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How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

51 awesome Christian Christmas gifts for kids - Wondering what to get your kids for the holidays? This post is full of tips and ideas for buying Xmas gifts that bring children back to Jesus without lame presents.

51 Awesome Christian Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids

The Ultimate Summer Reading List for Moms & Kids

Free printable black and white bookmarks for adults and kids to color - These cute drawings include motivational and inspirational quotes. Girls and women will love these floral and sketched DIY bookmarks.

Free Printable Coloring Bookmarks

Awesome Harry Potter quotes from Dumbledore, Snape, Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and more. I love all these quotes to live by. The best printable quotes for a tattoo. Meaningful truths.

27 Awesome, Inspiring Harry Potter Quotes

How to start a journaling habit - Whether you need ideas and inspiration for journaling for anxiety, depression, or just because, here are thoughts on improving your mental health by writing in a journal daily. This awesome creative guided journal is great for older children and students.

How to Start A Journaling Habit

The best book movie adaptations for kids, teens, and families. Even adults will love these pairings. Awesome picture books, kids books, and young adult books with movies to compare. Includes Harry Potter and both fiction and nonfiction, lots of stories about real life and fantasy. Great for homeschool.

117 Best Book to Movie Pairings for Kids, Teens, & Families – Part 2 (D-J)

The best 50 Bible verses every Christian kid should memorize - These simple and easy verses for kids are encouraging and easy to memorize. The inspirational truths can help behavior and assist in parenting. They are short and easy for children to learn. Great for daily, weekly, or monthly scriptures, this list of verses is perfect for school or home.

50 Bible Verses Every Christian Kid Should Memorize

The best book movie adaptations for kids, teens, and families. Even adults will love these pairings. Awesome picture books, kids books, and young adult books with movies to compare. Includes Harry Potter and both fiction and nonfiction, lots of stories about real life and fantasy. Great for homeschool.

117 Best Book to Movie Pairings for Kids, Teens, & Families – Part 1 (A-C)

45+ best tween, teen, & adult games for family game night, even games for the kids! Tips and ideas for the 45+ best simple and easy family game night board, dice, and card games for children and adults to play together. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for older kids, tweens, teens, and adults to play together.

The Best 45+ Tween, Teen & Adult Games for Family Game Night

Best inspirational quotes from kids books and children's literature - These famous and not so famous truths are from Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, and many more. Includes free printables. Awesome life lessons for the heart.

30 Best Quotes From Our Favorite Children’s Books

The best fidget toys for kids or teens with ADHD or anxiety - These calming toys are good for children and adults at home or in the classroom at school. Most are quiet, silent even, so they can be used in preschool or any situation. Great way to calm down.

The Best Fidget Toys – A Simple and Easy Solution for Kids with Anxiety or ADHD

Ideas to help kids love flowers and vegetable gardens and gardening - Great for toddlers and preschool children or older kids. Fun things and suggestions for plants. Creative ideas for boys and girls. Cheap and awesome tips.

4 Ways To Help Kids Connect With Mother Nature Through a Love of Gardening

how to grow a venus fly trap - The flytrap plant is an elusive plant that can be hard to care for. Find its history and instructions for caring successfully here along with science experiments and projects to discover how it grows and works. Awesome ideas and tips.

How to Grow a Venus Flytrap and Fly Trap Experiments – Science in the Garden

Best books about St. Patrick's Day to read to your kids - Books for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. St. Patty's Day is fun and exciting when you learn about leprechauns and their pots of gold, green clovers and shamrocks, rainbows, and Ireland. Lots of fun books for children!

37 Best St. Patrick’s Day Books to Read to Your Kids

17 awesome St. Patrick's Day minute to win it games for kids and families - These simple, fun games can be used at home or in a classroom party and will inspire lots of laughs! Some easy ideas are for couples, teams, and some alone. The challenges use food, candy, and Dollar Store materials. Great family activities.

17 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games for Kids and Families

Tips and ideas for the 30+ best simple and easy family game night board, dice, and card games for kids and adults to play together, especially when you have a non-reader. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for all ages to play together.

30+ Best Games for Family Game Night (When You Have a Non-Reader)

Felt Cat Ornament – DIY Christmas Ornaments for Kids (Free Printable Pattern)

Cute Bird Ornament – DIY Christmas Craft for Kids

20+ best adult games for date night, but the whole family will enjoy these, even the kids!

