This was so fun.  The kids had to really squeeze the gloves to get the paint to drip out, which means they were strengthening their hand mu...

We love to camp in the summer. One activity that keeps our kids busy is a color scavenger hunt.  We painted the inside cups of an egg carto...

Are you familiar with the books by Laura Numeroff?  One of my favorites to start the school year off is "If You Take a Mouse to School...

I had a couple kids in my class who loved to play pirates.  I thought it would be a good way to tie in the letter X and have some fun pirat...

Have you tried partner painting or friendship painting yet?  It is a great way for children to learn about cooperation and team work.  I li...

Rainbows are awesome, magical even.  Kids are fascinated with them, most adults as well.  Here is how we explored rainbows in our preschool ...

So many preschool and even kindergarten teachers cringe when the white glue comes out.  They envision puddles of glue, glue seeping onto the...

Now that my daughter is an official "reader", she reads anything and everything she sees.  We have used the Bob Books for quite so...

Now that my daughter is in Kinder, part of her curriculum  is working on sight words and word families. I am trying to add some engaging, ha...