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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 ...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: An Easy Way to Help Your Child with Their Name
Does your child already know how to recognize their name? If not, it is a task that you will want to start working with them on. Most kindergarten students are expected to at least recognize their name, as well as try to accurately spell it.Althoug...
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 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...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Craft Project – St. Patrick’s Day Hats
Supplies You Will Need:Construction Paper (Green and White)ScissorsMarkers or CrayonsGlue StickTapePipe Cleaners for CraftsDirections:Cut out two strips of paper, which will wrap around your child’s head. Folding a piece of construction paper the ...
St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Worksheets Added
I have added a few more free preschool worksheets to my website, you can find them here. They are all St. Patrick’s Day preschool worksheets....
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Valentine’s Day Preschool Craft Project
Are you looking for a fun way to celebrate Valentine’s with your child? If you are, you may want to consider doing a Valentine’s Day preschool craft project with them. One great option involves making a Valentine’s Day heart wreath. Above is...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Valentine’s Day Preschool Craft Project – Heart Wreath Directions
Supplies You Will Need:Construction Paper (Red, Pink, and White Are Recommended)ScissorsPen or PencilPaper PlateGlue StickDirections:You will want to start by cutting out the inside of a paper plate, leaving the outside outer rim. This will serve as...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: More Preschool Craft Project Fun with Collages
In my last few posts, I highlighted how making a collage with your child is a nice preschool craft project. In those posts, I also highlighted how it is easy to use pictures from magazines and store sale fliers. With that being said, you do have an...
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: 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: Christmas Shopping Deal
If you still have a little bit of Christmas shopping to finish up for your preschooler, you may want to visit the website for Leapfrog. They are having a deal on their shipping costs. According to their website, you can receive free shipping on ord...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Craft Supplies
If you are looking to stock up on preschool craft supplies, now may be a good idea. This is particularly the case if you are looking for craft sets, like play dough sets, sticker sets, or stamp sets.Around Christmas, many toys are discounted in pric...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project
Another one of the many preschool craft projects that we did with leaves we collected involved painting. Painting with leaves is a unique, but fun preschool craft project that your child will likely love. Your child may be frustrated a little bit f...
Preparing for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project
Here is one of the many (lol, and I mean many) leaf projects that we completed yesterday. What we did was take a simple sheet of drawing paper and glued a leaf to the page. We used a glue stick and then we placed a few drops of extra glue on the lea...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Leaf Collection
In many areas of the United States, the leaves are starting to change colors and fall. If you live in one of these areas, you may want to use this as an opportunity to start a leaf collection with your child.Today, my daughter and I went for a walk...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Free Online Preschool Games
If you are looking to introduce your child to the computer, you may want to visit the Noggin website, which can be found at www.noggin.com. There, you will find an unlimited number of free preschool computer games. I recommend that you examine the...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: More Free Preschool Worksheet Information
As posted the other day, I uploaded more free preschool worksheets to my Preparing Your Child for Preschool website. You can view these free preschool worksheets here.As a reminder, if you are looking to limit the money spent on preschool worksheets...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Free Preschool Worksheets
I updated my Free Preschool Worksheet section on my website. I haven’t added them all yet, but a few new free preschool worksheets are up. I have also changed the layout of that section. Preschool worksheets are now categorized and I have added f...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Shopping Tips
If you are like me, you may regularly be on the lookout for educational toys or other educational resources, like preschool workbooks or preschool reading books. If you use the internet, I have a few tips that may help you save money.For starters, y...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Related Preschool Article
Here is an article that I wrote on making your own preschool worksheets. More information will be covered on this fun topic later this week.Article: How to Make Homemade Preschool Worksheets...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool – Related Preschool Article
In keeping with preparing your child for preschool at-home with preschool field trips, here is a related article on doing so.Article: Field Trips that you Can Take with Your Toddler or Preschooler...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool – Preschool Field Trips
I know that many children are already starting to enter school this year, but that doesn’t happen until the beginning of September for my part of the area. If you have a little bit more time before you are going to send your child to preschool, if...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Benefits of Recording the Experience
In my last post, I outlined how you may want to consider video taping or taking pictures of your child preparing for preschool at home. As nice as it is to hear that you should do so, you may be wondering exactly why you should. If that is the case,...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Documentation
If you are working to prepare your child for preschool at home or homeschool preschool them, have you taken out the camera or the camcorder? If you have yet to do so, it is something that you may want to think about doing. Whether you and your chil...
