Fun with Shaving Cream
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…
Summer Centers
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…
Remember These?
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…
A Hit with Kids, Fun Candy Activity
Preston enjoying 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. You can purchase directly from Sandy Candy or I just found a 10 person kit on Amazon. I will be ordering soon, look out for another post.
More Homeschool… Manipulatives, Centers, Calendar
After looking at this site and her ideas for a Calendar board I was completely inspired. Thank you Homeschool Creations for the wonderful ideas! Here is our Calendar board: We have: Todays Date, with different ways to write the date, make the date in money, color of the day, weather for temp. (1st grader will fill in daily), weather for the 4 year old to use picture cards. We also have letter of the day and verse of the day. I will also be adding the skip counting pages. For calendar I plan on having all 3 boys participate in one way or another. I have also been looking around for…