Dancing is a great way for your kids to burn off excess energy and have fun when the weather is awful and everyone is going just a little bit stir-crazy. Get them up and moving with these YouTube dances. We …
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gross motor skills
gross motor skills: activities that help develop children’s gross motor skills
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This leafy indoor/outdoor alphabet hunt lets kids get into the spirit of Fall with matching letters and colors. Add spelling to the hunt for older kids and the whole family can play! It’s finally FALL! I hope you are blessed …
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This game was surprisingly more difficult than I expected it would be for my 10, 9, and 7 year olds. I don’t know if they were just not in the pumpkin-matching mindset or if they need more matching …
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family funfamily lifeoutdoor activities
fun, kid-friendly learning at baseball games
by Teach Mamaby Teach MamaOriginally published June 6, 2011 but republished today because, well, it’s worth it. This past week, we experienced something totally new and exciting–a rite of passage of sorts. We walked into a new chapter in our lives, and I …
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foundations
five activities for crossing the midline (and why it’s important)
by Teach Mamaby Teach MamaThe following guest post is written by the amazing Devany LeDrew. Devany is a former Kindergarten who now shares adventures with her children–most often playing, learning, and remembering–on her blog Still Playing School. Check it out. ——————————— Our 10 month …
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Have you been busy keeping up with the Olympics? Sure, they have only just begun, but if your kids are anything like mine, they’ve been hit with the Olympic FEVER! Who knew that this world event would be so much …
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family funfamily lifeoutdoor activities
coffee can stilts: old school summer fun
by Teach Mamaby Teach MamaJust for fun, just because I had two empty coffee cans, and just because I remember loving the yellow plastic-cup stilts we had as kids, we made coffee can stilts over here one recent afternoon. It was a day …
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Thank you, ABC Exercise Cards, for giving us a fun and burn-some-steam kind of activity this afternoon! After a rainy weekend and another rainy–but exciting!–morning at the College Park Aviation Museum with Owen’s class, I found that by the afternoon, …