Halloween Simple Cut and Paste Paper Crafts

Hello there! I'm thrilled to announce our new series called "Holiday Cut & Paste Paper Crafts" in our shop! This is a simple and easy-to-prepare craft that only requires basic crafting materials. It's perfect for teachers, homeschoolers, and working parents who want to do crafty things with their kids with less prep and mess!

This bundle includes 8 holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July, and Back to School.

Today, I'm featuring the Halloween set that I'm sure you and your kids will love! This set includes 8 templates that make a great project for preschool and kindergarten kids. It's a simple cut-and-paste paper craft that's fun and easy for young children.

Easter Learning Trays for Toddlers

Sharing Max's activity trays for Easter. He is currently 32 months old.

Easter Religious Preschool Unit

Presenting our Easter Religious Preschool Unit! 

Playdough Mats - Fun Play and a Lifetime Access!

Do you love playdough mats? We are obviously big fans of playdough and the DIY picture mats that go along with it! Through the years of making these playdough mats for my kids (incorporated in my thematic units), I have been receiving requests from followers to produce a "just the mats" printable file. So I finally gave in to the requests and created a LIFETIME ACCESS to our playdough mats collection.

Playdough mats are so much fun!! Use these for hands-on learning and for your fine motor skills activities. Roll, cut and form the pictures on the mats using playdough and trace the words for your vocabulary skills. Use these in any of your center and thematic activities.

Bible Stories Story Sequencing and Activity Sets

If you have been a follower of my blog for a long time, you know that we do lots of Bible stories activities during Lent. I posted the links below of our past Bible activities in observance of Lent. This year, since we've been doing the Story of Easter and Death of Christ for years, I decided to explore other favourite stories of mine as a child with the kids. Read on below to know more about how we use our learning materials at home.

Easter Story Sequencing - Observance of Holy Week

What does the Easter times mean to you? Growing up, our Holy Week and Easter is focused more on the religious side... reflecting on the life and story of Jesus. If you grow up in the Philippines like me, we don't do Easter bunnies and Easter baskets (this is too much for such a poor country, I guess).  But we do have Easter egg hunts. I remember we often do this right after the Easter mass in the church's backyard.  Our version of Easter eggs are not made of chocolates but decorated boiled eggs. 

Anyway, I want to expose my kids to the religious tradition and practices that we observed back in my country home.  We've done lots of religious works for the past years. You can read about it here and here.  This year, I wanted to focus on Jesus, the many miracles he made and how he has touched the people's lives.  In this post, though, I'm highlighting how we worked on the last days of Jesus that led to his death.

Easter Preschool and Kindergarten Mini Unit

New addition to our best-selling centres' activities... the EASTER PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN MINI UNIT!!! Like its predecessors, it got loads of printable activities that your kids will definitely love! This mini-unit has a combined thematic theme: easter chick, bunny and religious activities.

Geoboard Draw and Color Game

Geoboard Draw and Color series is our brand new fine motor skills printable and it's a fun twist to the traditional Geoboards activities. In this printable, the child will try to draw the figure/pattern on the blank "Geoboard" using the dots as guide and then color. This material enhances visual motor kills, visual perception, handwriting practice, and concentration.

The Story of Christmas - Sequencing Activity

Earlier today, Vito and I spent a delightful time creating our Nativity Sequencing Story to celebrate Advent. In the past few days, we have been reading various books on the Christmas story, and today, we worked on some extension activities to practice some skills that I will mention below.

FREE Christmas Themed Printable Materials

For the month of December and for celebrating Christmas, I am happy to share these printable learning materials for you to enjoy and use in your homes and schools this holiday season!  Be sure to subscribe and sign up for our newsletter to be able to get access to these files.  And if you are a subscriber already, be sure to check on your emails for the new member's access code!

Easter Eggs Letter and Number Cards

Our Easter Egg Letter and Number Cards set is now up in our shop, ready for you to enjoy and use in your thematic activities this Lent and Easter season!

Bible Stories Sequencing Activity Cards

We love telling and hearing Bible stories at home!  Especially in this season of Lent and as preparation for the upcoming Easter celebration.

Montessori Inspired Dinosaur Activity Trays for Preschoolers

This is a long overdue post because we’ve been doing a lot of outdoor activities lately.  Most kids are really fascinated with dinosaurs, especially my eldest who’s obsessed with these prehistoric animals.  So last Easter break, we revisited some of our dinosaur activities and introduced new ones to Vito.  Here’s a roundup of our dinosaur activities which both of the kids enjoyed during the break and I hope your kids will love this too.

Montessori Inspired April Activities for Preschoolers

I am so excited to share our April activities!    We will be revisiting some activities we did in the past, and there are new ones too!  I only prepared a few activities for April because (1) we still have to work on Earth Science activity trays (2) it’s Mavi’s Easter vacation so Vito would probably prefer to play with his brother than “home” school with Mommy and lastly (3) weather permits, we’ll be spending most of our days outdoors or do some field trips here or there.  Anyway, just to be sure that I have something for Vito to work on in case we needed to stay home, here are some preschool activities for him!

Exploring the Landmarks of the World

Our recent trip to the United States has reignited Mavi’s interest in geography, and he asked me if he could review our landmarks of the world figures to check the places he has already visited.

Bird Theme List of Materials

Spring Themed Activities for Toddlers and {Learn & Play Link Up}

In this week’s featured posts, I would like to focus on spring activities for toddlers.  Vito is in the peak of learning as he always asks for something to “play”.  These amazing posts from featured bloggers will truly inspire you.

Faith Formation Books

Aside from The Bible, do you have favourite books to read with kids that tells about Jesus (if you are a Christian) and Godly stories?

Lent In Our Home

My son attends a Catholic school so he knows all our religion’s celebrations and traditions.  I was  raised in a Catholic family and during Lent we do a lot of religious activities at home like processions, daily prayers, participating in the Stations of the Cross, novenas, watching religious films in the church and attending mass and more.  I wanted my kids to experience this to understand the meaning of Lent and why we celebrate Easter. So I decided to start a simple Lenten tradition in our home, to focus on Jesus, prayer, meditation and sacrifice.

 

Learning Activities for 28 Months Toddler

These are the activities designed for Vito for this month as we are celebrating springtime integrating St. Patrick’s Day and Easter.  Materials used are provided below for your reference.