Meta tags:

Headings (most frequently used words):

friday, blog, our, coloring, toddlers, pages, welcome, march, 2012, june, 10, 2011, monday, december, 27, 2010, linkwithin, followers, subscribe, get, email, updates, labels, age, ranges, helpful, books, outside, links, archive, grab, button, awards, teachable, moments, rainbow, crayons, pre, early, and,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (41), and (37), #coloring (29), her (18), with (15), for (14), this (12), you (11), day (11), share (11), she (11), color (11), links (10), about (10), but (10), book (8), how (8), your (8), crayons (8), that (8), learning (7), skills (7), child (7), posts (7), like (7), blog (6), our (6), fun (6), #toddler (6), age (6), comments (6), has (6), love (6), activity (6), let (6), activities (5), december (5), may (5), pre (5), out (5), motor (5), email (5), all (5), was (5), loves (5), will (5), paper (5), when (5), award (4), september (4), october (4), november (4), january (4), february (4), march (4), april (4), june (4), july (4), toddlers (4), months (4), rainbow (4), pinterest (4), colors (4), labels (4), don (4), mckenna (4), started (4), would (4), try (4), every (4), didn (4), make (4), then (4), not (4), they (4), are (4), some (4), find (4), simple (3), blogger (3), august (3), preschool (3), school (3), busy (3), week (3), summer (3), mom (3), children (3), fire (3), fine (3), fall (3), face (3), chalk (3), get (3), atom (3), facebook (3), blogthis (3), posted (3), ever (3), more (3), than (3), very (3), something (3), can (3), know (3), right (3), own (3), floor (3), what (3), use (3), them (3), teachable (3), sat (3), label (3), ideas (3), theme (2), powered (2), second (2), lemonade (2), stand (2), awards (2), 2010 (2), 2011 (2), 2012 (2), have (2), been (2), science (2), montessori (2), math (2), literature (2), literacy (2), gradeschool (2), art (2), outside (2), trish (2), kuffner (2), teach (2), family (2), helpful (2), books (2), preschooler (2), years (2), baby (2), ranges (2), writing (2), winter (2), play (2), time (2), sensory (2), quick (2), life (2), bears (2), organization (2), new (2), year (2), multiple (2), holidays (2), crafts (2), effect (2), from (2), cooking (2), subscribe (2), home (2), there (2), young (2), look (2), brayden (2), often (2), interested (2), feel (2), because (2), much (2), together (2), just (2), moment (2), one (2), until (2), really (2), things (2), appropriate (2), maybe (2), off (2), raegan (2), easy (2), minutes (2), into (2), want (2), keep (2), friday (2), always (2), oldest (2), create (2), drawing (2), daughter (2), came (2), taught (2), weak (2), pencils (2), hand (2), here (2), moments (2), too (2), colored (2), duck (2), worked (2), see (2), strokes (2), help (2), list (2), also (2), showing (2), show (2), outstanding, encanta, versatile, sunshine, href, http, learningdevelopmentactivities, blogspot, com, style, border, none, img, alt, childrens, src, grab, button, 109, 2009, 208, 166, 2013, quiet, good, reason, 2014, archive, middle, high, siblings, lisa, hanson, heather, kempskie, preschoolers, trying, kids, write, gotta, marjorie, frank, disney, magazine, birth, zoo, yoga, workboxes, wood, watercolors, water, walks, vowels, valentines, umberella, tutorials, turkey, tried, true, trees, traveling, trains, traditions, 127, tips, capsule, themed, unit, thanksgiving, texture, television, teeth, teens, teachers, teacher, appreciation, talking, surviving, sun, setback, successful, stars, patrick, spring, sports, spiders, sorting, songs, social, snowman, snow, snacks, sledding, sitting, still, sight, words, sheep, shapes, shadows, service, self, image, seasons, scissors, santa, sand, rubbings, round, rhyming, religion, reindeer, recipes, reading, rainy, rain, pumpkins, pta, pto, pretoddler, president, 