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Painting Outdoors with Water Guns

May 24, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Follow my blog with Bloglovin It’s finally starting to feel like spring in our neck of the woods! Which means it’s time to keep the kids occupied OUTSIDE! This stay at home mom spends much of the day chasing the 2 and 4 year old tornadoes that rip through my

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Elementary, Learn Through Play, Outdoors, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Spring, Summer, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers Tagged With: Preschool Homeschool

Learning with Sidewalk Chalk and Paint

Learning with Sidewalk Chalk and Paint

August 15, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  Learning letter and sight words is something that often occurs through play. When introducing these topics, have kids use their entire bodies and gross motor skills to explore the letters, this helps really wire those connections in the brain. Check out how we are learning with sidewalk chalk!   Learning

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Learn Through Play, Outdoors, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Spring, Summer, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers, Uncategorized Tagged With: chalk, Homeschool, learn, moms, outdoors, play, preschool, sight words

Homemade Window Paint: Kids Art Outdoors

Homemade Window Paint: Kids Art Outdoors

August 8, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Make your own homemade window paint and take it outside! This is a simple recipe I first saw here that the will kids will love to make and make again. Paint and wash, paint and wash. Homemade Window Paint What You Need: Cornstarch Water Dish Soap Liquid Watercolors (or food

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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

3-Ingredient Sidewalk Paint

May 25, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  This is one of our favorite warm-weather activities. It is so incredibly easy to make and fun to use. All you need is cornstarch, food coloring (or liquid watercolors) and water.      Mix 1 part cornstarch with 1 part water, stir until it is liquid and add the

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Sidewalk Paint Fireworks in an Eggshell

May 25, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

To kick off Memorial Day weekend we decided to take a new approach to a couple of fun activities that we have been wanting to do. Around Easter I saw so many posts floating around blogland  of people filling eggshells with paint and throwing them at a canvas or poster

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Garden Sensory Bin for Outdoor or Indoor Play

Garden Sensory Bin for Outdoor or Indoor Play

May 7, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 1 Comment

This garden sensory bin is perfect for discussing the importance of gardening and fresh fruits and veggies with kids. What a way to celebrate Spring! One of my favorite activities to do with my kids are monthly, themed sensory bins. I think the value of sensory play is highly underrated,

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Filed Under: Sensory, Spring, Uncategorized Tagged With: garden, kids, moms, outdoors, Sensory, spring

Invitation to Create: Cinco de Mayo Maracas

Invitation to Create: Cinco de Mayo Maracas

May 6, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Set up an invitation to create allowing children to make homemade maracas out of toilet paper tubes, rice, beans, beads and more. Cinco de Mayo is always a fun holiday to celebrate. The colors and sounds are among my favorite, and these homemade maracas are an excellent Cinco de Mayo

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Homemade Seed Paper Kids Can Plant

Homemade Seed Paper Kids Can Plant

April 22, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 6 Comments

Did you know you can make your own, homemade seed paper you can plant? What a way to celebrate Earth Day! A perfect Spring activity for kids.   We make this homemade seed paper for Earth Day and it feels like magic every time! Use construction paper, blend it with

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Filed Under: Outdoors, Preschool Science, science, Spring, Toddler Science Tagged With: Arts and Crafts, flowers, garden, Homemade, kids science, seed paper

Homemade Earth Day Cookies

Homemade Earth Day Cookies

April 21, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 5 Comments

Earth Day is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate with the kiddos. I love anything that has to do with the outdoors and celebrating our great, green earth. We start conversations about trees, soil, recycling and endangered species…and what better way to introduce the topic that with some hands-on,

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