Rebecca

Activity: Valentine’s Day Fill in the Blank Printable

  A little printable for you and your school aged child to practice their writing (something we are doing a lot of in this house with my 5 year old) Help the younger ones figure out which letter goes where and have them write the letter. Older ones may be able to...

Rebecca

Get-Moving Activity: Workout Stations for kids

The other day I wrote a post about how to keep the kids busy indoors during cold or rainy days.  There are a lot of ideas in that post that really work for us. One activity I mentioned is to set up an obstacle course.  On Monday, building off of that idea, I set up...

Rebecca

Turning Winter Blahs into Winter Hoorahs With the Kids

I am so over Winter. Am I alone? Because seriously, I’m not sure what it is this year but I am done. Sadly, we still have many weeks left of winter and the unpredictable weather. It’s not easy to get the kids out the door, let alone getting them somewhere to run...

Rebecca

25 Days of Christmas – Advent Calendar Activities 2011

Once again I’m putting together our 25 Days of Christmas activity advent calendar.  We’ve done this for a few years now, thanks to the creative blogger Andrea of A Peak inside the Fishbowl.  (She has so many great family friendly ideas!). This year, I found...

Rebecca

Preschool Activity: Holiday Felt Magnets

This is a really simple activity to do with the kids and the magnets are great for the fridge, office white board or gifts! What you will need: glue felt scissors glitter glue sticks decorations (pipe cleaners, pom poms, bells, anything!) popsicle sticks magnetic...