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Ways to Play with Hands-On Play Party
Welcome back to the Hands-on Play Party! We're celebrating all the ways kids learn through hands on activity and play. Have a post to share? Please add it to linky below, or just look around and see...
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The Olympics, Oh Link Picks Linky Party #5
Welcome to The Olympics, Oh Link Picks Linky Party and Medal Ceremony #5 This Link Up will be held on Wednesdays between January 22nd and February 26th to help you share and discover ideas,...
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Giveaways and the Weekly Kids Co-op
Today I'm doing the Weekly Kids Co-op a little differently. Instead of highlighting my favorite posts that were added last week, I thought I'd share with you some giveaways that are going on that...
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Toddler Activities & We Love Weekends WOW Linky
Welcome back to the We Love Weekends linky! This week I'm highlighting 3 easy ways to play that toddlers especially will like (though my preschooler would love any of these as well!) that were linked...
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Using A Knife - Fine Motor Fridays
I let my 4 year old cut with a knife. A sharp one. Okay, admittedly not super-sharp. There will be no slicing through tin cans with this baby. But sharper than a butter knife. Some people will...
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Make-your-own Snow Globe
We received these make-your-own snow globes from Oriental Trading. They come with a snowman insert that you can color, then you fill the globes with water and add the newly-colored snowman picture...
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Simple Easter Chicks Craft
I'm excited to have Angela Henderson of Finlee and Me guest posting today! This Easter craft is adorable and can be used with multiple age groups. Over to Angela now... This Easter craft is super...
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Snow play in the house
If there's snow on the ground, Kay wants to play outside. It doesn't matter if it's only a dusting, if it's 4 degrees out, if it's a blizzard - she wants to be out there, making snow angels,...
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5 times I needed a Walgreens Healthcare Clinic
Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. I was compensated for this post regarding Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Philadelphia and other locations nationwide by...
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Who said you could grow up?
What is it about 5 years old that makes it such a milestone birthday? Maybe because it means school and writing and homework; loose teeth and no training wheels and no more needing pushes on the...
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Olympics Oh, Link Picks Closing Ceremony
I had fun participating in The Olympics Oh, Link Picks Linky party these past several weeks, and seeing all the great Olympic-related ideas and activities that were shared. I'm kind of sorry to see...
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Fun Winter Sensory Motor Learning
I'm very excited to have The Inspired Treehouse here today, sharing a guest post filled with fun winter learning ideas! Since they are occupational and physical therapists, they even tell you what...
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Top 5 Play Picks & Weekly Kids Co-op
I'm switching things up this week. Instead of focusing on a single theme of posts to highlight, I'm going to chose 5 of my favorite ways to play each week. Think of it as "5 for (almost) Friday". At...
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We Love Weekends WOW Linky 2/28
Yes, I know, you're here for the linky. But since you're here I have to share it - my baby girl is 5 today. 5 years old! Yikes! It seems like such a milestone birthday, somehow so much older than 4....
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Winter Crafts {Fine Motor Friday}
With a bag full of cotton balls at our disposable, Kay and I sat down ready to create. What? Well, we didn't know exactly. But it's winter in New England and my mind immediately zeroed in on snow...
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Using Our 5 Senses
We've been working on exploring our 5 senses - touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell. And Kay's favorite way of learning (and, okay, mine too!) is eating. And if the learning involves eating...
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Barnyard Book Club Giveaway!
A while back I wrote a review of the Barnyard Book Club. I had won a giveaway and was sent a book and a cute craft idea with all the supplies to go with it. I loved the whole thing and had to share...
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What can you make with Styrofoam?
February was Styrofoam and other packaging materials month. Or at least it was at Project: Recycle & Create! We had some wonderfully creative projects shared with us and now I'd like to share...
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Styrofoam main page
Month 2 of Project: Recycle & Create was dedicated to Styrofoam, packing peanuts, and similar materials. Kids love to play with packing peanuts (mine can't be the only one!) and Styrofoam holds...
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Pom Pom Races
This is a fun, quick and easy activity using two things you likely already have in your house: straws and pom poms. Kay and I had pom pom races, blowing in the straw to move the pom poms to the...
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