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100+ Preschool Earth Activities to Help You Earn Your Super Mom Trophy!

Drum roll… Preschool Earth Books, Art, Games, and Activities are inside to help you find easy and inexpensive crafts to do with kids on Earth Day or while studying the planets.

A FREE Plan to help you ROCK teaching at home (Pre k -high school)

Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and provoke policy changes.
Earth Day

While our little ones may not be ready to join the billions of people celebrating, they will ADORE these green and blue activities as they learn about:

our planet
ways to protect our home
crafts that capture the beauty around us
paying attention to how we live together on this big blue marble.

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Our littles can get pretty creative while we are heating our tea for the third time, switching the laundry, or answering a math question.

Moms know there’ quiet. And then there’s “TOO QUIET”.

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Thanksgiving Scattergories

What better way to let that turkey dinner digest than with a game of Thanksgiving Scattergories?

Great for kids of all ages (who know their alphabet or on a team with someone who does!)

Each game of Scattergories consists of three rounds. Before the start of the game, choose three lists which will be used during the rounds.

Pass each player/team a folder, and clip the three lists inside in the order in which they will be played. Make sure that all players have A) the same lists, and that B) the lists are in the same order.

Includes:

Alphabet tiles
8 Thanksgiving Themed Lists

Get Yours here

More Thanksgiving FUN!

Build a Turkey Game and Activities!

Thanksgiving scattergories, Christmas Scattergories

How about some Christmas FUN?!

Toddler Worksheets Scissors Skills Fine Motor Practice

Thanksgiving for Preschool!

Adorable Preschool classroom activities for your kids!

Kids will get to match upper and lower case letter turkeys, match numbers to their dice, complete the turkey/pumpkin pattern, build a turkey as a free activity or card game, Pin clothes pins on the turkey game, smoosh the turkey shape, and roll and play a simple dice game.

So much fun for your preschoolers!

Included:

Alphabet Matching Turkeys
Lacing Cards
Pattern Cards
Build a Turkey
Roll and Pin a Turkey
Number Matching
Turkey Shapes
Turkey Game

Here’s a quick peek at some of the worksheets in this set:

ABC and 123
What’s next?
Fine Motor FUN

PS: Avoid Thanksgiving Day Plumbing Disasters. Don’t put potato skins down the drain and other tips here.

Additional Thanksgiving and Christmas FUN

Days of Creation Activities for Kids

In the beginning…

Most of us begin teaching our kids Bible stories by starting at the very beginning. Dark becomes light. It’s exciting and wonderful all at the same time.

You can never go wrong with simply reading and memorizing Genesis, but if you’re looking for some fun and easy ways to dive a little deeper, here are resources I’ve either used, made, or discovered in my own journey teaching my sons God’s Word.

Music

I personally begin with the Hippopotamus song. Well, that’s what we always called it.

Days of Creation Song

FOOD: If they can eat it, they’ll remember!

Day 1: Oreo Cookies! Darkness and Light never tasted better!!
Day 2: Blue jello with some whipped cream
Day 3: Broccoli, grapes, and dandelions (Or a cookie with a picture of plants on them. Or bite shapes of flowers into a large tortilla)
Day 4: Lucky charms! Pick out the moons, suns and stars
Day 5: Goldfish crackers. Or Smoked King Salmon that your sons caught while on a fishing trip with their dad. (Wait, that’s my house)
Day 6: Animal crackers or cookies
Day 7: Eat a snack JUST before resting.

Games!

These game sheets give your kids a chance to roll and earn points as they focus on what God created on each day of the week during Creation.

So Much FUN!!

Learn about the 6 Days of Creation with this hands on Board game!

As you roll, move, and play with your kids you’ll captivate their hearts and attention as they focus on what God created on each day of the week during Creation.

More Bible Studies for Kids:

My personal statement of faith:

I believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

I believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

I believe “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” and that we are saved by faith in Jesus.

My favorite Bible teachers are my husband (Craig Sayler), Pastor Jon Courson, Pastor Chuck Smith, CH Spurgeon.

Print this free homeschool mom reminder.

This post comes with a free printable reminder list to help keep your heart focused on the heart of homeschooling. I always have the hardest staying focused. This printable simplifies it!

Here is a sneak preview…

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Print. Any paper will do the trick, but card stock would be ideal.
Place it on your refrigerator as a helpful reminder.

