The Educators' Spin On It
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A resource for parents and teachers of young children that helps foster a love of learning at an early age. Fun and easy things to do with kids: learning games and activities with helpful resources for parents.
The Educators' Spin On It
5d ago
A collection of children’s books about monarch butterflies. Encourage your child to learn about their incredible migration and the challenges they face in the wild.
Join the fight to protect monarch butterflies! Dive into the enchanting world of monarch butterflies by reading books that unravel their fascinating journey, from egg to majestic butterfly.
Children’s Books About Monarch Butterflies
Several talented authors have written children’s books about Monarchs. They share about the monarch butterfly life cycle and about their one-of-a-kind migration each year to Mexico.
One trend we’re see ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
5d ago
Create a fun hands-on busy bag activity for kids this spring with this caterpillar math game with lids. Start saving your lids for this eco-friendly game.
We’re having so much fun in BUG WEEK as part of our Virtual Book Club Summer Camp!
Today is Eric Carle’s Birthday so in honor of him and one very hungry caterpillar it’s time for some Caterpillar fun!
We created a fun and simple math game using lids!
It’s works perfect for siblings too. You can adjust the level of difficulty with the little ones you can work on one to one correspondence and number recognition and your older ones you ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
5d ago
A fluttering butterfly can inspire an entire week of exploration at my house. Learn with Monarchs this week!
Here are a few monarch butterfly activities for your child…
Monarch Butterfly Activities
Monarch Butterfly Activities for Kids
Read
OBSERVE
WRITE
Visit a Butterfly Museum
Make Masks
Butterfly Life Cycle Toys
Monarch Butterfly Activities for Kids
Known for its bright orange colors and its incredible annual migration, the migratory monarch butterfly is now classified as “Endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In the last 20 years the the monarch butte ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
2w ago
The ultimate collection of May Books for Kids! Discover the wonders of May through enchanting children’s picture books that celebrate growth, renewal, and the beauty of nature, offering young readers tales of springtime, gardening, Mother’s Day, insects, butterflies, and outdoor exploration.
Let’s explore these books in May…
May Books for Kids
Mother’s Day Books
Memorial Day Books
Bee Books
Butterfly Books
Garden Books
Blueberry Books
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Books
STEM Books
Download May Activities for Kids
May Themes for Kids
May Books for Kids
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The Educators' Spin On It
1M ago
Gardening is a great way to inspire learning and art exploration. Colors abound in the vast tones of colors in leaves and flowers that can be found by children in a garden. Have you ever painted with plants?
Today, Nicolette, shares her “spin” on painting with flowers and using seeds and petals to create a multi-dimensional, multi-medium art project.
Did you know that Nicolette is from Ecuador, South America?
I personally find gardening a great connection between people from around the world. Her garden looks similar to mine and our little ones would love doing this activity to ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
1M ago
Explore the best flowers to use for kids to experience in your garden. These flowers provide opportunities for picking, inviting wildlife, seed collecting and more.
Our family really enjoys vegetable gardening. We started adding vegetable gardens and fruit trees and bushes. Next came the flowers.
In fact, these are our top 10 favorite flowers to grow with kids.
The Reason to Grow Flowers for Kids in Your Garden
For BIG beautiful bouquets
To teach about seed collecting
For the kids to pick and arrange
To attract wildlife
Here are some additional flower activities for your child…
What flower ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
1M ago
Work on number recognition and number sense with this fun hands-on LEGO Garden Preschool Math Game with LEGO Flowers!
Beginning reading and math skills are a big part of our daily playful preschool activities. In fact, we often start by playing and end up learning and discussing.
LEGO Garden Preschool Math with Flowers
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Just this morning we brought the giant bucket of LEGO bricks outside and dumped them out on the deck. My one-year-old proceeded to kick every last LEGO onto opposite sides of the deck, and so we had ourselves and the e ..read more
The Educators' Spin On It
1M ago
Explore the ultimate resource of Solar Eclipse Videos and Activities for Kids! A collection of videos, activities, books, songs, and teaching materials to learn all about a Solar Eclipse with your child.
Solar Eclipse Resources for Kids
Solar Eclipse Videos
Solar Eclipse Activities
Fun Facts for Kids
Solar Eclipse Books
Solar Eclipse Songs
Solar Eclipse Songs for kids
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Solar Eclipse Videos and Activities for Kids
We’re sharing with you our favorite videos, books, activities, s ..read more
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1M ago
A tasty way to learn about the moon with kids! Connect science, literacy and life skills by making moon bread with your child today!
Today, the kids and I made moon bread. But the lesson was so much deeper than just whipping the bread together (which you can see in the video). It was learning facts about the moon, reading stories of moon celebrations around the world, and then sitting down at the family table to eat our moon bread and share about the things we had just learned.
This lesson may look simple, but it connects science, literacy, and life skills all into one!
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1M ago
Making your own instruments can be so much fun with your little ones. All you have to do is save your snack containers to make an instrument! Eco-friendly and fun for everyone!
Make your Own Instruments for Babies & Toddlers
It’s so important for babies and toddlers to have music in their everyday lives. With some of your child’s favorite action songs you can have some fun with making your own instruments for shakers.
We found all sorts of containers over the past month to save for our musical instruments. Baby snack containers, soda bottles, oatmeal containers, popcorn treats, cho ..read more