Little boys. They love superheroes. This hasn’t hit in our house yet. My little guy is only 20 months and is currently obsessed with trucks (gucks), cars (gucks), and trains (gucks). And my daughter has been obsessed with princesses since she could say “princess” so needless to say we don’t have any superhero [...]
Last week I shared that we have been doing activities and reading books that revolve around the beach and the ocean. While reading The Rainbow Fish we started talking about octopus’ and my dauhter wanted to make her own. Well…I couldn’t let her down, right? So we perused pinterest together (yes…my daughter and [...]
It’s summer…which means heat, beaches, vacations…so we have been reading books and doing crafts that revolve around the ocean and it’s life! This month we are loving The Rainbow Fish and have been doing some fun activities to go along with it. First up? A simple (but fun) torn-paper craft. I did this [...]
Yesterday I was driving my daughter to her first day of Summer School. It was also her first day with her new teacher! She was SO very excited! That morning she found some random advertisement card and just had to bring it to school to share. On the way to school she was [...]
It’s the first official Activity Tuesday! With the 4th of July coming up TOMORROW..I have a couple 4th of July crafts to share with you, thanks to Pinterest 
So, if you are looking for some last minute craft ideas to do with the kids for the 4th, you are in the right [...]
Recently I had some time to myself (which was AWESOME but a rarity) so I headed to the bookstore to check out some St. Patrick’s Day and Easter Books. I looked through several that were too much for my kids, and some that were just, well, lame. But then I came across [...]
Well…it’s Freebie Friday and I actually didn’t make a freebie this week. Life has been busy here and I have been, well, uninspired! I do have a project in the works but it is a bigger project so it won’t be ready any time soon. So what I decided to do is share [...]
It’s been a few weeks since I posted about what we have been doing around here for fine motor practice. We haven’t done nearly as much as I had wanted to or that I had planned…I need about 5 extra hours a day! HA! If you are new, one reason we do so [...]
We have been building SNOWMEN! OK, so they haven’t been real ones but whatever. We’ll take what we can get…it doesn’t snow here in the bay! Yet again, I was inspired by an activity that was linked up at my Thrifty Thursday Linky Party. Jessica over at Preserving Life’s Memories shared this [...]
As I have mentioned, my daughter is currently getting occupational therapy. She has Juvenile Arthritis, which has attacked several of her fingers causing swelling and pain, which has resulted in some weaknesses, particularly in her right hand. So anyway, we are supposed to be doing homework for OT…so I have been keeping my [...]
I was checking out some other speech therapy blogs this week and came across a great post from Jenna at Speech Room News on how she used some foam leaves to work on “wh” questions with her students. Her post inspired me to think up a fun activity to target toddler and preschool [...]
Today we made some hand-print spiders for Halloween! Even in such a SIMPLE craft like this, there are so many opportunities to learn and use language. Here is what you will need Black construction paper White crayon Scissors Hole Punch Glue PomPoms Googly Eyes Yarn Vocabulary you may use/target during the activity [...]
I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing arts and crafts projects with my children, as well as in my therapy sessions. There are so many language learning opportunities when doing a craft project with a child or group of children: following directions, basic concepts and vocabulary development, etc. In the theme of fall and Halloween, [...]
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