The Best 20+ Adult & Teen Games for Date Night

A Prayer for the Homeschooling Mom

11 tips to teach telling time - Whether they are in kindergarten, first, 2nd, or 3rd grade, most early elementary kids are trying to figure out how to tell time. You will find activities, worksheets, and games for parents and teachers in this awesome post that includes how to tell time to the hour and minute. Teaching the clock has never been so easy or so much fun!

11 Tips To Teach Telling Time

How to Homeschool Fifth Grade – 2017-2018 Curriculum Choices

How to Homeschool 1st Grade – 2017-2018 Curriculum Choices

10 Psalms for kids to memorize - These scripture passages are perfect for children to learn about God. The Lord says to hide his word in your heart, and these are perfect for memory verses and even memorizing entire passages.

10 Psalms for Children to Memorize

Preparing for the New School Year – My Homeschool Planning & Organization Resources

This free printable food tracker teaches kids healthy eating and healthy living concepts in a gentle way. Print and laminate and help them to complete it nightly to see how they can improve their food habits!

Free Printable For Kids To Track Healthy Eating

The art of strewing - This popular unschooling technique can benefit any homeschool by encouraging children to take an interest and ownership of their learning. Lots of ideas for learning activities!

The Art of Strewing and Our Brand of Unschooling Homeschool

The Sun – Elementary Science Unit Plan and Interactive Activities

Paper Airplane Science – An Experiment Designed and Tested by Your Kids

Teaching the Scientific Method & a Free Printable

Borax slime is fun for kids, and these activities will have your kids learning while they play. This post lists out 10+ different science topics - everything from polymers to non-Newtonian fluids - that will teach kids lots of great science concepts through play! Includes a recipe.

The Science of Slime – It’s Way More Than Polymers

Free printable learning games for kids - This fun Snakes and Ladders game can be used a variety of ways for teaching reading skills, numbers, counting, and more. Best for preschool and elementary, but fun for adults and older kids, too!

Snakes and Ladders – A Free Printable Learning Game for Kids

This former teacher put together a list of the best 101 children's Christmas books for boys and girls. The list includes board books, picture books, and chapter books, and there are funny and serious, religious and non-religious, and just about every book you can think of. Plus, she double checked to make sure all of her favorites were rated 4 or 5 stars at Amazon, too! This list is amazing! Perfect for Christmas gifts!

101 Best Christmas Books for Kids

Family Fire Safety Plan – Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries

How to Homeschool Kindergarten Without a Formal Curriculum

How to Homeschool Fourth Grade – Curriculum Choices for 2016

Wow, such a great list! These are the best audiobooks for kids and families! There are so many new and classic books here, definitely something for everyone for road trips or just listening at home. All roadtrips are better with audio books! Everything from fun books to serious ones. Great to listen with your parents.

The 40 Best Audiobooks for Kids and Families

Exploding Ivory Soap – An Easy Kids Science Experiment

What Do Sugary Drinks Do to Your Teeth? – Kids Science Experiment

T-Shirt Chromatography – Art & Science Experiment for Kids

Paper Towers – Kids Science Project and S.T.E.M. Challenge

How to Make a Pitfall Bug Trap – Easy Kids Science Project

Egg Drop – Easy Kids Science Experiment

What Makes Up Black Ink? – Paper Chromatography Experiment for Kids

How Can a Monster Look Bigger Than It Really Is? – Optical Illusion for Kids

What Shape is Strongest? – Kids Science Experiment

How Does Gravity Affect Seedlings? – An Easy Kids Science Experiment

Super Science Summer – Free Summer Science Camp at Home

Super Science Summer – Summer Activities for Smart Kids

28 Moon Books for Kids

How To Homeschool Third Grade

Do Homeschoolers Have to Teach Every Subject Every Day?

How to Work Full Time and Homeschool

Fire Safety Resources for Homeschoolers

Simple and easy ideas for parents to encourage reading at home - Learning to teach your child to read better can be fun and enjoyable for struggling and strong readers, their parents and families, and their teachers with these 20 simple suggestions and tips! Make reading fun, exciting, and interesting.

