Christmas Tree Math {ordering by length}
This is a great project that I’ve done almost every year in my classroom. It’s a great Christmas craft, but in addition your child can work on ordering objects by length and the math vocabulary and...
View ArticleFootprint Reindeer
Landon announced this morning that he wanted to do a reindeer project. I really didn’t have anything in mind on the spot other than a footprint reindeer where you do painted footprints and hand prints...
View ArticlePuffy Hand Print Santa Craft
This is a fun variation on the hand print Santa using one of my favorite mediums of “paint” Puffy Hand Print Santa Craft Brown or Tan construction paper Red construction paper Glue Shaving Cream Googly...
View ArticlePuffy Snowman Craft
I love using shaving cream and glue to paint. I’ve done a lot of projects with this medium and it’s great because it’s thick and puffy and stays that way when it dries. You could color it if you wanted...
View ArticleName writing with bingo dobbers
When your young child is learning how to write their name small pencils are not the best option to start with. Their small hands lack the fine motor control to manipulate the tiny pencil. Fat pencils,...
View ArticleSimple Catapult
A few days after the Christmas craziness Brad and the boys created a simple catapult that created hours of endless fun. When I say simple – I mean simple. We took some of the wooden spoons from the...
View ArticlePaper Plate Snowman
I absolutely love these snowmen. I love anything that involves the hands of my kiddos, and they love it to – Riley especially, he loves having his hands traced. He’d be happy doing that all day long....
View ArticleCrayon Resist Snowman
I do this project every year in kindergarten. I wanted to try it, knowing it would be a bit of a stretch developmentally for Landon. His independent drawing is still in the scribble and call it a...
View ArticleGlittery Snowflakes
This is a simple, but fun project that we did on the spur of the moment. Landon’s idea was the glitter. Honestly I hate glitter. I mean I love how it’s sparkly and makes things pretty – but it is so...
View ArticleStyrofoam Construction
We had a large fish tank at the old house – it was nice to have and now that Landon is allergic to both cats and dogs, these are some pets he can have in the house that won’t make … Continue reading...
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