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Kamis, 25 Juni 2015

Free Animal Number Puzzles for Kids

I'll confess. Sometimes I get inspired by a product that I buy for my daughters and I use that idea to come up with a printable activity. In this case, I bought a great pack of Princess sticker puzzles from Michael's. I thought it was such a great idea to practice numbers, so I made a few animal themed cut & paste number puzzles to share with you! Sure, not as much fun as stickers, but just as educational!


Free Animal Number Puzzles for Kids

These FREE Animal themed Number Puzzles come in two levels of difficulty. One set includes numbers 1-16  and another set includes number 1-32. Use whichever puzzles suit your child's skill level. 

Just cut the images along the grid lines, shuffle the pieces and give to your child to glue to the blank grid sheet. For added challenge, have the child cut out the puzzle pieces! 


If you are interested in the Sticker Puzzles product I purchased, here are some Amazon affiliate links:



Senin, 08 Juni 2015

12 Ice Cream Printables for Preschoolers (Love to Learn Linky #45)

I asked my kids what their favorite thing about summer is and they said ice cream! So I thought it would be fun to round up all the free ice cream learning printables for preschoolers and have them in one place for handy reference!


12 Ice Cream Printables for Preschoolers

Practice spelling your name, one scoop at a time!


Match capital and lowercase letters with this ice cream busy bag printable.

Practice numbers and one-to-one correspondence with this math ice cream cone game.

Match pictures on the ice cream by their beginning letter sounds.

This popsicle matching activity is a perfect way to practice rhyming!

Create a yummy sight word sundae with this printable!

This ice cream file folder math game is perfect for practicing numbers 1 through 10!

And now for the packs...

Practice letter recognition, letter tracing and more in this Ice Cream ABC Pack

Dot markers make learning fun. Use them with these Ice Cream Do-a-Dot Printables.

This ice cream game pack has several math and letter games.

This ice cream Pre-K unit has tons of different learning activities.

Here is another ice cream preschool pack that looks great.

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Canada Day National Flag Windsock Craft from One Time Through

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Kamis, 28 Mei 2015

18 Road Trip Printables for Traveling with Kids (Love to Learn Linky #44)

Summer is almost here and I am sure many of you are planning vacations and road trips with the kids. I don't know about your kids but I have one who is pretty content sitting for long periods of time and I have another who absolutely hates being stuck in the car, even just to run a few errands. I have put together a collection of 18+ Free car themed road-trip games and printables that will hopefully make your traveling with kids easier.


Free Road Trip Printables for Kids


Printable Games to Play in the Car by In the Playroom
20+ Reusable Car Games by 123 Homeschool 4 Me
Road Trip Alphabet Pictionary by Lalymom
Printable Travel Sheets for Mini Do a Dot by Moms & Crafters
Restaurant I-Spy by 3 Boys and a Dog
License Plate I-Spy by 3 Boys and a Dog
Road Trip Drawing Prompts by Picklebums
Road Trip Bingo by This Reading Mama
Road Trip Bingo by Housing a Forest
Road Trip Activities and Games by Learn with Play at Home
Road Trip Activity Pack by Playdough to Plato
Travel Scavenger Hunt by Jellybean Junkyard
License Plate Search + Other Games by Poofy Cheeks
Road Trip Journal Pages by Peace but Not Quiet
Road Trip Travel Printables by Mum in the Madhouse
More Road Trip Travel Printables by Mum in the Madhouse
The License Plate Game by Makeovers & Motherhood
Travel Notebook for Preschoolers by Cornerstone Confessions


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Outdoor Activities the Kids will Love! from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Minion Brush Bots from Left Brain Craft Brain
Summer Picnic Play Sensory and Phonics Bin from One Time Through

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Senin, 25 Mei 2015

Ice Cream Name Recognition with Free Printable

I'm very happy to welcome Mihaela from Best Toys 4 Toddlers! Her blog features tons of awesome activities to keep toddlers busy, learning, creating and playing. Check out her Tot Hacks series for very helpful parenting advice, as well as these free printable learning activities: Little Bo Peep Color Match, Mary Quite Contrary Roll & Build a Flower and Hickory Dickory Dock Number and Color Matching.

Ice Cream My Name


Today we are going with a Summer theme! After all, Summer is almost here! Not sure about your kids but my kids are totally crazy about ice cream! Anything related to ice cream is a total hit in our house. This is why I decided to make this printable name recognition game and give it a very cool name: Ice Cream My Name!


