I love March! When March 1st hits, I get excited for Dr. Seuss’ birthday, St. Patrick’s Day and Spring. I get so excited for spring that I enjoy switching out our books to include all our favorites about bugs, butterflies, flowers, planting gardens and the rainy spring weather. You can check out all of the […]
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Oh cardboard boxes! The possibilities of what can be built from them is truly endless. This simple and inexpensive item makes dollhouses, race tracks, castles or appliances for hours of play. Kids of all ages enjoy playing with cardboard boxes! Cardboard boxes are inexpensive and many of us already have several laying around our house.
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My kids love spending time in their play kitchen. The play kitchen engages my toddler and preschooler in lots of pretend play. It gives them the opportunity to act out what they see mommy doing in the kitchen on a daily basis. My daughter started playing with her kitchen around 12 months old when she
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Since March 2020, we’ve spent a lot of time playing at home. For the longest time, I’ve had this dream of adding a grocery store to our play area in the basement. The grocery store is the perfect extension to our kitchen play area. I have fond memories of grocery store dramatic play as a
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You may have heard about the Montessori method. Pinterest is full of pictures of Montessori playrooms with neatly organized wooden toys. Of course, social media images may be different from reality. But that doesn’t change the fact that many families that started to apply the Montessori principles in their household agree that it is easier
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It’s November, which means we start doing turkey-themed crafts and activities, focusing on being thankful and reading about Thanksgiving. I think it is so important to teach our little ones about being thankful and I am in love with our family’s Thanksgiving Tree we put up this year 😍 Last year, we wrote thank you
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Happy November! I can’t believe we are in the month of November already. I feel like we were just talking about the start of fall and Halloween! But here we are, inching closer and closer to the busy holiday season. It’s so easy this day and age to get wrapped up in the hustle and
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Halloween is just around the corner and we’ve been talking about pumpkins, bats, witches and ghosts for most of October. It’s been a lot of fun incorporating the elements of Halloween into our at-home preschool learning. We are using Playing Preschool from Busy Toddler as our guide for at-home preschool. The second unit was colors.
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Teaching preschool at home to my almost 4 year old daughter is an experience filled with mixed emotions and lots of ups and downs. We have our good days and we have our bad days, which I expected. Our first two weeks focused on learning about apples followed by two weeks of learning about colors.
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We’ve been spending a lot of time in our home over the past several months. My husband works from home and our kiddos are playing more at home. While we miss our lifestyle and daily activities pre-COVID, we have enjoyed transforming some of the spaces in our home to make them better fit the needs
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