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Healthy Eating Tips + Printable Chart
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Horizon Organic. The opinions and text are all mine. Choosing healthy foods can sometimes be hard for little kids who base their choices of 2...
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How to Make Homemade Apple Pie – Cooking with Preschoolers
Welcome to our first day of Playful Preschool!! I am super excited that you are here and I am hoping that you too are joining me on this adventure to bring that little extra learning and FUN to our...
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Harvesting in the Carrot Patch
Welcome to another week of awesomely themed playful preschool! Follow the hashtag #playfulpreschool on social media, where we bring you some hands on learning for your preschooler! This weeks theme is...
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Tons of Ideas for Practicing Cutting Skills (a Fine Motor Must)
Lately we have been working on cutting practice ideas for our homeschool lessons. Learning through play is tons of fun! My 2 and half year old and 5 year old love getting to use a scissors and I am...
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Seedlings in Egg Shells
This little gardening activity is pretty self explanatory. It is another way to get kids interested in gardening and to get the seedlings going in your kitchen. My 4 year old loved helping with this...
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Free Personalized Printable Chore Chart Template
With a ton of spring cleaning going on I decided to make the kids their own spring themed chore chart! I wanted to share it with you but after realizing that parents like to have their children do...
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Recycled Money Wipe Box
We are wrapping the final posts for 60 days of junk play!! WOW, some awesome creative things have been made. Do check them out on the link at the bottom of this post! My final contribution is this...
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Fine Motor Oh Say Can You Seed? Garden Activity
I love gardening with my little girl. There is so much to learn, experience, and observe. A family garden provides more than just food, abundant early learning opportunities, practical life skills and...
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Sorting Fruit and Vegetables by Color
For our Preschool theme this week I decided to do a bit of color and type sorting with a printable set of fruit and vegetables! I plan to laminate this collection later this week so we can repeat the...
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Tips for Successfully Keeping Goldfish
Getting a goldfish in a bag? This is the classic image of many a child’s first pet – a friendly fish. Watching the little guy flit and flip around a bowl brings such joy to little watchers. After...
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Read Along Book Activity with DOG
Matthew Van Fleet is the name behind numerous books that introduce kids to opposites, textures, colors, and basic biology. He uses animals to demonstrate the different concepts, giving them playful...
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5 Books Celebrating Nature in the Backyard
This is my list of the top 5 favorite books about backyard nature, shared between myself and my daughter. These are books I don’t mind reading over and over and she equally enjoys hearing the story and...
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A to Z Compost Stew – Alphabet Search Activity
From apple cores to zinnia heads, kids will learn 26 new ingredients to add to their compost pile. Author Mary McKenna Siddals linked up with illustrator Ashley Wolff to create a beautiful book...
View ArticleSpring Flower Shop Dramatic Play Invitation
I love to watch little ones dive into imaginative play, diving deeply into whatever situation they are pretending to be in. I miss being able to immerse myself so deeply in playtime that you see...
View ArticleCareers Touch Feel and Guess Sensory Box
Introduce kids to different jobs in the community while appealing their senses and using their imaginations to figure out what they are touching. This Careers- Touch Feel and Guess Sensory Box is a fun...
View ArticleSprouting Seeds Activity
Kids love digging in the dirt and also seeing what they plant begin to sprout up! A simple activity like this Sprouting Seeds Activity teaches kids a great deal about our food and how to care for it...
View ArticleHow to Create A Vegetable Garden with Kids
There can be days when you want your kids to not be cooped up indoors and just enjoy the outside world. Well, what better way to do this than by engaging them in garden work that is not only...
View ArticleSpring Egg Money Counting Game
Counting coins can be a tricky, so why not turn this important math skill into a game? When you craft this spring egg money counting game, you can turn coin counting into a fun challenge that children...
View ArticlePrintable Body Parts Matching Game
Learning about our bodies is an important thing for children to learn. There are songs like Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, but that only gives a few of the many body parts. There are body parts from...
View ArticleEmotions Daily Tracker & Games Printable Pack
How many times has a child told you he or she is scared when it turns out they are nervous? This same occurs when they are shy. They think they are scared but it is actually a totally different...
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