love this hedgehog and pipe cleaner fine motor busy bag idea. for sale on etsy but you could make your own

Jesus Picks His Disciples includes the printables for the dozen Disciples egg carton! An oldie but goodie post! poster This week Jesus is going to pick out His helpers. They are called Disciples, which means follower. (Apostle means one who is sent.) Scripture reference: Mark 1:1:14-20; John 1:35-51, Matthew 10:1-8; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:13-16 The Disciples included three sets of brothers: Simon (whom He had named Peter) and Andrew; James and John, Zebedee's sons; James and Thaddeus, sons of…

Need: different colored paper clips laminated construction paper rectangles to match the paper clips To Make: cut out and laminate the co...

AWESOME! This blogger shows you how to make a busy book using window clings from the Dollar Tree! source img

adorable busy bag idea! Little ones practice fine motor skills while they "feed the animals". Dollar Tree has those containers in the baby aisle.

A great, hands-on early math activity that can be completed independently. Use our free printables to make your own Block Puzzles Busy Bag.

BRAINSTORMING POST! BUSY BAG IDEAS! WHAT IS A BUSY BAG? You get a group of creative fun people together, Make enough of the exactly the same creative activities. Everyone does a set of activities each. Then you swap bags around! ... so you end up with all different bags of creative activities. Here's an example of what you might end up with: Looks fun huh!! Well, I need to make 10 lots of activities for children 3-5 years old, so I've been searching some creative things... come Busy Bag…

I recently found at these “Coordinated Paper Cut Outs” at a local Dollar Tree and thought they would make a quick and colorful busy bag for our toddler and preschooler to practice associating objects with each other. We’ve completed this activity together several times. Now the three oldest children can match the items on their …

Print these adorable monster sorting cards and use them for all sorts of sorting and matching games, including Memory, Snap and Old Maid.

We're putting together a Joseph story bag for the summer and it's been interesting planning what to put inside! Of course, the most obvious part of the Joseph story is the bit about his fantastic coat. Genesis 37:3 states that the coat is 'a long robe with full sleeves', (or a 'decorated robe' in some translations), so we are justified in making it colourful- it does, after all, have to be something his brothers would envy! I wanted to make a fuzzy felt coat that the children could decorate…

Inspiration Angela is one of Charlie's friends from growing up...all the way back to Kindergarten! I met her a couple years ago at Charlie...

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I've been wanting to do a laundry theme since last spring. I'm excited to say that I FINALLY got around to it. :) These are the two books that we will be reading the most this week. I printed this letter matching game on pretty cardstock. It is from the Homeschool Share Jesse Bear lapbook. Washcloth folding. Sock matching. Hanging clothes on the clothesline. I bought the clothesline and the clothespins from the Dollar Tree. The clothes are made of felt. I got the templates and the original…

I have saved the hinged-lids from baby wipe packaging for quite some time now. I hoped that someday I could use them to create a toddler busy bag activity. This week, I made a "Lift and Find" matching game for young children to learn their colors and shapes. I am offering the activity sheets for free at the bottom of this page. All you need to do is save your lids! Honestly, I thought this activity was going to be only for my youngest daughter, but my three-year-old son liked it too! Many…

Time for another snack list! If you teach preschool or homeschool, you'll find these weekly snack lists helpful for planning snacks to go a...