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Create quiet boxes for little ones to spend some alone time working creatively and independently on their own!

Access Hundreds of Fun, Educational Printables, and Hands-on Activities that Kids Absolutely Love. Perfect For Homeschooling and Classrooms.

Tic-Tac-Toe to Go: $2 Nikki at Salty Pineapple made this to-go version of tic-tac-toe. You can use plastic figurines found at the dollar store (Cowboys vs. Indians? Army men vs. Dinosaurs?) and take this game with you for instant fun on the go. Click here for The Salty Pineapple’s Tutorial. Counting Game: $1 Reader Ann […]

Setting up a preschool post office theme is so easy and full of learning opportunities! Here is how we did at home with my 3 year old.

Learn how one mom made a simple Car Parking Numbers Game for her toddler to practice his number learning and number recognition!

Dig into fall with a fun pumpkin scented rice sensory bin full of exciting autumn objects to explore!

Need a few creative ideas to keep the kids entertained? Here are some of our favorite EASY recipes for play that are sure to inspire plenty of imaginative playtime fun! Did you know that you can make your own paint, sidewalk chalk, bubble solution, and more? I love that so many of these recipes call …

Fall Recipe for Play - Erupting Candy Corn Foam Dough We've been having the best time creating new fall recipes for play ! Our ca...

{Originally posted May 2008} I don’t know about your kids, but mine love to sort! They are both naturally driven toward making groupings of similar objects, lining them up or making little piles. Sorting is not only fun, it’s also building those important early mathematical and scientific reasoning skills. Here are some of the easy ways we explore similarities and differences through sorting: Things for

Free Wall-E Printables for young children.

“The Mitten” by Jan Brett is such a great book to read with the children in winter. I made up some phonological awareness games for our pre-literacy shelf to go with the book. Skill: Isolating Words You will need a basket of blocks to play this game. The teacher reads a sentence card and […]

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Summer Fun BBQ sensory/pretend play tub!

We're starting to make some big changes in our learning time schedule and activities. There will still be daily workbook pages, story time, reading, journals, and the practice of math facts etc., however, we're starting to change our activities to be more Montessori like. Even parts of our learning time schedule will be more Montessori like. I've been reading like crazy, and it just seems to be an answer to prayers as to how to help the kiddos learn better with their special needs. Bulldozer…