Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

The easiest recipe for beautiful, food-safe rice to fill your little one’s sensory bin!

Read Aloud Book Recommendation: Elephant & Piggie Series

Read Aloud Book Recommendation: Elephant & Piggie Series

Gerald and Piggie are best friends, and they’re about to be best friends with your young reader, too!

Static Electricity — Some Very Attractive Activities!

Static Electricity — Some Very Attractive Activities!

Your littles will go bananas for these static electricity activities! Pure magic!

Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Recently, some friends of ours gave our kids a box of over 1000 stickers. As much as I enjoy scraping stickers off my hardwood floors, we decided to use them a bit more productively instead! Check out this fun and simple method for tracking and encouraging your preschooler’s progress!

Rainbow Rain

Rainbow Rain

Another great science activity — quick and easy demonstration you can do with items you already have around your house.

Reading 101: Sight Words

Reading 101: Sight Words

Today we’re sharing a wonderful resource for teaching reading! Even if you already have a curriculum, this site has a treasure trove of games and activities that will complement any program.

Big A, little a: Learning Letters for Toddlers

Big A, little a: Learning Letters for Toddlers

Learning letters with our squirmy worm two-year-old! Some strategies to try with an active little one.

Play This, Skip That: Free Math Apps

Play This, Skip That: Free Math Apps

As a math and technology teacher, I love using digital resources to help kids engage with math topics.  Unfortunately, there is a veritable sea of math apps available, and most of them are absolute swill. Learn from my mistakes and check

FREE Interactive 100-Chart

So many ways to use a 100-chart for math! This interactive digital version is intuitive and fun to use!

FREE Digital Manipulatives from Math Learning Center

Some of my favorite FREE digital resources for math work. Don’t waste your time or money with paid, lower-quality competitors.