This post contains affiliate links This quick sensory bin made me a very happy mama on Monday! Let me explain why- the weather has been hot lately which means my kids haven’t been interested in playing outside like usual. That also means they are cooped up in the house while the baby naps and I…
This post was sponsored by the PLAY-DOH brand from HASBRO as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. I received complimentary products to facilitate my review. This post contains affiliate links. There are a few things that absolutely define childhood for me- PLAY-DOH modeling compound is one of them. It brings me back to…
This post contains affiliate links This week we have the honor of judging the #earlylearning101 challenge on Instagram and the theme is SHAPES (not familiar with the challenge? It’s hosted by Early Learning 101‘s Instagram account where every week a new educational theme is chosen. Guest judges choose from all the contributions and feature four…
I am a blog ambassador for Lakeshore and am compensated for my work. I received product free of charge, but all thoughts and opinions are 100% mine. The sweepstakes prize is provided for the winner free of charge from Lakeshore. Though it feels strange saying it, and while I don’t always feel like it, I…
By a virtual show of hands, who here *loves* marshmallows?!? If you could see through the screen, you would NOT see my hand raised. Nope. Not here. I am an absolute sugar fiend, but I just don’t like marshmallows…well…I don’t like eating them, at least. We happened to have a bag of them in…
This post contains affiliate links “I’m bringing home a baby bumblebee…” Do you know this classic song? I’ll be honest, I never sang it as a kid. I was first introduced to it by a friend and when I first heard it I thought, “eww- what a gross song!” (I clearly didn’t appreciate it because…
My boys just got their first Micro Kickboard scooters and they are IN LOVE with them. Playing with their scooters has become their first activity choice each day and that makes me one happy mama because scootering is a great way for my growing boys to developing balance, coordination, and self-esteem in their physical capabilities.…
This post contains affiliate links Every teacher loves the Dollar Store. I’ll say it again in bold- every teacher loves the Dollar Store. I don’t think our love for Dollar Stores can be emphasized enough. We will go into retirement forever professing our love for 99 cent classroom necessities and trinkets. We also know the things that…
This was one of those impromptu ideas that came out beautifully. If you’ve been following the blog, You’ve seen that we made these Planet Sun Catchers for Pre-K Pages, then we studies constellations with our Marshmallow Constellation Activity, and today (more specifically, this morning) I came up with the idea to paint the night…
This post contains affiliate links Not too long ago we made planet sun catchers, and since then my kids have been slowly but surely becoming more interested in astronomy (at the preschool level of course), we checked out a book about being an astronaut and watched YouTube videos about space. Then, in a completely unrelated activity,…