Easy Ways to Homeschool Through the Holidays

The easiest way to coast through homeschooling is to roll with the tide, seasons and calendar.

It’s the same idea as vacationing in the town you live: finding the hidden gems, enjoying the family owned hole in the wall restaurant, resting at a secret garden, parking your car in that one spot that always gets you to the beach faster.

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Christmas Activities: Build Your Own Christmas Tree Game

Christmas is that wonderful time of year that delights our souls, causes us to wonder and distracts the daylights out of our kids. The best way to grab their attention during Christmas and the whole advent season is to improvise.

This Christmas Activity is guaranteed to make them smile!!

Easy to Play

Get a piece of wrapped candy for each player (or pom-poms, coins, legos, or anything small).

Set the pieces face up next to the board.
Each player gets a Blank Tree
Roll one die.
Move piece
Collect the piece and place on your tree
Take turns
Most decorated tree wins!

Additional Thanksgiving and Christmas FUN

Advent Traditions for All Ages

Your kids see the calendar flip to November and suddenly they are ready for the holidays, right?

It’s the same in my house.

I am honored to be a part of the Homeschooling Through the Holidays Series at Life of a Homeschool Mom! Come see what we cooked up to help you celebrate the Advent Season with your family!

Additional Thanksgiving and Christmas FUN

Build your own Christmas Tree Game

Easy Fall Art Crafts for Preschool and Up

I held onto summer for as long as I could, but the rain, cold, and gorgeous colors peeking through the trees have convinced me it’s ok to declare that fall is in the air!

I’ve scoured the internet looking for the tastiest fall, pumpkin, leaf and fall themed goodies for you and your kids. Whether you are enjoying the sunshine for a few more weeks, or are already curled up by a fore with a hot delicious drink, these easy fall crafts and activity ideas are sure to delight!

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Letter D Activities for Kids

Letter “d” Activity Unit is sure to delight your kids!

Includes interactive activities to help your kids master letter a:

It’s all about lower case “d”

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This is the Best List of Delightful Books for Preschoolers (and their Parents)

What’s that I see?

My little guy toddling around the corner in just his underwear and cowboy boots tightly gripping his treasures: his snuggly blue satin blanket, a loaded nerf gun and 3 tattered books.

My face relaxes. It must be almost bedtime.

I panic a little.

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Childhood Should be Filled with Joy, Imagination, and WONDER

Inside: 6 Questions every parent, teacher, and homeschooler should ask themselves about their kids.

It’s 1976.

I am super excited to go to my Kindergarten class today!

Mrs. House is the best teacher ever.

My friend Shelley and I sit next to each other in circle time as the class sings songs and talk about what is a good nutritious breakfast. Mrs. House isn’t too happy that I had a cup of coffee again today! I’m sure she will talk to mom again later!

When mom picks me up from the bus stop, I start talking.

“We did the phonics circle. Mrs. House played Ferdinand the Bull for us. I laughed and laughed when he “sat on a bumblebee”. I played house with Mary during play station time. There is an iron and ironing board! I love and “ironing”. At snack time, my friend Shelley and I turned our milk cartons into little boxes so we could collect things during recess. Shelley and I played tag during recess until we couldn’t run anymore, then we plopped down in the clover patch to search for four-leaf clovers. After recess, Mrs. House quizzed us on “F, F, for Freddy Fox” and sang “This Land is my Land” with the first-grade class next door.”

{I gasp for breath and start talking again}

“We covered a paper with all different colors of crayons and then scribbled all over that paper with black crayon as hard as we could. Once is was black, we used a paper clip to scratch designs into our picture. I was so excited, I made two! This one’s for you mommy. We worked on counting and did some fun worksheets. I can’t wait to go to school again!”

Didn’t you love kindergarten?

The play, the music, the glitter, the stories, the friends, the dancing, the pretending.

I turned out great.

Right?

I loved school, so much in fact that I grew up to ‘play school’ at home full time (by homeschooling our five boys).

I fell in love with learning and exploring and music and art and people in kindergarten.

I am so concerned for today’s kindergartners.

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How to Homeschool Your Preschooler- Kindergartener

“How can I get my 4-year old to sit long enough to do school?”

“What is a great curriculum for a really busy 5-year old?”

“My son’s handwriting is terrible. What program can I use to help him? He’s 6-years old.”

Mama, Slow down.

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