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into artistic things and neither is my first born my second born now five however is a major artist she loves loves loves to do art she found this in a book and immediately wanted to create it this is found in the book cats sleep anywhere published by d c heath and company true strange title for a book with a dinosaur activity in it supplies shoe box rocks twigs or small branches bandaid paper scissors pencil crayons tape one straw make the dinosaur fold your paper in half draw a dinosaur on one half of the paper make it so the top of the head and the back are on the fold of the paper cut out the dinosaur do not cut along the fold where the dinosaur s back and head are color the dinosaur with the crayons cut the straw into four equal sized pieces tape one straw piece to each leg of the dinosaur on the inside of the dinosaur make the home cut one long side of the shoebox off so it is open at the top color in the sky grass mountains a sun you could also make these out of paper and glue them in place take your two twig pieces and adhere them to a large rock with the bandaid put your dino and rocks in the shoebox ta da posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art child dinosaur diorama preschooler wednesday january 23 2013 ice skate craft this activity provides a fun winter decoration while working fine motor skills supplies yarn or string popscicle sticks aluminum foil construction paper scissors glue or tape paper hole punch method cut out skate shapes older preschoolers and older can do this step punch holes for the laces have your child wrap the popscicle sticks with the aluminum foil tape or glue one to the bottom of each skate have your child string the laces through the holes tape down the string on one side you can see that done on the skate on the right in the picture go through both skates with the yarn then tape it down on the other skate when done lacing posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child fine motor skills preschooler winter wednesday january 16 2013 pattern block piece picture first off sorry about my very long hiatus i really needed a break from worrying about getting posts up here so i took it sometimes you just need to let things go you know we of course didn t let doing learning activities go so on with the posting this is a great activity to work math skills supplies paper glue crayons optional scissors pattern blocks or pattern shapes printed off of your computer you can make the shapes in a word document and print them out activity have your child trace the pattern block pieces onto a paper and then cut them out if you don t have pattern block pieces just create some shapes in word and print them out if your child isn t able to trace and cut do this for your child beforehand have your child take the pieces and create a picture older children can use their creativity for younger children you will likely need to give direction like let s make a cat with these shapes have your child glue the pieces in place and use crayons to add some details to make the picture if desired posted by valerie plowman at 9 53 am 20 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child math patterns preschooler toddlers monday august 27 2012 number race this is an activity you can adapt to work with any theme you have going on that week this week it was bugs kaitlyn did this at preschool you have six different items that go along with your theme and assign them a number you then give the child a dice and have her roll it each time she rolls a number she marks that number on her page the first number to be filled up wins the race for older children you can add some challenge by having the child predict which number will win after the activity is over have him write about which number he thought would win and which did win posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child numbers preschooler toddler wednesday february 29 2012 simple for mom workbooks one day while at dollar tree i stocked up on workbooks they had while we rarely use these it has really come in handy during this pregnancy with my older two children 6 and 4 they both go to school so they are used to having things to do when i don t have a learning activity lined up they love to do these workbooks they will typically complete one workbook in one sitting but they spend about an hour doing so these workbooks are great for children who are older who want some sort of stimulation even when you are not feeling so hot posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child preschooler simple for mom monday december 19 2011 christmas wreath ornament kaitlyn brought this home from preschool last week and it was one of those things where i thought why have i never thought of that supplies green foam red ribbon for bow string for hanging glue desired decorations scissors prep gather supplies cut out wreath you can use straight scissors but decorative scrapbooking scissors will add some character activity have your child decorate as desired a simple and cute ornament posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art child christmas pre toddler preschooler toddler wednesday december 14 2011 gingerbread number activity as i shared in my post on monday we just finished up a week on gingerbread men this was our number activity i found this at this website also http www pre kpages com gingerbread i made this page by googling gingerbread man coloring page and chose this simple gingerbread man i then opened it in photoshop and put numbers in it you could do it in word or other programs also here is my copy you are free to use the activity is simple you give your child a dice and something to mark with you have your child roll and mark off each number as he gets it my kids really enjoyed it for more of a challenge for older children you could do larger numbers 7 12 and give them two die and have them add the numbers together posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child gingerbread numbers preschooler toddler monday december 12 2011 gingerbread alphabet we just finished up a fun week of gingerbread activities this was our alphabet activity i got this idea from here http www pre kpages com gingerbread she had a free download of the pages but it only had letters a f so i quickly made some of my own you can download them here to prep this activity i created the pages printed them then laminated pages and letters so they will hold up from year to year for my older children 4 and 6 i simply gave the child all of the gingerbread men pages and all of the letters upper and lowercase at the same time and told them to match them up they put the upper and lowercase letters on the same man this is something that helps them work on letter recognition and keeps them occupied for a good chunk of time they don t need any assistance from you for my 2 5 year old we did things differently we did one sheet at a time i gave her the upper and lowercase letters for the letters on that sheet she could do the uppercase all by herself so if you want a