Thumb Print Christmas Cards – FREE Printable

This year, the kids are part of a Christmas Card exchange with a few families from around the nation. Since one of the kiddos is too young to write and the other is still perfecting his handwriting skills, I decided to do an easy and fun thumbprint Christmas Card for them… and I’m sharing it with you too!

Simply click on the photo below (or click HERE) to be directed to the download page, download the PDF, print out the card, cut it out and fold it in half. You can use a stamp pad or you can do what we did and use paint. While the paint was still wet, we added a little bit of glitter to make the lights look like they are twinkling.

I printed these on cardstock and when cut out and folded, it is a 5″ x 7″ card.

The inside is blank, so my kindergartener will be practicing his handwriting by writing, “Best Wishes” inside the card and signing his name.

Merry Christmas!

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Preschool – Letters K-M

Summer is in full swing… which means school is looking a little different for us. Oh we’re still learning, but those fun crafts and activities we’ve been doing have been replaced with lots of free time outside exploring, playing in the sprinkler and drawing with sidewalk chalk.

Because our letter unit studies have taken a backseat to our outside times, I am going to group together the past few units and give you a glimpse into our summer learning style!

Let’s start with the fundamentals. Books… books… and more books! We are still following The Peaceful Preschool reading plan and adding in a few supplemental books as well. Rather than doing a lot of activities surrounding each book, we are spending more time discussing themes and topics presented in each book.

Letter K: we have been passing kisses around and flying kites thanks to A Kiss for Little Bear and the Emperors Kite! We talked about doing what is right despite the way people treat you.

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Letter L: we talked about having the right attitude and not being grumping thanks to The Grouchy Ladybug. We also had fun going to the library after reading Lola goes to the Library.

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Letter M: we discussed self-care thanks to Madeline’s appendicitis. We talked about different bandages and ways to keep ourselves healthy. We read Are You My Mother? But honestly did nothing more with that book than talk about how “Mother” starts with the mmmmmm sound. Haha! Our favorite book was Just Me… I’ll talk a little more about that adorable book below!

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The Grouchy Ladybug gave us the perfect platform to learn a little more about time. I pulled out our clocks and as I read the story over breakfast, my son and daughter would turn the hands on the clock to match the time in the book! They loved doing this and it definitely gave my son a greater understanding of time as this is something I had not focused on yet.

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Just Me is an awesome little book that I found at a book sale recently… and I’m so glad I did! It follows the tale of a little boy as he walks around his home and tries to mimic the animals that he sees. We followed along with him by trying to walk like a horse, hop like a rabbit, slither like a snake, and much more! In the end, we enjoyed being “just me.”

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Scripture memorization and our morning Bible time is still a priority. We recently started reading The Jesus Storybook Bible and have memorized the following verses:

 

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:39b

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs 10:21

Perhaps the greatest pleasure we’ve had this summer is our nature studies! We’ve had the enjoyment of observing trees that beavers had felled and put our fingers in the gnaw marks from their teeth. We talked about decomposition and by looking at dead trees and seeing the fungus and bugs that help break down the tree over time. We witnessed holes from woodpeckers and discussed what they eat and how strong their beaks must be.

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We’ve made chalk out of plaster of paris thanks to The Good and the Beautiful Arts and Crafts book. It was a perfect outside activity and turned out very vibrant! We chose to use washable poster paint with great success!

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We also have done some nature weaving by wrapping a hemp string around a “Y” shaped stick. We then went on a walk around the woods and yard collecting anything we found unique and beautiful. This was a perfect activity for us to reset after a busy 4th of July!

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My son enjoyed going to a week-long Nature Day Camp where he learned about different habitats, how to explore nature and be observant to what is around him. He had a blast making friends and trying something new. They also did a lot of nature inspired art, including painting with natural grasses and flowers and creating a “swamp” habitat from slime in a baggie.

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Every summer, the highlight has to be raising and releasing monarch butterflies! We have not found any on our property yet, but our cousin was going on a big trip and needed us to babysit her chrysalises. We had the privilege of releasing SIX butterlies!! The baby even got in on the fun!