133, practical, positions, polar, playgroups, planning, phonics, penguins, patterns, olympics, ocean, nursery, rhymes, numbers, nature, native, americans, music, museum, mothers, morals, monster, money, memorial, matching, magnets, library, letters, leaves, language, lamb, lady, bugs, labor, kindergarten, insects, independence, car, imaginative, homeschool, history, hiking, heart, health, halloween, groundhog, gross, gratitude, graph, gluing, glitter, gingerbread, gifts, garden, games, food, flowers, fish, truck, safety, fighters, feelings, father, painting, fabulous, evergreen, emotions, elephant, elementary, eggs, easter, earth, dress, seuss, diorama, dinosaur, dancing, cutting, curriculum, culture, counting, cornucopia, clouds, christmas, chores, chinese, chick, cause, caterpiller, cars, candy, camping, calendar, butterfly, building, bubbles, reviews, lists, blast, past, birds, bicycle, beads, beach, bath, balls, baking, back, babestotsandkids, apple, animals, alphabet, enter, feedblitz, preview, updates, followers, linkwithin, older, valerie, plowman, think, bringing, box, babbling, surely, say, lining, row, actually, bad, myself, weird, kaitlyn, perfectly, content, important, most, days, put, lay, tummies, mimics, way, belly, both, helps, watches, above, photo, joint, efforts, doesn, inclination, worry, now, approach, once, press, issue, tend, run, ages, start, require, hence, constant, enthusiasm, rub, tender, spent, picture, early, monday, wonder, those, broken, pieces, crayon, pile, super, girls, choose, their, combinations, heated, oven, 300, done, soon, wax, melts, continue, cook, blend, eye, cool, completely, peel, seemed, effortless, especially, spend, hours, crossed, mind, needed, lesson, along, idea, combined, strikes, fear, little, wiggly, body, noticed, running, hide, suspicious, realized, after, working, circles, lefty, being, righty, grasp, getting, serious, clarify, mean, draw, pencil, literally, hands, touched, using, anything, drag, strengthen, muscles, making, regularly, scheduled, around, strength, improved, slowly, 3rd, tempt, particular, had, copies, switch, bit, changed, sheets, again, yikes, lookout, house, take, advantage, forget, laundry, few, worth, forgot, got, lots, work, certainly, abhors, happily, even, drew, top, haven, yet, why, happened, watched, talked, could, correct, positioning, continued, talk, smaller, staying, lines, lighter, motions, mistakes, seem, noticeable, going, mistake, redo, entire, sheet, others, hard, among, known, scribble, everywhere, through, faster, enjoy, care, controlled, pants, thought, should, without, instruction, wondered, decide, which, seen, isn, hmmm, incredibly, never, great, internet, well, come, resources, click, range, topic, looking, left, side, page, each, post, optimal, must, judge, yourself, please, comment, everyone, else, liked, welcome, other, series, subjects, themes, pages,

Text of the page (random words):
children s learning activities coloring pages home holidays themes subjects organization series by age motor skills sensory cooking other welcome this blog is here for you to find fun learning activities to do with your children we share great ideas we find and love on the internet as well as ideas we come up with on our own we also like to share resources we find helpful to find ideas for your child click on the age range blog label or on the theme topic you are looking for on the left side of the page in each post we try to list optimal age ranges for the activity but you must judge for yourself if it is appropriate for your child when you try an activity out please comment and let us and everyone else know how your child liked it showing posts with label coloring show all posts showing posts with label coloring show all posts friday march 2 2012 teachable moments coloring coloring has always seemed like an easy fun and effortless activity especially for me as a mom my oldest loves to color to create and would spend hours drawing if i would let her coloring has never crossed my mind as an activity that needed a lesson that is until daughter 2 came along the very idea of crayons and paper combined strikes fear into her little wiggly body and fun not on your life when i noticed her running to hide when the crayons came out i started to get suspicious when i realized after working for months on drawing circles that she s a lefty being taught by a righty and has an incredibly weak grasp we started getting serious and to clarify by weak i mean she d draw and the pencil would literally fall out