Winter Craft: Punched Paper Window Snowflakes

Looking for something to do during the holiday break? Keep the kids busy and improve their fine motor skills with this easy winter craft. Punched paper snowflakes can make any window a little more cheerful and they look especially pretty when the light comes through them.

Simple Jet Craft for Boys (or Girls)

This jet craft is easy to make with a few simple shapes made from construction paper and it's great cutting practice for kids.

10 Valentine's Day Literacy Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

What better way to show your toddler or preschooler that you love them on Valentine's Day than by having fun and building their literacy skills? Here are 10 super simple ideas.

Circle Penguin Craft

Do all 3 year olds love scissors?  My daughter uses them any chance she gets and I remember my son being the same way when he was that age.  It's been a while since we've done a craft, so it seemed like a good time to make something that involved lots of scissors practice.  The circles might have been too challenging though, so we finished this craft "together". (She supervised and let me know if the quality of my work fell below her stringent standards.)

Counting Octopus {Clothespin Craft}

My four year old is interested in learning about all sorts of things, so I love nonfiction books that are short and simple enough to read with him.  Octopus Under The Sea is one of those books.  With only a sentence or two on each page, it keeps his attention but provides enough facts to keep him interested.

Old Bear 4 Seasons Craft: August Virtual Book Club

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes is the perfect book to talk about the four seasons with kids. For our Virtual Book Club project, we made a simple seasons craft to use with the book. Be sure to check out the other ideas for Kevin Henkes books below.

Animals That Hatch From Eggs Project

My four year old came up with a great idea.  We were reading a Dinosaur Train book about how Buddy hatched from an egg when he said, "We should do a project about eggs hatching!"

Scissor Practice and a Red Ripe Strawberry: July Virtual Book Club

In preparation for the July Summer Virtual Book Club, I checked out lots of Don and Audrey Wood's books from the library, but the one that the kids asked me to read over and over was The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear.  In fact, they had it memorized in the first four days we had it. The narrator follows a little mouse who is going to pick a red, ripe strawberry.  The narrator warns the mouse that the big hungry bear loves red ripes strawberries and will come looking for it no matter how the mouse tries to hide, disguise, or guard it. The narrator tells the mouse that the only way to keep himself safe from the bear is to cut the strawberry in half so they can share it.