Graphing is a great math activity for littles because it so concrete, hands-on and helps them practice many different concepts including. Littles will be so excited for this fun gummy bear graphing activity! Here are a few math skills that it will hit: Counting One to one correspondence Math vocabulary (more, less) Comparison of quantities Data collection and organization Let's just be honest here, nothing is more fun to graph than candy! This gummy bear graphing is free and pretty much requires no prep! I recommend using these little bags of gummy bears! Here are some questions you can ask little ones about their graph to take the learning deeper: What color did you ... Read More about Gummy Bear Graphing
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Valentine’s Day Books for Baby
This post may contain affiliate links. Valentine's Day is right up there with Christmas as one of my favorite holidays! It's such a sweet little holiday to celebrate love and spread kindness. Seasonal books always make the holidays fun, even for babies! Here are some favorite Valentine's Day Books for Baby: HUG: This book book is so cute! Bobo is looking for a hug. This book will be enjoyed far beyond Valentine's Day. Would be a great valentines gift for your baby Where is Baby's Valentine?: Karen Katz is one of our favorite authors and we love this series of books. They are short enough to keep a little one's attention and the flaps make it fun! Baby Touch and Feel I Love ... Read More about Valentine’s Day Books for Baby
30 Winter Sensory Bin Ideas
Need a few ideas for setting up winter sensory bins? Sensory bins are great learning tools for littles at home and in the classroom. They are fun, easy to set up and will keep your littles occupied and engaged. Here are 30 Winter Sensory Bin Ideas to use this season. If you are just getting started with sensory bins? Be sure to check out this post to go over the basics. As always, you know your child best so please choose materials that are developmentally appropriate and safe. Children, especially babies, should always be supervised. Here are 30 ideas of items to include in your sensory bins this winter: Snowballs: I have seen some in the Target Dollar Section too! EK loves ... Read More about 30 Winter Sensory Bin Ideas
Getting Started with Sensory Bins
Just getting started with sensory bins? You are in the right place! This post is going to cover all of the sensory bin basics including the benefits, how to set one up, who can use them, ideas for materials and clean up! I feel like I need to start this post with letting you know that I am really a nerd about this type of thing. I went to get a pedicure a few weeks ago and took the book, What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life to read while I relaxed. I know, I'm a little intense. But, if you are also into child development HERE are my favorite parenting and child development books. I just don't want you to feel bad if you ... Read More about Getting Started with Sensory Bins
Gingerbread Man Activities for Preschool
This post may contain affiliate links. Are you looking for gingerbread man activities for preschool? You are in the right place! The gingerbread man is my favorite folk tales and always a favorite with little ones! This post will give you tons of ideas to go with any version of The Gingerbread Man! I have to admit. I did not know how many different version of The Gingerbread Man there were until I became a teacher! The gingerbread man is a great one to incorporate into your teaching during the month of December! I thought it would fun to put together a post with all things gingerbread man! Favorite Gingerbread Man Stories These are a few of my favorite stories featuring the ... Read More about Gingerbread Man Activities for Preschool
Christmas Family Countdown
Are you looking for Christmas Family Countdown Ideas? Here is a peek at what I will be doing with my family this holiday season. I'm over the moon about this Christmas. It's my first one as a mom and I can't wait to do all the things. Even though EK is a baby, I wanted to plan a special holiday activity for our family each day leading up to Christmas. This might sound like a lot of extra stress and work, but it really wasn't! Let me walk you through our Christmas Family Countdown! Planning Your Christmas Countdown The first thing I did was type out each day in December like this: (You can copy and paste mine from below to save yourself some time!) December 1:December 2:December ... Read More about Christmas Family Countdown
Baby’s First Christmas Gift Guide
This post may contain affiliate links. The holidays are here and I know that there are A LOT of gift guides out there. Since becoming a mom earlier this year I have seriously survived on other people’s recommendations; and I love sharing what has worked for us too! When you find something that your family loves, you want to tell the world! So that's exactly what this is: toys and gifts that our family loves! So thank you for being here and trusting my opinion when shopping for your sweet baby's first Christmas. It's EK's first Christmas too and it's going to be so special. Before we get started, I want to share another shopping secret with you. For months I had been seeing commercials ... Read More about Baby’s First Christmas Gift Guide
Turkey Treat Freebie
My mom was the best and little making fun seasonal treats. She made little witch hat cookies with Hershey's kisses at Halloween, little turkeys with fudge stripe cookies at Thanksgiving and rice crispy treat nests at Easter. I have so many fun memories of bringing these special treats to holiday parties and showing them off in my school lunch. This was all way before Pinterest too! Shout out to you Mom! All of the treats were yummy, but the best part was making them together. Today I want to share a fun turkey treat that you can make with your own littles! I've seen a cute turkey idea using an oatmeal cream pie pop up on Instagram this season, but I wanted to make it more ... Read More about Turkey Treat Freebie
Target Dog Halloween Costume
This post may contain affiliate links. It was the happiest Halloween! I spent A LOT of time thinking about what my girl would be for her first Halloween. I wanted to make life hard on myself and come up with something that I could make and that would be original, which is harder than you would think these days. Then it finally came to me! BULLSEYE! For weeks I wouldn't tell anyone what she was going to be because I didn't want anyone else to take my idea, LOL. There were NO Bullseye Target Dog Costumes on Pinterest, so you are seeing it here first! Now that I did it, I'll share with you how to do it too: Just grab a white hat to fit your child. This hat was great for a tiny ... Read More about Target Dog Halloween Costume
Sensory Play Ideas for Babies
Are you looking for the baby sensory play activities? This post is dedicated to sensory activities just for babies! Read on for some fun ideas for incorporating sensory play into the day for children under 12 months old. if you are looking for activities for older toddlers, check out this post: 50 Simple Activities for One Year Olds. Sensory Play for Babies Sensory play is an essential part of a baby’s development and helps them to learn, grow and explore their environment. Not only does it provide fun and entertainment for babies, but sensory activities also help promote healthy physical, emotional and mental development. Benefits of Sensory Play for Babies As always, ... Read More about Sensory Play Ideas for Babies
Pumpkin Books for Baby
All of our pumpkin board books officially hit the bookshelves of our home this weekend. EK has two little floating white shelves in her bedroom for seasonal books and I look forward to switching out the books every few weeks! It must be a teacher thing. Here are the books we will be reading this month while we wait for cooler temperatures! All of these books are baby and teacher approved and we really do have each of them on our home bookshelf. This post may contain affiliate links. Five Little Pumpkins: This one is so catchy and reads like a little rhyme! I have the whole thing memorized and "sing" it to EK constantly. Five Little Pumpkins Came Back: I ... Read More about Pumpkin Books for Baby
Christmas Book Countdown
I know, I know. It's only September, but the holidays will be here before we know it! I think everyone has great intentions of doing all the fun holiday ideas from Pinterest, but then life happens. This year one of my goals is to post holiday ideas super early so that you have plenty of time to prepare! This year is my first Christmas as a mom and I can't wait to DO ALL THE THINGS. I am so excited to start some new traditions with my sweet girl! The first one on the list is a Christmas Book Countdown. This tradition actually started a few years ago in my classroom. I had so many holiday books that I decided to wrap them up and each day a different student would open one for us to ... Read More about Christmas Book Countdown