Explore the life cycle of a butterfly with these hands-on nature activities that can be done at home or in a classroom! We had some wonderful crafts & activities shared on our Discover & Explore: Butterflies linky! For our butterfly feature post, I thought I would share some of the fun ideas that relate to …
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Let’s face it — kids love to dig! Whether it’s digging a hole at the beach or shoveling their way around the backyard, they will spend hours looking for buried treasures.
There are a lot of fun ways to introduce kids to geography and different cultures. We love to use maps with different activities to explore the world. Having a map in your home is an inexpensive but excellent learning tool! We also love reading books that introduce us to different places across the globe. …
Kids will love these pretend play printables – police, doctor, detective, scientist, architect, zookeeper and more! Do you have kids who LOVE to pretend? One day, they’re a zoo keeper and the next day, playing school with friends — pretend play is a HUGE learning opportunity for kids! It encourages them to role-play, expand their …
Woohoo! The U.S. National Park Service has announced their FREE entrance days for all National Parks in 2017! One of the big family travel trends for this coming year is nature-focused vacations — unplug, recharge and enjoy being together. We are HUGE fans of the National Park system and try to visit at least one …
Those long, cold days of winter can give us all a little cabin fever so push aside all those ‘must do’s’ and just have some fun with your kids. It’s amazing how many ideas and activities we parents think of as ‘regular things’ are super cool to our kids! Helping them to build a fort, …
Welcome back to our monthly Virtual Book Club for Kids!
This month we’re exploring the books of David McPhail, who is both an author and illustrator.
Not sure what to do with all the Christmas projects and winter crafts in your house? Try these ideas! If there’s one thing we have a lot of in our house, it’s kids’ artwork! They are always making such cool projects at school and I never want to just throw it away so I have …
I love reading new books, especially new Christmas books that I can share with the kids! Now don’t get me wrong, we certainly have our favorites at this time of the year — you can see many of them on the 30 Books about Your Favorite Christmas Traditions — but there’s something about a new …
Let’s talk Gingerbread Houses today! Tis the season for family-friendly activities and building a gingerbread house is a time-honored tradition for so many families. Not to mention, it’s a SUPER fun lesson in engineering principles for kids! Testing out how to balance the walls, construct a roof and put together a fun little structure is …