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15 Awesome Preschool Activities with Water

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15 Awesome Preschool Activities with Water

This week I have been sharing some of my favorite preschool activities with water on Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+. I didn't want you to miss out on getting to see some of them. Here are 15 awesome preschool activities with water that I really love.  Each would be fun for a preschooler, their older siblings, and even for their parents to explore Continue Reading

Science Ideas- Water Flowing High and Low

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Sometimes science ideas like this one for watering flowing high and low come from a desire to understand a scientific concept. Sometimes science ideas come from seeing something in nature.  Sometimes science ideas come from an experiment you have seen done and remember you wanted to do them someday. Sometimes science ideas come from going through Continue Reading

Easy Experiments- Measuring Forms of Water

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Easy Experiments- Measuring Forms of Water

  This week  I am sharing water, water everywhere. Easy experiments and explorations with water will be shared here on the blog as well as on Pinterest, Facebook, and Google +. There will even be water related pictures shared on Instagram. I hope you will stop by each of these venues to check out them out. Some of the posts will be the Continue Reading

Cool Science Experiments- Polar Ice Fishing

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Fun Science- Polar Ice Fishing

  We love exploring water and ice at our house, these cool experiments use both. We placed four animals from a  Safari Ltd Arctic TOOB  into old applesauce cups with water and frozen them. The plan was to try to fish our animal icebergs out of a pan with yarn, a chopstick and one kitchen item. I had read that this experiment would work Continue Reading

Fun for Kids: Ice Play- The Sunday Showcase

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Fun for Kids: Ice Play ( The Sunday Showcase)

With the weather hot and steamy here in South Carolina, we have been looking for ways to keep cool. One of our favorite ways to play with water and ice. I looked through the amazing posts linked up on The Sunday Showcase for posts that  featured fun for kids with frozen water or ice play. I found several wonderful posts that will be fun for kids to Continue Reading

Healthy Recipes for Frozen Pops

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Healthy Recipes for Frozen Pops

We have added some really cool silicone frozen pop tubes to our kitchen creation tools. (I will share more about them tomorrow.) While it has been fun creating our own recipes, I decided to search to find some tried and true healthy recipes online. I found a multitude of wonderful healthy recipes with a wide variety of ingredients in my search. Continue Reading

Dolch Sight Word Hopscotch

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Dolch Sight Word Hopscotch

  Old school playground games are a wonderful way to work on a number of concepts with kids. Hopscotch is one of favorites so I thought I would share with you a wonderful way to work on learning to read and identifying Dolch sight words that uses hopscotch. The first thing you will need to do is draw a hopscotch board on your Continue Reading

Math Fun- Solar System Math Facts

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Math Fun- Solar System Facts

Reviewing and learning math facts is not always considered math fun. This solar system game was created to tap into a child's love of space, a joy in bouncing and throwing balls, and a need to practice math facts. While we practiced basic addition facts with the math fun game, you could easily practice basic subtraction facts or even Continue Reading

Kids Activities With Sensory Learning

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Kids Activities with Sensory Bins

  This round up shares kids activities that involve sensory bins that help children build on known concepts and explore learning some new ones too. Each of these posts share bin fillers that many of us may have at home already, are reasonable to purchase or could borrow from a friend. My son loves to explore and learn through kids Continue Reading

Projects for Kids- Marble Painted Zebra

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Project for Kids- Marble Painting

This marble-painted zebra is made up of several projects for kids. They get to marble paint, work on cutting skills, and create a really cute zebra craft. We had a great time doing all of the steps it took to create this marble-painted zebra. Let me walk you through the projects for kids that we did: Marble Painting We started with the marble Continue Reading

Ocean Animals Paper Plate Craft

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On a sunny day earlier this week JDaniel and I headed outside with his art set to create ocean painting. His art set includes all kinds of art supplies, but we focused on markers and watercolors.  I didn't tell me we were going to create ocean animals with the paintings. That I saved as a surprise. Ocean Painting We both used the blue and green Continue Reading

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