Reading

Constellation Activity for Kids- Cookies in the Universe

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During the month of January, I have bee working group created by Little Bins for Little Hands to share the STEM concepts from A- Z. Earlier this month I shared the steps in the STEM design process. Just last week I shared different types of quantitative and qualitative observations. This is the final post I will be sharing in the series.  It Continue Reading

Kindergarten Math Worksheets – Penguin Number Activities

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Kindergarten Math Worksheets - This set contains a number line, number and picture cards, and muffin tin numbers. They can be used to work on a number of math concepts.

Earlier this week I promised to share activities using the penguin acorns I shared with you.  Today I have two sets of kindergarten math worksheets and printables that would be great to use with the penguins. While I am calling these kindergarten math worksheets, they could easily be used with younger and older children. You can use the Continue Reading

Penguin Action Song and Gross Motor Activities

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Your children are going to love these gross motor activities that will have them moving like penguins.  They will have a great time flapping their arms and doing the other actions found on a set of penguin activity charts and action sequence cards I created. When they are done with them, they waddle around while reciting a fun penguin action song I Continue Reading

Acorn Craft- Wobbly Penguins

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Wobbly Penguin Acorn Craft - These fun penguins are fun to make to use a game pieces, counters or to display.

I have been working on a variety of penguin themed learning activities to share with you during the Virtual Book Club's penguin week. On Tuesday I dropped a whole bunch of books into our local libraries book drop. The book drop was surrounded by fall acorns. I grabbed a bunch of them to bring home. They would somehow find their way into one of the Continue Reading

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