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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

Doctor Seuss Math Game- Lorax Adding

February 20, 2015 By Deirdre

$doctor seuss math game lorax adding with file folder$

The Lorax is one of our favorite Doctor Seuss books. One year for Doctor Seuss' birthday (March 2nd) I made JDaniel a Lorax lunch. This year I made a fun file folder game with the Lorax for JDaniel. We used this game space to work on addition facts. It could be used to work on a wide variety of skills. I will walk you through how we used it for Continue Reading

Building Blocks Activity- Creating Shamrocks

February 18, 2015 By Deirdre

It is amazing how ways you can use building blocks. My son and have created water parks and tall buildings with them. Recently I challenged him to help me create shamrock silhouettes and then select matching building blocks to place on them. We found that the blocks needed to be rotated to get silhouettes that looked close to Continue Reading

Hexbug Rainbow LEGO Track

February 17, 2015 By Deirdre

This past Christmas was the year of the LEGO influx at my house. We have been doing a lot of learning activities with them since Christmas. We have worked on fractions and geometry with LEGOS as well as a number of other activities. Last year was the year of the Hexbug. We have tons of them too. I decide to combine LEGOS and the Hexbugs to Continue Reading

Moon With Craters Kids Crafts

February 16, 2015 By Deirdre

After my son showed me how to make do the Moon Pie moon cycle activity he had done at school, I brainstormed kids crafts that had a moon theme. After all it is fun to craft and snack on moon features. I really wanted the craft to have 3 dimensional element to it. While cleaning out our craft and learning activity closet, I came across a bin Continue Reading

Open and Closed LEGO Polygon Shapes

February 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Earlier in this week I shared a really cool LEGO fraction activity we did over the weekend and I bet you thought I might just be sharing a few more fraction activities. Well, they will come late. ( Yes, I do have a few more.) Just before we started working on fractions we explored some of the geometric concepts he was working on. I shared Continue Reading

Valentine Ideas- LEGO Heart Puzzle

February 10, 2015 By Deirdre

I thought a creating a heart with a message for my son out of LEGOS would be one of those Valentine ideas that he would think was fun. One afternoon last week I dumped all of his LEGOS out of the LEGO Bucket container I made for JDaniel and searched for the red LEGOS of all different shapes and sizes. I also searched for long white LEGO to build my Continue Reading

Valentine Ideas- Flower Craft for Kids

February 10, 2015 By Deirdre

Some Valentine ideas like this flower craft for kids and the "I Love Ewe" sheep craft I shared a few weeks ago come to together as you work on them. They are very organic. Some kids like to create a craft based on one they have seen done before. Others love take the materials that have been set out and craft their very one Valentine ideas. For Continue Reading

Lego Fraction Games for Kids

February 8, 2015 By Deirdre

During the last few weeks, I have shared geometry activities that focused on vertices and sides. JDaniel got make geometry aliens and explore geometry riddles with LEGO at home to re-enforce the skills he was working on at school. If he was working on geometry at school and it made sense to review those concepts at home. Now he is moving Continue Reading

Moon Pie Moon Cycle Activity

February 5, 2015 By Deirdre

“Have you ever had a Moon Pie?” JDaniel asked me when he got into the car a couple of weeks ago after school. “Why? Yes, I have,” I replied. “ Did you know you could learn about the moon cycle with one?” JDaniel queried. “Can you tell me how you did your Moon Pie moon cycle phases activity?” I asked him. “No,” he said, “I will have to show Continue Reading