My girls were very excited about this Where the Wild Things Are book activity. We have been having some fun doing activities with Where the Wild Things Are. You can check out our Kid of the Wild Things Crowns we did as well. Here are some fun gross motor activities to do with the Book…
We love doing gross motor activities at our house. At least three of four times a week we do some kinds of gross motor activity. This activity is a fun ways to read a book and get moving at the same time. This is a great addition to our gross motor activities on the site!…
This months Enchanted Homeschooling Mom post is a beach themed gross motor! We hand tons of fun with this post. It goes with the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell!. Check out all the fun gross motor activities that we did! It goes well with all the other beach themes on…
Every month I write a fun post for Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. I love every one of the posts. This month is one of my favorite activities is gross motor with book! This activity goes with the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog!. This is a fun way to interact with the…
I’m always looking at different ways to do gross motor. My girls love to get moving when they can. These Skip Counting Floor printables are prefect for getting kids moving. These skip counting printables have skip counting starting numbers by 2 through 12. Each of the number is on one regular size piece of paper…
We love adding gross motor to books. For this months Virtual Book Club, we did gross motor with Goodnight Moon. This makes a fun books that my girls enjoy another fun way to explore the book. Plus it gets them up and going while reading a book they love. This is simple easy to do….
We have had many days where we were stuck inside and unable to get out. This winter has been a long one. Something fun we have been doing is changing up some of our favorite activities. We have hula hoops in the house and we use them a lot for various activities. Today is about…
If you have been following me for a while you know that each month lately I’ve been doing a gross motor post on Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. This month has to be my favorite post that I have done. I have put some extra help into to each part. I hope that you really enjoy it….
For the Virutal Book Club For Kids we read The Cow Who Clucked. I found this books to be a long to fun. You can explore the sounds that each animal makes. It is fun to pause for the kids to say “Cluck, Cluck” for the cow. For this activity, since we are doing the…
This month’s contributor post at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom was a special one for me. This was the gross motor activities that two little girls put together after I gave them a tape letter ladder. They picked all the movements and made it loads of fun. I encourage you to check it out and see how…
As many know this is my third time I’m doing the 30 Days of Moving with Kids Challenge. I’ve done it every April since I started 3 Dinosaurs. I had someone ask me about ways to keep track of what they have done. I have debated on how I would want to do this since…
I love to do hands on learning when we can. One fun way we have been doing this masking tape words. There are variety of things you can do when you make the words on the floor. I just want to show some of them that we do. Not everything has to be about flash…
Get your kids moving and doing with this classical Wheels on the Bus Gross motor! We read Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus Board Book. This has been a great book to read at our house. We have loved the book. You never know what book your kids will just cling on to….
This month for the Virtual Book Club, we read Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Board Book (World of Eric Carle) by Bill Martin Jr. I love how the books repeat and you learn some fun reading in them. These type of books have been a favorite at our house for some time….
This is hands-on learning for Jack and the Beanstalk! Learning is always more fun when you add some hands-on with crafts and gross motor. For this months book we did Jack and the Beanstalk. I love the many different variety of this story, but the classic tales of it are just as fun. We learned…
Do you love playing classic games with your kids? This post will give you a new way to play Red Light Green Light! We had so much fun doing this activity! It is always fun to change things up! Check out my contributor post! The site where this post was is now gone but working…
My first in a a year of posts at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom goes live today! I am so excited about doing these posts. Each month I’m going to have a post that goes up with a different subject for kids in preschool to kindergarten range. You can find out more about what I’ll be posting….
We love the book Jump, Frog, Jump! The girls have loved it since Rose had it first read to her in preschool. Since then we have gone through 2 board books and at least 3 paper backs of the book. This activity also goes great with the Pond Pack. What you need: Pencil or something…
My girls love sidewalk chalk! The first sign of good weather they are asking if we can go outside and do sidewalk chalk. I love to let them do it! I saw this post of Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas last year about Sight Word Hopscotch. I did it last year and was great…
We love Gross motor and book activities and this is one of our favorite ways to get moving! Plus is is a fun Dr. Seuss Activity as well. So get up and get moving with reading the ABCs! You get more than 26 gross motor ideas for kids to do! Each page is loads of…
As we finish up this week only a few days are left for this challenge. How did you do? Did you do every day or just did your best? We did 2 days on one book because the girls enjoyed it so much! There will be a full blog post about it later this month….
As we finish up this week only a few days are left for this challenge. How did you do? Did you do every day or just did your best? Part of this week we started a theme of Movements from books! This is fun and easy to do. Sorry some days don’t have pictures. It…
I love adding gross motor and other activities together. And this is a great activity for counting, gross motor and fine motor all at the same time. This week we have been doing the Gross Motor challenge slightly differently. We have been using books. It changes up what you are doing and makes it fun….
Another week has come and gone! I can’t believe how fast this challenge is going! Erin at Royal Baloo and I have been fun with this. We are also looking towards the challenge for February. We are going to do Fine Motor next month. Look for more information about this with challenge post on the…
Another week has come and gone! I can’t believe how fast this challenge is going! For more information about the challenge check it out here: 31 Days of Gross Motor Challenge. January 5th: Day Five: Fifth day we played pompom throwing & kick walking. Pompom Throwing Kick Walking January 6th: Day Six: Sixth day we…
Welcome to Day 5 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. This has been a great week and today is the last day of the ABC Series. At the end of the post I have a few lists of Pinterest Boards and printables I have found. U is for Under A lot of times in these…
Welcome to Day 4 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. I will say some letters were harder than others and today has some of those. P is for Play Never mistake playing outside for a lack of gross motor. Simple areas can be perfect for play! Playgrounds are wonderful, but so is just running in…
Welcome to Day 3 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. The first two days were great fun and I’m looking forward to today as well! I love exploring all the ideas. I often have a hard time settling on one subject per letter. K is for Kick Kicking is lots of fun and works on…
Welcome to Day 2 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. The first day was great fun and I’m looking forward to today as well! F is for Fun Why does gross motor have to be hard? It should be fun at any age. Activities my girls don’t care for can be changed into ones they…
Welcome to Day 1 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. Over the next 5 days I’m going to give a lot of gross motor fun. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do and that at the end of this 5 day series you have some great ideas for your kids! A…