Clothespins/ Clothes pegs are easy to use, versatile, and a great tool for working on fine motor skills. Whether you want to use them to create an art wall and hang the children’s paintings, or let children use them in games and fine motor activities, they are great, aren’t they? Here are some of my…
Salt Dough Recipe
Making salt dough ornaments is always an exciting open-ended activity. It’s even more fun when the children make their own salt dough. They enjoy getting their hands in flour and kneading dough. Here’s a very easy recipe that they can follow step-by-step. • 4 cups of flour • 1 cup of salt • 1 ½…
Winter Creation Station
December is here, which means that we opened the first few envelopes of our Advent calendar. The kids are extremely excited about the surprises the elves have prepared! Tomorrow we’ll set up a winter creation station with play dough and props. I want to encourage the children to explore more, to come up with their…
Snowman Bowling Game
Here in Finland everybody has an advent calendar in December. It’s a big tradition, or so I’ve been told. Kids enjoy opening the envelopes to see what’s inside. You know how kids are about surprises, no matter how small they are. This year, we’ve made an advent calendar with songs, rhymes, games and dances. The…
Five For Friday – What an Amazing Week!
I’m very happy to join my friends from doodlebugsteaching again for the Five for Friday Linky Party. This is a weekly teacher linky party where we post five random things from the past week. Here’s my week. It’s been a long week, so I’ll be brief because I can’t wait to go to bed. It’s…
Exploring Pumpkins
My kids love all Halloween songs from Super Simple Learning, but “Can You Make a Happy Face?” and “Knock, Knock, Trick or Treat!” are their all-time favourite songs. Because Halloween is just around the corner, we have been practicing them both for the party. We try to sing whenever the kids are in the mood…