Category: Learning Activities
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Freezer Crock Pot Recipes
I talked here about my mass prepping of food for freezer crock pot cooking, to have easy to prepare and super low cost meals for the next few months. Here are all the recipes I pull from when I do my mass meal making. Try them out and let me know how you like them!…
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Freezer Crock Pot Cooking Day
Welcome Pinners!!! First I have to say: WOW! I am totally shocked at the response to this post! I’ve had a lot of people ask about the shopping list I used. Here it is! This includes all the things I wouldn’t normally have in my pantry. Things like salt and other spices I didn’t include…
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Oobleck
Another really fun and messy (and cheep) activity is oobleck. This is literally as simple as corn starch and water but it has an amazing property of behaving like both a solid and a liquid. If you try to punch or poke quickly through it, it acts like a solid, but slowly slide your hand into…
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ABC Book (Free Printable!)
Today we started working on an ABC book that I created for my classroom way back. I think it’s funny that he’s working on the things I work with my kinders on at the beginning of the year. There’s a part of me that really don’t want him to work on any more Pre-K stuff…
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Train Craft
This was another spur of the moment activity that actually turned out pretty cute. Materials Train Outline Cardboard, Foamboard or other sturdy paper Cotton balls 1 empty toilet paper roll Markers Glue Take the outline of a train and using a pen poke holes along the lines to transfer it to the carboard, foamboard or…
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Flubber (or Oobleck or Gak…)
Landon is turning 3 next month! I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. He’s pretty much obsessed with Curious George (or Monkey George as he calls it) so we are going to have a Curious George Party. This is the first party where he’ll have friends and other kids that can play games…
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Oats and ‘Nanner Drops
We’ve been introducing new foods to Riley very slowly. With the family history of allergies and his already found sensitivity to dairy through my breastmilk, AND his eczema, his pediatrician and Landon’s allergy doctor want us to just go slow with food, especially the top allergic foods. For the longest time (it seems) we’ve just been doing single food…
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Happy Summer!
In honor of the first day of summer, Landon and I made a sun. I drew lines on the construction paper for the triangles, and yes, this 2 year old (ok, 2 year 10 month old) cut all the triangles by him self. He’s had lots of exposure to using scissors. Not only through his…
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Math Mats
Math mats are a wonderful way to scaffold and expose children to number sense concepts, like one-to-one correspondence, counting, and number recognition. The idea originated with an old program – Math Their Way (I think). I used math mats as a kindergarten student teacher with Mrs. Kliefoth in Thermalito back in “the day”, and was…
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Breakfast Cookies
I’ve tried several baked oatmeal recipes but they all had so much sugar in them that I didn’t feel right serving it as a main meal. These have NO added sugar. They get their sweetness from the applesauce (I even use unsweetened) and the dried fruit you put in. If they are to “unsweet” you…