We have been learning about the Nativity. We have been reading books about it. We are sharing an easy Paper Roll Nativity that we put together and used with the book Itsy Bitsy Christmas: You’re Never Too Little for His Love. I love this story because it is about how the king that was visiting…
Learning about stars and planets is always a lot of fun. It is fun to learn about space and the things that are out there. For the Poppins Book Nook, we did some study of the stars. There are many different starts and things we can learn about them. There so many different parts of…
We just love Room on the Broom. It is a great book to read and fun as well. You can see great friends and how everyone helps out the witch. We love to read it over and over. It is a book we keep out all year round and not just for Halloween. We did…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
Fall is almost here and then trees are starting to change. It is very fun time of year here in New England. I love looking at the trees and how different all the leaves are. For a fun project that we did this fun ribbon tree. We used some different colors of ribbon that had…
My girls had a hard time to pick what book they wanted to do. We have all three books but they liked The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon series) the best. We read this book over and over. I love how it turns out. The books with Pigeon in them are always fun to read!…
This whole week we have been learning about apples. This is one of the activities that we did with our Apple Theme. Apple is one of our favorite themes for the fall. You can always do something with them. So many activities are fun and easy to do. This apple tree is super easy to…
I’ve been excited about this one for the last month. The girls picked the book Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) for this months author Aliki. This is a great fall book as well. We loved learning about different parts of history for corn. While on vacation this summer we…
For this pirate theme, we have been doing the Build Up Summer Learning Week 1 Pirate. We have loved doing pirates this summer and loved several of the books. Pirates are a theme I think do well for boys and girls. The Chalk Pirate Flag Craft is a great addition to the pirate activities on…
This time of year it is a great time to review the colors of the flag: red, white, and blue. Around the 4th of July, we do lots of crafts for the holiday. We also do lots of studies about the American Revolutionary War. We did some fine motor skills with this red, white, and…
We have several books that we love from Eric Carle. It was hard to pick just one for this month’s Virtual Book Club for kids. The girls each had a book they wanted to do. We decided that we would do each of their books on their own. For today I’m posting the first one….
It is time for the Virtual Book Club again. This time we have a fun green yarn sheep craft to go with the book we picked for Mem Fox. This is a fun hands on craft that goes really well with the book. It was hard to pick just one book for this author! We…
Spring flowers are in bloom and I love how pretty they are. We made some fun Paper Plate Flower Wreaths to hang inside our house. Since pollen is a big issue at our house we do lots of flower activities that we can have inside. I love how flexible you can be with flower activities….
With Earth Day coming up we have been doing some fun tree fine motor activities. I thought I would post a few that my youngest did the other day. We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn…
St. Patrick’s Day is coming really soon and we have been having fun with clovers. We talked about 3 and 4 leave clovers. We read the book Hooray for St. Patrick’s Day! (Lift-the-Flap, Puffin). I like this book because you can look for the leprechaun on every page. It gives you something to do besides…
I had a very hard time just picking one of Marcus Pfister books. He has so many great ones to pick from. We finally settled on Sun And Moon. The sun is looking for a friend. You get to see lots of fun weather and things on the earth. It is great story about being…
We are having fun with Dr. Seuss week at our house. Yes, I know most people posted before now about it. But we are doing it this week, so expect a few fun posts. We read The Lorax (Classic Seuss). This is not the first time we have read the book. Nor will it be…
We have been having lots of snow around here, but it has also been very cold. We have been watching the many different type of snowflakes that have been falling from the sky. The girls and I like the book No Two Alike. It is a great book about how two things can be similar…
For this months Virtual Book Club we read The Foggy, Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt. We loved how the pages looks and how much fun they were. What you need to make your Shadow Painting baby oil white copy paper foam paint brush black paint tray Oil on the Paper They put baby oil on…
Get your kids moving and doing with this classical Wheels on the Bus Gross motor! We read Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus Board Book. This has been a great book to read at our house. We have loved the book. You never know what book your kids will just cling on to….
It was nearing the end of our playing with water beads time. So I decided instead of marble painting we would do water beads! This was a great projects and lots of fun. The girls liked it we did several paintings over a few days. I love that every picture turned out very different. What…
This is hands-on learning for Jack and the Beanstalk! Learning is always more fun when you add some hands-on with crafts and gross motor. For this months book we did Jack and the Beanstalk. I love the many different variety of this story, but the classic tales of it are just as fun. We learned…
Since we mailed off our package a few weeks ago the girls have been excited about this project! The Summer Book Exchange 2013 is here at 3 Dinosaurs. Our Box came from Feels Like Home. First we opened the box. We looked through each item and then read the letter with instructions. We looked through…
For the Poppin Book Nook we read Along a Long Road by Frank Viva. It was a fun book about a ride along with a bike. We really enjoyed the simple scenes and fun interactions. What you need: black paper, white squares, pencil and white crayon. First they drew the buildings using the white crayons…
We read the book The Easter Egg by Jan Brett . We love the story of the different types of eggs. They all showed everyone personality and how everyone has different talents as well. No one needs to make the same type of egg. After reading the book we made tissue paper Easter Eggs. What…
New this month is the Poppins Book Nook! It is a monthly book club with themes! I’m sorry I did not get it annouced before the first post! I’ll do better next month! This month’s theme is Knights, Princess and Castles! There are so many fun books for this theme. This month we read The…
This month for the Virtual Book Club we read The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. It was fun to talk about where the whale and the snail went. Everything they saw on their journey. We pointed out what our favorite parts where. Rose liked the drawing on the board at school. Mary liked…
Snowman are a great theme for winter. For the winter Wonderland Blog hop we picked a fun and easy snowman craft. We read the book Little Critter: Just a Snowman and made a paper roll snowman. What you need for this painting activity 2 paper rolls blue paper with snowman outline paint white & black…
My girls love puzzles and matching so this was a quick fun idea they could do. What you need: paper, pen and foam heart stickers. First gather the hearts to place on the paper and then trace them. We looked over the paper and counted the big, small and medium hearts. They got busy working…
For me Arts and Crafts for kids should not be hard to make! They should have fun with simple and easy directions. As they get older you can do complex but some times they enjoy simple things. Red Leaf Yellow Leaf – Yarn Tree This fall yarn trees is one of my most popular art…