20 Smart Ways to Raise a Reader

9 Smart Ways to Prevent Summer Learning Loss

Play Dough Color Theory for Preschoolers

Pine Cone Bird Feeder Craft

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Writing a Letter {Preschool Activity}

Moses and the 10 Commandments Booklet and Activity

This is a simple activity to teach preschoolers the beginning skills to count money.

Learning to Count Money – Preschool Sorting Activity

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

Tips and ideas for the 30+ best simple and easy preschool board, dice, and card games for little kids to play together or with adults, especially since they can't do reading. These games make great gifts to buy and are the perfect addition to any home's game basket. Great to play on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or any holiday. Games for young children.

The Best Games for Preschoolers

Apple Taste Test Activity: An Elementary Math & Science Lesson

How to Homeschool Second Grade

An Island Grows Book and Volcanic Island Craft

What We’re Reading

Visit Philadelphia in 2014

How to Make a Snow Cloud from Boiling Water

Instant Snow from Boiling Water – A Science Activity for a Cold, Cold Day

How I Organized Our Homeschool Supplies

Organizing Our Homeschool Supplies

7 Tips for Helping Struggling Writers

20 ways to get preschoolers excited about math - the best games, activities, and lesson ideas for teaching preschoolers in a classroom or at home about math concepts including games, play, cooking, and much more. Counting skills, measurement, numbers, shapes, and more.

20 Ways to Get Preschoolers Excited About Math

rainbow writing and emerging writers

What is Rainbow Writing and How Does It Help Emerging Writers?

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Preschoolers

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Toddlers & Preschoolers

Making Pictures with Baking Soda and Vinegar - A Cool Science Activity for Kids

Making Pictures with Baking Soda and Vinegar – A Cool Science Activity for Kids

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

How to Make Astronaut Pudding

Glow in the dark ring toss

Glow in the Dark Ring Toss and Other Games

Determining Kids' Learning Styles

6 Tools to Determine Your Kids’ Learning Styles

how to teach homeschool science

How to Teach Homeschool Science: Put Your Textbook Away

10 kids books on grief

On Losing Your Grandma – The 10 Best Kids Books on Grief

Activities for the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister – 37 Fishy Activities & Art Projects

summer picnic games for kids

Summer Picnic Games for Kids

Learning Where I Live Elementary Geography Lesson

Learning Where I Live in this World – Elementary Geography Lesson

First Grade Homeschool Curriculum

How to Homeschool First Grade

The best kids iPad apps

12 iPad Apps You’ll Be Happy to See Your Kids Playing

best chapter books for elementary kids or read alouds - This amazing list includes selections for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade and up. Every parent, mom, dad, and teacher will find good and appropriate books here, all curated by a former teacher and homeschool mom who included a summary of each book alongside its name!

101 Chapter Books to Read (or Hear) Before You Grow Up

Frugal Easter Egg Sensory Bin

Easter Eggs Sensory Bin

How to Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes - Cool Science Experiment for Kids

How to Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes – A Cool Science Experiment for Kids

St. Patrick's Day sensory bin

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Word search for kids

Giant Word Search for Early Readers

Hands-on Contractions Activity

Hands-On Contractions Activity – Learning Contractions with Scissors

Kid Science: Do Seeds Need Soil & Light to Sprout?

Do Seeds Need Soil, Light, and Water to Sprout? – Easy Kids Science Experiment

Jelly Bean Math - Great learning activities for kids of any age including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Includes free printables. Fun way to learn math concepts like sorting, graphing, addition, subtraction, and even probability. Great ideas for teachers in classrooms or at home. How to make learning fun with candy.

How to Make Learning Fun with Jelly Beans

Is your family over-scheduled?

Overscheduled

Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

24 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

Fun pumpkin lesson plans for kids - Awesome unit plans for teaching about the math and science of pumpkins in preschool, kindergarten, or even 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade. Includes a book list, experiment, investigation, and activities for math, science, literacy, and other connections. Perfect for fall unit study or theme.

