I love changing up how we use printables. My girls love different activities and variety. I’m always looking for a new way to use our flashcards. I have a fun post that has Top 10 Ways to use Flashcards. Today I’ll show you one fun way we use our sight word flashcards. This is a…
‘m always looking for new sensory bins that I can do with my girls. It means being creative sometimes. My girls wanted to do another Shark Water Bead Sensory Bin and I thought it would be fun to change it up a bit. We did some Prehistoric Sea Life instead. My girls love learning about…
The seventh pack is out for the Alphabet Stomping Phonics PreK-Kinder Pack. These are really fun sets for kids to work on their phonics sounds. Each set is based on one letter. You have so many fun activities wrapped up in one bundle. This has to be one of my favorite sets that I have…
What happens when you child asks to play more with the counters? Put them in a sensory bin! We took the counters from the ocean mats and put it all in a sensory bin. They are so much fun and easy to do. This sensory bin took less than 2 minutes to put together. I…
Counting can be one of those hard activities to work on. These mats make counting a lot of fun with a hands-on activity. My youngest loves using ten frames for her counting activities. We have been working on it a little bit. I thought I would make some ocean mats to go with our Ocean…
I’m always changing up the themes at our house. This last month plus it has been lots ocean activities. We have had so much fun with it. One of the last printables to round out our month is an Ocean Themed Sight Word Cards set! These cards are so much fun for the ocean loving…
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…
It is always great to have a fun calendar theme to work with kids! They love lots of fun changes. I have always loved doing the calendar sets for my girls. We have used these a lot over the years. The next set to be updated is the Beach Calendar set for August and July…
Over the last few months, I’ve added loads of new products in my stores! Plus there are more coming every day! For this holiday weekend, I thought I would throw a fun sale. 20% off Everything in both of my stores! You can see some of the new products below. Get 20% off all my…
I’m always looking for fun and different sensory play ideas. With this month’s Virtual Book Club book Pinkalicious, we thought it would be fun to do a sensory bin. So we put together a pink sensory bin to go with the book. Sensory bins are fun because it is an open play activity while feeding…
The last few days I’ve had a lot of time to reflex on a few things in my life and think about what is important. I went to my uncles funeral, and I took the first time off from the blog and being a mom ever. I did not have my girls, and it was…
We are in full swing with summer reading here! That means almost daily trips to the library for books and fun! I love our local library and all they offer for the summer. Plus reading helps prevent the summer slide! It is a great way to get kids to keep up their reading skills by…
Summer is in full swing and this is a great series for those that want to do a little activity but don’t want to spend tons of time prepping activities. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We…
I saw all the signs but I listened to the advice and made up excuses along the way ignoring the oncoming ripples. “Oh, she will grow out of this phase!” – I just need to wait and it will go away. “They all catch up so don’t worry about it.” – I won’t worry about…
The sixth free pack is out today in the Alphabet Stomping Phonics Tot-Preschool Pack. Since the Tot-Preschool are different packs from the PreK-Kinder packs they come out on a different day. Today’s letter is F. The sets are coming out every 2 weeks. This set works wonderfully with the Romping & Roaring ABC packs. The…
Summer is always a busy time and keeping kids learning while saving time is hard. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We are in week 4 of the series. This week’s theme is Bugs! It has 7…
Summer is one of those times where writing is not done as much and I like to find ways to keep them thinking. That is why we have some ocean themed writing prompts. The idea behind these is to give them something to think about for their writing this summer. Ocean animals are a great…
The sixth pack is out for the Alphabet Stomping Phonics PreK-Kinder Pack. These are really fun sets for kids to work on their phonics sounds. Each set is based on one letter. You have so many fun activities wrapped up in one bundle. This has to be one of my favorite sets that I have…
Messy, messy sensory is great fun by mixing two of our favorite sensory play together: water beads and shaving cream! My girls just love having sensory bins. We always have a sensory bin up to play in. After the last water bead sensory bin, I took the beads and added it to shaving cream to…
One part of the traveling during the summer I dread is eating out. You never know what the places will have for the kids or if they don’t have activities. This summer we are going to be prepared for our eating out! I’m making several sets of themed placemats! We are starting with an ocean…
I know as a parent it really is horrible to find something quick and easy to prevent the summer slide. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We are in week 3 of the series. This week’s theme…
The first summer with no summer school? I was panicking. Both the teachers and I knew my oldest needed to be reviewing and relearned materials from the school year. I took several deep breaths and started working on a basic plan for the summer. I made several themed sets and worked on a small summer…
The summer slide sucks and this was made to help prevent the summer slide! The Swing Into Summer Learning was made to help your just print and use. We are in week 2 of the series. This week’s theme is Superhero! It has 7 levels of learning: Tot, PreK, Kinder, First Grade, Second Grade, Third…
If you know me I LOVE themed printables! I love changing up what we do during the summer. This summer we are using some easy no-prep themed printables to go with a theme for the month. We are starting with a favorite theme at our house OCEAN! These are some fun Numbers and Math printables…
This month’s Virtual Book Club book is The Rainbow Fish. It is a favorite at our house. We have loved this book for a long time. One part I like about the Virtual Book Club is that I’m challenged to come up with something new each month for a book that we know or love….
Goals have been huge for me over the last few years. Every time I post a goal, I learn more about what I need to get that goal done. Some of my goals are daily, weekly and monthly. They each help me make my feel better about myself when I get them done. As we…
Every month we love looking for new books. There are always books coming out and it is fun to read them. We go to the library every week. It helps us look for different books or to have books pointed out to us as well. It has been tons of fun just looking for the…
Our fourth Summer Program is here! This year’s program is called Swing Into Summer Learning! We want to take a swing at our skills during the summer and not let them go. Like two programs each week of the 5 weeks of Swing Into Summer Learning has a different theme. We start today with Week…
Ocean is a favorite theme for us! The ocean calendar set is being updated again with the new pages for 2016. I know that we just love using these pages and they are tons of fun for kids. This set also goes nicely with the Ocean Pack. It is fun and easy to use. There…