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Summer is made for making memories… so we are heading up north camping as I write this. We only get 18 summers with our kids. I’m determined to make the best of those summers!!

The Read Aloud Mom

Five years ago, when my son was only a few months old, I decided we needed to get out of the house. It had been a long winter with a newborn and spring was just starting to stretch it’s fingers into frozen Michigan. Armed with coats, blankets, a baby and a book under my arm, I marched out into our yard.

As I spread the blanket across the ground, the grass was just starting to turn from brown to green. The tree we were laying under was beginning to shoot forth tiny buds that would quickly turn into leaves of shade for me and my son. Birds that had been gone for months were beginning to return and their lovely song could be heard despite the still chilly temps. Life was beginning to bloom again… and little did I know it, life for us was starting to awake to something beautiful as well!

If people could have seen me, they probably would have thought I was crazy. Here I was laying on the ground with my tiny human who only a few weeks before would have been considered a newborn and I was opening The Book of Virtues. If you’ve never seen this book, I can only liken it’s size to that of the Bible or a dictionary or a commentary. It’s massive. Definitely not something you would think of reading to a young child.

But here I was reading a book with no pictures to my son. I knew he still couldn’t see much at this age, but I knew he could hear my voice. And so it was that over the next several months, I read him things like excepts from The Declaration of Independence, letters from Martin Luther King Jr., stories about Thomas Edison and countless poetries.

He would lay there and watch the branches of the tree dance above him and coo quietly. From the day he was born, everyone said he was an old soul, wise beyond his years. When he looked at you, it was as if he was looking into your soul, like he could see something inside of you that even YOU didn’t know existed.

At the time, I didn’t know that the 1985 Commisssion of Reading declared, “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” All I knew was that it seemed natural to me to read to my child. I felt it bonded us in a way that nothing else could.

Here we are 5 years later and I’m still reading… only now I’m reading to 3 kids. Sometimes they snuggle up with me. Sometimes they are playing quietly. Sometimes we TRY to read, but the wiggles don’t permit it. Sometimes we have great discussions about what we have read.

I recently learned that what I have found natural has a name:
– Reading our devotionals and memorizing scripture over breakfast is called a “Morning Basket.”
– Reading stories to my kids during lunch is called “Lunchtime Literature.”
– Reading books before bed is called a “Bedtime Story.”

I didn’t know these were “things.” I just simply did them because there was a bond for me and my children when we read! When conversations during dinner were taking a “less than pleasant” turn with body noises, laughter and not enough eating… I would pull out a book and begin to read. The kids would start eating and listen as I turned page after page. When the kids are overly tired and need to wind down for a rest time, I pull out a snack and a book and we unwind with our imaginations soaring to distant places.

Almost always when I put a book down, my kids beg for me to read another chapter or another book. I hope they always want to listen to mommy read. Even if they don’t, some of my fondest memories of motherhood so far involve a lap full of children and a book in my hands.

I recently picked up the book The Read Aloud Family, and while I haven’t finished it yet… I’m devouring it! Rather than showing me how important reading can be, its affirming what I already subconsciously knew… That reading to your children isn’t just about teaching them or making them smarter, it’s about creating a bond and making memories that last a lifetime.

“Reading aloud with our kids is indeed the best use of our time and energy as parents. It’s more important that just about anything else we can do.”
The Read Aloud Family

 

Preschool – Letter J

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Matthew 5:22-23

Spring means strawberries here in Michigan… and it’s a good thing too since we read the Giant Jam Sandwich! Strawberries were dirt cheap this week, so I picked up a TON of strawberries at the store to make homemade strawberry jelly. The kids had a blast helping me cut the berries and squeeze the juice of out them. I tend to not be a fan of chunky jam (it’s a texture thing!), so we opted to make jelly instead.

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I have never made strawberry jelly, but I have canned grape jelly in the past. It never ceases to amaze me how much sugar is called for in the recipe! We always half the sugar in the recipe (and it’s a good thing we do because I didn’t realize we were almost out of sugar! Poor planning on my part!). I love the low/no sugar Sure-Jel… I’ve never had a problem with jellies not setting up because of a lack of sugar when I use this for canning.

