JDaniel4s Mom

Flower Crafts for Kids to Make

March 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Spring is the perfect time for creating flower crafts. These wonderful crafts for kids could be created to celebrate Easter, Earth Day or Mother's Day. They would also be wonderful to give to a friend as "Get Well" or "You Are Thought Of" gift. This collection features crafts from JDaniel4's Mom and a number of others. I tried to select a wide Continue Reading

Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe- Egg Toppings Bar

March 11, 2015 By Deirdre

hard boiled egg recipe- egg toppings bar

Leftover hard boiled eggs provide a great opportunity for children to try new foods or try combining favorite foods in a new way. We have created a hard boiled eggs recipe for a salad with bunny shaped croutons a few years ago. We recently used some leftover hard boiled eggs to create hard boiled eggs recipe for an egg toppings bar. Each had gave Continue Reading

Making Learning Fun with Rainbows

March 9, 2015 By Deirdre

Somewhere over, under, and on rainbow children can explore learning concepts. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet arranged in arcs just seem perfect for activities and games. I have shared a number of rainbow learning activities. Several other blogs have shared amazing ways of making learning fun with rainbows too. I thought I Continue Reading

How to Make a Leprechaun Trap

March 7, 2015 By Deirdre

Every year leprechauns spread chaos and leave small green footprints in classrooms and kitchens everywhere! Well, enough is enough! We decided that we needed to create a leprechaun trap to catch the one that visits our house. I thought I would walk you through the steps we went through to create our trap so, you can create a trap to try to catch Continue Reading

Learning Games for Kids- Jumping the Rainbow

March 5, 2015 By Deirdre

Learning games for kids that work on many skills are amazing. This Jumping the Rainbow game works in fine motor skills, estimating and problems solving. We played a similar game this summer at my house called Landing Spot On! Jumping the Rainbow involved trying to use a button to make a gold coin jump off a section of the rainbow and into a black Continue Reading

Crafts for Kids- Rainbow Collage of Colors

March 4, 2015 By Deirdre

We end up with a number of magazines. JDaniel gets two in the mail. I get two in the mail. We get some from my mother in law. Seeing that the magazine pile was getting a little bit tall I decided it was time to do a craft with them. ( We have done a number of crafts with recycled materials.) It would be fun I decided to search for rainbow Continue Reading

Kindergarten Worksheets- Gold Coin Number Mats

March 1, 2015 By Deirdre

$Kindergarten Worksheets- Gold Coin Math Mats$

Gold coins are great to use for counting pirate or leprechaun treasure. We got a whole bunch of them to use in a pirate vowel drop game this summer. Those same gold coins were used to count and add on using the gold coin number work mats on this kindergarten worksheets I created. It is great when things can be used in multiple Continue Reading

St Pattys Day Rainbow Folder Game

February 26, 2015 By Deirdre

When I taught second grade, my students always wrote stories about a leprechaun crossing a rainbow from Ireland right to the playground outside our classroom window on St Pattys Day. I even wrote a version of this story starter for my son. This rainbow crossing file folder game reminds me of those stories. Our little leprechauns (children) can Continue Reading

Learning Activities with Dr Seuss Characters

February 25, 2015 By Deirdre

Dr Seuss characters are fun to learn along with on Dr Seuss' birthday (March 2nd) and well any time of the year really. Children see characters that they know and get excited about getting to play and learn with them outside of their books. I have created at number for learning games and activities the feature Dr Seuss characters over the last few Continue Reading

Holiday Crafts for Kids- Rainbow Place Mat

February 23, 2015 By Deirdre

Holiday Crafts for Kids- Rainbow (featured)

I remember weaving place mats as being one of those holiday crafts for kids that I did often when I was little. In preschool and early elementary school I must have made one for every major holiday. My teachers must have known it was a great fine motor activity! Maybe they just like to have us weave mats! A rainbow woven place mat seemed Continue Reading

Lorax Truffula Tree Sight Words Game

February 21, 2015 By Deirdre

We used this truffula tree game board to work on spelling words, but I think it could be used to work on any number of learning concepts. (The Lorax learning mat I shared earlier in the week worked that way too.) By creating file folder game boards without a specific skill displayed on them we can use them for lots of different Continue Reading