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Germinating Seeds in a Bag: Science Experiment for Kids

There is a entry way in my house that is covered in small lines documenting the growth of my children. My kids love going back to it month after month to see how much they’ve grown. It’s important to teach our kids that growth is a part of all living things, not just humans. Growing…

75+Ideas For A Super Fun Spring Unit Study

Spring is one of my favorite seasons. The snow & cold melt away, giving space for new life. The animals come back out and their babies are born. The tree branches fill up with leaves again, flowers bud and bloom, butterflies and lady bugs take their places, and the world becomes colorful again. Plus we can’t…

Sunflower Sensory Bin for Fine-Motor Skills

Ahhh… I finally feel like we are home! We’ve been living in Little Rock for almost 3 months now and we hadn’t done any sensory bins. But today as I put this sunflower sensory bin together, it felt like life had finally returned to normal. Normally, we do 2-4 new sensory bins a month as…

Garden Math Adding Money Free Printable

As we prepare to plant our garden this spring, it’s been fun to include a garden theme in our learning time. This garden math adding money activity was a fun twist on a traditional math worksheets. My second grader loved her math time when she was in charge of selecting the math problems. She loves…

Flower Scavenger Hunt Mini-Book

This flower scavenger hunt mini-book was so much fun!! Shiloh, my preschooler, didn’t want to stop looking for more flowers. We even got the book out again when my husband came home from work so that she could show him all the flowers that she found. This flower scavenger hunt doesn’t focus on specific flowers,…

Spring Flower STEM Investigation for Preschoolers

Spring has arrived! Little flower sprouts are popping up everywhere and we actually have some flowers that have already bloomed even though we had snow on the ground a week ago! We could not be more thrilled to take our learning outside and breath in the fresh air and soak up the sunshine. This spring…

May Flowers I Spy Activity for Preschoolers

This May Flowers I Spy is the perfect introduction to spring for your preschoolers! Practice counting, matching, and visual discrimination while building language skills to familiarize them with words that they will be hearing during the spring season. The May Flowers I Spy is perfect for using at home or school for some fun themed counting practice….

Free Sunflower Play Dough Mats for Numbers 11-20

Yesterday, I shared the sunflower play dough mats for numbers 1-10. These free sunflower play dough mats for numbers 11-20 are the next step in counting fun! Along with our other fun fall play dough mats for counting, you can have quite the collection to keep your kids interested in counting! You can see the full list…

Free Sunflower Play Dough Mats for Numbers 1-10

We love our play dough mats! This set is our newest & I’m excited to share them with you! Like our pirate play dough mats for counting, these don’t have to be used with only play dough (but they can be). Adding sunflower seeds as counting manipulatives makes these free sunflower play dough mats for…

Making Patterns with Beads Plus Free Printable Patterning Cards

We have many kinds of beads in our craft supplies, from pony beads to hearts and flowers! We use them all. the. time. For counting, subtracting, pressing in play dough, creating our own patterns, and just plain crafting! The Making Patterns with Beads Plus Free Printable Patterning Cards work perfectly with any kind of beads….

DIY Flower Graphing for Learning Colors

I’m always thinking of new ways to create hands-on learning activities for my kids. My favorite activities are ones that take less than 10 minutes to prepare and use things that I already have on hand (or can be found in a simple trip to the craft store…yea for excuses to buy craft supplies….lol!) This…

Sunflower Life Cycle Sequencing Card Game

This Life Cycle Sequencing Card Game, or War Card Game is all about the Sunflower Life Cycle. This is perfect for practicing sequencing and learning the sunflower life cycle with a unique, fun game! This set includes playing cards with 8 sequential stages of the sunflower life cycle, also labeled with ordinal numbers to ease…