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If you have never read The Giant Jam Sandwich, I’d recommend it for a good laugh. My kids thoroughly enjoyed it!

We also read Sheep in a Jeep this week. It’s a very simple book and quick to read, but my kids thought it was hilarious seeing these silly sheep try to drive a Jeep. We talked about being responsible and paying attention to what is around you… otherwise you might get stuck in the mud! haha

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To work on our math skills this week, we got all of my sons cars/trucks out and put them in piles of five. We then skip counted by 5’s until we had counted all of his cars. We then sorted all the cars by color to see which ones we had the most of… red won!

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I recently found a book called Jesse Builds a Road at a used book story, and while it isn’t a “planned” book from The Peaceful Preschool curriculum, it’s one I’m glad we added! It’s a cute book about a boy who uses his imagination and trucks to build a road in his back yard, so I invited my son so go build his own road. Anything that involves using his trucks, he’s a gamer for! He dug and paved and removed a ton of dirt. My garden had a handy road weaving through it by the time he was done!

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With the beautiful weather, we spent a lot of time outside this week. Target always has the best dollar bin finds! I recently found these archeological digging blocks, so we got out our hammers and chisels and dug for J-ewels. We may or may not have eventually taken a hammer to them to get the block broken open. HAHA! But it was a fun half hour!

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We also used our imaginations and chalk paint that Nana got for the kiddos in their Easter baskets. My slightly OCD mind has a hard time mixing colors, but I love how kids don’t have any boundaries or preconceived ideas of what colors should do! They end up making the most brilliant artwork. I recently stumbled across this quote, “Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.” (Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin) This is what children do! They use emotion to make glorious “messes.”

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I am very thankful for our beautiful back yard! We have nature at our fingertips and it’s something I don’t take for granted. I’m also very thankful for the lack of mosquitoes! YAY for mosquito control! We’ve been splashing in streams. Picking up snakes. Looking at fungus. And getting downright dirty. This is what science should look like. Hands on and pure joy.

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Of course we ended our Letter J unit with another handprint artwork! J is for Jellyfish! These squiggly handprints might be my favorite handprint art yet.

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Preschool – Letter I

Are you ready for a sappy post about why I love homeschooling so much? If not, you might want to skip the next few paragraphs.

We started the Letter I, and then two days later I went into labor. Needless to say, homeschooling got put onto the back burner. We spent the next week enjoying the new baby and learning our new normal. We snuggled. We connected. We cried. We played. We fought. New babies bring on so many new emotions… for everyone in the family!

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While we did take some time to regroup as a family, we also jumped right back into homeschooling! You might think that it was a little soon to continue working through the Peaceful Preschool, but honestly, Jennifer took the work out of lesson planning when she created this beautiful curriculum. Honestly, I felt like returning to a feeling of “normal” would be good for my kiddos.

I took my expectations and lowered them immensely… and then I lowered them again. I continued reading the recommended books and implemented whatever corresponding activities I wanted! No pressure. It’s summer. Kids need to be outside, but I also want them to feel a sense of normalcy. And so we continued with the Letter I.

Before going into labor we read the book Inch by Inch. My toddler had fun pointing out the worm in each picture, and my son had fun walking around the house with a ruler and measuring everything. We talked about how many inches were in a foot (again) and also introduced 1/2 inches (This concept was beyond him, but it never hurts to just show him and move on. He’s now been introduced to the concept!).

I then took a pencil and traced pictures from the book. My son and daughter had fun water coloring the pictures, and then my son practiced his fine motor skills by cutting out the paintings. We then used mod-podge to glue the pictures down and create a scene. We talked about depth of field. Which images should be in the front and which ones should be in the back. “If you put the bird down first, it’s going to be hidden by the grass.” “Things that are farther away appear smaller. Things that are closer appear larger.” This might have been one of my MOST favorite activities yet!

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Then baby came.

With the responsibilities of a new little one, I had fun asking my two year old to be mommy’s helper. She practiced sorting by putting away the silverware from the dishwasher into the drawer.

