Ocean is a big theme at our house. When we first started talking about which of the Giles Andreae books we wanted to read the girls picked out several of them and we picked them out. They finally picked the ocean book we had and loved by her! And sensory bins are loads of fun…
Ocean books are a favorite at our house and we love reading the books and talking about the ocean fish. The Watercolor Fish is a great painting idea to go with the book Swimmy. And kids of different ages can do this craft and paint their own fish from the story. And painting inside cookie…
I’m always looking for fun and different sensory play ideas. With this month’s Virtual Book Club book Pinkalicious, we thought it would be fun to do a sensory bin. So we put together a pink sensory bin to go with the book. Sensory bins are fun because it is an open play activity while feeding…
This month’s Virtual Book Club book is The Rainbow Fish. It is a favorite at our house. We have loved this book for a long time. One part I like about the Virtual Book Club is that I’m challenged to come up with something new each month for a book that we know or love….
We totally love Mo Willems books at our house! They are some favorites for sure. I was excited about Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems for this month’s Virtual book Club book. If you had not guessed, we love dinosaurs at our house and have for years. Today we have some…
My youngest just loves to play with buttons. We use them in a lot of our hands on activities. When we got the book Corduroy for this months Virtual Book Club. My youngest wanted to make sure we did some kind of counting with the buttons. This activity is easy to set up activity. It…
Peter Rabbit is a favorite story at our house. We have been reading the stories at our house for a long time. I loved all the activities from this month’s Virtual Book Club. I always love all the different activities everyone comes up with. Each activity is centered around the story of The Tale of…
We have loved The Tale of Peter Rabbit at our house for ages! I think we have had at least 4 different types of copies of it. There are always copies at different places throughout the house. One part my girls always were upset about was that Peter never had any carrots. They always wanted…
One thing I love about doing the Virtual Book Club for kids is that it gets me thinking about what activity we will do with the book. This month’s book is The Little Engine That Could: 60th Anniversary Edition. This is a classic book with a great story. There is so much you can learn…
My youngest just loves making patterns. We are always doing them. We have done them on craft sticks since she was young. It was our family doctor that started them doing it. We would visit and he would give them a tongue depressor and crayons to play with. It has always been something they look…
Every month, we look forward to our Virtual Book Club Activities! October’s book is a fun one! Llama Llama Red Pajama has been a favorite at bedtime for a while. It is a great book for reminding kids that some times mom just get busy and will always be there. We made a fun pajama…
My girls were very excited about this Where the Wild Things Are book activity. We have been having some fun doing activities with Where the Wild Things Are. You can check out our Kid of the Wild Things Crowns we did as well. Here are some fun gross motor activities to do with the Book…
I’m very excited once again to be a part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids for 2015-2016. My girls have really enjoyed being a part of the book club. There is a great line-up of books for this year. I know that they pick the books out with great care. I’ve never had a…
The girls and I enjoy being a part of the Virtual Book Club. We have been doing it for a long time. The girls always look forward to seeing what books we will be doing. At the end of the year I thought I would round up all the activities and introduction posts from the…
We love doing gross motor activities at our house. At least three of four times a week we do some kinds of gross motor activity. This activity is a fun ways to read a book and get moving at the same time. This is a great addition to our gross motor activities on the site!…
Every month we all get excited about the books we have for the Virtual Book Club. This months author is one we have had in the past. This months is Bill Martin Jr. It was almost two years ago he was a book club author. He has so many fun books my girls just love…
I love that every month we look for new books while we are in the virtual book club for kids. This month we knew all three books by Donald Crews. We had a hard time picking just one book. We have read all three books. I really liked the colors in Freight Train. So that…
I always look forward to seeing what books there are for the Virtual Book Club. This months Author is Donald Crews. We had this same author around this time last year. He was a new author to me then but now is a favorite to read. We often check his book out. One of our…
It is a fun time again. Our author for this months book club is Leo Lionni! There are so many fun books of his to read. This is also the second time that he has been featured for the Virtual Book Club. One of our favorite books is by far Swimmy. We had so much…
We had a hard time picking between the three book. It was hard. We love all the book by Eric Carle. Since we are just starting the explore flower and outside this year I thought it would be fun to do a flower activity. We read the book The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric…
Eric Carle is one of our favorite authors! There are so many great books by him. I’m always happy when we run into a book of his to read or do an activity with them. Several years ago we went to Eric Carle Museum and loved it. There was so much fun information to learn…
We are doing something totally different for this months Virtual Book Club! We did some cooking. My oldest has celiac so about 99% of what we cook is gluten free. I thought I would share our fun gluten free muffins that we make from scratch! This is a great and easy cooking project with kids!…
I love the books by Laura Numeroff. These are fun books that you can read over and over and have with each time. My girls are excited to have this author again. We did her as the author just over a year ago. One book activity that we did Exploring Shadow Puppets. This activity was…
We love adding gross motor to books. For this months Virtual Book Club, we did gross motor with Goodnight Moon. This makes a fun books that my girls enjoy another fun way to explore the book. Plus it gets them up and going while reading a book they love. This is simple easy to do….
I am excited about this months Virtual Book Club author: Margaret Wise Brown. We have several of her books at our house. We have some in board books, hard cover and paper back. She is a classical author that many people read over and over. I think we read Goodnight Moon at our house every…
Dr Seuss books are a favorite at our house. We are always reading them. This is a fun hands-on activity for matching numbers with Truffula Trees. This is a hands-on activity that you can repeat several different times. We had a really hard time picking between the three books. It was not easy but we…
Dr. Seuss is a favorite at our house. My girls would let me read them all day long if we had nothing else to do. I love the books for many reasons. The rhyming words are great that you can work on. They repeat a lot of the words in the books. Plus it is…
Color mixing is always a lot of fun for kids to do. This is fun to explore the different shades of colors that kids can make. Every color mix is different . That means that outcome of the mix is always different and fun to explore For this months virtual books club we picked the…
After a month off we are back to to the Virtual Book Club again. This months author is Ellen Stoll Walsh. I have seen her books a lot but we have not read them. This is one of the reasons that I love being apart of the Virtual Book club for kids. You get to…
Pete the cat is a favorite at our house. We love doing activities with the books. For this months Virtual Book Club we picked Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. This is such a fun book to read. It is full of math and counting. It is a great book to introduce some…