of her hands when it touched the paper using pencils crayons and chalk anything to create a drag and strengthen her hand muscles we started making coloring a regularly scheduled activity around here her hand strength has improved slowly but her coloring didn t hmmm this is her coloring on her 3rd at tempt at this particular paper i had multiple copies so to switch it up a bit we changed sheets again yikes as you can see the face and pants i colored i sat with her and thought maybe coloring isn t something you should always just let go without some instruction and i wondered has she ever seen me color really color how about learning how to make the strokes decide which colors to use so i sat with her talked about what colors we could use we ve worked on correct positioning for pencils crayons but we continued to talk about how smaller strokes help with staying in the lines lighter controlled motions help mistakes not seem so noticeable because they are going to make a mistake and some like my oldest will want to redo the entire sheet and others like my second daughter will chalk it up as too hard and list it among activities i don t enjoy or care about also known as scribble everywhere so i can get through this faster so i taught and she watched and something happened my child that abhors coloring sat and colored happily and even drew a duck at the top of her paper i haven t worked out why yet but i see the duck we ve got lots of work to do but it certainly was a teachable moment and fun i forgot how much i love coloring too be on the lookout for some teachable moments at your house this week take advantage of it and forget about the laundry for a few minutes it ll be worth it posted by raegan at 7 59 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels coloring fine motor skills friday june 10 2011 rainbow crayons ever wonder what to do with all of those broken pieces of crayon that pile up make rainbow crayons it s super easy very quick and fun to use to color i let the girls choose their own combinations we heated the oven to 300 they are done as soon as the wax melts about 5 minutes if you continue to let them cook they will blend into one color so if you want to keep the rainbow effect keep an eye on them let them cool completely and then peel the paper off posted by raegan at 12 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels coloring colors crafts monday december 27 2010 pre toddlers early toddlers and coloring i don t think there has ever been a child to love coloring more than mckenna from a very young age she started bringing me the box of crayons with a coloring book and babbling something surely about coloring with that look on her face that look you can t say no to with brayden i would try coloring every so often but he was more interested in lining the crayons up in a row than coloring this actually didn t make me feel bad because i don t much like coloring myself i know i am weird right kaitlyn loves to color but is perfectly content to do so on her own and then there was mckenna she loves to color and more important than the coloring is that mom is on the floor coloring with her most days coloring is our learning activity for her this is how we do it we put the book on the floor we lay on our tummies on the floor and color together mckenna mimics me in every way so she is right on her belly with me then we both just color she helps she watches she loves every moment the above is a photo of one of our joint efforts what if your child doesn t like to color i don t know how right this is but my inclination is not to worry about it brayden didn t like coloring until he was in preschool now he loves it so my approach was to try it once a week but i didn t press the issue i tend to really run with the things they are interested in at the young ages then start to require some things every so often as i feel it is age appropriate hence the constant coloring with mckenna maybe her enthusiasm will rub off and she will teach me to love it i may not love the coloring but i do love the tender time spent together as we color a picture posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels coloring