Educational Kids Activities

Box Tops for Education Printable Collection Sheets

April 8, 2016August 22, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of General Mills®. The opinions and text are all mine.

Does your family collect Box Tops™ for Education? For us it is an entire family activity that can get quite competitive — even the kids great grandparents collect and compete! These Box Tops™ for Education Printable Collection Sheets are a fun way to help get your family started in saving for your schools!

Why are Box Tops Important to My Family?

Has your family done their Back to School Shopping yet? So far we have only finished our shopping for two of our kids and let me tell you, as I walked down the isles, checking off items, I knew I was well over budget.

Invitation to Invent: Can You Build a Catapult?

April 17, 2023August 21, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Hey, Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle, the Cow jumped over the Moon….

This classic poem by Mother Goose has for years been a favorite of my kids. There are many days that Livia sings it to Roo as he swings back and forth and smiles. Or days when at lunch Meatballs’ dish runs away with his spoon. I have never figured out what it is about that silly rhyme, but my kids love it. So when my kids pulled out their Horizon Snack Grahams while packing their lunches and saw that they were shaped like cows, it was of no surprise to watch them start playing the Cow jumped over the Moon!

Watching their imaginations at play so the next day during homework snacks I presented them with an invitation to invent a machine to help their cows jump over the moon.

How to Make an Experience Book

April 8, 2016August 19, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

“I participated in an Ambassador Program on behalf of Influence Central for Panasonic. I received product samples as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.”

Experience books are an awesome way to capture your families memories from special day trips and outings. They are also a fantastic language and literary tool for children with emerging language!

Making our own books is something that my family greatly enjoys. It is such a fun way to personalize and encourage reading.

Painting with Water Beads!

April 8, 2016August 18, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

Water Beads are by far one of my kids favorite sensory materials. The ways that you can play with water beads are endless and they are cheap! We have tried everything from adding scents to our water beads to freezing them! Our lesson this week had a craft that required Marbles and Paint to do it. While we had the paint, we did not have any marbles lying around. But…we did have water beads! We had an absolute blast with this substitution – Painting with Water Beads was a major hit!

What I loved about this activity is that while it was very messy, it was super adaptable to meet the needs of both of my kids!

Insect Inspections Sensory Bin

April 8, 2016August 14, 2015 by Stephanie Oswald

The other day we played around with a spaghetti bug bin that was an absolute blast! It was so much fun that my kids have been begging me to do another insect sensory bin with them. While they would have loved to do the spaghetti one again, I needed to find a use for all this pink crinkle paper shred (is that what you would call this?). And so the Insect Inspections Sensory Bin came to be. Gotta love playful excuses to recycle!

Plus it is always a fun challenge to find ways to incorporate the same toys into different sensory bins! We had so much fun with this it would be a close call in deciding which sensory bin we enjoyed more!!