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Math is Fun- Valentine’s Day LEGO Graphing

January 24, 2015 By Deirdre

$Math is Fun- Valentine's Day Lego Graphing$

LEGO can be used to build all kinds of things like story characters and science tools. We recently used them to work on an activity I am calling Math is Fun- Valentine's Day LEGO Graphing. My son and I built a graphing base plate using some of the oodles of bricks he has in his room. We were able to use our LEGO graphing base plate to create bar Continue Reading

Easy Valentine Crafts For Kids- I Love Ewe Sheep

January 22, 2015 By Deirdre

What fun it is to create easy valentine’s crafts that can be display in your kitchen or classroom! Earlier in the week I shared some My Heart is like a Zoo crafts. Today I want to share an “I Love Ewe” craft is just that kind of craft. It could easily be created and then hung up. It would be fun to create this Valentine’s Day craft at the Continue Reading

Valentine’s Day Crafts- My Heart Is Like A Zoo

January 21, 2015 By Deirdre

My Heart Is Like a Zoo Valentines Day Crafts

Tying together a book with crafts and learning activities based on it is a lot of fun. Recently we did just that with the book My Heart is like a Zoo. My Heart is Like a Zoo is a wonderful children’s book that compares various animals to love. What fun it is to read just how the storyteller’s heart is like each of the animals. Each illustration of Continue Reading

8 People Kids Can Give Valentines Cards

January 20, 2015 By Deirdre

When you are creating or composing Valentines cards, why not choose one or two of the groups of people below to send a card to. Each of these eight groups of people would love to receive one of your Valentines cards. Kids Could Give Valentines Cards To: Veterans There many not be time left to send them to soldiers overseas, but you could Continue Reading

Preschool Activities- Shape Sheep

January 16, 2015 By Deirdre

This shape sheep craft is one of those preschool activities that opens the door to explore shapes and gives you a cute end product. It would be great for a farm unit, The Year of the Sheep,a nursery rhyme unit or Easter. In fact I think it would one of those preschool activities that would be fun to do after reading or singing the following Continue Reading

Paper Plate Crafts for Kids- Sheep

January 15, 2015 By Deirdre

I love to buy fun cup liners to liven up my son’s lunches. When I decided it would be fun to make a paper plate sheep, I found the perfect leftover liner to use for the sheep’s face. Why did we make sheep? JDaniel asked me just that question on the day we did this craft. We did this sheep craft along with several other sheep-themed activities for Continue Reading

Solo Cup Craft- Valentine’s Day Alien

January 14, 2015 By Deirdre

If you end up with bunches of odd and ends in your crafting area or junk drawer, this Valentine’s Day craft is for you. During one of my clean out the cabinets and shelves purges, I found a bunch of things that I thought would be great for creating a Valentine’s Day sculpture. Those odd and ends along with a red Solo cup were placed out for my son Continue Reading

LEGO Valentine’s Day Cards – Printable

January 10, 2015 By Deirdre

Last year my son was into Minions so, I made Minion Valentine’s Day cards for him to pass out to his classmates. This year JDaniel is into LEGO. I search high and low to find ideas for a LEGO Valentine's Day cards. I found one on Pinterest I really liked, but it has just been uploaded as picture. There was not a link to the card's creator or Continue Reading

9 Things Children Learn While Playing Kids Games

January 7, 2015 By Deirdre

We have never been a family that was big into board games. That is until recently. We have started playing board games on Saturday evenings. What fun we have had! While playing Candy Land recently, I started thinking about all the life lessons children learn while playing games. Later I sat down and made a list of the things I think children are Continue Reading

Paddington Bear Paper Plate Craft

January 5, 2015 By Deirdre

When my son was born, my mom bought him a Paddington Bear stuffed toy she found at second hand store. "When JDaniel gets older, he is love reading books about him," Mom said. Paddington has sat in JDaniel's room for years. It wasn't until recently that we started to read the books that star Paddington Bear. At six JDaniel is just the right age to Continue Reading