Number Recognition Fun
Since it was -15 degrees when we woke up this morning and gradually warmed from -9 to a balmy zero while Em and I were doing errands, I thought it might be the right kind of day to share a fun indoor...
View ArticleLegos For Counting
Oh, Pinterest. How you absorb me. There are some ideas that I put out there that I think will be a huge hit, and they have one or two measly repins every now and then. Then there are some that are...
View ArticlePopsicles & Play Dough
February vacation is here, the snow is falling like crazy, and I have had enough of my kids literally climbing all over me and telling me they’re bored. It’s only been 2 days! So I pulled out an old...
View ArticleCoin Sorting Fun
One of my fondest memories as a child on Easter was the chaotic egg hunts we used to have in my Nana’s backyard. There were usually at least ten cousins on hand, and it was a cross between...
View ArticleRoll-A-Rainbow Game!
When Jax and Em were the same age as Em and Little H are now, I came across a really “sweet” game that helped them learn their numbers as well as colors, plus kept in the whole rainbow theme I like to...
View ArticleNumber Gnomes!
Last Christmas, I had big plans to make some number gnomes for my kids to help them with their number recognition and basic math, like I had seen on Etsy. Well, up until a few days ago, those...
View ArticleCounting On Rainbows
This is a good counting, sorting, and color-identifying activity; Emmy was content to identify the colors and sort through pom poms, but Jax loved it all. First I took 10 different color pieces of...
View ArticleRoll-A-Rainbow!
The rules are simple. They roll one die and if they roll a one, they get to add a red to the rainbow arc, roll a two and they get to add an orange to the rainbow, etc. If they roll a six, they would...
View ArticlePlay-Doh Number Line
Remember my commitment to increasing my kids’ number awareness instead of just focusing on literacy? Well we’re taking baby steps around here–in fact, I started with the very basic idea of literal...
View ArticleMore Or Less
Sometimes I ask my kids to do really obvious things to kill time–things I would never in a million years think that they would a) be intrigued by b) want to do or c) be enthusiastic about doing. But...
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