This is a simple heart sorting project and is lots of fun. It is all hearts for Valentines! You can review the shape and the colors with this simple activity. What you need for the heart sorting activity Valentines Smart Foam Conversation Heart Stickers egg carton. How to do the Heart Sorting Activity We started…
Another fun activity for learning the letters of your name. Stamping letters of their name is fun and easy way to learn the letters. This hands on activity gets them to learn the letters of their name. You can work on doing it different ways. What you need: paints, paper with name written on 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….
The girls and I a lot of fun during the year. Here is some of the random fun posts that were my favorite and one from the girls as well. Tissue Box Camera The Tissue Box Camera was one of my first posts. It may be old but one of my favorite ones. The girls…
With the use of my Hanukkah Pack, we have been counting down the nights and graphing out dreidel spins. This has been great fun for the girls. Each night we have been coloring the candles on our Color the Menorah Each Night. It is a fun way the girls can keep track of what night…
Are you doing a count down to Christmas? We have two different ways going right now! I blogged already about the other one we are doing with our Elf Red Snowflake. This coloring chart was made by MelonHeadz Illustrations as a freebie that she offered. I included it as part of the Reindeer Pack Part…
The girls love doing things different and you can always use a printable different than you think! This time we use the shape book from the Thanksgiving Tot Pack to make a fun new activity. We made some Thanksgiving Shape Matching Activities! What you need: Shape book from the Thanksgiving Tot Pack printed on card…
Today on the way to the bus it was a rush to find all the snow gear. Throwing on the coat and rushing to the door with hopes we would not miss the bus. Rose decided we needed to look for animal foot prints. Something we have done before. We did not see any. Rose…
My girls are excited about Halloween and we have done some activities Halloween already. One of the things we have talked about is safety. I read over a great post by JDaniel4’s Mom called Halloween Tips: Trick or Treating Etiquette. This is a great post that covers a lot of simple things to talk with…
What should have been a craft and activity afternoon turned into lets play in the leaves. Some times going off the scheduled plans means having just a little bit more fun. With the weather here turning nasty really soon. This was the last chance to enjoy something that was a fun fall activity. We always…
We read Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Scott Magoon for the Virtual Book Club. The girls loved reading Chopsticks after having read Spoon. What you need: yarn, pom poms, chopsticks of various kinds, pick up sticks, containers and plates. We tried to use the chopsticks. They pulled them apart. I showed them how you…
After reading this great post by In Lieu of Preschool. My girls asked to so some big chalk activities. I said yes you we could. The after first time we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert, we went outside and did a chalk drawing. We started with a basic tree. We added leaves…
Today, I watched Mary play and do something she normally does with her sisters. She had a great time, but every time there was an easy path, she choose to do something harder. So some times the hard way is much more fun. Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
I just recently found Stampominos. They are great stamps for making coloring pages. The girls have really enjoyed them. Here are some fun thing we have done with the stamps to make our own activities from them. Counting Sheets: Count and fill in the number Or you can provide a number and have them stamp…
On our weekly trip to the library the girls saw a mommy duck and six ducklings swimming away. They were so excited about it. We went into the library and then came out. We sat on a bench and watched the pond. The girls were so excited by every simple little bird sound they heard….
Over the last few days we have taken a look at nature. We all took an early morning walk and saw everything that had recently bloomed. You could still see the dew on the grass… …which everyone had to touch… …and touch again to see if they could make a drip of water stay on…
My girls love reading books, but often struggle with words they might not know. I made these Early Reader Paper Plates for a lot of their favorite books. It is an easy early reading practice that you can use. These are fun to see how your child is reading and see where they need help….
We have been working on patterns. This week we used socks. Rose and Amelia have been putting on a different socks each day and making patterns out of them. This is also a great activity to do with the book Fox in Socks. They put the socks on and then decide what the pattern will…
Check out this fun activity of painting butterflies and our trip to see real a Butterfly Place mentioned in the book. We read the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly. Then we took a trip to The Butterfly Place. We also read the book again when we got home and reviewed what we saw while we…
Coloring flowers is an easy science project that everyone can do almost anywhere. We cut up 4 stems of mums. The girls each picked a color. Amelia picked red. Mary picked yellow. Rose picked green. We kept one set white to compare later. After a few hours we checked and saw some changes already. The…
The girls like music of all kinds. It is something we have playing in the house often. We have started listening to The Piano Guys on You Tube. Each of them have a favorite song. They will gather around the computer and watch a new video and then dance to the video. Here are some…
The Little Red Hen is a class folktale story. It is one that is fun to read and learn from. We read the book and learned about making bread and the steps that we did. We read The Little Red Hen (Little Golden Book) and then made bread. Amelia put the ingredients in the mixer….
Over the past few days we have gone outside a lot looking for signs of spring. The girls love finding the daffodils all over. They liked looking at the various flowering trees. Amelia and Mary loved picking small flowers. Mary liked to point out the colors of the flower and could say Daffodil so those…
We are working on flowers right now and what better way to see lots of them than to take a trip to the flower shop! The shops carry different flowers throughout the year. This is a great way to look at flower and see the different smells and colors. This also allows them to touch…
A fun way to do vocabulary words is to go fishing for them. I have used it with someone as young as 18 months. I learned this from the Early Intervention Speech Therapist and I have been using it for years now. This is a great way to get fine motor skills in and learn…
Welcome to 3 Dinosaurs. I’m a busy mother of three wonderful girls, ages 2, 4, and 6. They are a joy to have. I am supplementing what they are learning at public school with additional information at home. This has led to lots of fun activities. I hope to share with you all the fun…