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When I was back on my feet (this was MUCH faster than my previous two deliveries), we had fun reading Ice Cream Summer. This book sure does have a lot to discuss!! It encompasses history, cultures, math and reading. We had fun making ice cream cones and practicing our addition and subtraction. “If mommy gave you 4 scoops of ice cream and 2 fell on the floor, how many are left?” “If I had 2 scoops of ice cream and you had 3 scoops of ice cream, how many scoops do we have?”

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While my son was busy helping me cut out scoops of ice cream, his sister was busy burying her hands in grain. She loves squeezing it and scooping it. Her fine motor skills continue to amaze me… she’s a master at small legos and she just turned two!

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The weather was beautiful so we took advantage of it and used the chalk paint their Nana got them as a big brother/big sister present. I just love how kids have no concept of what is “right” and “wrong” in art. Their use of color is amazing!

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We finished up our unit with a little handprint art. Of course we had to carry on the ice cream theme!! I drew the cones with markers and then layered their handprints on top of it… you can’t just have ONE scoop of ice cream!

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Little House Became a Home

Preschool – Letter H

A little over 3 weeks ago, our sweet little new addition joined the family. She has just been the sweetest baby and such a JOY (as her middle name indicates!). We’ve toned down our schooling a bit, but we are still plugging away through the Peaceful Preschool. I would be napping right now, but nap times just didn’t line up today for all three kids. Instead, I thought I’d catch up on a bit of blogging.

The past few weeks we’ve been trying to figure out our new routine… mostly we are just reading books and doing a couple of the activities. It’s too nice outside these days to not be running around barefoot without a care in the world, so we’ve been outside exploring and burning off as much energy as possible. When you live in Michigan, you learn to soak up as much sunshine as possible while you can!

This week we started the Letter J… so as you can see, I’m a bit behind in my blogging, but here is a recap from our Letter H unit!

I think I say this with every new unit that we do, but we really enjoyed our books this week! The Little Red Hen, Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Little House all quickly became new favorites. My kids especially loved Harold and the Purple Crayon. Something about the imagination and simplicity of the story really captivated them!

One morning I handed each of the kiddos a purple crayon and asked them to replicate a picture from the book. The drawings are very simplistic (think “drawn by a kid”), so my 5 year old, messy drawing loving son enjoyed copying a couple of the pictures. It was a really fast craft, but I took few minutes to point out details in each drawing. I think it was a good activity to teach him to look at details… because there weren’t many, it wasn’t overwhelming.

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“Who wants to help me bake the bread?!” I yelled from the kitchen… and both kids came running yelling, “I do!!”

The Little Red Hen sparked some great conversation with my 5 year old. At the end of the story, the Little Red Hen decides NOT to share her bread with the other lazy animals. My son asked me if that was the kind thing to do? Ooooohhh… now we get to have a great discussion about doing the right thing! Should she have shared? Yes… God commands us to be loving even with those that try to take advantage of us. God’s Word says if someone asks for our robe, we should give him our coat as well. BUT the Bible also teaches not to be lazy! As a door turns upon its hinges, so does a slothful man upon his bed. We definitely used this story to build our character. We are supposed to work hard like the Little Red Hen, but we also need to be giving to those who do not “deserve” it because God gives to us what we do not deserve… eternal life!

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The Little House had so many great things in it that we parked on this book for a while. We watched a time-lapse video of a house being constructed and talked about what it takes to build a quality house. We then took a couple days designing our own houses using differing materials/media. Hobby Lobby has awesome paper houses for a very reasonable price by the way!! The kids enjoyed making these houses, which later turned into houses for my son’s Lego men.

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The Little House also discusses moon phases! So we took some time to go on a tangent and discussed moon phases. I’m pretty sure the kids just really liked using Oreos to construct different phases of the moon. It made a lasting impression that’s for sure! I found the moon phase printable from Free Homeschool Deals.

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For math, we used screws to count and add with the number cards provided by our Peaceful Preschool curriculum and we discussed how building a home uses MANY screws and also talked about what other materials are used during construction.

Of course we had to do our handprint art. Since spring was quickly approaching, we made a H-ive. My son kept asking me when the bees would be back… and now they are here!

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Preschool – Letter G

“Good and upright is the Lord.”

