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My blog is designed to assist parents of children who are about to enter preschool or kindergarten. My blog outlines fun, low-cost ways to educate your child from home.
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Strong National Museum of Play Video – Sarah and Sesame Street
This short video clip is from our trip to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. It doesn’t have any sound, but is still kind of cute.They have a Sesame Street exhibit and lots of mini-activities inside. One is where your child can ...
Outdoor Fun for Preschoolers: Water Balloons & T-Ball
In my last post, I mentioned how I bought a really cheap, but neat T-Ball set from Wal-Mart for $10. Yesterday, we found another cool use for it. Instead of hitting the baseball, we hit water balloons.We rent an apartment. Although we do have a ya...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Outdoor T-Ball Fun
My daughter is in full day pre-k at the elementary school. I mistakenly assumed she couldn’t pay t-ball this year because she wasn’t in kindergarten. Apparently, I was wrong and a couple kids in her class are playing. She was quite devastated ...
Doing Craft Projects with Leaves
Pretty soon, the leaves will start falling. In fact, they have already started to do so here. What does that mean? The perfect opportunities for preschool craft projects with leaves. So, take your child for a walk, gather some leaves, come home a...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: A Fun Preschool Activity
Hat DayDo you have a lot of hats in your home? You may. If so, gather all of the hats in your home, including baseball caps, sun hats, rain hats, cowboy hats, or whatever else you may have. Next, have your family sit down and try each hat on. You...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project / Activity
An important part of preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten involves encouraging creativity. One way that you can do so is with the use of beads. Making a bracelet or necklace with your child is a fun preschool activity. It is also one...
Free Coloring Pages from Playhouse Disney
My daughter has always been a Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets, and Diego fan. She still is, but her latest thing is the shows on Playhouse Disney. Her father turned it on one day and she doesn’t want to watch anything else now.If your child is a D...
A Trip to the Zoo
Yesterday, we took a trip to the zoo. It was a lot of fun. It made for a long day and my daughter was so tired for the ride home, but still more than worth it. Since we have made a lot of trips to the zoo, my daughter is very familiar with all of ...
Another Preschool Blog
I can’t recall if I have posted this information before here or not, so I will do again. I run another blog that focuses on preschool activities. There is a large list of fun and educational preschool activities that you can do with your toddler ...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project
If you are looking for a fun preschool craft project to do with your child, you may want to make your own paper bag puppets. The good news about doing so is that you have so many options.As you can see (lol hopefully if you can tell) we made a few p...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Activity
If you have been teaching your child how to write at home, this is a fun preschool activity that you may enjoy. Have your child write a short letter to a family member. We have family that lives across the country, so we mailed the letter out.Perso...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project
Hanging Paper SnakeThis fun preschool craft project is one that your child will love to hang in their room.Supplies Needed:PaperMarkers or CrayonsScissorsHole PuncherYarnDirections:1 – Start by drawing the outline of the snake on the paper. You ca...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Activities with Wood Puzzles
In my last post, I stated three reasons why wood puzzles are great for toddlers and preschoolers. Another reason is the other activities that you can do with them. In addition to simply just putting a puzzle together, there are other games that you...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: 3 Reasons Why You Should Buy Wood Puzzles for Your Child
Are you looking for a fun, yet educational toy for your child to play with at home? If you are, you will want to examine wood puzzles. Although wood puzzles aren’t known as the best toys on earth, especially when compared some of the latest elect...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Related Article
Here is an article that I wrote about birthday party games for toddlers and preschoolers. They may help to give you a few ideas if you are in charge of planning a party for this age group.Article: Toddler Birthday Party Games...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project with Glitter
What You Will Need:PaperGlue (White Bottled Glue Works the Best)Paint Brush (Optional)GlitterDirections:Start by putting down newspapers on your working surface. An extra sheet of paper is also advised.Spread glue on a sheet of paper. A paint brush...
Why We Love the Leapfrog Learning DVDs
Are you a parent who is interested in educating your child at home? If you are, you may want to take the time to examine the LeapFrog Learning DVDs. All videos in this set are educational in more ways than most parents can imagine.For Christmas 200...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Related Article
Here is an article that I wrote on buying and owning a LeapFrog My First LeapPad. This article is great for parents who just bought the system for their children. The article is titled “A Guide to Buying and Owning a LeapFrog My First LeapPad Sys...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Neat Animal Webcams
The other day, I came across a website that had a few webcams for animals that were at the zoo. My daughter loved watching the animals on her screen. You can easily find more zoo webcams with a standard internet search, but these are the two that m...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project: Collage Tip
If you like the idea of making collages with your child, you may want to collect magazines and store sale flier pictures whenever you see them. The first day that my daughter started making collages I thought that we were going to run out of picture...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: More Preschool Craft Project Information – Collage
In my last post, I stated that making a collage is a great preschool craft project. In addition to having your child glue pictures wherever they want to on a page, have them categorize their pictures. For example, you can have your child put pictur...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project
If you are looking to do a fun preschool craft project with your child, you may want to consider making a collage. This preschool craft project is nice, as you have an unlimited number of options.For making a standard preschool collage, here is what...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Related Article
Here is an article that I wrote on the use of educational signs. The article is titled “Homeschool Preschool: Using Educational Signs to Your Advantage.”...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Activity
If you are looking for a fun preschool activity with your child, you may want to consider playing dress up. Dress up is a preschool activity that both boys and girls love!In addition to simply playing dress up with your child, you can also incorpora...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: More Crafts Added to Preschool Website
If you frequent this blog, you likely already know that I have a website that works in conjunction with this blog. On that website, I just added a few more preschool craft projects. These project ideas, with detailed descriptions and pictures, can ...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: More Preschool Science Experiments with Snow
In my last post, I mentioned how a great preschool science experiment is taking a small amount of snow inside and letting your child watch it melt. This science experimentation is a continuation from one listed yesterday.In addition to taking one sm...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Science Experiment with Snow
In my last post, I outlined how there are a number of fun and educational activities that you can do outdoors with your child during the wintertime, especially if you have snow. One of those activities is outlined below.A great preschool science exp...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Exploring Outdoors During the Winter
If you live in an area that is prone to snow, you are urged to take your child outside for a fun adventure. In fact, did you know that playing outdoors in the snow can not only be fun, but educational as well?Checkout an article I wrote on doing so....
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: We Love the LeapFrog Learning DVDs
I really have to say that I LOVE the LeapFrog Learning DVDs. If you do not own at least one of these DVDs, you may want to take the time to examine them.Last year for Christmas, I purchased the 4 pack set that they have. The DVDs included were the ...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Christmas Craft Project – Handprint Wreath
My daughter and I did another preschool craft project, but this one had a Christmas theme. It was a little bit difficult, but I realized afterwards many ways that we actually could have simplified the process. To make a homemade Christmas wreath wi...
