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Summer is officially starting this weekend. Woohoo! Are you as excited as I am? It's time for some family fun in the sun (and also the shade)! We've got loads of ideas for outside play, fun (and therapeutic) sensory play ideas, wall art, printables, crafts, and piles of cookies to make the first week of summer extra fun. We've also got tons of great tips to get your summer plans organized to help ... View Post
We're on letter "U" in our preschool alphabet games. This week "U" is for under, umbrella, underware and things. I've been asked by a few moms how long it takes to do these activities. I'd say it's anywhere from five to fifteen minutes per activity and I only do two or three a day. The rest is free play. Sometimes Peanut will take a real interest in something and spend more time at it, if he ... View Post
Free Stuff - Printables First I'd like to say thank you if you are reading my blog. I hope it is a blessing to you and I just want you to know that I'm grateful for you and for your time spent with me on my blogging adventures. I also have some good news, thanks to a friend, I figured out how to upload some fun coloring pages to coincide with our study of the alphabet. These are free ... View Post
J is for Jump - as in our latest preschool alphabet games here at Happy and Blessed Home. Just for you I've created some jumping beans as a part of our alphabet games that you can download for free to create a "Jumping Beans Game" for your preschooler. You can do any variation you like with this game, you can put numbers on the bellies of the Jumping Beans and ask your preschooler to go ... View Post
This post includes a tutorial on a preschool craft to create a thankful turkey. Our family used our Thankful Turkey to talk with our children about thankfulness and what it means to be thankful. In addition, this post reflects how thankful I am for my many blessings. I've been looking at pictures of our almost ten month old and my heart is overwhelmed with the feeling of thankfulness. I am ... View Post
Building with blocks is a great way to build fine and gross motor skills as well as foster imagination. For our study on the letter "I", we made a preschool craft - an igloo out of sugar cubes. Peanut was pretty excited about the igloo. The thing that excited him the most- taking it apart! Click this link to watch the igloo deconstruction in a reader or you can watch it on the video embedded ... View Post
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