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Best Christmas Carols for Kids to Learn

Best Christmas Carols for Kids to Learn

November 25, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

These 8 Christmas carols for kids include religious carols, Santa carols, and festive songs that kids will love to learn and sing with the family. Although there are still some small communities that allow for families to go door to door caroling, the majority of people have never actually had

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Filed Under: Christmas, Parenting Tagged With: christmas, christmas carols, kids activities

15 Spring Books for Preschoolers

15 Spring Books for Preschoolers

February 4, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

These Spring books for preschoolers introduce concepts such as rain showers, baby animals, blooming flowers and seeds, and more. Reading books are an important way to connect and bond with kids, all while introducing a new subject or theme. Research shows that reading with babies and toddlers helps boost vocabulary and language

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Filed Under: Book Lists, Preschoolers, Spring Tagged With: book list, books about spring, kids activities, preschool

Thanksgiving Dinner Sensory Bin with Painted Rocks

Thanksgiving Dinner Sensory Bin with Painted Rocks

November 6, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

A Thanksgiving sensory bin that includes popcorn kernels and cranberries with some Thanksgiving dinner painted rocks. Adaptations for various ages.     Sensory bins are excellent for early learning, and great for children with sensory-seeking behaviors. They provide opportunities for rich learning for kids as children are engaged and using

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Filed Under: Fall, Holidays, Learn Through Play, Outdoors, Sensory, Thanksgiving Tagged With: kids activities, sensory bins, thanksgiving

Summer Bucket List: Sensory Play for the Summer

Summer Bucket List: Sensory Play for the Summer

May 7, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This is a summer bucket list of 10 ways to engage in sensory play this summer. Have you wanted to test out a slime recipe? Heard of oobleck? Give it a go!   I love sensory play. Seriously. I LOVE it. I’m cool with the mess (most days) and even

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Filed Under: Outdoors, Sensory, Summer Tagged With: kids activities, outsideplay, sensory play, summer bucket list

20+ Simple Boredom Busters for Big Kids: Low or No-Prep and Easy!

20+ Simple Boredom Busters for Big Kids: Low or No-Prep and Easy!

March 20, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Boredom busters that are low-prep and easy. Perfect for big kids during the weekend or while home on break from school. Simple and fun for school-aged kids. “I’m bored.” “There’s nothing to do.” “Can we do a fun experiment?” Sound familiar? Spring break, summer vacation, Winter break…these can be daunting

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play Tagged With: boredom busters, elementary activities, kids activities, no prep, simple kids activities

Learn Colors with Rainbows! 10+ Activities and Printables

Learn Colors with Rainbows! 10+ Activities and Printables

June 30, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Rainbows are so much fun for a number of reasons! Kids are naturally drawn to them and their colorful beauty, making rainbow activities perfect for helping kids learn colors. From busy bags to printables and even outdoor games, these rainbow activities are fun.   Learn Colors with Rainbows Printable Rainbow Activities

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Filed Under: Learn Through Play, Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: kids activities, learn colors, printables, rainbows

Simple Moana Slime for Ocean Sensory Play

Simple Moana Slime for Ocean Sensory Play

June 29, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This Moana slime has the perfect texture for sensory play and is made with contact solution as a borax alternative. Add some Moana toys and shells and play! The slime craze is real. My 4 year old is obsessed with Moana-anything right now, so naturally when she saw the glitter

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Preschoolers, Sensory Tagged With: disney, kids activities, moana, moana ocean slime, ocean play, pretend play, sensory play

Garden Pretend Play with Printable Vegetable Puppets

Garden Pretend Play with Printable Vegetable Puppets

March 13, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone 3 Comments

This fine motor garden pretend play activity is perfect for preschoolers! They are learning so much from this project, from vegetable identification, how plants grow and even fine motor exercise perfect for those pre-handwriting skills! Gardening with kids is so valuable.  We did this activity for the Virtual Book Club

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Preschoolers, Spring, Toddlers, Uncategorized Tagged With: fine motor, garden, kids activities

Drawing Clouds in Shaving Cream with ‘Little Cloud’

Drawing Clouds in Shaving Cream with ‘Little Cloud’

February 13, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone 3 Comments

Drawing in shaving cream is such a fun and classic preschool activity. What a great way to combine sensory play with learning. It is great for developing fine motor and pre-handwriting skills in kids. This week, with the Weekly Virtual Book Club, we read Little Cloud by Eric Carle {affiliate link}. My kids

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Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: books, Homeschool, kids activities, literacy, preschool, Sensory

Painted Heart Suncatcher Craft for Kids

Painted Heart Suncatcher Craft for Kids

February 7, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone 2 Comments

This painted heart suncatcher craft always brighten up our windows as we wrap up Winter and wait for Spring! Check out our homemade suncatcher paint!   These painted heart suncatchers always brighten up our windows as we wrap up Winter and wait for Spring! My kids love to make them

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Holidays, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Valentine's Day Tagged With: heart crafts, Homeschool, kids activities, painting, preschool, suncatchers, valentines day

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