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Excellent ways to provide an accessible creation station for children and lots of ways to vary art inside the classroom with a variety of materials.

Using our special salt free dough recipe, venture into the woods to create super cute nature portraits on the tree trunks.

Summer is not just about fun in the sun or playing on the beach. What would a Summer be without some of our favourite cool treats, like ice cream! “Ice Cream Summer” by Peter Sis is a s…

These 15 activities based on picture books go great with your kids' favorite stories. Great hands-on activities that help to further explore the books! #earlyliteracy #literacy #picturebooks #preschool #preschoolactivities #art #AGE3 #AGE4 #teaching2and3yearolds

Make a Room on the Broom Story Basket for play literacy time with young children! Perfect for retelling a favourite story in a fun and tactile way, using adorable story props as aids. Story Baskets and storytelling props are fantastic ways to encourage young children to develop their story telling language, recount main events in...Read More »

The Napping House by Audrey Wood is one of my grand daughter's favourite books at the moment. I love the sequence of the story and how it adds on as you read. It inspired me to make these building blocks, each with a character on them. She was excited to see the blocks all set in a tower. But her favourite is the 'flea'. We knocked down the blocks and then started reading the story, adding the matching block for each page, till we got to the top. The back side of the blocks have the reverse…

Montessori style toy shelf set up for almost 2 year old toddler. Homeschooling.

#storyretelling with #theveryhungrycaterpillar by @officialericcarle using props from the book #handsonlearning #iteachk #earlyyears…

You've heard of busy bags, but do you also know about literacy book bags? These are bags with a picture book and playful toys, games, or other related hands-on activities to do. And you can easily make your own!

We hate to waste anything and recycling and reusing materials is one of many small things we can all do to help the environment. So instead of chucking used cardboard boxes we like to find ways to …

Treasure baskets can be filled with everyday objects which then become a treasure trove to ignite and spark imaginations and learning. Becky includes a rich diversity of items in her baskets to evoke different responses. Here she tells us about their appeal, both for herself and her children.

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We are always inspired to do fun crafts and learning activities whenever we read some of our favorite children’s books! Here is a list of activities we’ve come up with inspired by popular children’s books (alphabetized by title). (Book titles are affiliate links.) Be sure to follow our Children’s Book Activities Pinterest board! ...

This blog post will take you through section 1 of the Purposeful Play book by Kristine Mraz. This post is designed with preschool and kindergarten teachers.

Storytelling with props for children - Find out how to make storytelling a more playful and interactive experience for children by setting up and using a story bag, basket or prop box like these! | The Empowered Educator

The Fairy Tale of The Three Little Pigs

Learning links for everything wormy and squirmy related Superworm sensory tray: Wiggly Woo song: Jelly worms: Superworm playdough: Dig for worms sensory play: http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/05/dirt-worms-sensory-play.html?m=1 Make your own wormery: http://www.science-sparks.com/2013/06/17/make-your-own-wormery/ All about worms: http://www.mswoodsclass.org/2013/04/wondrous-worms.html?m=1 Worm…