Author: gettingcrafty

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Easy Turkey Crafts For Toddlers and Kids

Hello! If you are new here check out No Time For Flash Cards on Pinterest and join our Facebook community for more great ideas. We have one more Thanksgiving craft to share later this week but I wanted to round up all our easy turkey crafts for toddlers and kids in one great place.  I […]

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Thanksgiving Crafts For Kids & More { Add Your Posts }

Can you believe it’s almost Thanksgiving? More importantly at our house it’s my son’s 8th birthday. How in the world is he 8? This is the first picture I took of him for the blog way back in early 2008. He’s getting closer and closer to my height and let’s not talk about his negotiation […]

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Kids Craft Ideas Linky { join in by adding your post! }

Tonight I asked my Facebook community if they thought it was too early to post Christmas craft ideas. The overwhelming answer was no. That is my green light! I am brainstorming as soon as I post Link & Learn and will have a few fun Christmas crafts for you soon. You can see some fun […]

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Christmas Tree Pencil Toppers Craft { great class gift }

These pencil toppers crafts are a cinch to make  but the glittery foam makes them look super festive. What makes me feel even more festive is to think about how hard my daughter worked on these pencil toppers which will be her little gift to PreK classmates for Christmas. She goes to a church affiliated […]

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Cork Turkey – Easy Thanksgiving Crafts

I brought these corks up to the playroom to make something completely different but we didn’t have all the supplies I needed for that craft. After making a totally different Christmas craft ( I will post it later this week) we started cleaning up and inspiration struck! I grabbed a few more supplies and explained […]

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Pinecone Painting & Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

Pinecones are everywhere!  As certain as the fallen leaves, the pinecones that beg to be picked up and thrown ( hopefully not at each other) are everywhere. I decided we should create with the pinecones and what better to make right now than a Thanksgiving turkey craft ? What I love about these Thanksgiving turkey […]

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If you have 30 extra minutes to work on literacy what would you spend it doing? Simple ways parents can help their kids read.

If you had 30 extra minutes to work on reading what would you spend it doing? I get asked this question a lot.  After reading with them, to them, and listening to them read or tell you stories? Well that depends on the child but I will try to answer this question is a very […]

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Letter Harvest Corn – Alphabet Craft for Kids

We love adding letters to plain old crafts and making them into an  alphabet craft. It’s a simple way to work on letter recognition and kids love it. This simple ear of harvest corn went from plain to rad with some letters. More importantly my daughter spent time with each letter making it’s sound, suggesting […]

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10 Books My Son Can’t Put Down

We have been reading a lot this year and I wanted to do a book gift guide for independent readers. I decided to go to my best source, my son. This list may be about books my son can’t put down but they aren’t only the best books for boys they can be for boys […]

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Hexbug Races

Simple activities using toys we already have in our playroom are my favorite. Finding new ways to use the toys inspires creativity and play. This Hexbug race activity was a spur of the moment idea that I made my son pause as I ran downstairs to grab my camera. We played from after dinner all […]

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8 Easy Phonics Activities

Phonics is the fancy name for relationship between the written letter and the sound or sounds it represents. Pretty important for learning to read. English is not a common sense language but giving children a good base knowledge of letter sounds we can help them build strong foundations for decoding words while reading. Most of […]

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How To Use Halloween Candy For Learning

These 7 posts all focus on different things, counting, color matching, threading, writing, painting, and even science! I LOVE Halloween candy and I am not talking about eating it. I am talking about how effective a little novelty can be to spark your child’s interest in learning. I like doing candy related ideas after Easter […]

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