He sure is!

This week found us back into a little more of a routine again. We are all starting to feel back to our normal selves (finally!). The weather has the promise of spring in the air, albeit snow is in the forecast for a couple days from now (#PureMichigan). We have been able to spend some time outside, which is certainly refreshing to the body as well as the soul! We are counting down the days until the new baby arrives. God is good.

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With spring in the air, we spent the majority of our week focused on outdoor activities. Even when the weather wasn’t permitting, we spent time dreaming and scheming. We got the most splendid book called, Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Books by Sharon Lovejoy. Even if you are an experienced gardener, this book is full of wonderful gardening activities for you to do with your children. We now have a sunflower house in the plans for our summer! The books is full of wonderful illustrations, and my “little” guy had fun watercolor painting his first pumpkin.

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After getting our book and dreaming and scheming, we headed out to the garden to measure it! Little did my son know that we were actually learning something while he had fun using daddy’s measuring wheel. Shhhhh… don’t tell him! We splashed in puddles, found some onions that were forgotten from the previous harvest and were trying to come back up, dug for worms and just had a wonderful time outside!

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We practiced counting with seeds and also worked on simple addition. I feel like this is the first time my son REALLY started to grasp the concept of addition. The next day he was far less interested in working on addition, but I got a glimpse of hard work paying off. These beautiful, simple number cards are from the curriculum we are following called The Peaceful Preschool.

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With being so close to delivering our third child (10 days until D day!!), I’ve been really trying to focus on the “now.” I want to remember what our normal was like in this phase of two kids. I want to savor every hug, every smile, every milestone. I want to live intentionally. So one of my favorite memories from this past week was packing a picnic lunch, heading to our local nature center and going on a long hike. I knew I would need to carry my daughter most of the way, but my son was feeling ambitious and we hiked several miles! It was a day filled with observing woodpeckers, throwing stones in a pond, looking at scat, rabbit fur and turtles sunning themselves on a log. My son’s questions were limitless as I did my best to answer them. We left with pink cheeks and smiles on our faces! We later spent some time painting watercolors of woodpeckers and white pine needles (did you know there are always 5 needles in a bunch? W-H-I-T-E).

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Our handprint art for this week was a flower G-arden.

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Easter was also this past week, so instead of getting the kids Easter “baskets,” they got an Easter “barrow.” I enjoyed filling a kid-sized wheel barrow with all sorts of gardening tools: gloves, digging tools, and watering cans. I can just imaging the fun we will be having this summer as the kids dig in the garden and help me plant a small crop.

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Preschool – Letter F

I had great intentions for the Letter F, but alas, life just happens sometimes. After two weeks of traveling, sickness and being super pregnant, we just decided to move on… though we did squeeze in several cute activities here and there and read our “F” books over and over again!

Our theme for the week was F-ish, and since I’ve been promising my son a new fish since last spring when his beloved fish died, this was a perfect opportunity to follow through with my promise! I told the kids that we were going on a surprise adventure and loaded them up in the car. With a brief stop at the library to pick up our unit’s books, we then drove to Meijer. The whole time my son kept asking what the “surprise” was… he was definitely not expecting to come home with two fish! Best 20 cents I’ve ever spent.

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I absolutely adore the verses suggested in The Peaceful Preschool! They are unique from any alphabetical verse list you’ll find online. This week was all about FISH! We talked about how God only gives us good things and how we need to give our best to others as well.

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:10

A few weeks ago, we had a very practical example of how to apply this verse. My son had a friend over and they were going to have a nerf gun fight. To my dismay, I saw my son give his friend the worst gun that he had despite there being several better ones to share. We had a talk about how we always need to give our best and that it is only because of selfishness that we hold back good things from those around us. When I saw the verse for this week, God brought the example to mind and talking about it really gave my son an practical understanding of the verse! I love seeing understanding illuminate in a child’s mind.

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Before sickness set in, we were blessed with a beautiful spring-like day (though we are back buried in snow again!), so we took advantage of it and trekked out into our woods. Our goal was to find F-eathers, but we spent more time splashing in puddles than anything 🙂 We found the remains of a bee hive and enjoyed a sunny lunch on the porch. I cannot wait for consistent spring weather to do our schooling outside.