younger child to do this activity independently you might want to just do uppercase letters she needed help with the lowercase letters the way i helped her understand grouping the letters together even if they looked different is i told her the man on the page is the daddy letter the uppercase letter was the mommy letter and the lowercase letter was a baby letter this worked for her because she is obsessed with babies it helped her grasp that the letters can go together even if they don t look the exact same i had her hold a letter up and tell me what letter it was then match it she could get all uppercase and knew some lowercase but didn t know them all it was a great exercise in getting her to think about lowercase letters for younger toddlers i would recommend doing just uppercase for a pre toddler or baby you might hold the letter up and say what it is and then put it on the page or have your child put it on the page if possible posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alphabet baby child christmas gingerbread pre toddler preschooler toddler monday october 24 2011 paper plate ghost paper plates are amazing i think you can turn a paper plate into just about anything here we have a paper plate ghost supplies paper plate white paper if arms are desired white crepe paper black paper scissors glue or stapler method this is a simple paper plate activity because the end product is white if hands are desired draw and cut out the arms hands either you do this or have your child do it if scissor skills are up to it cut out black eyes and mouth you can draw and cut out or you can draw and have your child cut out or have your child draw and cut out you will know what is appropriate for your child cut several pieces of crepe paper glue or staple all pieces on i like glue because the child can do it but a staple has the potential to hold better posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child crafts halloween preschooler toddler monday october 3 2011 fall shape tree brayden made this fun project in first grade supplies construction paper scissors glue activity have your child draw and cut out a tree trunk if appropriate if not do that ahead of time then have your child cut out various shaped leaves from different colors and glue to the tree again if your child is not ready for scissors you cut out the shapes ahead of time talk about the different colors and shapes as you go when you are done you will have a fun fall picture posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child colors fall fine motor skills preschooler shapes toddler monday august 29 2011 pipe cleaner bead math brayden made these in kindergarten and i thought they were genius something they learned about in kindergarten was what numbers could be combined to make a certain number for example take the number six you can get six with 6 0 5 1 4 2 and 3 3 these number bracelets make it very easy for the children to see what numbers you need to make other numbers making one is simple you take a piece of pipe cleaner and the number of beads you want on the bracelet ring you then connect the ends with a little twist and cover up with tape or sticky paper you can then write the number on the tape then you have a very tactile math activity posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child math numbers preschooler wednesday july 20 2011 foam fish this is another cute craft kaitlyn did at playgroup this past year it is a foam fish age range i think you can make this work anywhere from 1 on up materials piece of foam scissors marker pen pencil stickers jewels etc to decorate fish with glue activity you first need a foam fish depending on the age and ability of the child either you draw or have the child draw a fish on the foam also depending on the ability of the child either you cut out or have the child cut out along the lines now is when any aged child can participate time to decorate the fish for babies you can pull the stickers off and give them to her to put on the fish toddlers can apply glue and put the decorations on the fish companion book this activity would be fun in conjunction with the rainbow fish posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art child fish preschooler toddler monday june 27 2011 balloon hacky sack i first must praise my camera that is an awesome picture i love my camera i am no photographer and look what my camera has produced i also love sunny days that help my camera okay so today we had our library craft day this fun hacky sack ball was one of the crafts we made age range this is great for children of all ages as long as you trust your child with balloons and small seed like things you can do this with your child at the activity children one and up were doing this materials balloons scissors funnel hard wheat or bird seed you could also use small plastic pellets activity choose three balloons cut the neck of the balloon off of two of the balloons right where it juts out from the round part of the balloon one of these will be your outer edge of the hacky sack so may sure your favorite color will be one of these stretch and blow up the third balloon then release the air this is just to stretch it out put the third balloon over the small end of the funnel fill the balloon with the seed wheat pellets we used hard wheat but if you don t own that already i would do one of the other options work it all in so it is out of the neck cut the end of the neck off but not the entire neck just the bulky end part fold the remaining neck so it is flat against the balloon put one of the two cut balloons over the balloon now full of seeds put the neck portion of the filled balloon into the second balloon first so that the openings are not next to each other repeat with the final balloon you can always use more balloons if you want to you now have a fun ball to play with i don t know about you but my kids love balls posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels balls child fine motor skills gross motor skills preschooler sensory summer toddler wednesday june 1 2011 avoiding summer setback photo taken by serra i ll be honest as summer approached and i was faced with my first child spending the summer off of school i panicked a bit as a child i worried about losing my edge over the summer and i was on year round school so i had 4 weeks off for summer so you bet i worry as a mom so i sat down at my computer armed with my research face my books and my notebook as i read journal articles studies and opinions it all came back to the extraordinarily simple task of reading read to your child that is the main and best thing you can do there are of course other things you can do to help out here is my plan for the summer read aloud every day we already do this and there is no way we could not do this unless we wanted a total mutiny so this will easily continue on as it has some experts suggest 20 minutes a day some 30 we tracked minutes for school this year and i found we were reading usually about 90 minutes a day total wow i ha...
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