I love to do hands on learning when we can. One fun way we have been doing this masking tape words. There are variety of things you can do when you make the words on the floor. I just want to show some of them that we do. Not everything has to be about flash…
One of our favorite gross motor equipments at our house is that Parachute 6 Ft 8 with Handles. It is so much fun and easy to use in doors at our house. You can do so many fun things with it. I will tell you that the girls and I enjoy it! The place I…
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….
This month for the Virtual Book Club, we read Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Board Book (World of Eric Carle) by Bill Martin Jr. I love how the books repeat and you learn some fun reading in them. These type of books have been a favorite at our house for some time….
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…
Do you love playing classic games with your kids? This post will give you a new way to play Red Light Green Light! We had so much fun doing this activity! It is always fun to change things up! Check out my contributor post! The site where this post was is now gone but working…
My first in a a year of posts at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom goes live today! I am so excited about doing these posts. Each month I’m going to have a post that goes up with a different subject for kids in preschool to kindergarten range. You can find out more about what I’ll be posting….
We love the book Jump, Frog, Jump! The girls have loved it since Rose had it first read to her in preschool. Since then we have gone through 2 board books and at least 3 paper backs of the book. This activity also goes great with the Pond Pack. What you need: Pencil or something…
My girls love sidewalk chalk! The first sign of good weather they are asking if we can go outside and do sidewalk chalk. I love to let them do it! I saw this post of Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas last year about Sight Word Hopscotch. I did it last year and was great…
We love Gross motor and book activities and this is one of our favorite ways to get moving! Plus is is a fun Dr. Seuss Activity as well. So get up and get moving with reading the ABCs! You get more than 26 gross motor ideas for kids to do! Each page is loads of…
As we finish up this week only a few days are left for this challenge. How did you do? Did you do every day or just did your best? We did 2 days on one book because the girls enjoyed it so much! There will be a full blog post about it later this month….
As we finish up this week only a few days are left for this challenge. How did you do? Did you do every day or just did your best? Part of this week we started a theme of Movements from books! This is fun and easy to do. Sorry some days don’t have pictures. It…
I love adding gross motor and other activities together. And this is a great activity for counting, gross motor and fine motor all at the same time. This week we have been doing the Gross Motor challenge slightly differently. We have been using books. It changes up what you are doing and makes it fun….
Another week has come and gone! I can’t believe how fast this challenge is going! Erin at Royal Baloo and I have been fun with this. We are also looking towards the challenge for February. We are going to do Fine Motor next month. Look for more information about this with challenge post on the…
Another week has come and gone! I can’t believe how fast this challenge is going! For more information about the challenge check it out here: 31 Days of Gross Motor Challenge. January 5th: Day Five: Fifth day we played pompom throwing & kick walking. Pompom Throwing Kick Walking January 6th: Day Six: Sixth day we…
Welcome to Day 5 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. This has been a great week and today is the last day of the ABC Series. At the end of the post I have a few lists of Pinterest Boards and printables I have found. U is for Under A lot of times in these…
Welcome to Day 4 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. I will say some letters were harder than others and today has some of those. P is for Play Never mistake playing outside for a lack of gross motor. Simple areas can be perfect for play! Playgrounds are wonderful, but so is just running in…
Welcome to Day 3 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. The first two days were great fun and I’m looking forward to today as well! I love exploring all the ideas. I often have a hard time settling on one subject per letter. K is for Kick Kicking is lots of fun and works on…
Welcome to Day 2 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. The first day was great fun and I’m looking forward to today as well! F is for Fun Why does gross motor have to be hard? It should be fun at any age. Activities my girls don’t care for can be changed into ones they…
Welcome to Day 1 of the ABCs of Gross Motor. Over the next 5 days I’m going to give a lot of gross motor fun. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do and that at the end of this 5 day series you have some great ideas for your kids! A…
Tomorrow starts my ABC Series on Gross Motor! Below are some of the topics that I’ll be covering. Monday will be A-E, Tuesday is F-J, Wednesday is K-O, Thursday is P-T, and Friday is U-Z. There are so many fun things to cover and links to check out. I have been working really hard on…
How did everyone do on week one? The first 4 days have gone great for us! A few times is was hard to remember but we got it in no matter what was going on or happening. If you want to know more about this challenge check out the 31 Day Gross Motor Challenge post….
It is hard to believe tomorrow starts 2013! Where does the time go? For this yew year Royal Baloo and I have a challenge for everyone to try. Each month will be a new challenge for you to do with your kids. January will be 31 Days of Gross Motor. For this challenge we want…
The balance cushion is a new addition at our house. It came recommended by the OT that Mary’s is seeing. So we are giving it a try! This is becoming part of the “Sensory Diet”. Which I will admit is something new for me. I have a few months left to learn a lot in…
What should have been a craft and activity afternoon turned into lets play in the leaves. Some times going off the scheduled plans means having just a little bit more fun. With the weather here turning nasty really soon. This was the last chance to enjoy something that was a fun fall activity. We always…
Gross motor has always been one of our favorite things to do inside! Yup inside the house. Because we can’t always get outside. I started the ABC Gross Motor with the girls awhile ago. I first one I posted was for the Letter D. I have not posted all the letters we have done. I…
At a time when we should have been doing something else. Someone presented us with a pile of leaves. How can you say no to that? This was great gross motor practice without me doing a thing! Playing in the leaves can be some of the following gross motor: running in the leaves throwing the…
We have been watching a lot of Olympics and had our own Pompom Games! It was fun and easy to do! We did Pompom Forward Throwing, Pompom Backward Throwing, Pompom Balance, Pompom Relay, Pompom Jumping, Pompom Track, Pompom Bucket Throw, Pompom Weaving, Pompom Throwing and Catching, and Pompom Cheering. What you need: yarn pompoms, baskets…
Looking for a way to work on alternating on the stairs. This is a fun way to do it and get them engaged in what they are doing. Plus you get a little gross motor while doing it. What you need: Stairs, different colored socks and toys or items that match the color of the…
In April we started the 30 Days of Moving with Kids. It has been so much fun for the girls and I! We did a lot of walking outside. We went to parks. We did some gross motor inside: rolling and jumping like frogs. So far we plan to keep going with this challenge. The…