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Awesome Star Wars ABC Games with Free Printables

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Both  Star Wars and LEGO are popular with kids. I decided created some awesome Star Wars ABC Games that feature light sabers made of LEGO.  Pictures were taken of the light saber LEGO creations so that could be used build alphabet letters.  You will want to printout these LEGO light sabers to play the games with your children. The LEGO light saber Continue Reading

Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas- Printable Gift Tags

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The amazing PTA at my school gave us fun little gifts in our mailboxes during the week we celebrated Teacher Appreciation. Each gift had a small sticker attached to it with a pun that includes the name of the gift in it. I thought it would be fun to make gift tags that featured the Teacher Appreciation Week ideas. Each day our children could Continue Reading

Easy Craft Ideas- How to Make a Paper Turtle

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Easy Craft Idea- How to Make a Paper Turtle

Sometimes easy craft ideas come from a desire to use up the craft supplies you have on hand. We used this same type of chevron cupcake liner to make a "Your My Biggest Fan" Mother's Day card. These cupcake liners looks like a turtle shell to me so, we used them to create a paper sea turtle. (It is cool to see how many easy craft ideas you can make Continue Reading

Simple Experiments for Kids with Fun Balloon Yo-Yos

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Here Are Simple Experiments for Kids with Fun Balloon Yo-Yos

  You may have made balloon yo-yos at your house, but we hadn't made them before this week. As a part of the the A-Z Science Experiments for Kids series hosted by Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails, my son and I conducted a series of  cool experiments that explored balloon yo-yos. (You may remember earlier in the series we explored friction and Continue Reading

Windy and Cool Science Experiments with Free Printable

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Windy and Cool Science Experiments

  The wind seems to blow through our yard everyday. It only made sense then to explore the wind as a part of the the A-Z Science Experiments for Kids series hosted by Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails. As you will see we conducted a number of cool science experiments with wind. We created a wind turbine or pinwheel for us to use to Continue Reading

Amazing Out of This World Father’s Day Card

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Amazing Out of This World Father's Day Card

  I know that Father’s Day is still a long way away.( We haven’t even had Mother’s Day yet.) Creating the Your My Biggest Fan Mother’s Day card got me thinking about cards we could make with cupcake liners. That lead to thinking about what holiday will come up next after Mother’s Day. Father’s Day came to mind so, we made a Father’s Day Continue Reading

Pick Up Sticks Sight Word Games

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Ick Up Sticks Sight Word Games- Great way to review and learn sight words. Kids will love coming up with the best way to move each word stick.

       You probably have a bunch of word lists that your kids have brought home from school or worked with at home.  You can develop a compiled  list of sight words from those lists. That list can be used to create great sight word games. We have used our list to explore words on a taped spider web and by hanging tissue paper leaves in the correct Continue Reading

Mother’s Day Cards- My Biggest Fan

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Mother's Day Card Idea- "You're My Biggest Fan"

  Earlier this week I shared a Mothers Day card idea that children in the primary grades or preschool could make for their moms for Mothers Day and today I have a card for older children to make. This card requires that children have mastered cutting and precise gluing. While some younger children could do both of those things, there may be some Continue Reading

Mother’s Day Poems and Printable Craft

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  My son and I have done several projects for his grandmother for Mother's Day. We have taken pictures on my son making a heart shape over his heart to put on homemade Mother's Day cards. Another year we made three different kinds of paper flowers for a Mother's Day bouquet. When my son was really little he created a fingerprint border around one Continue Reading

Place Value Games with Pasta Printables

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Place Value Games- Pasta Printables

  We have been reading a lot of April Pulley Sayre’s books at our house lately to celebrate Booking Across the USA,. She was born in Greenville, South Carolina and so was my son. I thought it would be fun to read books by an author from his hometown. While we loved all of the books we read, my son and I really enjoyed a book called Noodle Man:Pasta Continue Reading

ABC Learning- Crafting a Bee

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ABC Learning- Crafting a Bee

Springtime seems to be when the bees start buzzing in our house doing a science experiment. We see them all over our yard.  Recently we crafted a big bee to have in our house to display in our kitchen. We didn’t just make a bee craft! We made a “B” craft. A giant “B” seemed to be almost the perfect shape for a bumble bee.  It is missing one of Continue Reading

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