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DIY Easter Pom Pom Decorations
This guest post from Tina Demos Coves shows how to make your own pom poms and turn them into an Easter decoration...or even garland! All children should be supervised when using scissors. And over...
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Turtle - Just Playing?
"Just Playing" is a collaborative series started by Amy of Child Care Station, celebrating the wonderful play of childhood. As horrible as it may sound, Kay only comes up with her own...
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We Love Weekends 3/14
Spring, spring, is almost here...wait, is that snow?! Yes, March 14 and we've been blessed (?!) with the lovely white stuff. At this point I'd prefer to see more of the lovely green stuff (grass, I...
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Floating Grape Experiment
I must admit, I never gave much thought to whether grapes would float in water or not. But I got this great science experiment idea from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails and decided to try...
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Pasta and Vegetable Critters
Vince Borg is guest posting today with a message that it's okay to play with your food! He'll explain... Kids love being creative and unfortunately also have a love of playing with food. But that...
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Cardboard Tube Owls
It's cardboard tube month forProject: Recycle & Create, and I thought it would be fun to make something along the lines of a bird/owl-type thing. (Not to mention that we have an abundance of...
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Welcome SITS visitors!
It's my SITS Day! Yay! Just a quick post to say how much I appreciate your visit! Imagine my surprise to go online and find out at 12:30pm that P is for Preschooler is the blog of the day. Yikes!...
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Easy Bird's Nest Craft
I love seeing the birds start to build their nests each spring, and it never fails to fascinate me how they manage to do such a great job. This easy craft would be one way to broach the topic of...
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"Baby Ready" e-book release
This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are my own. I'm excited to share with you the release of "Baby Ready - Preparing for and Adapting to Life with Baby," written by my blogging friend...
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We Love Weekends WOW Linky 3/21
From dinosaurs, to ice castles, to pool noodle caterpillars, there were a lot of fun ideas linked up last week! Here are some of my faves: Rainbow Ice Castle A colorful, sensory way to build!...
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Slime Science
Out of the blue, Kay said, "I want to make slime! Can we make slime today?" Slime, goop, oobleck - whatever you call it, it's messy. So that's the first thing that went through my head. But...
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Working on 1:1 Correspondence
We've been working on 1:1 correspondence lately. It simply means recognizing, for example, that the number 3 stands for 3 separate objects. Simple to say, difficult for some preschoolers to grasp...
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Cardboard Tube Kazoo
Music can be made from anything and anywhere, as a recent production of Sesame Street Live emphasized and Kay has grasped onto that message. Yesterday she said, "Look, even my apple makes music," as...
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Western-Themed Party for Kids
I'm excited to share with you this guest post about throwing a Western-themed party! I would have loved to go to something like this when I was a kid...yeah, okay, I would love to go to something...
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Easter Egg Letter Matching Game
I saw this idea several blogs and wanted to try it (and add it to one more blog - mine. I'm nothing if not unoriginal!) Kay loves playing with those plastic Easter eggs. We'll put in pieces of...
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Spring into Learning with Sensory Bins
The thing I love most about sensory bins, besides the fact that they keep Kay entertained, is that they don't need to be complicated. Simple works best for us. Sometimes all it takes is a bin with...
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Preschool Crafts and We Love Weekends linky
Way to make it hard for me to pick my favorite, everyone who linked uplast week! There were so many good ideas it took some real time and thought to narrow it down to 4 favorites. (And thinking is...
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Shape Activities for Pre-Writers (e-book)
Watching children go from random scribbles to shapes to letters is a wonderful (and sometimes frustrating) process to watch. Heather Gruetman has written a wonderful e-book for parents of...
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Golf Ball Painting
I'm happy to have Angela Henderson, of Finlee and Me , back today with a fun painting activity - minus the brushes! This fun, colorful activity is something that everyone in the family can try....
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DIY Double-decker Bus
I'm so excited to be joining up with Poppins Book Nook for their 2nd year! It's a virtual book club where each month is a different topic and a great group of bloggers each posts about a book and...
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