Author: gettingcrafty

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Picture Books You Might Not Know With Great Role Models For Girls

Ever feel like the same books are shared over and over again? This round up of books with great role models for girls isn’t abou tthe most popular books, this list is a list of books that when I suggest them to friends aren’t often titles they have heard before. For a book list about […]

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Link & Learn – Kids Crafts and Learning Linky

Ahh I have finally been able to get my laptop to connect to the internet! I am flying home from a weekend in Atlanta where I got to teach people taller than me ( other bloggers) at Type A Parent Conference. Don’t worry tomorrow I will be back in circle time with my students and […]

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11 Screen Free Activities For The Car

My son loves baseball and my daughter loves ballet so what that means is that after you add in school, speech therapy, the gym, and errands some days we spend more time in the car than I ever dreamed I’d suffer through. Most days are not like this but when they are I don’t just […]

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15 Books About Cars and Trucks with Crafts To Match!

We love cars and trucks and everything else that goes with them at our house. My son was obsessed with garbage trucks first, then moved to firetrucks, and my daughter loves bulldozers so much she had a bulldozer themed birthday party. Needless to say we have read a lot of truck themed books and created […]

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Spin Painted Leaves – Fall Art Project

We eat a lot of salad at our house but the only thing our $5 salad spinner is used for is art. These fall art project is super simple to make. As a treat we made ours with acrylic paint known as ” Mama’s adult paint” at our house. It worked well but in my […]

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Fingerpaint & Fine Motor Acorn Craft

Even though we don’t see many acorns around here we still love creating fun acorn crafts like this simple fine motor acorn craft. We love mixing colors and I wanted to incorporate making the color brown into our lesson. While you and I know that the simplest way to make brown is to mix two […]

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Rhyming Dominoes and Speedracer Game – Learning After School

The school year has started and that means that some of our longer activities get shortened into smaller bite sized pieces of hands on learning that won’t compete with homework or my son’s need to just chill out after a long day at school.  Our whole Learning After School series is all about how to […]

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Apple Crafts & Activities For Preschool

I was going to take today off of posting but then I noticed how well the apples crafts and activities I have been posting on my Pinterest boards have been doing. I decided to bring together my favorite apple crafts and activities as well as some of the coolest ones I have pinned from other […]

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Fall Crafts & Activities For Kids { Link Up }

Our Pinterest is on fire because everyone LOVES fall crafts. I need more to pin and would love to see what you have to share. Link up right now. If you are one of those readers who have been searching for fall crafts check out the links below and then our Fall Lessons & Activities […]

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Early Learning Linky !

Even though summer isn’t officially over until the 21st of September I can’t help but think that Labor Day is the end of summer. We have had so much fun sharing great summer activities but now it’s time for all fantastic fall ideas. We gathered up a bunch of ours a few days ago in […]

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How To Prepare Your Kids For School From The Inside Out #QuakerUp

School supplies, new shoes, maybe a new backpack too. These things are important but this post about being prepared for school is about being prepared on the inside. As a paid Quaker For Classrooms Ambassador I have been sharing ways to get your kids ready for school as well as my own teacher appreciation story.  […]

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Fall Craft Ideas for Preschool { activities & book lists too}

This huge list of fall craft ideas for preschool will take you from back-to-school to the holidays. There are apple crafts, pumpkin printing, Halloween math activities, thoughtful Thanksgiving projects and more. In addition to all these great fall crafts and activities for preschool I also have a list of book round-ups for these themes. I […]

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