While we have been stuck inside we have been doing some fun activities. This was a fun valentines themed science activity that we did. We explored wind and how it moves objects. The Tissue Paper Heart Activity is a great addition to the Valentines activities on the site. Science Fun with Tissue Paper Hearts This…
This months FreehomeschoolDeals.com printable is a Valentines Tile Words! These all match up with the Valentines Pack. These printables go great with the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!. This lets you have more fun with the words and learning. What you will find in these printables: 20 pages of printables…
Valentines is always a fun with the exchanging of cards. I always look for fun cards each year. This year I thought I would do something different. One thing I dislike about buying store cards is that the line for writing the name is always so small. Younger kids can never seem to fit their…
Merry Christmas! My girls and I are taking a few days off! We shall be having fun and enjoying the season together! I’ll shall see you in the new year 2015! Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
Water beads are a favorite at our house! After the fall water bead search my girls asked for something just as fun for Christmas! This was tons of fun to set up and loads of sensory fun for them to play in. My girls love the Safari Ltd Designer TOOBS Christmas. I’m always looking for…
Dreidels and candles are a big part of Hanukkah. We always have fun exploring them in different ways. A few years ago we did a
There are so many ways to learn about the Nativity. And acrostic poem writing is a great way to do that. Kids can explore words and work on learning more about the Nativity. We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the…
Last night was the first night of Hanukkah. We had a ton of fun. I had a last minute Hanukkah challenge for the girls to be creative with pattern blocks. Kids love having activities that are last minute with little to no prep involved. This is one of those activities for Hanukkah. It takes less…
Christmas trees are a great theme for this time of year. There are so many ways to decorate a Christmas tree. We did this fun q-tip painting activity to get some fun fine motor activities in. This is also and easy activity that the child can lead where they want to go with it. I…
The Nutcracker is a great theme at Christmas time. For that theme, this year is a fun learning pack with a Nutcracker theme. This really fun Nutcracker pack has loads of different Nutcracker types. They make a fun learning pack for kids to learn about Christmas. You are going to find a mix of hands-on…
Christmas is a great time to explore many different things. My girls love to do coloring activities. We have been working on some writing of Christmas words as well. There are many words to learn at Christmas time. It is fun to be able to learn all of them. These printables are a great way…
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….
Christmas lights are one thing my girls just love to go out and see. Bringing part of that into activities has been tons of fun. This sensory bin is an extension of the
We have been having so much fun with these rolling activities. My older girls wanted something more challenging for them. So for the Christmas Tree, I added in some more challenging math addition and multiplication. This is such a fun activity to do. This was a perfect addition to the Christmas printables on 3 Dinosaurs….
We have been working on making lots of words from letters. I thought we would do this activity for Christmas. We have really enjoyed this and it is something that can be used for many different levels. You can do basic words or try and work on larger words. It can vary for the level…
One of the great themes of Christmas is the Christmas lights. My girl love looking at the lights. This was a fun change in the activities with the lights. We have been working on colors and fine motor. This was a great way to combined the two activities. This makes such a great activity for…
My girls just love to countdown to Christmas. I was looking around my printables and realized that I put made something last year I did not put out! It was the fun Countdown to Christmas with fun advent printables. I had put together a few different ones and I guess I never had time to…
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone is having a great day and relaxing! It is a holiday in the US and I’m taking the day off! It is one of the few days that I don’t do some work of some kind. Well other than cooking! Every year I work towards goals and this year…
Hanukkah is in December this year and really close to Christmas. I updated the Hanukkah calendar cards and single page for December 2014. It is always fun to have seasonal calendars to work with. The theme through the calendar is menorah and dreidel. This is a perfect theme for the holiday. This calendar also goes…
Over the last two years, one of our favorite activities is to countdown to Christmas with books! This is a simple and fun advent activity to do for Christmas. Plus takes almost no time to put together at all. There are so many great Christmas books out there to read. Kids of all ages love…
November is a great month to write about giving thanks and learning about the first Thanksgiving. We have been doing a little writing and drawing this year. These Thanksgiving writing prompts are something fun to use. You can use as many of as little as you want. This gives you some flexibility in the age…
Learning the CVC word family words is always fun to do. There are many different ways to work with them. This Halloween time we have been using some fun foam bats to make our CVC word family words. This is fun for the kids and is a great review of of the words for older…
We have been having fun exploring some fine motor activities with Halloween themed cookie cutters! This is tons of fun to explore the colors and how creative you kids can be exploring different combination of items to make the picture in the cookie cutter. This activity works in creative and fine motor at the same…
Halloween has so many different things you can explore. This Eye Ball Sensory Bin was lots of fun to explore different weights. There were different eyeballs that were very light to hold and the rock was very heavy compared to the erasers. This was also great to look at the shapes of the eyes ball…
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…
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…
Happy 4th of July! I hope that you are having a great time! I have mentioned this before but I’m taking part of this month off. I have post coming so enjoy! I hope that you have a wonderful 4th and a great summer! If you are looking for some summer printables check these rounds…
The American Revolutionary War Pack is a fun pack with a mix of people and some events from the Revolution war that you can do with younger kids. You have Paul Revere to George Washington. The Revolutionary War pack has different themes like Redcoats and minutemen. So many great way to learn with puzzles, writing,…
The free Earth Day Pack is a great learning pack for tot, preschool, prek, kindergarten and first grade. The Earth Day Learning Pack has a wide range of hands-on, low prep, and no prep printables to use with kids. This is a fun new pack that also works well with the Mini Earth Day Pack….
Every season there are great foam shapes that come out. I love using them for puzzles and some hands on learning. We have been doing some number matching games and I thought it would be fun to use the foam Easter eggs that I found to do it. We have been reading stories about Easter…