We all know candy is great to eat, but did you know how much fun it is to play with? We used some of our Halloween candy this year to make play dough sculptures! Playing and creating with play dough is a great after school activity for big kids too! Many times we only think to get it out for the little ones, but there are so many benefits to getting it out with your older kids also. That makes it a great activity for siblings to do … [Read more...]
Sight Word Soccer!
We are soccer crazy at our house right now. I thought I could use this enthusiasm to make practicing sight words more fun and it totally worked! My kindergartner had so much fun playing this sight word game that he kept going back and playing it again all evening. Definitely a rave review! Sight Word Soccer Supplies: index cards with sight words on them cones (or bucket or cups or sticks) soccer ball soccer goal or marked goal … [Read more...]
Candy Science for Kids: M&M Experiment
Candy is everywhere this week so we wanted to use it for some after school learning! We did another dissolving science experiment, but this time the goal was to dissolve the M off of an M&M. Have you tried this one before? It is really cool! M&M Candy Experiment Supplies: M&Ms Bowl of water That's it! Put a couple M&Ms in the water with the M side up and observe what happens. We talked about how the coating on the … [Read more...]
Cookie Math Play Dough Mat Busy Bag
Play dough mats make great busy bags--kids get a fun hands on activity that is easy to take on the go! We love to use play dough for math practice and came up with this fun cookie math counting and addition activity. Cookie Math Busy Bag Supplies: Play dough Chocolate Chip Cookie Play Dough Math Mat Free Printable That's it! This busy bag is super easy to put together. Just print the play dough mat printable and grab some play dough! … [Read more...]
20 Sight Word Games to Play Indoors
Ready to have some fun learning sight words? We love sight word activities that let us move and learn and I've found 20 different sight word games that you and your kids can play inside. They are the perfect way to practice when the weather is bad outside. Sight Word Practice Activities: 1. Light Saber Sight Word Practice 2. Cup Crash Sight Word Game 3. Spider Web Sight Word Match 4. Bean Bag Toss Sight Word Game 5. Blowing Down Sight … [Read more...]
Science Activity: Pumpkin Investigations
Science is everywhere in the fall! The weather is cooler and it's a great time for little scientists to get out and explore the world around them. We were excited to get our first pumpkins of the fall pumpkins a couple of weeks ago and decided to use them for some scientific investigations! Pumpkin Learning I made the kids a printable to use to record their predictions and estimations about the different properties of the pumpkin and then we … [Read more...]
Acts of Kindness Books for Kids
I truly believe that small, intentional acts of kindness can change the world and work very hard to teach my kids that even at their ages they can really make a difference. That's why I love today's post so much! My friend Erica from What Do We Do All Day? is the book list queen and curated this wonderful list of books that focus on kindness for me and my readers. I am so excited to read these with my kids! I'm so pleased to have this opportunity … [Read more...]
Sensory Bin for Kids: Halloween Witch’s Stew
Halloween is the perfect time for a slimy, messy sensory bin for kids! For this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids post we read What's in the Witch's Kitchen by Nick Sharratt and then pretended to cook up some of the icky things we read about in the book. The story is an engaging lift-the-flap style book with two different choices on each page, one normal and one gross. The kids really enjoyed the silly things that encountered in the witch's … [Read more...]
