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Summer Fun Books & Crafts For Speech & Language

August 8, 2013 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Guest Post, How to Help Your Child Talk, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Listening & Following Directions Leave a Comment

As many of you know, my family and I are expecting baby number three in just a few short weeks. As I take some time off from work and blogging to spend time with my family both before and after my new son’s birth, I am thrilled to share with you some amazing posts written […]

Superheroes In Speech! {And at Home}

September 27, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 7 Comments

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 paraphernalia around […]

Octopus Craft {Activity Tuesday}

July 24, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Therapy Ideas and Activities 1 Comment

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 I perused […]

Rainbow Fish Torn Paper Craft {Activity Tuesday}

July 17, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Books and Literacy Activities, Crafts for Kids, Therapy Ideas and Activities Leave a Comment

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 one with […]

We’re Going on a Letter Hunt! {Activity Tuesday}

July 10, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids 1 Comment

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 “reading” the […]

4th of July Crafts

July 3, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Fine Motor Activities 1 Comment

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 πŸ˜‰ So, if you are looking for some last minute craft ideas to do with the kids for the 4th, you are in the right place! I […]

The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day: Make a Leprechaun Trap!

March 13, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Books and Literacy Activities, Crafts for Kids, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 11 Comments

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 The Night Before […]

Freebie Friday: St. Patrick’s Day Ideas

February 23, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Freebie Friday, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 2 Comments

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 a few […]

Fine Motor Monday

January 30, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Fine Motor Activities, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 6 Comments

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 much fine […]

We’re Building Snowmen Over Here!

December 14, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Fine Motor Activities, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 3 Comments

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! πŸ˜‰ 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 adorable Felt […]

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