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Archives for June 2014

Red, White and Blue Spaghetti: Edible Sensory Play

Red, White and Blue Spaghetti: Edible Sensory Play

June 26, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Our red, white and blue spaghetti is a really fun way to make some patriotic sensory play! Colored spaghetti is so easy to make and the kids just love it. I love edible sensory play for two reasons; 1) any age child can play with it and 2) my dogs help

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Filed Under: Edible Sensory Play, Holidays, Memorial Day/4th of July, Sensory, Uncategorized Tagged With: american, culture, edible preschool homeschool, food coloring, Holidays, patriotic, preschool, Sensory, sensory play, spaghetti

Coffee Filter Butterfly Magnets: B is for Butterfly

June 19, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 1 Comment

Follow my blog with Bloglovin As part of our bug theme this week, we made these great magnet clips today! They were so incredibly easy to make and can be as detailed or simple as you want so can therefore be great for young toddlers as well as older children.

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Learn Through Play, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers Tagged With: Letter of the Week

DIY Worm Farm: Preschool Science

June 17, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 1 Comment

    We were on vacation camping last week and I had all of these fun projects planned to blog about but didn’t get to any of them!! It’s a good thing we had our indoor camping week before we left 🙂  I guess camping in and of itself was enough

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Filed Under: Elementary, Gentle Parenting, Learn Through Play, Outdoors, Preschool Science, Preschoolers, science, Spring Tagged With: Preschool Homeschool

Fire Science for Kids

June 6, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

      We have been talking about campfires all week as part of our indoor camping theme. One of the opportunities this theme has given me is the chance to discuss fire safety with my 3 year old before we go camping next week – eek! I’m super excited

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Filed Under: Preschool Science, science, Uncategorized

Painting with S’Mores

June 5, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Although paint brushes are a definite staple in our house, I love to find creative ways for the kids to paint. Because we are having a S’Mores Day as part of our indoor camping week, we decided to paint with marshmallows and graham crackers! To see how we have set

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Learn Through Play, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers

Setting Up an Indoor Campsite

June 3, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  We are going camping out on the California coast next week so we are taking the opportunity to do some indoor camping this week as preparation for the kids. They have never been camping before so we are ‘practicing’ at home so they know what to expect! It also

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Preschool Science, Preschoolers, science, Toddlers

Painted Father’s Day Cookies

June 2, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  Follow my blog with Bloglovin     I love these as a homemade gift for Father’s Day! I saw them on No Time for Flash Cards (an amazing blog) and figured we could do something similar. She shows you how to make them without a cookie cutter if you don’t

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Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: cooking

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