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Learning Sight Words Through Play
Children who are prematurely pushed into regimented academic instruction display less creativity and enthusiasm for learning later in life. In our home, learning through play does not end when Kindergarten begins. We say no to worksheets, and instead create fun [...]
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Sensory Play in K
As many of you know, my son started Kindergarten a few weeks ago. Of course, the mindful/reggio/playful/child advocating mommy in me is trying to support his teacher in any way that I can as we decide if public school is [...]
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6 Fun Ways to Explore Outer Space
Once you realize what you children are interested in, you can provide the materials to expand their learning in those areas. Here are 6 fun activities for those space loving children out there. 1. CREATE A CAVE OF STARS [...]
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Fort Magic Review and Giveaway
Fort Magic is, well…. MAGICAL! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) The Fort Magic Kit really is the toy with endless possibilities! What IS Fort Magic? “Fort Magic is an innovative fort building and construction toy that enables children to build 3D, kid-created, ”life-size” worlds for inventive play! [...]
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Scuba Spelling – Diving for Letters and Spelling Words
Make learning fun by meeting your children where they are and embracing their interests. We have spent most of our summer diving down 9 feet in the deep end of the pool to touch the bottom. It was clearly an [...]
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Big Book of Questions
My oldest daughter really enjoys reading The Big Book of Why along with all of it’s counterparts…space, ocean, dinosaurs, and animals. Reading these books often result in more questions. She also asks a lot of questions while we are [...]
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Firecracker T-Shirts
This is one of our favorite crafts for celebrations. We have dyed t-shirts for birthday parties, Memorial day, Easter, etc. We decided to make some Firecracker T-shirts this year for the Fourth of July! It’s a fun, easy, inexpensive craft [...]
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Trauma Unit
Ever since we did OPEN HEART SURGERY on Tigger my oldest loves using a needle and thread to “operate on her patients”. Needle, thread, gauze, alcohol wipes, and butterfly band aids were added to our Doctor’s Office You can see all [...]
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200K Play at Home Mom Gratitude Giveaway!
In just 3.5 short months, Play at Home Mom LLC acquired over 100,000 more readers – and those are just the people who use Facebook. That means there are over 200,000 moms, dads, teachers, caregivers, grandparents, etc who are interested [...]
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Giveaway – Little Dress Up Shop
Around Christmas time my girls were asking for princess dresses. We tried a few on at local retail stores and they were just blah. The quality was not the best and to my clothes-sensitive daughters they felt “itch and scratchy”. [...]