As a child, I used to love playing dress up. Some days I would be a doctor, Laura Ingles Wilder, or a referee. I would even dress up my puppy. Now that I have children of my own, I make a point to provide dress up materials so they can experience the wonders of imagination. The other day, my oldest son, E, asked to dress up our birds like…
Are you a Star Wars fan? Do you like board games? Then you will love this FREE printable Starship Star Wars-themed game! It is played like the game Battleship, but it has starships instead of boats! Download your free copy
Growing up, I always loved anything I Spy. Looking through busy pictures, in tubes, or around the room for different items on a list. It almost felt as though I was a detective investigating a case–the case of the missing
My son asks to play with play dough all the time. I decided to use this love as a teaching opportunity and share some fun ways to learn with play dough. Soft dough can be used for all types of
There are so many great ways to teach colors to children. Below are a few tried-and-true ways that worked for my son! As a way to easily remember these activities, I have made an acronym with the first letter of each activity–ROYGBIV,
Finding fun ways to teach can make such a difference in a child’s interest to learn. We found these adorable mailboxes (available at Target stores usually around Valentine’s Day or order on Amazon.com—affiliate link) and my son had a blast
We just had a birthday party. Leftover glow sticks galore. “What on earth do we need all these glow sticks for?” I questioned myself. Have you ever had this dilemma? I seem to have it a lot. I went in
I had a lot of fun teaching my preschool-age son colors so I compiled a RAINBOW of activities we used to sharpen his color identification skills (as well as some more advanced lessons including color mixing, science, match, and etc.)
