Word Building Activity – Reading and Spelling with Blocks
This simple building block activity for kids is a great way to support your child as they learn to read…
Activities and Crafts for Learning to Read and Write
Five Little Pumpkins Craft and Activity for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Our homegrown pumpkins are ripe and autumn is here it’s time to do some Pumpkin Themed activities with our toddlers…
Community Helpers Beginning Letter Sounds Activity for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Community Helpers or Heroes as they are being called here in our home due to the school’s topic is a…
Jolly Christmas Postman Story Stones for Preschoolers
Both my four-year-old and five-year-old have an especial interest in spelling and reading right now. All I want is to…
Snowman Button Counting
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs is a beloved wordless storybook for kids. The illustrations are wondrous and capture the magic…
Ladybird Crafts and Activities
As a child, I remember singing “Ladybird ladybird fly away home your house is on fire and your children are…
Write Silly Space Sentences
For today’s Storybook Summer post we are writing and making up sentences all about Space – this is a great…
ABC’s and 123’s
As we finish this school year and head into the next you will have been told by your kid’s teachers…
Bear Paw Names
Simple and easy activities sometimes have the greatest effect with kids and if you can get it to match a…
Twas the Night Before Christmas Story Basket
There is absolutely nothing better than snuggling together as a family on Christmas Eve and reading Twas the Night Before…
High-Frequency Words Dino Babies Game
My eldest just clicked at reading. It was like one day he couldn’t do it and the next he was…
Pinkalicious Sand Tray for Pre-Writing Practice
My daughter has one colour that is her uttermost favourite in the world – Pink and discovering Pinkalicious by Victoria…
The Enormous Carrot Storytelling with Props
Summertime is one of my favorite times of the year. The fresh air, the beautiful flowers and of course all the…
Story Telling Wheel for the Snail and the Whale
Hi everyone, I’m so happy to be taking part in Storybook Summer. This week is all about oceans which immediately…
Using LEGO to divide Syllables
I don’t know about your kids but mine love LEGO – from the duplo that they collected as toddlers and…
Art and Science, Poem to Remember the Order of the Planets
Apart from animals my eldest’s second favourite topic is space, but he’s not really interested in aliens and sci-fi he…
A Messy Adventure – Interactive Roald Dahl Fun
If you know me in real life you will know that I really don’t like getting messy in my house,…
NonFiction Book Scavenger Hunt
We spend a lot of time reading story books with the kids and both of mine knew how you held…
Rocket Landings Word Families Game
Throughout schooling and life there is a point where something just clicks and we’ve reached that point in preschool with…
Upper and Lower Case Hat Match
We’re right in the middle of an explosion of understanding with my youngest – she’s grasping so many different concepts…
Pete the Cat – White Shoes literacy activities
Bring the book Pete the Cat; I love my White Shoes by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean to life for preschoolers by creating this simple literacy based activity for them, working on letter sounds, colours and name recognition as well as basic fine motor and scissor skills.