“Sensory” is quite the buzz word in early education these days. Maybe you have heard of Sensory Processing Disorder. I used to think that all it involved was kids not liking certain sensations on their skin, like squishy things, or wet things. It’s actually far more complicated. My kid didn’t fit into THAT category! Phew! […]
Letter Hopscotch
Time for another installment of “Serious” Fun Saturdays! Loopy has been very interested in “reading” books on his own. He knows almost all his letters and sounds, but Upper and Lowercase letters still mess him up. Loopy came up with this great game for learning about letters, using a common kitchen utensil. […]
Baby-safe Slime
This post may contain links that help support my family. If you’d like to know more, click here. Now that Lumpy is one, he wants to do EVERYTHING that Loopy does. Unfortunately, he still likes to mouth stuff so he doesn’t get to participate in some of our learning activities for safety reasons. When […]
Construction Themed Third Birthday
This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Learn more here. When Loopy turned three, I wanted an easy theme for decorations and play. The natural choice was construction trucks. Just stick your dirt cake in the back of a dump truck to make your boys drool even more! I decided to […]
Fire-Breathing Dragon Craft
This fun and simple craft idea came from “Here Come The Girls” Blog. I saw the image on Pinterest and just ran with it. This dragon craft goes with our unit on Knights and Castles. We also did a fun play castle here. All you need is a paper cup, streamers, and some googly eyes. (Also green […]
Cardboard Tabletop Play Castle
This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about that here. As part of our Knights and Castles Unit, I knew I wanted to build a castle that the boys could play with throughout the day. There were many lovely castles on pinterest that I used for inspiration (unfortunately none of […]
Cooking Kids: The Simplest Cookies On The Planet
We spent the month of March studying cooking and baking. This cookie recipe is another pinterest find. It’s perfect for getting young ones involved in the whole process. It’s insanely simple, cheap and rather yummy. All you need are TWO INGREDIENTS! (Though you can add yummy mix-ins) All you need are two bananas (the more […]
Cooking Unit for Preschoolers
The month of March was a fun one at our house, especially in the kitchen! Our theme was cooking and baking. I found this theme to be especially easy to infiltrate into our daily conversation since, well…we eat a lot! I was constantly helping Loopy learn some new vocabulary (ingredients, units of measure, recipe, whisk, […]
A New Learning Utensil??? Tongs
This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about that here. I’ve really got to give all the credit to Loopy on this one. He turned a boring kitchen utensil into a fun and versatile learning game. In the month of March, our unit topic for preschool was cooking and baking. […]
Cooking and Baking Unit: Soup Craft
We loved studying cooking and baking for this month’s preschool unit. It was just so natural to learn throughout the day, whenever we were hungry (which is a lot!) We read a ton of great books, so if you need a reading list, I’m all over it for you. This post contains affiliate links that […]