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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

Cool Experiments With Friction For Kids

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Cool Experiments With Friction

  Friction is the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another according to a dictionary definition I read. 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 friction. We Continue Reading

Fun Science Experiments- Pollination

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Fun Science Experiments- Pollination

  If a flower is going to grow, it needs for its pollen to be moved from to another plant. One way the pollen is moved is by bees. While they are dipping into a flower, some of the pollen ends up on their body and wings. When the bee visits the next flower on their hunting and gathering trip, some of the first flower’s pollen drops into this Continue Reading

Slam Dunk- Fun Math Games

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slam dunk fun math games

      We have had several orange detergent containers sitting in our recycling box. It took awhile to come up with an activity I thought that could be used for and just how to decorate  one of them. As I have mentioned before, we have been really working on math facts. Lately we have been playing fun math games with printables I have made like Continue Reading

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