Fun Learning Activities for Preschoolers and Kids
I love homemade napkins, especially ones that are full of character and personality (i.e. the kinds that don’t show stains). Thankfully, I also have kiddos who love art and painting, the bigger the better. With a couple of yards of linen fabric, some elmer’s markers and acrylic paint we were set to decorate. . . [...]
We had been using aluminum foil for a school project. Once we were done, my kids started playing with their leftover foil scraps. It really is fun to play with foil! Then they started asking for more. And more. Aluminum foil is inexpensive and so much fun to create with that I let them use [...]
“In the last two decades children have lost 8 hours of free play per week and 30,000 schools in the United States have eliminated recess to make time for more academic study.” - Kathy Hirsh-Pasek This statistic freaks me out! I worry – are my kids playing enough? Am I making sure they have enough critical [...]
Drawing cartoons looks like simple until you sit down and try to accomplish it. A cartoon is a line drawing that our brains can interpret as something more realistic. Drawing a cartoon still requires proper scale and a recognizable amount of detail to make it familiar in its stripped-down format. Kids are exposed to this [...]
We are a game family. We are also a Lego family. Hmmm… how about we combine the two? That is how our little family Lego Challenge was born. The point of the “game” is to draw cards with a specific task – ex: use only the small lego blocks or make something you can [...]
