It's the start of a new year, which is the perfect time to organize your toy room! The day after Christmas, I got on a big purging and organization kick! I donated toys we don't play with, bought plastic bins to organize toys, and rearranged our toy room. I made some toy bin labels a few years ago, but I decided to update them with a new font and add more labels with pictures. I'm excited to share them with you today! Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I printed these off … [Read more...]
Sight Word Readers for the Word “And”
The word "and" is one of the most popular words used in English text. It's definitely an important sight word for beginning readers to know how to read. I created sight word readers to help with this! These cute little booklets are great to use at home or in the classroom. In this download, there are these 3 booklets: My Brother and I Fruits & Vegetables I Love Breakfast! Each of these sight word readers focus on the word “and”. They also mostly use words that were learned … [Read more...]
6 Easy Spider Web Crafts
Spiders totally creep me out. I know that I'm much bigger than them, but I just really dislike spiders. They always seem to pop up when I least expect it! My kids are the opposite...they love anything to do with creepy crawlies. Since spiders are popular this time of year, I wanted to do a spider web craft with them. I had some leftover spider cut-outs from the sensory bottle we made, so we decided to make an easy spider web craft with them. First, we made a spider web design on black paper … [Read more...]
Week in Review
*This post contains affiliate links. Hope you are having a great Friday! Here is a peak at this past week... Troy's favorite activity... Riding his bike with his NEW helmet! You can label us bad parents of the year for not buying a helmet sooner! The good news is that he LOVES his helmet and always wants to wear it! (And yes, I see that his helmet straps need to be tightened!) Wes' favorite activity... Playing with his new toys! He loves these Melissa & Doug magnets. Speaking … [Read more...]
Week in Review
Whew! It's been a crazy-busy week! It's been super fun in the blogging world with my new ebook being released! Don't forget to get your copy today! The price will increase to $9.95 on July 22nd. It's also been a busy week at home. Let's just say I'm super glad it's Friday! The boys' favorite activity this week... We took their bikes to a small lake/pond and rode bikes, fed the ducks, threw rocks, played on the playground & got really, really sweaty! Gotta love those July … [Read more...]
Snow Ice Cream
I have always wanted to make snow ice cream. For some people, this is a tradition, but for us this was a first! With the first snow storm of the season yesterday, we decided to try it out! Here's what you'll need: *8 cups of freshly fallen snow *1/2 cup sugar *1/2 Tablespoon of Vanilla *1 cup of milk (we used almond milk) To start, gather some fresh snow. It's pretty obvious that you would want fresh snow...none of that dirty snow! Add in the sugar and vanilla and … [Read more...]
Homemade Applesauce
Today we made homemade applesauce in the crockpot. It smelled SO delicious and tasted SO yummy! I will definitely be making this again. It's also a fun activity to do with your little one. Here are the ingredients: 4 apples (I used 3 Gala and 1 Honeycrisp) Juice from 1 lemon 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 1 T brown sugar 1/4 cup water 1st step: Peel the apples. I peeled the apples and Troy cleaned up the scraps … [Read more...]