Spring is one of my favorite seasons! I love seeing the colorful flowers bloom and the warm, but not hot, temperatures invite lots of time spent outside. One of my favorite bible verses for spring is found Song of Songs 2: 11-13: “Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The …
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The Best Products for Engaging Preschoolers in Learning at Home We’ve all spent a majority of the past year at home. Schools shut down for a period of time. As schools began reopening, it’s not exactly the way it was before COVID-19 changed our world so much. Therefore, many families made the decision to keep …
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Earth Day occurs every year on April 22nd. It is a day to bring increased awareness about our planet and how important it is to protect it. I wanted to find a simple craft project to do with my toddler and preschooler that represented how the earth is home to many living things. I wanted …
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Young children love to pretend in every way. They enjoy learning new activities, too! Every day, my young children see me do laundry. They sometimes like to help put the clothes in the washer and dryer, match socks while folding and my 4 year old likes to help put her clean and folded clothes away …
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We own many children’s books in our house. We love every one of them. I love reading and raising readers is important to me, but the sheer number of children’s books in the house can be overwhelming at times. As our children’s book collection grew and started to take over our living room, we needed …
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. …
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 …
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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