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Spotlight on Remarkable Mystery Books for Kids

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Spotlight on Remarkable Mystery For Kids

Finding out just who did what along with where and when  they did it are often found in mysteries. This collection of mystery books for kids runs the gammit from looking for a missing brain to figuring out  just what was that strange light in the night sky. Children will love solving each book's mysteries along with their detectives. This post Continue Reading

Engineering for Kids- Pool Noodle Airplanes

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Engineering for Kids How to Build Pool Noodle Airplanes

    We have a lot of pool noodle sections leftover from making a pool noodle math game and a batting tee for the backyard. It was decided that we could use two of the longer pieces to do an engineering for kids project that involved building airplanes. In many ways it was a STEM ( Science, technology, engineering and math) Continue Reading

Fine Motor Skills: Magnetic Astronaut and the Tape Rocket

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Fine Motor Skills Magnetic Astronaut and the Tape Rocket

This post contains affiliate links. We love to do learning activities with tape at my house. There has been a fire ladder, set of numbers, and mazes in our main hallway made of tape. Recently I placed a painter's tape rocket ship on our refrigerator along with an astronaut magnet I made. My and I worked on several learning skills with them Continue Reading

You see Cloud Pictures in the Sky Tool

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You See Cloud Picture are in the Sky Tool

Do you remember staring up at the clouds to look for cloud pictures or shapes? I used to take my students out to look at clouds. Then we would go back into the classroom and write stories about what we had seen. We recently painted a cardboard tube blue with white fluffy clouds to create a sky viewing tool and did several activities with it. Do Continue Reading

How to Create Sewing Projects for Kids with Yarn

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How to Create Sewing Projects for Kids with Yarn

Sewing projects for kids give them the opportunity to work on their fine motor skills and create. While you can buy sewing project kits for your kids, it is super easy to create sewing project for your kids. All you need are few craft supplies and your imagination. Here are the supplies you will need to replicate the project we did: burlap Continue Reading

How to Make a Minion Puzzle with Craft Sticks

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How to Make a Minion Puzzle with Craft Sticks

Minions are very popular at my house. My son was even dressed up as Minion one year for Halloween and he took prinable Minion Valentine's Day Cards I made to school last year. I decided  it would be fun to create him a Minion puzzle with craft sticks. After seeing how easy it is to make, I am hoping he will make craft stick puzzles of his own. How Continue Reading

Jokes for Kids Books That Will Make Them Laugh

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okes for Kids Books That Will Make Them Laugh

I have been sharing with you collections of wonderful books that focus on a particular genre. This summer I am encouraging my son to read everything under the sun. In fact, I created a punch card for him to work on this summer. It displays 12 different genres of books that I think would be fun for kids to read during the summer. In the past few Continue Reading

Sandpaper and Crayon Art Iron On Transfers

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Sandpaper and Crayon Art Iron On Transfers

  Last year one of the craft projects the kids did at my church's vacation bible school was to create sandpaper and crayon art iron on transfers. Each child brought a white shirt and their drawing was transferred by a volunteer onto it. I thought it would be fun do this craft at home and create 4th of July crayon drawings for shirts.  As Continue Reading

Here is a Dinosaur That Will Sing Dinosaur Songs

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Here is a Dinosaur That Will Sing Fun Dinosaur Songs

    Kids love to sing songs with hand motions or a puppet. The hand motions or puppet give kids something to do with their hands when they sing.  I think puppets give shy kids the  the opportunity to sing with something or through it. It takes their attention off of themselves and gives them something else to focus on. We recently Continue Reading

Adding to Ten Pool Noodle Game

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This summer I am trying to keep my son working on math skills.  We are spending some time using math workbooks and some time playing games like this Adding to Ten Pool Noodle Game. This pool noodle game can be played using pieces from  just two pool noodles. Children can add using three or four numbers if they like. I made two complete sets of Continue Reading

The Best Poetry Books for Children to Read

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The Best Poetry Books for Children to Read

Poetry gives children the opportunity to explore words and the pictures they paint. Whether they read all the poems in a book straight through or just two or three at a time, they will truly enjoy them.  Another great thing about poems is that children will memorize them and remember them later on. What fun it is to share a poem you have learned Continue Reading

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