Fun Learning Activities for Preschoolers and Kids
Did you know that my oldest son started a blog when he was 7? I had been blogging for a year or two when he came home from second grade with a writing assignment. It was a simple paragraph about his favorite colors. After he wrote the final draft in his best handwriting, he was [...]
Ah, times tables. I remember as a kid sitting at the kitchen table with my mom going over and over my multiplication flash cards because I just could not remember the upper facts! I was searching for some way to help the upper times tables stick for my son. We worked diligently with flash cards, [...]
Making butter used to be a hard, time-consuming job. But of course, for centuries, almost everyone did it. When my kids and I read a story book about life in old Appalachia recently and saw the pictures of a butter churn and children pumping away at it, we decided that we wanted to give making [...]
What makes water molecules stick together to form a drop of water? Surface Tension. What allows those cool water bugs to walk on water? Surface Tension. But what is surface tension and how to you teach it to children? According to Wikipedia, surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid that allows [...]
Have you ever made bread with your children? It’s such a satisfying thing to bake and so well suited to children as the dough is robust enough to withstand their enthusiastic handling. This easy bread recipe is a really good one to use with kids. It’s almost a no-knead recipe, with just thirty kneads required, [...]
