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Days of the Week: 3-in-1 Sequencing Activities

Sandra — Sun, 27 May 2018 16:49:43 +0000

Learning the Days of the Week Here’s 3 fun activities to help your kids learn the order of the days of the week. These are interactive, multi-step, challenging activities that help kids practice several skills at once while solving puzzles and weaving their own Days of the Week mat. This set includes four different images […] Read more...

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Outside fun learning activities: Math and Art

Sandra — Tue, 08 May 2018 18:35:10 +0000

Outside Fun Learning Activities for Kids “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” – Jean Ackerman This post contains affiliate links. Free Play Kids love fun outside activities; when you can easily weave in learning opportunities to their natural play – all the better! This is not to discount the unequivocal advantage of free […] Read more...

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Best posts from 2017 (with plenty of free printables!)

Sandra — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:37:38 +0000

Thank you!! I wanted to give a bit shout-out to all my readers, and some free printables as gifts to you – thank you for following along and reading my blog posts this year! Here’s a quick round-up of the top posts from R.E.A.L.-World Learners from 2017, a collection of several free printables that I’ve […] Read more...

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Craft station activity | Create-a-Creature Kiosk

Sandra — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:00:23 +0000

Ideas for making a DIY craft station activity in a bag, modeled after subscription craft kits and cooking shows where contestants use random ingredients. Read more...

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Paper crafts for kids using fraction circles

Sandra — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:00:29 +0000

Our “creation station” is one of the most used learning centers in our homeschool area (which is actually our entire house!). I wrote about some of our fall craft activities here, if you’d like more inspiration for things to make with your kids at home. Paper Crafts We bought a couple Ed Emberley drawing books […] Read more...

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Number Recognition Game for Preschoolers

Sandra — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:00:50 +0000

I’ve recently been inspired to create activities to help Lil Dude with number recognition (1-10, mostly). Last week we made a number banner, and I wanted to build on the momentum gained from that experience. In an attempt to find another interactive, discovery-type learning activity for him, I came up with this “game in a box.” […] Read more...

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Preschool Number Activities – Making a 1-10 banner

Sandra — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:52:47 +0000

In this post, I wanted to share with you a few preschool number activities that you can use to introduce basic math skills to your preschoolers. My 2 year old woke up waaay early a few days ago, so I had about an hour of solid one-on-one time with him (and my cup of coffee!). […] Read more...

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Fall crafts with pumpkins and leaves

Sandra — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 01:06:59 +0000

Fall Crafts and Activities for Kids We’ve been loving the Fall season this year, now that our kids are starting to get old enough to have fun on our little adventures — and we’re breaking through into a whole new world where nap times don’t always ruin our grand plans ;). Here’s some of our […] Read more...

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Parenting hacks: the toy conundrum

Sandra — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:09:12 +0000

The dreaded B word (BORED) has begun to surface in our house - the kind of bored where the boys throw every couch cushion and pillow on the floor, jump on them like little hooligans, then flop down and complain that there's nothing to do. Read more...

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Crafts with Kids 101: My Aha! moment

Sandra — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:56:48 +0000

While all the other kids were busy building forts and playing in water tables, J wandered over to this rock with a divot that had collected water. Someone (probably a staff member) had left out an old paintbrush and J picked it up and started dipping it in the puddle and "water painting" on another rock. Ha! Why had I never thought of that?! No prep work needed, almost no supplies, no mess to clean up, and endless directions to pursue -- use a paintbrush, sponges, roll toy cars through water, make water paint footprints and handprints, practice calligraphy, draw Anything you can think of, even do math on the sidewalk! ... etc. Here's an activity we could do at home any day for FREE (1 point!) that's clean (2 points!) and fun (3 points!). (Points are nonredeemable but fun to collect.) Read more...

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