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Science Experiments for Kids- Turtle Balancing

July 31, 2014 By Deirdre

Turtle balancing is one of those experiments for kids that looks easy, but is tricky. Coming up with ways to balance them is easy, but what ways will allow the turtles to stay standing. It is easier to get them tumble than it is to get them to all to stay stacked. We found two ways that worked right away. Coming up with more was Continue Reading

Educational Games- Color Sorting Turtles

July 29, 2014 By Deirdre

Taking characters like the Teenage Ninja Turtles that kids are excited about and using them in educational games peaks children's interest in the skills covered in the game. This educational game invites children to sort through a bowl of treasures and match them to each turtle's mask. Each of the treasures in this game are intentionally small. Continue Reading

Kids Crafts- Potato Print Turtles

July 28, 2014 By Deirdre

Kids crafts done with vegetable stamps are a lot of fun. We found potato is the perfect shape for carving a turtle shell onto that you can use as a stamp to a shell onto a paper turtle's back. We also found that sometimes the shell gets right on the turtle's back and other times the shell can be slightly coming off the turtle kind of Continue Reading

Kindergarten Activity-Exploring Positional Words

July 25, 2014 By Deirdre

While this kindergarten activity may simply look like blowing water around a blue plastic block, it is so much more than that. This kindergarten activity explores what will happen when you blow an object from various areas around the object. Each of those areas represents a positional words that kids in kindergarten need to learn. During this Continue Reading

15 Awesome Preschool Activities with Water

July 24, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 23, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 22, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 21, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 19, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 16, 2014 By Deirdre

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

July 15, 2014 By Deirdre

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