spring

Books for Giving: Spring Edition

Nearly every gift-giving occasion in our family includes specially-chosen books for our two voracious readers. With a change of season in the air, here are a few gift book ideas for celebrating spring or tucking into an Easter basket: Barnyard Dance! by Sandra Boynton Age: Babies and up You really can’t go wrong with Sandra [...]

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Welcoming Spring

Tomorrow is the first day of spring! I think we’ll be celebrating with rain boots and umbrellas. Maybe we’ll get lucky and see a rainbow… Here are a few spring favorites from our archives: Green Collage Pretend Play Flower Shop Rainbow Poem Coloring Sheet Spring Audio Books for Kids Spring Felt Board And, more spring [...]

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Free Play Art :: Green Collage

It’s March, the month of leprechauns and the change to Spring. Seems like the perfect time for an art collage of all things green! This week: Green Collage Materials: I love using a muffin tin to arrange all the art goodies for creating. See how many green art supplies you can gather from around the [...]

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Spring Acrostic Poems

{Updated from a post at Early Bird Homeschool, April 2010. The girls wrote these poems when they were 5 and 7 years old.} Poetry is one of our favorite ways to play and create with words. After reading Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur, we wrote our own acrostic poems to celebrate Spring. Acrostic [...]

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Play + Learn: Kites and Wind

Use some of the wild energy a windy day brings and try some of these kid-friendly kite and wind-themed activities: Make a paper kite :: maya*made Create a brown paper grocery bag kite :: Rhythm of the Home Write a Kite Tail acrostic poem :: WritingFix Decorate your house with little origami kites :: Craft [...]

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Spring Audio Books for Kids

We love listening to audio books, especially in the car. Luckily, our library has a pretty good selection of picture book/CD sets and audio chapter books. I also like purchasing audio stories and making themed audio story playlists for the girls. We can listen to them on our iPod or burn a CD for the [...]

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Pin the Tail on the Bunny

I was in charge of a game for Natalie’s kindergarten spring party. I made this felt pin the tail on the bunny – it was very simple and only took me about 15 minutes to make. That’s my kind of project! The kids really loved all the colorful tails, too. A fun addition to any [...]

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Spring Felt Board

We have a big felt board that covers the back of our piano. There has not been much interest in playing at the felt board lately, so I decided to pull out my felt stash and make some new spring inspiration. So far, I have cut out flowers, stems, grass, flower pots, soil, seeds, clouds, [...]

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