I’ve been following Teacher Tom’s blog for a little while now. Teacher Tom is a preschool teacher who gives me all sorts of wonderful ideas, especially for making outside spaces child-friendly. He also just has a wonderful love of children that I enjoy reading. But today’s post on his blog perfectly sums up why I…
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Save Our Living Earth & a Freebie
Have you seen this stop animation video by kids? This was made by four classes of fifth graders at an international school in Brussels. What an amazing project! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJoEiFKl4qs] Also, today only — Friday — this African animal math app for wireless devices is being offered for free for families. We have no wireless devices…
Time to Break Out the Do-A-Dot Markers
I’ve been stumbling on crafts involving Do-A-Dot markers (or bingo daubers) all over tonight. We haven’t had ours out in years and I think it might be time! Check out these fun projects… With coffee filters at Charlotte’s Fancy And with crayon resist And Ed Emberley touches at Let’s Explore We mostly just made pictures…
A Few Good Crafts
Here’s what’s on my craft radar this week… Dress Up Drawings… And also from Made by Joel, Slotted Building Discs… (Yes, the templates are there to print for free!) Felt and ribbon wrist corsages for kids at Salty Pineapple… (Except ours will be much less fancy than some of these and will be kid-made) And…
Potted Fairy Gardens
I’ve been trying to share these whimsical fairy gardens with you and Word Press is trying very hard not to! First it wouldn’t post my photos and then it ate my entry completely and posted it blank. Let’s try this again! Pretend I say all sorts of fun things right here and there’s two really…
Paint a Glow in the Dark Sketch Wall
I love this idea that Magical Mama April passed on from Life Hacker. We have lots of these little UV lights and use them for many fun things around the house (they’re wonderful for instantly charging glow in the dark items but also lots more). How fun to have a whole GITD doodle wall! Happy…
One for the Little Ones
We all have one of those sites where we can waste a lot of time. For some of us, it’s Facebook games, for some it’s blogs, for some it’s gossip sites. Here’s a site for toddlers to sit and play. Based on the show BoohBah (is that even still on???), this colorful site takes your…
ScrapColoring Pages
I’m loving these online coloring pages! There’s everything from kissing flamingos to knights to mermaids, all with wonderful colors and patterns to fill them with online for free. You can even enter personalized text to color! This is addictive fun, not just for children but for mamas too. 🙂
Card Table Playhouses!
Isn’t this the most darling playhouse? It fits over a card table and is one of many available at MissPrettyPretty’s Etsy shop. There are ones with trains and fairies and fire trucks and lots more, with removable parts and everything. While these are a little over my budget, I’ve been thinking of fun things I…
A Few Good Links
I have a date with a hubby, a bowl of ice cream and a show on tape so I’ll be quick! Here’s a few fun things around the net that we’ve done or mean to do soon! Made overnight french toast with strawberries and bananas Doing super simple activities for lazy days (you all know…