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Activities and Books for Kids- The Sunday Showcase

November 8, 2014 By Deirdre

When the weather gets colder, you may find your family spending more time inside. Snuggling up to share a book and then doing an activity based on it is a perfect indoor activity. Last week a number of activities and books for kids were linked up on The Sunday Showcase that featured book tie-in or activities that would be wonderful to tie into books.

If the post shared didn’t have books for kids tied to the activity, I searched for a book that would be great to use with it. I hope you will take a few minutes to look at each featured post and its book. When you are done, please add your posts to the link up. I am dying do see what you have been up to this week. You have probably been creating amazing activities and crafts for kids.

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Activities and Books for Kids

Rubberboots and Elf Shoes came up with several activities to go with the book Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes. I think the headband is adorable.

The corn husk turkey created by A Little Pinch of Perfect would be great to create after reading the book10 Fat Turkeys. The turkey A Little Pinch of Perfect looks like it is flying and so do the turkeys on the cover of this fun Thanksgiving book. There are a lot of books for kids about turkeys and Thanksgiving. You may have favorite you would like to read instead.

Mosswood Connections has created a fun visual game called Find the Mouse. I think it would pair well with a book around the bronze mice hidden downtown in Greenville, South Carolina. It is called the Mice on Main.

My son loves the Tiger Tales and Ben Mantle version of Five Little Pumpkins. It would be great to read it before doing The Natural Homeschool’s Five Little Pumpkins craft.

Life with Moore Babies created cloud dough moon craters after reading the books Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice and One Giant Leap. This looks like a fun way to explore the moon.

Wonderful hand print hens were created by Fun Hand Print Art to go with the book the The Little Red Hen (Paul Galdone Classics). The marker drawings are super cute. There are a number of books for kids about the Little Red Hen. This looks like a cute one.

For more book related activities you may want to check out my Read.Explore.Learn. posts.

The Sunday Showcase is hosted on the following blogs:

JDaniel4′s Mom

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here Come the Girls

Inspiration Laboratories

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Preschool Activities For the Fall

November 1, 2014 By Deirdre

Preschool Activities for Fall

While my son has moved on to elementary school, preschool activities are still something I love to plan and share. There were several shared on The Sunday Showcase last week that I knew you would love. They feature a fall theme or would be great fall activities to do with preschool children. You many decide that they would be great for your older children too.

When you are done checking these out, if you have some posts that you would like to share please add them to the link up below. Last week I visited each of the posts linked up. I would love to have the opportunity to visit some of your kids activities so add a few. Several of the posts linked up will be featured on The Sunday Showcase next week. Maybe one of them could be yours.

The fall sticky leaves activity from Mum in the Madhouse would be great for preschooler to create in class or at home. What a great way to work on fine motor skills. This would be great to put out Thanksgiving Day for kids to work on too.

Planet Smarty Pants has selected six November books for 4 year olds along with extension activities to do with them. I had a great time finding fun books to read and fun preschool activities to do as I read this post.

Fun and easy preschool science activities can we found in this wonderful post from A Little Pinch of Perfect. It will be hard to decide which one to do first.

Look What Mom and Dad Found has a really fun project that could be used all year round. Their diy refrigerator letters would be fun to make and great to play with. Kids can help you search for the letters for them.

This paper plate Mayflower would be fun to make with kids. It can be found on the Kid’s Activities Blog.

We did a sink and float activity with Thanksgiving themed kitchen utensils I think you might like.

Preschool Activities for Fall

The Sunday Showcase is hosted on the following blogs:

JDaniel4′s Mom

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here Come the Girls

Inspiration Laboratories

We each feature different posts that have linked up, so be sure to check everyone out! We’ll also be pinning our favorites to our Pinterest board.

An InLinkz Link-up

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{Awesome} Halloween Activities for Kids

October 18, 2014 By Deirdre

Are you still looking for wonderfully awesome Halloween activities for kids? This is a collection of really awesome Halloween activities for kids. There are crafts, science experiments, learning activities and more. Each was shared last week on The Sunday Showcase.

Please take a moment to visit each of these Halloween activities for kids and then add a few of your own. Your activities you add don’t have to be Halloween related. If you have any kid friendly post that you would like to share, I would love to get to see it.

Halloween Activities for Kids

Lalymom has created a contact paper ghost craft that look really fun. Child can add a wide variety of crafting elements to make a totally unique ghost. Kids will really love building and rebuilding ghosts.

3 Dinosaurs has put together a Halloween activities for kids unit that features free printables, sensory bins and crafts. Everything in this unit is awesome, but her printables are my favorite.

Free Halloween Song and Rhymes for Circle Time have been gathered by Living Montessori Now! It includes 15 videos of Halloween songs and several links to song and rhymes. These are fun to watch and sing too.

The Fingerprint Art- Stamped Pumpkin Patch Craft from Fun Handprint Art are such fun. This is one of those Halloween activities for kids that can get kind of messy.

Dabbling Momma has come up with a really cute candy corn clay flower pot craft that look like is would be really fun to create and display. I love the simplicity of this activity.

The Halloween ghost post created by Study at Home Mama are look delicious. The banana eyeballs look like they would be fun to make too.

What fun this science experiment from Science Kiddo looks to be! It looks at history and science.

I really like this social story from Mosswood Connections. I would be a great Halloween activity for kids or just your child.

Frog, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails has a science experiment that my son is going to love. She walks you through how to create a pumpkin volcano. This is the kind one of those Halloween activities for kids that they want to do again and again.

Here is my favorite post from my blog this week. It is called Spelling Games- Skeleton Bones Spelling.