Pumpkin Science & Math – A Printable Lesson Plan for the Preschool, Kindergarten, or Elementary Classroom or Homeschool

Logic of English review

Learning The Best Way

The Best Educational Apps for iPad

The Best Educational Apps for iPad and iPhone

7 Tools for Cultivating Your Child's Potential by Zan Tyler

At The Pelsers: Getting to Know Your Homeschool Student

Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

How to Homeschool Kindergarten

We Teach Summertime Learning Contributor

Summertime Learning 2012 eBook (free download)

We Choose Virtues

Teaching Morals to a Kindergartener (featuring the We Choose Virtues Homeschool Kit)

101 Best Picture Books to Read or Hear Before You Grow Up - This is an amazing list of the best children's books of all time! There are fun books, happy books, sad books, and all the other emotions for kids. Lots for boys and for girls. These ideas will keep kids reading and learning for years.

101 Picture Books To Read Before You Grow Up

Why We Chose An Online Homeschooling Program

How to Make a Yarn Doll in 15 Minutes

How to Make a Yarn Doll

kid writing

Grace Has Written Her First Book

what we're reading this week

What We’re Reading This Week

kindergarten journal

Grace’s Kindergarten Journal

kindergarten journal

How To Use a Kindergarten Journal

What We’re Reading This Week

what we're reading

What We’re Reading This Week

Candy heart learning activities including math, sorting, reading, and writing. Easy candy manipulatives. How to make learning fun for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergarten, big kids.

How to Use Candy Hearts to Make Learning Fun

Valentine Printables for Preschoolers

butterfly DVD

Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly DVD Review

sight words go fish

Teaching Reading Using Sight Words Go Fish

playing learning to read

Learning to Read & Write by Playing

best books for preschoolers

10 Books We Love for Preschoolers

Preschool Music Crafts – Guitar & Shaker

How to Homeschool Preschool

Homeschool Planning

Printable Reading Log

My Homeschool Conundrum

Kindergarten Crafts – Counting to 100

The Book About the Smelly Dinosaur

Activities for Little Cloud by Eric Carle

Little Cloud Activities for Preschoolers

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

10 St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

rainbow scavenger hunt for preschoolers

A Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

The 10 Best iPhone Apps for Preschoolers

These princess books are not the traditional Disney fairytale! They feature strong, independent, brave, smart girls who solve problems themselves. Great for toddlers, kids, and teens, these books are awesome and funny with beautiful illustrations and a strong life lesson for girls and boys alike.

10 Princess Books You’ll Want to Read Again & Again

Our Favorite Christmas Books and DVDs

The best big sister books for when you have or are expecting a new baby - Older siblings need reassurance and gifts when the new baby comes. Children need reassurance that life will go on and older kids won't be forgotten. Reading stories about families like theirs will help a lot.

8 Books for New Big Sisters

Teaching Children to Give featuring The King’s Christmas List

preschool activity book

Preschool Activity Book

More Books for the 3-year-old Crowd

Playing Learning Games

Best books for 2 and 3 year olds and preschoolers - These learning books are great for boys and girls at home or in the classroom. Teaching kids life lessons in a fun way, many great ideas for read alouds. Awesome reading lists for young children.

25 Best Books for 2- and 3-year-olds and Other Preschoolers

A is for Crocodile

dry erase activity book for preschoolers

Grace’s Dry Erase Activity Book

Taking a preschooler to the beach? Simple and easy suggestions, activities, and tips for what to do. Make art, crafts, science experiments, math activities, and games. Super fun! They'll never get bored!

10 Ways To Have Fun with a Preschooler at the Beach

dry erase activity book for preschoolers

DIY Dry Erase Activity Book for Toddlers and Preschoolers

The Uterus Book

My Library Fine

How to make a fun sensory bin for kids - Toddlers and preschoolers love sensory materials! Colored rice, lentils, popcorn, dried beans, and other small items make the perfect base for stickers, pompoms, and other slightly larger bits. Children love to pour, sift, and play in this mixture.

How to Make a Sensory Bin

Our First Sensory Tub

Alphabet Crafts by No Time for Flash Cards – Giveaway

How To Spend the Day with Small Kids in Washington DC

How to Make a Geoboard

Fun for Kids at the Pennsylvania Farm Show

Triangle Craft

Our Easy Scarecrow Craft – The Rest of the Story

Bugsby Reading System

Making a Homemade Play Mailbox

What is Honey?

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Eric Carle!

Summer Reading

Make A Color Board for Your Toddler

The life saver in my purse

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