Dino Dig: Exploring Fossils, Shapes, and the Alphabet!

Dino Dig: Exploring Fossils, Shapes, and the Alphabet!

Dinosaur Archaeological Play Dig: Create some simple clay dinosaur bones for use in sensory play activities to learn about shapes and letters at the same time! This is a great activity that is simple to do, amazing for some hands on exploration, and easy to take with you on the go!

Dino Dig: Exploring Fossils, Shapes, and the Alphabet!

As we have been exploring our Dinosaur theme Meatball has been adding in some of his own elements. The other night after playing with our Dinosaur Dirt (or more like while mommy cleaned it up), Meatball dragged out some play dough, clay, and stamps to distract himself with.

With the dinosaurs still sitting at the table, he went to town making impressions and playdough fossils. I love getting those little sneaks into the way that his mind works since he still is not yet quite talking. 

Following his lead I pulled out our vowel stamps and grabbed some of our homemade air dry clay to make some fossils that we could use for an archaeological dig at the park!

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Writing with Kinetic Sand

Spelling Practice with Kinetic Sand

Writing with Kinetic Sand: Kinetic sand is an awesome medium for practicing handwriting skills and spelling. It’s fun texture adds an amazing sensory experience and a smooth resistance to add an extra challenge to your child’s writing!

Spelling Practice with Kinetic Sand

When Livia first started working on her handwriting skills you could have sworn it was more torturous than pulling teeth for her. She didn’t like coloring, writing, or any of the other traditional methods of teaching kids how to write. About the only thing she enjoyed was painting, so we spent countless hours playing around with different types of paints and texture brushes.

Then we discovered Kinetic Sand (and even managed to discover our own DIY Kinetic Sand recipe) and writing became a blast for Livia. Now there is no stopping her – she has become my aspiring writer!

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Prepositions: Vocabulary for Beginning Readers

Teaching Prepositions through Play

Prepositions can be a difficult concept for children to grasp: what they are and how they are used. While children learn the meaning of most words indirectly, through every day uses, about 300 words can be taught through direct instruction every year (Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986). This simple activity is a fun way to assess and teach prepositions.

Salt Painting: A Fun Father’s Day Gift

This was the first time we have ever tried Salt Painting so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect other than a mess when I pulled out the salt trays to play with today. With Father’s Day right around the corner I wanted to incorporate a fun Father’s day craft into our daily lessons (little … Read more