Ice Cream Name Recognition Activity with Free Printable

You will need to print out our printable ice cream. It’s only one sheet printable and it includes 6 scoops of ice cream and one cone. In case your child’s name has more than 6 letters, just print an additional sheet of the same printable. We laminated our ice cream because in this way we can use it more than once and expand the game to other words, maybe family members or sight words after our toddler learns to spell her own name.

After you have printed it out, write on a cone the complete name using a dry-erase marker. Inside the circles on the ice cream scoops write a single letter from the name. Your toddler’s task is to build her/his name using ice cream scoops to match the name written on the cone.



As I mentioned, you can use the same set to teach your toddler names of other members of your family, sight words or any other word you would like. You will simply use a paper handkerchief to wipe the dry-erase marker and write other words on the cone and letters on ice cream scoops.

Simple and effective! If you add a real ice cream into the game and treat them for a job well done, they will love it!





Meet Mihaela:

Mihaela runs Best Toys 4 Toddlers blog and loves to come up with new ideas how to use old toys her 2 daughters keep leaving on the floor to slip over. Right now she’s thinking how to get her 7 year old to make toys for 2 year old as an idea to bring them closer together. In mean time, you can find her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest sharing playful learning ideas for toddlers and preschoolers.






Jumat, 22 Mei 2015

Where do Vegetables Grow? Gardening Craft with Free Printable

Learn about different types of vegetables and where they grow, in this next guest post from JDaniel4's Mom! You can find more creative learning activities on her blog, including Counting Bees Printable Math Game, Pick Up Sticks Sight Word Games, and 8 Ice Cream Games for Learning.


Where Do Vegetables Grow? Gardening Craft with Free Printable


Learning Where Vegetables Grow


Not all vegetables grow on plants the way fruits do. Some grow under the ground. Some vegetables are the stems or flowers of a plant.

We recently used a burlap gardening board I created to explore just where the vegetables we eat grow on a plant. The vegetables we sorted were made of felt and displayed on card stock cards. I thought you might not have the time to make them from scratch. Instead, I have made you a set of printable photos of the felt vegetables you can use. They are displayed in the pictures below.


Under the Ground Vegetables



After sorting through the pile of plants, the plants that grow vegetables under the ground were placed on the gardening board. The leafy green section of the plant was placed in the green area of the board. The section of the card displaying the underground vegetable was placed in the brown area.

Once you have the vegetables in place, you might want to take a moment to talk about the words under and over. You can have your children point to the parts of the plant that are under the ground and over the ground. It will give your children a quick lesson on positional words.


On the Ground Vegetables



There are three vegetables that grow on the ground or the green area of the gardening board. They don’t grow on a plant hanging down to the ground. The base of the plant is cut off where it sits on the ground. Those vegetables are the stem or flower of the plant. The broccoli is a flower. The asparagus is a stem. The celery maybe called a stem for this activity lesson, but it is petiole. A petiole is a small stalk attaching the leaf blade of a plant to the stem.


Above the Ground Vegetables



The last area to place vegetables in is the blue area. While they don’t grow while floating in the air, they don’t grow on the ground either. If you feel there needs to be a plant displayed on your gardening board, you can cut one out of felt.(We just displayed them above the ground.) Each of the above ground vegetables has its own unique plant. I decided to avoid having the vegetables grow from the wrong type of plant by not including one.

You may look at the above ground vegetables and wonder if they are all really vegetables. Well, technically some of them are fruits. The peas are really seeds. The tomatoes are fruits. Beans are a fruit. Corn is considered by some to be a fruit and others to be a vegetable. For this activity the food that grows above ground was called a vegetable, but it would be fine for you to share what they are instead.

When you have all the vegetables displayed on the gardening board, you can quickly review the positional words over, on, and below.


How I Made the Gardening Board



The gardening board is made of three colors of burlap glued to a large piece of cardboard. The blue and brown areas were made larger than the green area. The above the ground and underground areas are bigger than the ground in real life so I made them that way on the board.

You actually don't need to make a gardening board with burlap the way I did. Painting the three sections onto cardboard or gluing blue, green and brown construction paper on a piece of cardboard would be fine too.








Meet Deirdre:

Deirdre is the author of JDaniel4’s Mom where she shares other learning activities, printables, crafts, and food creations. She loves growing and learning beside her son. You can find her on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram.






Kamis, 14 Mei 2015

12 Ways to Learn While Playing with Food (Love to Learn Linky #42)

We all have probably told our kids at one time or another to not play with their food! Well, sometimes you can let them play and use it as a learning experience. Here are some awesome ideas for learning with common snack foods including goldfish, oreos, M&Ms, crackers and more!

12 Ways to Learn While Playing with Food

How about some STEM learning with goldfish crackers? Use these free Goldfish Printables to practice math skills, and see how to engineer a Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with Teddy graham crackers.

