Category: Make and Play

Food Group Activities with Preschoolers

leslie February 9, 2019 4 Comments
What a week we have had!We started our new unit, Health and Fitness, from Mother Goose Time and have had a great time studying the 5 main food groups this week: Grains, Fruit, Vegetables, Protein, and Dairy.Here are some of our favorite activities we did this week.Grains DayMGT sent us new monthly manipulatives: shapes.We hid them in grains (rainbow rice) and dug out the pieces and matched them...

Preschool Culture Study: Jewelry

leslie January 20, 2019 2 Comments
Africa is an amazingly beautiful continent.  It is so rich in the beauty of its' people, their culture, and the animals and scenery of the land.It's not every month that you get to go on Safari, but that is just what my preschooler and I are doing through our preschool curriculum from Mother Goose Time.Last week I shared how to prepare to go on a safari, and this week we ventured into the...

Make and Play: Pellet Drum

leslie December 6, 2018 2 Comments
It's a new month, which means a new unit in our Homeschool Preschool from Mother Goose Time.This month we are studying Sights and Sounds with the first week focusing on the Orchestra."By exploring musical instruments, children hear sounds, tones and learn to communicate without words."-MGTToday we studied DRUMS, and it is the percussion instrument my one year old son knows full well and can play...

Airplane Launcher Craft

leslie November 28, 2018 2 Comments
We've been studying all things transportation this month in our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum, and today was AIRPLANES!I have to admit, when I first saw this Airplane Launcher Make and Play craft, I really wanted to skip it.  It just looked like a little more work for me than my preschooler, but we went ahead and dived in and I am SOOOO glad we did! Check out our...

Alphabet Delivery Truck

leslie November 27, 2018 0 Comments
November has been a rough month on the homeschool front.I am the Children's Director for our church and this month has been insanely busy as we have opened our new Children's area after a fire back in August. Not to mention the Thanksgiving holidays, my husband's 40th birthday, and planning my son's first birthday for December 1st.  Whew.... crazy....So when my friend needed a little...

Creating Caterpillar Patterns

leslie October 28, 2018 0 Comments
I don't know about you, but it has been raining ALL month long here. However we still have tons of fun when we are stuck indoors thanks to our preschool curriculum: Mother Goose Time.  We've looked at all the parts of a tree including the trunk, roots, and branches, but on this particular day, we studied LEAVES.Our day began with the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.In...

Pine Cone Bird Feeder

leslie July 24, 2018 0 Comments
 We are Nature Detectives for the month of July.Our preschool curriculum from Mother Goose Time had a whole week devoted to trees: Climbing Tress, Building with Trees, Painting Trees, Counting in Trees, and Writing with Trees.On our Building with Trees day, we built a bird feeder from a tree part- a pine cone!We've made pine cone bird feeders before, but this one was the best one...

Preschoolers and Pets

leslie June 30, 2018 0 Comments
About 2 months ago, we adopted a Golden Retriever named Bailey.Our last golden, Peyton, passed away on August 22, 2017.  He was 12.5 years old. It was so hard.  Especially having to explain to our girl what happened.  She still remember him and talks about him.  However, we remind her that Peyton is with Jesus and Jesus has healed him.Now we have Bailey, who absolutely...

Animal Homes: Spider Webs

leslie June 15, 2018 0 Comments
I love preschool!So much wonder and excitement about all the things I take for granted.Seeing life through the eyes of a child truly is a gift.My almost 4 year old decided she wanted to learn about WEBS from our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum yesterday and we had a blast!I find that she stays engaged longer if I let her choose what she wants to learn about from a limited amount of choices...

Castles, Crowns, and Coloring, Oh My!

leslie June 14, 2018 0 Comments
This month is Vacation Bible School month.That means, as the VBS Director, my life is super crazy right now.  I am hoping to share a few tips on how to help with that in a future post, so if you are involved with your VBS please stay tuned to the blog. :)However, in all the chaos of creating things for the church, I am so thankful for our Mother Goose Time (preschool curriculum)...