Halloween is coming! We are ready for some spooky fun this month and I found more than 20 fun Halloween activities on the After School Linky last week to get us started! Halloween Activities for Kids: Pumpkin Craft and Name Activity from Fantastic Fun and Learning 31 DIY Halloween Costumes from Crystal and Comp Free Countdown to Halloween Calendar from Moms and Munchkins Paper Bag Halloween Luminaries from The Taylor House Halloween … [Read more...]
Fun Halloween Activities for Kids
There is something so exciting about the start of fall and the holidays to come! October is here and we starting to get ready for Halloween. The Halloween books and crafts are out and the kids have been busy planning their Halloween costumes--we are in full Halloween mode. That's why I'm so excited to have Blythe from Education.com back to share three fun Halloween kids activities! Fall is in the air, and kids all over the nation are getting … [Read more...]
Mystery Book Activity: Fingerprint Detective
We love mystery chapter books so we had a hard time choosing which book to read for the Virtual Chapter Book Club for Kids this month! After some discussion we chose Nancy Clancy by Robin Preiss Glasser since it was one my 5 year old hadn't read yet. One of the kids' favorite parts of the book was when Nancy Clancy dusted for fingerprints with her fingerprint kit--so we had to try it ourselves! We used the Undercover Spy Gear Fingerprint kit to … [Read more...]
Light Saber Sight Word Practice
There are just some things that need to be memorized and sight words are one of them. Some kids can remember sight words easily while others need to practice them. The best way to get kids to practice sight words is to have fun with them! And what is more fun than knocking down plastic cups with lightsabers??? The set-up was simple. We took the cups from our Cup Crash! sight word game and set them up on the back of the couch. They were just … [Read more...]
Homework Help!
Last week on #CoffeeBreak, my weekly series on Google Plus, we talked about homework and how to make homework time more successful. Too many families consider homework to be a stressor, so I sat down with Kim Vij from The Educators' Spin On It, Jacquie Fisher from Edventures with Kids, and Melissa Taylor from Imagination Soup to answer parents' questions. How to Make Homework More Successful We answered many questions during the show and tried … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Number Matching Busy Bag
My preschooler wants to do reading and math "homework" just like her older brother and sister do in the afternoons. To encourage her desire to learn I've been getting out busy bags and our homemade felt board for her to play with. They are great because she's actively engaged in her own activity and can do them independently which leaves me time to read and work with the older two. With Halloween coming this Pumpkin Number Matching Busy Bag has … [Read more...]
Alphabet Letter Charades
This ABC activity was totally created by my kids so I feel like I'm guest posting on my own blog for this one! In fact I didn't even know they were playing their own version of alphabet charades until I went to call them for dinner, but I am so glad I saw them! They were having a blast and giggling up a storm trying to make and guess each other's letters. There weren't hard and fast rules for this game. They were just taking turns thinking of … [Read more...]
Apple Science Experiment
Fall is here and apples are everywhere! We have been having fun with apple books and crafts and decided to do an apple science experiment too. The kids love acid and base reactions, but this time instead of combining them we observed to see what effects they would have on apples. Apple Science Experiment We began by choosing which acids and bases we were going to use. The acids were easy, lemon juice and vinegar are two we always have, but I … [Read more...]
