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Fun with Shaving Cream

Filed under Homeschooling, Inspiration, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on August 3, 2011 at 2:41 pm {no comments}

Recently I discovered another amazing blog! This one is called Meet the Dubiens. I have seen so many things on this blog that I want to do with my kids. Very inspiring!

Our first inspiration we did today. She mixed food coloring with shaving cream and used it as paint for her kids bath time.

We did not make it for bathtime, just craft time. I let them play at their little table and gave them some utensils.

I do wish I would have had primary colors, Oliver was mixing colors and discovering new colors, would have been more effective with primary colors.

I am still trying to use up the neon colors I used for Oliver’s Rainbow Cake.

The boys had fun for about 1 hour, record time for my 3 and 5 year olds.

Next time: More tools and Primary Colors.

FUN: YES!

Summer Centers

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Inspiration, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on July 25, 2011 at 6:18 pm {no comments}

We love centers! I used them throughout the past school year for all 3 boys. Some structured some as free-play. The boys are always happy to pull them out and play with them it is a guaranteed 30 minutes of constructive play.

For the Summer I reorganized them, rearranged and grouped different things together to get the boys geared up for summer indoor activities.

I put everything in one cabinet thanks to my sister who gave me a nice white cabinet. Thanks Tia!

Melissa and Doug Pattern Blocks and Boards

Styrofoam shapes – Good for Math, Sorting and Building

10 Base T set – great for Math and Building

Random Tools (thanks Liv for the Magnifying glasses)

Colored rice, items are buried, fun!

Great for Math, Sorting, Building and Art

it’s also a Geoboard!

shapes

for building

Learning Robots, Phonics and Math

travel size Concentration game

card shuffler

One Happy Boy!

Remember These?

Filed under Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on February 27, 2011 at 12:08 pm {no comments}

I have such fond memories of watching my teacher use a felt board to tell a story. LOVED it so much. Gathering around her and finding a comfy spot to watch the story unfold.

Always wanted to get some to play with as a kid but never did, seemed like a teacher “exclusive” item.

I looked at my local Education store and they are so expensive I could not justify the cost.

However, now that I started to homeschool I went to my favorite consignment sale to find educational materials. Imagine how excited I was to find a Storyboard Felt set.

Nothing fancy, in fact it looks like it could be from when I was little, but it is in excellent shape. I bet they came from a former teacher. I practically let out a squeel like a 13 year old who sees Justin Bieber.

This has to be one of my best finds ever!

I let the 4 and 2 year old play with them and they loved it. The two year went through all the animals and tried to make their “sounds”. It was fun, now I need to come up with a story!

A Hit with Kids, Fun Candy Activity

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on December 12, 2010 at 5:40 pm {no comments}

Preston enjoying Latkes -

Jewish Festival Latkes

Last weekend we were invited to a Jewish Festival to celebrate Hannakah. It was a fun opportunity to engage another culture. The music, food, people were all great!

They had plenty of activities for the children, all of them were fun but one in particular had me very excited. It was an activity similiar to SandArt but it was edible sand, colored sugar. All the kids swarmed the table and had a blast creating tubes of edible art.