Sort your lunch into different shapes with this free Shape Sorting Printable.

Have a blast cutting up your food with this Scissor Skills Lunch activity.

Got M&Ms? Practice spelling words with these free M&M Word Printables, and have fun counting with this M&M School Bus Math game (also includes free printable).

Try one of these 8 creative ways to learn with Oreos.

Learn about constellations with Fruit Gummies and this free printable.

Practice addition with these free Jellybean Math printables.

Make your own Very Hungry Caterpillar out of these healthy snack foods.

Learn to count to 100 with Skittles in this free printable basketball game.

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Minggu, 10 Mei 2015

Bread Science Experiment + Free Printable Bread Cutting Pack

My next guest blogger is one you will definitely want to visit: Kristin from SmartE partE! Kristin is a homeschooler who blogs about her tot-school and preschool learning activities, themes, and free printables. She specializes in tot and prek "trays", such as her Hockey Tot Tray + Free Hockey Pack, 12 Science Preschool Trays + printables and 15 Spring Preschool Trays + printables.




Sourdough Bread Science

Long ago, my husband took a job as a bagel baker, which led to a career in bread baking. Sourdough was just a way of life! It took until later to understand the science behind it.

The actual maintenance of a sourdough starter is likely outside the scope of preschool science. If you are interested in learning more today, Cultures for Health has some helpful tips, videos and projects all about sourdough! We wanted to share an easy-prep science experiment that can be done with regular yeast and everyday household liquids. 


Yeast + Liquid Science Experiment + Free Printable

For this simple experiment, you will need:

-Yeast (not instant)
-Various liquids (see below)
-Cups or bowls
-This printable

You could try this with any liquids you like! Other than the various water temperatures, be sure to have the liquids at room temperature.

-Ice water
-Warm water
-Hot water
-Soda water
-Almond milk
-Dairy milk
-Apple juice
-Cider vinegar
-Soda w/ sugar
-Soda w/ corn syrup
-Soda (Diet)
-Water & baking soda (let sit 5 min before using)
-Water & aspirin (let sit 5 min before using)

Simply mix about 1 tsp. of yeast into 4-6 oz. (or 1/2 - 3/4 C) of liquid in a cup or bowl. Label or note each mixture. Watch mixtures as they change. Look from above and record the results on the printable! (We used dollar store plastic cups for this. But, another option would be to do these mixtures within Ziploc bags! Please be wary though as the bags could explode due to the activity of the yeast.) We were surprised at what liquids had the strongest reactions. We invite you to investigate this, too!

Download the Yeast + Liquid Bread Science Printable here! 


Bonus: Free Bread Cutting Pack


Though my boys make bread all the time, I decided to have a special Bread Preschool Week in our homeschool. So, I have created a free, printable bread mini-pack that I am honored to share with Totschooling readers! I always appreciate the free printables from Totschooling that makes our homeschool preschool journey oh-so much easier!


Free Printable Bread Cutting Pack

This bread mini-pack includes:

-Cutting Strips
-Cutting Shapes
-Slicing Bread
-Symmetry 

Download the Bread Cutting Practice Pack here!

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy learning about bread and how it works in your homeschool!


Meet Kristin:

Hi! I am Kristin and I blog over at smartEpartE.com. When our son, E was 2 I jokingly called him a "smarty party," hence the name of the blog! It served as inspiration to keep up with weekly tot school themes, and perhaps, share some ideas with others! Thank you for visiting over at smartEpartE.com or on Pinterest!






Kamis, 30 April 2015

Free Alphabet Butterfly Puzzles (Love to Learn Linky #40)

Puzzles are a great hands-on way for kids to learn. They are a favorite at our house! My daughters love the challenge of solving puzzles and putting pieces together to create a picture. With Spring here I thought it would be fun to practice our alphabet and letter cases using this set of colorful, free printable Butterfly Puzzles.

Free Alphabet Butterfly Puzzles

This set includes 26 different butterflies with an uppercase letter and lowercase letter on each wing.

Since all the butterflies are unique, it is a great way for kids to check their own work to make sure the butterflies and letters match up. Great for independent and quiet time!


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Spring Activities for Toddlers & Kids from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Inspiring Kids to Protect Our Oceans: Oil Spill Activity from One Time Through
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Selasa, 28 April 2015

Playful Alphabet Garden with Free Printable

I am very excited to announce my next super talented guest blogger: Sue from One Time Through. She has many amazing parenting posts and great educational ideas. Also be sure to check out her (free printable) Parent & Child Connection Coupons

Playful Alphabet Garden

Spring is arriving late to my neighbourhood this year, so I decided to get a head start and create a playful alphabet garden for my 3 year old son to plant inside. I'm Sue and you can usually find me blogging about hands-on learning activities for young kids over at One Time Through.

