by jessicaperkins | Jul 27, 2012 | beach, color, colors, coral, fish, folder, ocean, rainbow, tot
This little Folder Game was made for our Summer Beach / Ocean Theme and is used to reinforce simple colors. I found the Fish on a border at the Dollar store. I hole-punched them with a large circular punch, laminated the, and added Velcro. I cut out the...
by jessicaperkins | Jul 19, 2011 | food, home school, kids, kitchen, nutrition, snack, tot, tot school, treat
I am always trying to come up with ways Buga can help me in the kitchen. She loves cooking – and eating – and I find that when she participates in cooking, she is more likely to eat our creations. It’s a great way to teach beginning food Science, and...
by jessicaperkins | May 27, 2011 | activity, book, books, colors, comprehension, counting, directions, Dog's Colorful Day, emma dodd, following, hands on learning, homeschool, library, literature, rainbow, School, story, tot
This has been one of our favorite books as of late Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd. It is a sweet little story about a dog getting himself spotted with messes along his day. I think little kids just like the idea of messes in general, because they are such a...
by jessicaperkins | May 7, 2011 | activity, book, books, comprehension, directions, following, hands on learning, homeschool, library, literature, pam adams, School, size relation, story, There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, tot
We recently read “There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly” illustrated by Pam Adams. Buga loved it because it’s a story she has heard in song, so she was able to see along, anticipate the next words, and repeat the refrain.I made a set of...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 7, 2011 | activity, art, box, car, cardboard, drawing, homeschool, imagination, play, pretend, project, School, sculpture, tot
With a little imagination, This:cardboard boxBecomes this:personal driving machineBuga found a cardboard box. She pretended to drive it like a car.So we decided to cover it in easel paper, decorate it…and turn it into a car.I added a side-car snack holder so she...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 4, 2011 | activity, book, cart, coloring, crayola, crayons, drawing, grocery, homeschool, quiet, School, time, tot, wipeable
I made these wipeable coloring sheets by photocopying some of Buga’s favorite coloring book activities – I copied them at 60% so they would be more portable. I laminated each page, hole-punched it, and bound them together with a metal ring from Staples. We...