Reusable Christmas Sticker Busy Bags

Our preschooler couldn't get enough of these Christmas themed sticker busy bags! The best part is they are free for you to print and reusable so you can enjoy them for the whole holiday season!

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Pipe Cleaner Rainbow Busy Bag

Do you want to build a rainbow? This busy bag is sure to keep your kids entertained as they name colors and practice fine motor skills!

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Cars Busy Bag

Busy bags are my go to when we're out with the kids at a restaurant or we need to wait for an appointment. They love the activities and I love how fast they are to grab on the way out the door or even leave in the van. Here is one of our favorite cars busy bag with lots of other busy bag ideas for you to create for your kids!

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Valentine's Day Math Busy Bag

We made a Valentine's Day Busy Bag that would be the perfect quiet time activity for your kids! We love hands on math ideas! This invitation to play is adaptable for patterns, counting, number order, addition, and subtraction.

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Felt Apple Pie Making Toy Kit

Fall is in the air! Can you smell the apple pies baking? That was the inspiration for our latest autumn themed busy bag for kids! We made a toy felt apple pie kit.

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Book Club Play Dates I Ain't Gonna Paint No More

What could be more fun than a Book Club Play Date? Invite your child's favorite friends over, read a beloved book, and then try several themed activities! This month we read I Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont. We have a snack, craft, busy bag, game, and sensory play to go along with this colorful story!

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Make Way For Ducklings Book Club Play Date Ideas

We love hosting Book Club Play Dates with our friends! We read a book that we love then share a snack, craft, game, and sensory play idea that goes along with the story. Each child leaves with a busy bag to extend the playful learning at home! This month we read Make Way for Ducklings.

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I Ain't Gonna Paint No More Tactile Body Part Identification Game

Our book for this month's Book Club Play Dates series is I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! Each month we'll share a themed snack, sensory activity, craft, busy bag, and game to go along with a popular children's book that we love! We created a tactile rich follow the leader game to help kids learn to name parts of the body.

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Stamping Christmas Patterns

If you need a quick and easy Christmas activity for kids, this works for one or two children or a whole classroom of students as a center! We worked on fine motor skills and math as we created and continued our holiday stamping patterns. 

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Llama Llama Red Pajama Busy Bag

This month's Book Club Play Dates story is Llama Llama Red Pajama! Do your kids love this book as much as mine do? Then you'll love the busy bag we created and all of the other ideas we've collected for you to host your own llama themed book club with kids.

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LMNO Peas Soup for Kids

We made a delicious alphabet vegetable soup to go with the book LMNO Peas by Keith Baker. Our preschooler loved cooking this soup all by herself.

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Fall Leaves In and Out Activity for Kids

Are you looking for ways to keep your little ones hands busy and quietly practicing fine motor skills this fall? I love to set out intriguing invitations to play for our children. This autumn leaves busy box activity inspired so much learning as we played! It's the perfect activity for a fall theme.

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Apple Ten Frames

Fall the perfect season for an apple theme! We're offering this free printable hands-on math activity for kids to learn about ten frames. Just print and practice counting, adding, and subtracting! We've included tips for how to use this math tool in the classroom or at home.

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Bat Snack for Kids

Want to hear a little known fact about me? I love bats! From the time I was a student teacher, I loved to do a bat science unit for Halloween and read Stellaluna to the class. Now I'm sharing this classic bat story with my own kids. We made a bat themed trail mix to to with the book! It's the perfect Halloween snack. 

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Thanksgiving Writing Tray

For Thanksgiving, we created a writing tray with an irresistible material for our kids to practice their fine motor skills through relaxing sensory play! 

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Train Snack for Kids

The train obsession still chugs along very strong in our home! We created a train themed snack to go along with one of our kids' favorite modes of transportation!

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Farm Animal Sorting

Our kids love learning about animals! We worked on early literacy skills, reading, and sorting as we identified which animals live on a farm. You can use this interactive pocket chart activity with children using our free printable. It's perfect for a preschool farm theme!

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Little Green Pouch Review & Giveaway

Isn't it exciting to find a reusable version of something you've been purchasing disposable?  When I discovered Little Green Pouch I just knew we had to try them!  This awesome mom-created company sent me a box of four - two for us to keep and two to giveaway!  

If you're a parent, you've likely seen the fruit and veggie puree squeeze pouches.  Have you tried them?  Most kids love them, just like any other squeezeable, pushable, slurpable snack.  It keeps their hands and mouths busy for awhile plus they are generally mess free and super convenient to throw in a bag on your way to the playground.  

But much like Maggie, who created the Little Green Pouch, I have felt stifled by the fruit and veggie blends that were available in prepackaged pouches.  I would buy a flavor to try, but E would deem it "too sour" and refuse to finish it.  Since I'm filling the Little Green Pouch myself, I know that she'll like what I'm putting inside for her snack!  I can add more nutritious produce that I know both kids like.  I'm loving their recipe page so  I'll be checking back for more ideas for both kiddos to keep the contents of our pouches new and exciting!

To try it out, I unzipped the top of the dishwasher safe, BPA-free, PVC-free & phthalate-free pouch and spooned in some applesauce.  I picked up E from her art camp (it was yellow/orange day as you can tell by the outfit and swath of paint on her tiny forearm) and gave her the snack at a nearby fountain.  She was impressed that it was still cold!

When we got home, I put the pouch on the top rack of my dishwasher, upside down and propped open.  Next I filled it with a homemade pea puree for D.  It was so much fun to be able to review a product that both of my kids could use!  

None of the accessories at the Little Green Pouch website are a necessity, but several of them would make this busy momma's life easier.  I am currently most coveting these silicone spout extenders for my teething, chewing baby!  

For D, it is super easy to pop out a few cubes of the frozen purees I've made for him to slip into the Little Green Pouch.  They thaw and keep the rest of the food in our lunch bag cold as we are out and about! 

Be sure to check their super informative FAQ page for anything I didn't cover in this review.  I'll report back in a few months on our SPS Facebook page to let you know how durable the pouches are after a summer of snacking on the go!

Now it is your turn to try the pouches out!  We will have two winners receiving one pouch each to spread the love around a bit more.  Please read our Rafflecopter tutorial to make sure you know how to enter correctly!

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As stated above, Little Green Pouch sent our family a couple of resuable pouches in exchange for this review, but all opinions and enthusiasm is 100% our own!  

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Word Pop! - Bubble Wrap Sight Words

What started with bubble wrap sight word practice turned into a whole collection of ways to learn words with a bang!  We've included both fine motor and gross motor ways to practice any skills your child is working on: letters, numbers, colors, shapes, math facts, etc.

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Straws for Crafts, Projects, and Activities for Kids

Straws are an inexpensive and versatile material for learning and play! We've rounded up some of the very best crafts, projects, and boredom buster ideas for kids using straws!

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