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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Coding Activity

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  The Very Hungry Caterpillar is not only a classic for young children. It is a great book for teaching children how to build algorithms.  It has a series of events that are really easy for children to follow and remember. (If your children haven’t had the opportunity to hear or read the story they are in for a treat.) Each day The Very Continue Reading

Easter Crafts- Woven Bunny

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Easter Crafts- Woven Bunny

Paper Easter crafts like this woven bunny are such a great fine motor activity.  Children have to use their cutting skills to create slits in a shape as well as the strip of paper that will be woven through the strips. Weaving the strips up and down through the slits can be tricky! Children will have to concentrate on not pulling the strips too Continue Reading

STEM Science Activity- The Moon, Willoughby, and The Moon Buggy

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The Moon, Willoughby & The Moon Buggy STEM Science Activity Facebook

This post contains affiliate links. We recently read a whole bunch of storybooks about the moon. I asked JDaniel to pick his favorite. Willoughby and the Moon was the one he said was the very best one. I try to share you books he has loved so today I am sharing Willoughby and the Moon and a fun STEM science activity for kids that is based on the Continue Reading

Easter Crafts – Cookie Cutter Printmaking

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Easter Crafts Cookie Cutter Printmaking

We happen to have bright pink twine leftover from Easter crafts and a ton of cookie cutters. JDaniel and I recently used both of them to do some printmaking. This was one of those Easter crafts that actually requires crafting to create the tool to use for printmaking. The trickiest part of this craft was probably wrapping the twine around the Continue Reading

Science Experiments with Egg Parachutes

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  Over Christmas vacation, my family visited the children's museum in Columbia, South Carolina. One of our favorite areas featured science experiments with plastic eggs. Kids were encouraged to create eggs with parachutes that would float up in air tubes or tunnels and out the opening in the top. Recently we did some STEM science experiments with Continue Reading

Parts of a Plant We Eat Activity

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Parts of a Plant We Eat Activity- This activity can be done with felt veggies or a set of free printable veggies.

    Children are always surprised to find out that vegetables come from so many different parts of a plant. They may be the stem, the roots, or the leaves of a plant. Some of the vegetables we eat are actually the seeds of the plant. While some of the foods we call vegetables aren't vegetables at all, the are really the fruit of Continue Reading

STEM Gardening- Paper Plate Greenhouse

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STEM Gardening Paper Plate Greenhouse

Each spring JDaniel and I plant bean seeds. Last year we planted seeds in a plastic Easter egg. A few years ago we planted a seeds in an indoor paper plate garden. We are repeating the paper plate garden or greenhouse project. This year it is going to be a STEM project.  We are going to keep track on the temperature of the room we Continue Reading

Zombie Goldfish Optical Illusion Experiment

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This post contains affiliate links. I was sent the books mentioned in the post to review. JDaniel and I recently spent time trying to decide the best way to get our zombie goldfish optical illusion spinning. The experiment featured the main character from the children picture book called My Big Fat Zombie Goldfishand the children's novel The Continue Reading

Pi Day Paper Plate Circle Craft

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Pi Day Paper Plate Craft - This craft features some of the numbers in Pi, the Pi sign and loads of circles.

Pi  the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. Whoa! This is got to be something for big kids to explore you maybe thinking! Well, I think young learners can learn about Pi  Day and what Pi is too. They don't need to explore the numbers related to Pi if you don't think they are ready. They can craft with the Pi symbol and Continue Reading

Welcome March by Creating Lion and Lamb Paper Plate Crafts

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At the library last week JDaniel and I picked up the book When the Wind Blew. It looked like the perfect book to welcome March with. After all March has a 50-50 chance of entering like a lion. That means lots of wind, rain or even snow. Of course it could enter like a lamb! Days of sunshine and warming weather.  Long ago JDaniel and I made paper Continue Reading

Make Pi Day Brownie Brickle Pie Day

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  On March 14th pi or 3.14 gets its own special day.  It is a day to explore Pi and learn about why it is important. I have searched high and low to find some wonderful number activities for you to do with your kids that look at pi. You will find them at the end of the this post. Many of us have cake on our special days. I decided that Continue Reading

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