Whether you’re looking for a way to keep peace in the car, fill the time until dinner, or calm down before bedtime, these story podcasts for kids will become your new favorite family pastime!
Are you a podcast-listener? I wasn’t…until about a year ago when I finally dipped my toe in the water. Once I’d had a taste, I jumped enthusiastically on the bandwagon.
…Turn boring handwriting practice into a fun game with this free printable “trace the alphabet” scavenger hunt activity.
My kindergartner is brilliant and creative…he also has awful handwriting. That’s okay. He’s only five, but as I say to him:
“How do we get better at something? We practice.”
So we’ve been practicing this year (even back in the ancient days when we actually went to public school…remember that? Faintly?).
…If you’re looking for simple ways to help your children with learning at home without stressing yourself out, you’ll love this round-up of amazing (and FREE) resources.
With schools closing all over the nation, many of us are scrambling to figure out what to do with our kids home all day!
Our school district has dismissed school for at least the next two weeks, and we’re not sure what will happen beyond that time. …
These Christmas picture books for kids are the best of the best…stories your family will want to read again and again!
We got our first real snow this week, and Black Friday ads are everywhere…so it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas from where I’m standing.
We’re holding out on putting up the Christmas tree until after Thanksgiving, but we’ve been listening to Jingle Bells on repeat and we broke out the Christmas picture books last week. I started requesting books from the library weeks ago, knowing that by December 1st, many of my favorites will be backlogged until February….
Turn a normal library trip into a treasure hunt adventure your kids will love using this free printable library scavenger hunt BINGO game. 
It’s official. Summer is here. The last bell has rung, and we are FREE until August. I have big plans for the summer…hopefully not too big. I’m trying to balance the desire to make it a summer of fun adventures with the reality that normal life STUFF has to happen, too.
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Do your kids ever get bored with going to the library? Make summer reading into an adventure this year with these free printable library scavenger hunt bookmarks.
Are your kids out of school for the summer, or do you still have a few weeks left? For us, this week is the END of the school year. CRAZY!…
If you love kid lit, these 16 favorite children’s picture books are absolute must-haves. They are the ones I could (and have) read hundreds of times and never get tired of them. 
I’m pretty sure I came out of the womb reading a book…which worked out well because I was born into a family where bookcases decorated every room of the house. As a child, I spent countless hours poring over the pages of gorgeous books. So many worlds waited to be discovered every time I opened the cover of a new book. My version of heaven.
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This giant search-and-find learning game is super low prep, and can be used to teach kids just about anything: letters, numbers, sight words, and more! 
I know the last learning activity I shared was a scavenger hunt, but I can’t be stopped! My boys just love to hunt for things. Technically, we named this one a word “search”, but let’s be honest…it’s pretty much a scavenger hunt. But it was also TOO FUN not to share.
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Make your next trip to a museum an exciting challenge with this free printable alphabet scavenger hunt. Whether it’s your first visit or you 50th, this activity is a great way to liven up learning time.
I’m not really a stay-at-home kind of stay-at-home mom. I’m more of a let’s-get-out-of-the-house-and-have-adventures-so-I-don’t-have-to-do-the-dishes kind of mom. In fact, I go a little crazy when my kids get sick and we’re forced to stay home for days at a time. That’s one of the reasons we have several museum and aquarium passes…because I NEED a place to take the kids to get out of the house.
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Make learning the ABCs fun with these free printable alphabet flashcards. This set includes separate cards for uppercase and lowercase letters, giving you endless possibilities for how to learn with your child.
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Last year, I was looking for ways to help my preschooler practice the alphabet. Specifically, I wanted to help him match upper and lowercase letters. I found lots of adorable printable flash cards online, however none of them were exactly what I was looking for.
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