Ever wanted to cheer someone up with a thoughtful, original idea, but had no idea what that idea should be?  Have no fear – have some FUN and create a candy bar message for your friend or loved one! Here’s how to do it: STEP ONE: Go to the grocery store and buy candy bars… [...]

I’ll be honest.  There’s one thing I don’t like about preschool: Prep Time. And if I had to survey 100 preschool or child care teachers I bet they’d agree: Prepping for preschool takes too much of our time, and we’d rather spend it with our families. So what does preschool prep time include?  It includes [...]

If you want your preschoolers to paint some shirts for a special activity, parade, or field trip, then follow these fun tips for your child to learn to paint on shirts. Tweet

If you like bugs as much as me, then you and your preschoolers will love this preschool bugs activity to do with your preschool bugs lesson plan! Tweet

Want an insider’s peek into my preschool?  Check out this video we took during Mother’s Day Week this year.  The preschool class was so excited to do a flower arts and crafts project!  They used silk flowers to create a flower bouquet for their mothers (and fathers!)  I’m sure their parents were thrilled to receive [...]

To get every child excited about space and astronauts, try some of these activities. Create an astronaut dress up area.  Include helmets made out of milk jugs or 5 gallon ice cream buckets and foil, moon boots or sponges and rubber bands to strap on feet, backpacks, and 2 liter bottles stuck together with straps [...]

Make your astronaut theme come to life with these fun preschool activities: Put various glow in the dark stars, planets, comets, etc… in a box for children to sort. Spray paint a shoe box and its lid black.  Cut a small hole (about the size of a dime) in the lid.  Set it by the glow in [...]