My kids have always loved community helpers of all kinds (especially garbage men). It only makes sense that we incorporate some community helper themes into our school days. And if you’re looking here are even more great community helper activities! I love the community helper theme. There are so many people in our lives that…
We love Star Wars and it is good for motivating a lot of learning around here. And since they are very active, activities that involve moving around are typically best. We love incorporating fun themes, like Star Wars, into our school day. Adding in Star Wars science is a great way to expand upon themes…
Buttermilk Pancakes with Strawberry Compote! These pancakes were SO delicious and not overly sweet! The Kids in the Kitchen blog hop is featuring kid made breakfasts this week. When it comes to the boys, there is not a breakfast food they don’t like. I knew finding something Royal wanted to make would not be hard…
We’ve been practicing a LOT of addition facts. I’m of the belief that having memorized basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts simply makes life easier. But we don’t drill because that’s boring and not the most effective method. Nope, we don’t drill. We play games. Lots of games. Board games are popular with the…
I remember my mom making this for me when I was a kid and she just recently made them for my kids. They are in love! Of course Royal wanted to make this for the Kids Favorite for the Kids Kitchen Monthly Blog Hop! It’s so good I couldn’t say no. This recipe is…
Royal has been interested in cooking and helping in the kitchen for ages, and while we do cook together often, I wanted to give him more of what he wanted. I wanted to let him do most of the work and prepare recipes that HE wanted to make. So once or twice a week we…
We like to go on walks through “nature” (the neighborhood) and pick up things we find interesting. I thought for once we would collect a bunch of different things that we find and use it to make prints in play dough. It’s just another way to explore nature! I tried to get them to…
I’m in love with making slime. It’s just such an interesting texture and substance. I’m constantly mesmerized by the way it moves. I just cannot get enough. And thankfully, neither can the boys! They all love it, including Baloo who is usually resistant to messy sensory play!! He doesn’t like getting his hands dirty. I…
It’s Virtual Book Club for Kids time again and this month the author is Marcus Pfister! We decided to do a craft to go along with Penguin Pete. We’d already been on a bit of a penguin kick anyway! Our local Micheals and Joanns did not have any penguin toobs so we bought 2 of…
Welcome to the Sensory Play Party hosted by myself and Little Bins for Little Hands! This week we experimented with goop (cornstarch and water). I love the fact that goop is so easy to make, which means I love to experiment with the recipe. I decided to add some gelatin to the mix to see…
Turkey’s are just too much fun. There are endless options for turkey crafts, activities, etc. I love turkeys! This year we decided to do a sorting turkey. I cut out the turkey body and feathers. Then I added shapes to each feather. I did either one, two, or three of each shape. Then we had…
There have been a LOT of changes in our household recently. We finally back in our own place and not living with family (how lucky we are to have such supportive family! It’s nice to be back in our own place though). We have all of our school supplies back which has been a lot…