I cannot believe we celebrate Easter this week! It definitely seems early this year, but that's okay with me because it's one of my favorite holidays. While Easter baskets and eggs are fun traditions, our family puts a big focus on Christ's resurrection during Easter. To make this part of our preschool at home lessons, I put together a packet of Christ-centered learning printables. I'm excited to share that I'm offering it FREE to you all, too! In these Easter printables, you'll find the … [Read more...]
Marshmallow Egg Treats
Have you ever gone to the grocery store and made an impulse purchase? I'm sure you have! Well, that happened to me last week when I spotted some egg shaped marshmallows. I had never seen them before and just HAD to get them. While they tasted really great on their own, my creative side wanted to come up with a fun kid dessert for Easter. My kids (and husband) were big fans of these marshmallow egg treats! These turned out great and they are super simple to make! How to Make the Marshmallow … [Read more...]
What’s The Best Way to Decorate Eggs?
I love finding new ways to color eggs. There are so many unique ways to decorate eggs, but it can be hard to know which ones are easy for kids and which ones really turn out well. Today I'm sharing 7 ways to decorate eggs AND I'm judged them! Yep. I said it. I'm judged them on how kid-friendly they are, how messy the activity is, the overall appearance, and how well I recommend doing it. I judged them on a scale from 1-5 (1 being low and 5 being high). 1. Melted Crayon Eggs This … [Read more...]
Our Easter Family Traditions
Happy Monday to you all! Did you have a great Easter weekend? Isn't it hard to get back into the swing of things after a Holiday on a Sunday? Last Friday, I asked all of you wonderful readers to help me with a survey. SO many of you were awesome and completed it! Thank you, thank you!!! I truly appreciate it. I will leave the survey open until 11:59pm tonight and will announce the winner of the Amazon gift card tomorrow. I was surprised by some of the responses. For example, I was … [Read more...]
12 Fun Games Using Plastic Eggs
Easter is around the corner, which means colorful plastics eggs are in stock at stores! Of course you can use them for Easter, but there are so many other ways to use these inexpensive plastic eggs besides just filling them up for Easter baskets. We've been playing some fun games with these and today I'm excited to share 12 games with you! 1. Shake and Roll Game For this game, just fill 5-10 plastic eggs with material from around the house. I used rice, beans, salt, pom poms, buttons, … [Read more...]
Letter Sound Matching Game
I love Target! Every time I'm there, I browse their dollar section. Last week, I found some adorable foam eggs! I grabbed a few packs and I'm so glad I did because they were sold out a few days later! When I snagged these eggs, I thought they would make a great alphabet letter matching game, but I realized we've done a lot of matching games (like this one) and my son is working more on beginning letter sounds. So, I created a letter sound matching game for my 4-year-old. For this game, I put … [Read more...]
Jelly Bean Math
Here's my confession: I love Starburst Jelly Beans! They are my favorite candy this time of year. So, I had to pick up a bag the other day. We decided to do some math activities with these jelly beans. First, we counted them. I created this sheet of 6 circles for sorting, but it worked well as a tool for counting. Then I had Troy sort the jelly beans by colors. I do have to brag on him--he's getting really good at sorting! This was also a good fine motor activity, since the jelly beans … [Read more...]
Easter Art Project
Today I'm sharing how to make a simple cross craft for Easter. Here what you'll need: canvas paint tape marbles To begin, take your canvas and put tape on it in the shape of a cross. Then get your paint ready. To make clean up easy, I just used a recycled egg carton. We put red, yellow, and blue paint in it and mixed a couple colors together to make purple and green. This was a great art lesson for Troy! For this art project, we dipped marbles in the paint and then rolled … [Read more...]
Easter Sensory Tub
Hey all! Today I'm sharing our Easter sensory tub. It explores the sense of touch, sense of hearing, and even snack time! I didn't put a lot in this tub, but inside each egg there's a little surprise! Before opening the eggs, I had Troy shake it and try to guess what was inside. I gave him a few clues. This is good practice for him to develop the ability to discriminate between sounds. In some of the eggs, I put in Annie's Cheddar Bunnies and Cookies. These are some of our favorite … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs
I can't believe Easter is just around the corner! It seems like Christmas wasn't too long ago. Today I'm excited to share 10 ways to decorate Easter eggs! I'm sharing our experience with decorating eggs using shaving cream along with 9 other unique ways to decorate eggs. First, do you know the best way to boil an egg? I used to be horrible at boiling eggs. The shells would stick to the egg and they wouldn't turn out. However, I've mastered it now. It's super easy and here's how you do … [Read more...]