20 Outdoor Activities: Kid's Co-op

If you are lucky enough to be having weather that makes it pleasant to be outdoors, the Kid's Co-op has been full of ideas for learning and playing outside.

Learning Letters with the Octonauts

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My four year old son is a huge fan of the Octonauts on Disney Junior. They rescue ocean creatures and protect their habitats. His favorite part of the show is the creature report when they share facts about the animal featured in the episode and reveal what it looks like in real life.

100+ Earth Day Activities: Kid's Co-op

The Kid's Co-op has been full of great ideas for celebrating Earth Day this April 22nd:

50 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day Lorax Style

Earth Day is April 22nd. A great way to celebrate is to read a book about protecting the environment, but books like The Lorax are also great to read any day of the year. Here are 50 ideas.

Make Your Own Lorax-Inspired Pixie Sticks

I've been meaning to try making my own pixie sticks for a long time and with Earth Day coming up, it seemed like a good opportunity to make them with a Lorax theme. Of course, these would be a fun extension for The Lorax anytime.

A Bad Case of the Stripes Craft: Virtual Book Club for Kids

The featured author for this month's edition of the Virtual Book Club for Kids is David Shannon. Link up your David Shannon book projects and find more ideas below.

Make Your Own Slushies: Science for Kids

On a recent trip to Target, I picked up some Slushy Magic cups that were on 70% clearance. The idea is that you freeze the ice cubes provided, add any liquid containing sugar, and put the cap on before giving the whole thing a good shake. They work fine and the kids love them. But it says right on the box that the ice cubes are made from just salt and water. It seemed so simple that I started wondering if you could make your own. I was also a little curious about how it worked.

50+ Science Activities for Kids: Kid's Co-op

Doing science activities with your kids takes advantage of their natural curiosity. They're a lot of fun to do and kids always learn something, even if the experiment doesn't go exactly as you planned it. Science activities are one of my kids' favorite projects, and I love seeing them figure things out. Luckily, the Kid's Co-op is always full of great ideas for fun ways to teach science to your kids. Here are more than fifty of them: 

Flower Race: Preschool Science

My sweet hubby brought me home flowers for no reason. I put them in a vase on the table and the kids could not keep their hands off them. So I gave up, picked out the white ones, and decided to do the classic colored water / flower activity with them.

Fingerprint Lady Bug Life Cycle Craft

My sister gave my kids their very own Ladybug Land. It's a little enclosure for ladybugs. You mail in your certificate and the company sends you your very own ladybug larvae to raise to adulthood. My four year old was so excited to get them that we were actually standing at the mailbox waiting when the mailman finally delivered them into his loving arms. (My three year old daughter was less enthusiastic. She was holding out hope that the bug company had included some princesses in the box.)

10 Ways to Use Rocks: Kid's Co-op

Welcome back to another week of the Kid's Co-op. This week I'm featuring a collection of ways to play and learn with rocks.