Reindeer Food Writing Tray

Do you make magical reindeer food with your kids? It's one of our most cherished traditions but this year I was inspired to see if I could sneak a bit of fine motor work into the Christmas fun. We created a reindeer food writing tray!

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The Best Activities Based on Children's Books

Kids, teachers, and parents all love educational activities based on classic children's books. Your child's favorite story comes to life as they create crafts, play games, and try recipes themed around their favorite characters. We've collected the best stories and done all of the planning for you to follow along!

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Chocolate Cocoa Writing Tray

Does anything smell better than chocolate? It can any task more fun! We decided to use a chocolate writing tray to practice spelling, math, and more. It was the most delicious sensory experience! Yum!

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Ice Alphabet

Ice letters are a great way to play while you explore the alphabet. They are the perfect sensory experience in the summer or winter! 

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I Think I CAN Sight Word Activity

Do you think you can encourage your kids to practice letter formation with this invitation to play with trains? Our train obsessed toddler loved this hands on learning activity!

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My Five Senses Book for Kids

Predictable books are a huge step in teaching kids to read. Children are even more motivated when they have written the book themselves! We created this printable book about the five senses for our kids to review this preschool concept. We're also sharing the pattern so you make your own! 

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Kid Made Neighborhood Building Blocks

Our kids love small world play! We set out an invitation for them to create their own buildings since we've been learning to identify places in our community. This creative project also showed just how much they've noticed about our neighborhood!

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Forest Animals Foldable Graphic Organizer

We've been learning about forest animals. We love to use this simple folded fact sheet as a graphic organizer to share what we've studied. 

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Witch's Brew: Fall STEM Sensory Play for Kids

We love any excuse for sensory play but this Halloween activity includes a STEM twist! We covered science, technology, and math as we cooked up our own Witch's Brew.

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Cinquain Poetry for Kids

Cinquains are a great way to introduce kids to parts of speech and poetry writing at the same time! We created a simple printable which makes the cinquain poetry even easier to write. Our daughter and I loved this writing exercise as part of our homeschool curriculum this week.

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Autumn Leaves Drawings and Mini Reports

The changing of trees' leaves in fall is one of the most mesmerizing and educational season changes we witness. Even if you live in a part of the world where you don't see these changes first hand, we have a way that your child can study the transformation to incorporate science, reading, art, and writing. Our daughter loved this project!

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Heart to Heart Journals

I'm so excited to share this idea with you because it's been a beautiful part of my relationship with my daughter and a pinnacle part of our homeschool. We write letters back and forth to each other in the format of a journal. This authentic and meaningful writing practice is as emotional as it is educational. We both LOVE it!

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Interest Based Learning Projects

One of my biggest goals when homeschooling is to allow our children to have as much ownership over their learning as possible. Our oldest has endless ideas about what she'd like to study next so we are going to focus that drive into student planned interest based project learning this year.

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Bear Sees Colors Animal Coloring Activity

We love Karma Wilson's Bear books series! This month for our Book Club Play Date we read Bear Sees Colors. We presented the kids with a colorful pre-writing craft activity that included the animal characters from the story!

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Ideas for Using Inside Out to Discuss Emotions with Kids

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Have you seen the movie Inside Out yet? We did and loved it! We used the characters and themes to discuss an important early childhood (and lifelong) concept with our kids. Here are our ideas for how to use this popular movie to talk about emotions with your children.

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DIY Glowing Scratch Art Paper

We love everything that glows! We created DIY scratch art paper that glows when you draw! This homemade craft supply is fun to make and beautiful to use for kids' artwork, too.

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Passport to the Planets: A Science Writing Prompt for Kids

My preschooler is fascinated by space. She loved when we created our recycled plastic lid solar system and studied moon phases on the felt board. Now we are creating a passport for our solar system by writing a bit about each planet!

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Chevron Pre-Writing Easter Egg Craft for Kids

We may remember our zig zag pre-writing painting idea! We are revisiting this project to create festive Easter eggs with our kids and we've added a free chevron printable!

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Virtual Kindness Notes from Kids

We have family all across the state so we love to keep in touch by using technology! Our preschooler loved using the computer to send virtual kindness notes to friends and family members.

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Nursery Rhyme Letter Writing

You and your kids probably know several nursery rhymes by heart now. But what happens after the story is over? This kid writing prompt encourages creative thinking and character study as the children put themselves in the story to write a letter after the nursery rhyme!

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