Because I'm a teacher, I often try to find a way to turn fun activities into learning opportunities and I thought this idea would be perfect to share with the Totschooling readers!


I found the idea for a playful alphabet garden at my local early years drop in centre where they often share creative and fun ways to introduce young children to their letters.

My son didn't have enough time to really play with the "garden" that day - so I decided to make my own at home for him to use.

What is the Playful Alphabet Garden?

The alphabet garden is a simple plastic tub filled with play sand, a pair of child- sized garden gloves, some small gardening tools, a few plastic plant pots, a small watering can, and of course, the popsicle stick alphabet "flowers."

The flowers (as well as a few bugs and butterflies for fun!) each have a capital letter of the alphabet on them. I created a printable PDF A to Z set of these that you can download for free {HERE}.

How to Prepare the Garden

You Will Need:

- the Playful Alphabet Garden printable (1 or 2 copies)
- 26+ popsicle sticks
- play sand and a plastic tub/container
- small garden gloves, planting tools, watering can, and plastic plant pots

To set up the garden activity, print off your alphabet flowers and cut them out. I decided to print out 2 copies so that I would have lots of letter doubles. I also laminated mine so that they would last longer. Tape each flower/bug to the top of a popsicle stick.

I also found some small plastic flower pots that I wrote some garden-related words on with a permanent marker, like: water, dirt, rocks, flower, and my son's name (a big favourite right now!)


Garden Play

When my son first played with the bin, I didn't give him any instructions except to put on his gardening gloves. His first instinct was to scoop the sand and fill the pots, and dig, dig, dig! And that was okay with me.

After some exploratory play, I showed him how he could "plant" the flower letters in each pot to match the words on the pots. We did this activity for a little while together - focusing on his name and then one of the plant pot words that he was interested in (incidentally the one that also started with the first letter of his name).

Eventually, his focus moved back to scooping and digging, but the letter flowers now became a part of his pretend play.


I got this gardening activity out several times this week, and each time my son seemed to get something different out of it. The first day was about exploring, the second day was more about pretending to plant flowers, and the third time was more about matching the letters to the words.

In all cases, he was having fun, learning to recognize the letters, and by talking with me as he played, incidentally learning letter sounds. All perfect practice activities for an early writer!




Meet Sue:

Sue is an Elementary School Teacher currently on leave to be at home with her preschooler son. She shares ideas for connecting and learning with kids through meaningful, play-based activities that nurture curiosity and creativity, as well as positive parenting tips.






Kamis, 16 April 2015

20+ Free Earth Day Printables for Kids (Love to Learn Linky #38)

Welcome to a special Earth Day edition of the Love to Learn Linky. Today I am featuring over 20 educational Earth Day printables and printable packs. Don't forget to check out my co-hosts' Earth Day posts as well as the ones linked up!

20+ Free Earth Day Printables for Kids

Printable Packs:

Earth Day Activity Pack by Totschooling
30 Page Free Earth Day Pack by Happy and Blessed Home 
Earth Day Do-a-Dot Printable Pack by Gift of Curiosity
Earth Day Packs by Royal Baloo
Earth Day Learning Pack by 3 Dinosaurs
Earth Day Printables by Homeschool Encouragement
Earth Day Printables by Wise Owl Factory

Printable Learning Activities:

Sorting Recyclables by Totschooling
Earth Day Letter & Number Puzzles by Totschooling
Waste Sorting Sensory Bin with printable by One Time Through
Earth Day Recycling Sorting Activity by A Little Pinch of Perfect
3-Part Montessori Recycle Cards by Living Montessori Now
Earth Printables for Preschoolers by Life Over C's 

Learning through Fun & Games:

DIY Raisin Box Puzzle with printable by Totschooling
Earth Q-Tip Painting Printable by Totschooling
Earth Day Bingo by Gift of Curiosity
Earth Month Scavenger Hunt by Edventures with Kids
Earth Day Memory Game by Learn Create Love
Earth Day Dominos by Storytime Standouts
Earth Playdough Mat by The Preschool Toolbox
Earth Day Action Reminder Cards by Cutting Tiny Bites
Earth Day Board Game by Play 2 Learn with Sarah

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Hands On Learning Earth Day Activities from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Earths Elements for Kids: An Earth Day Activity Roundup from One Time Through
Earth Day Science Activities for Kids from Left Brain Craft Brain

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