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Spelling Games- Skeleton Bones Words

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Spelling games for Skeleton Bones

Cotton swabs just look a long skeleton bones so, I decided that they made a perfect Halloween themed building tool for Halloween spelling games. We left some of the cotton swabs full sized. Others were cut in half or just below their fluffy ends.  My son and I found that we needed three different lengths of swabs to build the words in our spelling Continue Reading

20 Pumpkin Activities for Kids

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Pumpkin Activities for Kids

The Sunday Showcase has had a number of wonderful pumpkin activities for kids that have been linked up to it over the years. I looked over last week's showcase. The I looked at showcases from the archives to find pumpkin activities for kids.  It was really hard to decide which activities for kids to pick. There are been so many wonderful crafts, Continue Reading

Community Helpers Poem and Craft- Five Little Firefighters

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Community Helpers-Five Little Firefighters

Creating a paper doll chain of firefighters to go along with the poem "Five Little Firefighters" would be a great way to celebrate these community helpers. Whether you are studying firefighters as part of a community helpers unit or exploring fire safety during National Fire Safety month in October, the "Five Little Firefighters" poem and craft Continue Reading

Fire Truck Craft With Flame Painting for Kids

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Fire Truck Craft with a Flame Painting

When you see the flames from a fire, you see several colors are smashed and swirled into each other. For this fire truck with flame painting craft, colors are smashed and swirled together too. The colors seem to be billowing and smearing together just as an actual flame would. How to create the fire truck flame painting: You start by Continue Reading

Fire Truck Activity for Kids

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fire truck activity

Whether you are celebrating Fire Safety Month in October or putting together a community helper unit for your children this fire truck activity would fun to do. It is super easy to put together and super fun for kids to do. The goal of the activity is to blow into a straw and get all the flames off the bottom a plastic bag decorated with a fire Continue Reading

Read A Book and Explore Its Theme

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Read A Book and Explore Its Theme

 This post contains an affiliate link for your convenience. Books are a tool that can help children build a foundation of understanding of a wide variety of concepts and themes. Children who have never visited a farm can see what it looks like and what they would see on one when you read a book to them. Children who have never experienced the Continue Reading

Ruler Game- Measuring in Farm Units

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Ruler Game- Measuring in Farm Units

Kids really seem to enjoy using rulers, but it can be hard for them to understand how to read them the units on them. I created some ruler game set of activities using farm unit rulers. (Measuring-in-Farm-Units.) The rulers feature various things you can find on a farm. There are pumpkins, crows, scarecrows, and so much more. The farm unit rulers Continue Reading

Halloween Crafts- Egg Carton Skeleton and Bone Soup

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Halloween Crafts- Egg Carton Skeleton and Bone Souop

This post contains an affiliate link. You are probably familiar with the story Stone Soup. Recently JDaniel and I checked the story Bone Soupout of the library. It has a very similar theme. A traveler comes into town hoping to find someone who will give him some food. Word of the traveler and their appetite have preceded their arrival in the town. Continue Reading

Five Little Crows Preschool Games, Songs and Craft

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In the fall my family visits several farms. We go to one to pick apples and another to find pumpkins to display on our porch. We usually see scarecrows and crows cutouts on the farm. Scarecrow games and crafts  have been featured on the blog before, but we haven't done preschool games, songs and a craft featuring crows. I thought it was about Continue Reading

Halloween Crafts and Activities for Kids

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Halloween Crafts and Activities

You are going to love this round up of 100+ Halloween crafts and activities for kids. This post has the best Halloween ideas for kids you have ever seen. Oh! There are probably others out there, but these ideas shared on The Sunday Showcase link up last week are really awesome! I hope you will take a minute to check each of the them out. Please pin Continue Reading

Craft for Kids- Paper Bag Scarecrow

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Crafts for Kids- Paper Bag Scarecrow

Scarecrows remind me of fall. They protect fall crops like corn and pumpkins as they start growing toward adulthood and toward fall.  My son and I have seen them at every orchard and patch we have visited to get apples or pumpkins. Why not make a stuffed paper bag scarecrow craft I thought as fall started this week. It could be set up on its own or Continue Reading

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