My eight-year-old recently studied Australia in her third grade class. Each day she’d share at dinner some interesting fact she’d learned about Australia, its geography and of course the wildlife. One of her favorite animals she learned about was the duckbill platypus. Not only did she love its name and its webbed feet, she loved [...]

Printable bubble letters have been incredibly popular here. We love them too! They are great for craft patterns and kids craft projects, making signs, coloring pages, and for classroom lessons.
Printable Bubble Letters:

Baseball Printable Bubble Letters
Printable Flower Bubble Letters
Spring Worm Printable Bubble Letters
Printable Bunny Bubble Letters
Outer Space Bubble Letters
Create Your Own Bubble Letters
Plain Printable Bubble Letters
For [...]

I was picking up the toys in the playroom today and when I picked up the walkie talkies I remembered one of our favorite family games. I can’t believe it hadn’t occurred to me yet to share this kid activity with you all! It’s called walkie talkie hide and seek, and as far as I [...]

Each week I take my youngest daughter to story time at the library. The librarian reads stories to the preschoolers, leads a sing along and then demonstrates a simple craft. It’s very well done and my daughter thoroughly enjoys it. So I highly recommend that you take advantage of all the free services your local [...]

In honor of the Olympics, my girls participated in the Bug Olympics at the library this week. They had so much fun that I thought the Olympic events they did would be great for playdates or for birthday party games. So let the games begin!

Olympic Birthday Party Games
Flying Flea Standing Long Jump
For this Olympic party [...]

We just went to a good old fashioned country picnic and had such a good time! Not only did my kids swim in a “watering hole” (a.k.a. icky looking pond I wouldn’t even put my foot in) they caught frogs. When the party host asked “Who wants to have a frog jumping race?” this is [...]