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I went out of town for a weekend, and when I came home all of us had been hit by the flu (except for my hubby that is… lucky bum!!). The next week we spent FAR too much time in front of the TV, but none of us were up to doing anything else.

As we gradually started feeling better, I tried incorporating a few “school” activities. I asked my son to build me a lego tower that was at least 1 foot tall. After he built one, we got out the ruler and talked about how 1 foot has 12 inches in it. As you can see, he was an overachiever and his tower was much taller than 1 foot. 🙂

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My daughter practiced her hand eye coordination and fine motor skills by playing a fishing game. This kept her occupied enough for me to teach my son the game of Go-Fish. It was a sweet time with the kids. I feel like we just MIGHT be getting back into the swing of things.

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There were many other random activities that we did as well. Thank goodness for spontaneous clearance purchases that are put away for a rainy day! I was able to pull out some kinetic sand that I had found in the clearance aisle a month ago. The kids loved digging “at the beach” since it has been freezing cold and the real beach is just out of the question. haha… We also worked on a fish puzzle, counted the fish in the scene, talked about which ones were fish and which ones were mammals, and then the youngest had fun destroying it.

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Of course we couldn’t finish our Letter F unit without our handprint art! So this week we made F-ish in a fish bowl 🙂

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Egg-citing DIY for Easter

It’s perfectly imperfect.

Could I have dyed the eggs more evenly? Yes. Does it bother me that the eggs are not evenly distributed across the branches? Yes. Would I have it any other way? No.

I can’t help but smile as I look up at my mantle and think of the tiny hands that helped me make this. I’ll be honest, this is not a craft that you throw at your preschooler to keep them occupied. This is something that you make WITH your kids. It’s a memory maker… the best kind of craft there is!

I bought 18 white eggs for our tree and thankfully only broke 4 in the process. I consider this a victory considering my helpers are 5 and not-quite-2 years old!

Could I have used some homemade dye recipes? Definitely, and with beautiful results! But this craft was meant to be vibrant and quick… without much prep-work, so we used an Easter egg dying kit from the store. I love how vibrant the tie-dyed method is, so this is the kit that I chose 🙂

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Without boiling the eggs, help your children color the eggs. My son got a little over-zealous while mixing his colors a couple times, and ended with a few broken eggs. I don’t think he realizes his own strength sometimes, now that he’s transitioning into a man child. It was fun talking about colors and seeing which ones my toddler wanted to mix together! We got some beautiful results!

After dying the eggs, allow them to dry. Using whatever method you choose (I just used a small screw driver because that’s all I had on hand), tap a hole in both the top and bottom of the egg. I’ve seen that they make cute little hand pumps for blowing out the yolk, but we wanted to do it like Babushka did in Rechenka’s Eggs (an adorable little story about colorful eggs and a very special goose).

WARNING: If you choose the method I did, you might want to make sure your schedule is clear for the following few hours. My lips were blue until bedtime!! HAHA!

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We allowed the eggs to dry out overnight, and then spent the next morning threading pretty ribbon through the holes in the egg. I used a thin wire and twisted the end to create a loop for the ribbon to go through. My 5 year old threaded the ribbon through the loop and I fed the wire through the eggs, creating a pretty loop to hang on the tree and tied a bow on the bottom to secure the ribbon.

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Michigan is having fickle weather lately, but we braved the snow and cold for a few branches. I remember when I was little, my mom found pussy willow branches and cut those and put them into water. They bloomed beautifully! Unfortunately, we do not have beautiful flowering trees on our property, so we made due with what we had. hehe… My daughter had fun eating snow and my son attempted to cut a few branches. Was this the most enjoyable part of our project? Nope! We were freezing and the kids were complaining, but we persisted, got outside and were rewarded for our efforts.

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The kids had fun hanging the completed eggs on the branches. I gently guided them to not hang them ALL in one spot, and the results were fabulous! My son enjoys looking at the project, knowing HE helped make it. There’s something so rewarding in knowing you made something with your own hands.

Let em know if you try this with your kiddos!

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