fine motor skills pre toddler toddler older posts home subscribe to comments atom linkwithin followers subscribe posts atom posts all comments atom all comments get email updates enter your email preview powered by feedblitz labels about us 7 alphabet 25 animals 8 apple 16 art 60 awards 4 babestotsandkids 1 baby 24 back to school 4 baking cooking 28 balls 1 bath 1 beach 2 beads 1 bears 1 bicycle 1 birds 1 blast from past 4 blog 7 book lists 22 book reviews 4 books 6 bubbles 2 building 1 butterfly 2 calendar 1 camping 1 candy 1 cars 3 caterpiller 3 cause and effect 2 chalk 1 chick 1 child 44 chinese new year 1 chores 4 christmas 33 clouds 1 coloring 3 colors 34 cornucopia 1 counting 10 crafts 13 culture 1 curriculum 1 cutting 2 dancing 1 dinosaur 4 diorama 1 dr seuss 1 dress up 1 earth day 2 easter 9 eggs 5 elementary 1 elephant 1 emotions 1 evergreen 1 fabulous fall 3 face painting 1 fall 42 family 1 father s day 5 feelings 1 fine motor skills 70 fire fighters 2 fire safety 3 fire truck 1 fish 2 flowers 4 food 2 games 4 garden 2 gifts 12 gingerbread 4 glitter 1 gluing 3 gradeschool 8 graph 1 gratitude 6 gross motor skills 19 groundhog day 1 halloween 28 health 2 heart 4 hiking 1 history 2 holidays 21 homeschool 2 imaginative play 2 in the car 8 independence day 7 insects 8 kindergarten 6 labor day 1 lady bugs 1 lamb 1 language 5 leaves 8 letters 24 library 1 links 8 literacy 15 literature 5 magnets 5 matching 1 math 45 memorial day 1 money 1 monster 2 montessori 6 morals 1 mothers day 6 multiple children 1 museum 1 music 5 native americans 1 nature 1 new year s day 1 numbers 4 nursery rhymes 3 ocean 3 olympics 4 organization 14 out and about 7 outside activities 7 patterns 4 penguins 3 phonics 1 pinterest 6 planning 4 playgroups 1 polar bears 1 positions 1 practical life skills 5 pre toddler 31 pre writing 1 preschool 23 preschooler 133 president s day 2 pretoddler 7 pta pto 5 pumpkins 3 quick 7 rain 1 rainbow 4 rainy day 17 reading 26 recipes 10 reindeer 3 religion 3 rhyming 1 round up 24 rubbings 1 sand 2 santa 1 science 26 scissors 1 seasons 2 self image 1 sensory 20 service 3 shadows 1 shapes 27 sheep 1 sight words 1 simple for mom 14 simple summer 30 sitting still 1 sledding 1 snacks 10 snow 20 snowman 7 social skills 2 songs 1 sorting 16 spiders 5 sports 1 spring 9 st patrick s day 11 stars 2 successful learning 7 summer 14 summer setback 4 sun 1 surviving winter 15 talking 3 teacher appreciation week 5 teachers 10 teens 1 teeth 1 television 1 texture 3 thanksgiving 30 themed unit 11 time capsule 1 tips 5 toddler 127 toddlers 15 traditions 5 trains 1 traveling 7 trees 4 tried and true 26 turkey 17 tutorials 1 umberella 1 valentines 13 vowels 1 walks 2 water play 8 watercolors 1 winter 19 wood 1 workboxes 1 writing 8 yoga 1 zoo 1 age ranges baby birth 12 months pre toddler 12 18 months toddler 18 months 3 years preschooler 3 5 years helpful books disney s family fun magazine if you re trying to teach kids how to write you ve gotta have this book by marjorie frank the preschoolers busy book by trish kuffner the siblings busy book by lisa hanson and heather kempskie the toddlers busy book by trish kuffner outside links art links gradeschool links literature literacy links math links middle school jr high school links montessori links preschool learning links science links blog archive 2014 1 december 1 we have been quiet and for good reason 2013 14 july 2 may 6 april 2 february 1 january 3 2012 70 november 3 october 5 september 5 august 6 july 5 june 5 may 8 april 6 march 11 february 6 january 10 2011 166 december 7 november 12 october 15 september 11 august 13 july 16 june 17 may 12 april 11 march 17 february 18 january 17 2010 208 december 15 november 15 october 17 september 15 august 18 july 19 june 17 may 16 april 18 march 20 february 19 january 19 2009 109 december 23 november 26 october 30 september 30 grab our blog button a href http learningdevelopmentactivities blogspot com style border none img alt childrens learning activities src our awards sunshine award versatile blogger award me encanta tu blog lemonade stand award outstanding blogger award a second lemonade stand simple theme powered by blogger