Happy Friday!! Are you all excited for the weekend?! I sure am! I wanted to share with you something that I've been working on this summer. It's my new printable Preschool Planner! I love this planner and it's working so well for teaching preschool at home. I looove how this turned out. It's so colorful and organized in a way that will make planning for preschool easy. And honestly, I think it will make planning more fun! Let me show you what inside of my planner... First up … [Read more...]
5 Steps to Spring Cleaning Toys
I love spring...it's a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. One thing I like to do during spring, is clean and organize our toys. Toys seem to take over our house during the winter months, partly because we are indoors most of the time. Today I'm sharing with you the 5 steps I take to spring clean our toys. 1. Rotate Toys While we are blessed to have many toys, the kids only play with a handful of them! I find that if I take time to put away toys and bring them back out in a few … [Read more...]
Toy Room Organization & Free Toy Bin Labels
Staying organized is something that I love. With three little ones, my house doesn't always look super clean, but I feel amazing when my house is well-organized. Since moving into our home, our toy room has been a mess. We are very blessed to have a huge room in the basement for all the toys, but I didn't have a great way of organizing it all. Last week, I finally got it all organized! Today, I'm sharing how it turned out as well as a printable for our toy bin labels. I don't know about … [Read more...]
Our Preschool Plans for 2014
Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a good week. We're still adjusting to life with a newborn and two active boys. It's going well and I'm trying to soak up all these sweet moments with baby (and at the same time being sleep deprived!) I can't believe it's already August 13th...and schools around here start this week! Since school is on the minds of parents, today I am sharing our plans for preschool this year. (This post contains affiliate links.) Our oldest, Troy, is 4. He turns 5 this … [Read more...]
Tips for Organizing Preschool at Home
I receive emails all the time asking how we organize our preschool at home. So today, I am going to show you our current school room and share tips on how to organize preschool at home. So without further ado...welcome to our preschool room! Our home is not big by any means. In fact we recently moved to a new city and are renting at this time. Some day I dream about having tons of space at home with a huge backyard, but for now we make do with what we have. And I am thankful that we have … [Read more...]
75 Quiet Time Box Ideas for Preschoolers
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting my site. A few months ago, I wrote a post on using quiet time boxes when a child stops taking naps. I like to call these quiet time boxes a sanity saver! It is so nice to have peace and quiet for at least an hour each afternoon. Since we've started using quiet time boxes with my 4-year-old, I have realized that after a while, he gets bored with the material in each box. So, I have switched material out and changed things … [Read more...]
NeuYear Calendar {review and giveaway}
Disclosure: I received this planner to review and was compensated for my time by NeuYear. All opinions expressed are my own. Are you a planner? Or perhaps someone who needs to get better at planning? If so, I'd like to share with you a wonderful product called NeuYear calendars. These big calendars are perfect to help your entire year stay organized! Using a Big Calendar I love planning and staying organized, and I keep everything organized in my planner. I really didn't have anything … [Read more...]
Preparing to Teach Preschool at Home
I can't believe it is already August! That means summer is almost over and school is just around the corner! I went to Target the other day and as I walked by the school supply section, I noticed all the excited and noisy kids hustling and bustling around to find their school supplies. I also noticed the worn-out looking parents trying to keep up with their kids. It made me smile as I remembered being that age and being SO excited to pick out school supplies and get them all ready for school … [Read more...]
How to Eliminate Clutter
Happy 2013 everyone! I wanted to share a quick tip that has helped me a lot with eliminating clutter. I don't know about your house, but my house was filled with lots of new toys and stuff after Christmas. Here are my thoughts on that: 1. I love that the kids have new toys 2. I can't stand clutter 3. I need a solution!! What I do when there are too many toys around is pack up a tub full of the toys that they don't really play with and store them in the basement for a month or … [Read more...]
Dream Play Rooms
Lately, I've been thinking about how awesome it would be to have a big room just for a play room. Right now, we don't have a space for this and our living room is overtaken with toys and other activities. It works for now, but I sure hope our next home has space for this. Here are some pics from the web that I love for play rooms. I love how colorful and organized this one is! And that lamp is so fun!! Source This one is good for a finished basement. Love the banner and prints around the … [Read more...]