My youngest and I have been doing crafts together all school year. It has been tons of fun to do the projects. We learned a lot about playing together without her sisters. Our last project we did was this Ocean themed Wreaths. We have been doing TONS of ocean activities this last month. They have…
We have been big into ocean crafts and activities the last month plus. We have just kept going with the activities. Today I have a great guest post over at Rainy Day Mum! She is doing a great summer book series. Click here to check about how to make a Dot Marker Rainbow Fish! This…
Flower crafts are always a big hit at our house. We love making and creating with them. We did a slight change from the Flower Wreath that we did two years ago. We took the felt buttons from our Flower Button Sensory Bin and made a wreath with them. This was a great way to…
Model magic is one of our favorite craft to do. We do something in it at least once a week. I love that it is such an easy thing to work with. We are on a snow and winter theme at our house. We have been reading a lot of snowmen books and doing some…
Every year we make some kind of window hanging that we put up. It changes every year what we will do. This year we made Tissue paper Christmas Wreaths. We just love having these sun catchers in the window to add more to the season. The Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath is a great addition to…
There are so many different feasts at this time of year. My girls love making placemats every year for Thanksgiving and using them through the Holiday seasons. There are so many different books that we read about feasts at this time of year. I posted about some of the in the introduction post for the…
We loved making these torn paper fall trees. They are fun to make and everyone has a different idea just how their tree should look. Plus, you get a lot of great fine motor while you are working on the trees. One of our favorite fall books is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. We just love…
We have been on a HUGE apple kick this week at our house. There are so many fun apple activities that you can do. Every year we do an apple theme. I have done it as an after-school activity. This year we made a fun tree with different punches. We had tons of fun doing…
We had a had time picking a book for this month’s book club. The girls and I read and watched several of the movies. We love the book Where the Wild Things Are and it was a fun movie and a fun book! We finally picked Where the Wild Things Are for the Books that…
The girls and I enjoy being a part of the Virtual Book Club. We have been doing it for a long time. The girls always look forward to seeing what books we will be doing. At the end of the year I thought I would round up all the activities and introduction posts from the…
With the first look at Pluto this last week we had some fun learning about the planets. I thought it was a great time to do a project and make some of the planets for ourselves. We like doing craft projects with model magic. This was a great addition to our space week. We have…
We have been doing some small activities with space. Today we learned about galaxies. There are many different types of galaxies out there. They come in 5 different types. We had fun learning about them and doing this galaxy painting. The Galaxy Oil Pastel Painting is a great addition to the space activities on the…
I love that every month we look for new books while we are in the virtual book club for kids. This month we knew all three books by Donald Crews. We had a hard time picking just one book. We have read all three books. I really liked the colors in Freight Train. So that…
This months theme is Caldecott Medal Books. There are so many different books to pick from! We really had a hard time just picking one book. There are so many books to pick from. You can see some of our favorites in the introduction post. We decided to pick one from the honor section. We…
We had a hard time picking between the three book. It was hard. We love all the book by Eric Carle. Since we are just starting the explore flower and outside this year I thought it would be fun to do a flower activity. We read the book The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric…
A recent trip to an art museum left us with some fun ideas for crafts. My girls saw a piece in passing that they just wanted to try at home. The collage was made from cut outs. They wanted to try it with our butterfly punch! We have really enjoyed our butterfly punch. It has…
We have been loving studying butterflies at our house. It has been so much fun to learn about the and do several projects to go with all our learning. This model magic butterfly project is loads and fun and easy to do. We love model magic at our house. It is easy to use and…
We have been studying butterflies at our house. It has been a really fun unit study for us. The girls had some time out of school so we got to do a few activities together around it. It is always fun to see the many different types of butterflies there are. We really like the…
We are always looking for new ways to use the printables that I make. We did this fun hands on model magic heart craft by doing just that. This is a great fine motor activity plus being creative with the materials that you have on hand. What I like best about this project is that…
We have been studying penguins at our house. It has been tons of fun. There are so many great books to read about penguins. We did this fun project as a part of our learning about penguins. Easy to set up activities are favorites at our house. You can make your own model magic penguin…
Wreaths are one of the great Christmas decorations. This is a very simple and easy to make wreath. My girls love working with yarn for crafts. This is an easy craft that many different age groups can do together. Yarn is a great craft to work with. It adds fun texture to pictures and activities….
The 12 Days of Christmas is one of my favorite stories to read with my girls. I love the whole idea. It has been tons of fun to join other in bring fun ideas for the 12 days of Christmas! Today is 5 Gold Rings. I’m joining 5 other bloggers to Blog about the the…
We have been learning about the Nativity. We have been reading books about it. We are sharing an easy Paper Roll Nativity that we put together and used with the book Itsy Bitsy Christmas: You’re Never Too Little for His Love. I love this story because it is about how the king that was visiting…
Learning about stars and planets is always a lot of fun. It is fun to learn about space and the things that are out there. For the Poppins Book Nook, we did some study of the stars. There are many different starts and things we can learn about them. There so many different parts of…
We just love Room on the Broom. It is a great book to read and fun as well. You can see great friends and how everyone helps out the witch. We love to read it over and over. It is a book we keep out all year round and not just for Halloween. Counting Ingredients…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
Fall is almost here and then trees are starting to change. It is very fun time of year here in New England. I love looking at the trees and how different all the leaves are. For a fun project that we did this fun ribbon tree. We used some different colors of ribbon that had…
My girls had a hard time to pick what book they wanted to do. We have all three books but they liked The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon series) the best. We read this book over and over. I love how it turns out. The books with Pigeon in them are always fun to read!…
This whole week we have been learning about apples. This is one of the activities that we did with our Apple Theme. Apple is one of our favorite themes for the fall. You can always do something with them. So many activities are fun and easy to do. This apple tree is super easy to…
I’ve been excited about this one for the last month. The girls picked the book Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) for this months author Aliki. This is a great fall book as well. We loved learning about different parts of history for corn. While on vacation this summer we…