A great way to engage your baby is through playing games and activities. I’m going to call it Baby School! Since Lil’ Red is almost 6 months it is definitely time to plan activities for his growth and curiosity. A super quick and easy activity is to make Sensory Bottles using emptied tea bottles. You could also use water bottles or something similar.
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Welcome to my part of – The Ultimate Guide to 50 Craft Materials. Each day a different blogger will feature a kid’s craft material to create an amazing resource! If you’re a regular crafter with children or a newbie this GUIDE will be the best resource you will find in 2014! I chose shrinky dink paper to inspire everyone with a beloved craft from my childhood. Please keep reading to find out much more about shrinky dinks and how to use it.
Many of you growing up in the 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s are probably very aware of Shrinky Dinks. You may have been given a pack with Smurfs, Rainbow Bright, Pac Man, GhostBusters, or Mr. T already printed on the Shrinky Dink paper for you to color in. You then had to watch like a hawk while the oven worked it’s magic.
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Chinese New Year: The Year of the Horse! I’m a Horse according to the Chinese Zodiac.
It’s been a little while since we posted some themed activity ideas. What better time to post new Preschool activity ideas then Chinese New Year! I would have been better prepared and had this post ahead of time but I got my dates mixed up and last week thought I had missed Chinese New Year. Yes, a little crazy but it’s true.
Luckily I had items already on hand from the last couple of years and some miscellaneous activity tray supplies. I was able to create these preschool activities pretty quickly and then allow Lil’ Red to work through them once he woke up today! (Yep, you read that right prepped and posted this post today! I’m an expert at procrastination.)
We do own some books that tell about Asian culture or Asian Folk tales like The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks or Winter in Songming. I’m sure your local library has loads more to choose from.
Spiky Ball Chopstick Sort– use the chopsticks to pick up the spiky balls and sort the three colors into the three compartments of the tray.
Decorating Chopsticks- use washable markers or colored pencils to decorate chopsticks from local Chinese restaurant. Just so happens we’ve ordered take-out a couple times this past month!
Red Envelope Cutting Practice- Print out red envelope pattern and use kid scissors to cut and fold.
Horse Mommy and Baby Match– Match up the baby horses with their mom.
Horse Coloring Page- This tracer page has the Chinese Zodiac years of the horse on the right hand corner. Help your child with proper pencil grasp. Allow to color horse freely.
Since 2014 is the Year of the Horse you may also want to hop over and learn more about horses! Check out our Horses Resource page and have fun learning about horses!
I just love quick and easy chicken recipes that are also healthy for you. What’s even better is having a hubby that will make that quick and easy meal. This is very similar to McDonald’s Wraps but made at home in under 5 minutes!
Super fast, super easy and much cheaper than fast-food! Enter the Quick and Easy Chicken Wrap -hubby made!
[Tweet “Quick and Easy Chicken Wrap that even your tween can make! #lunch #backtoschool”]
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It seems hard to remember to do Science and messy projects. I really do not know why. We have tons of supplies, kits, and mess around the house already. One would think it would be easy to just add it in. So far over the last couple of years of homeschool that has not happened.
I wanted to create a quick and simple way to introduce a Science activity to Lil’ Red while providing some great Science Tools. I made a Science Basket to help make Science simpler and to allow Lil’ Red some self-guided exploration. We are not a Montessori homeschool, but love taking bits and pieces from Montessori to incorporate into our Preschool. I have placed a magnifying glass, magnifying box, and bug jar to our starter Science Basket.
We just happened to have this cute rectangular basket laying around that large card envelopes fit into perfectly. I can quickly change the background color to help highlight what we are learning. If the envelope gets wet or dirty no big deal. Out goes the old and in with the new. (We hit up the stationary department the day after a Holiday when the cards are getting switched out. Cards are returned to manufacturer while the envelopes land in the trash!)
I have seen all sorts of ideas all over pinterest and other blogs. I am not taking this idea from anyone specific but will be sure to share when I do get inspiration directly from other moms.
