Letters From the Homefront

Months ago, when I began making free printables for personal use and sharing on the blog, I made a few for Fall/Thanksgiving time.  Thanksgiving Puzzles Cornucopia (with miniature fruit pieces to cut and glue inside the 'horn of plenty') These can be found on my  FREE PRINTABLES  page. These have yet to be printed off, and may be something we use for Thanksgiving day while visiting family, so they can have something to keep their little hands busy while giving my husband and I a chance to enjoy ourselves as well :) One that I have printed off and put on the shelves so far, though, is our 'What's In The Pie?' printable! I have a fun, simple printable for you today!!!! These cards are approximately 5 1/2 inches in width, 3 1/2 inches in height.  I altered the way it looks for the post, but in actuality, it's going to print out like this: with four cards to a page.  The set contains six different types of p...

Now that our color study is over, we are moving on to some loose learning of shapes. I am hoping to purchase a good, albeit inexpensive, set of geometry solids here soon, and will be going over them again with him - for a good sensorial lesson on the solid shape. Since Valentine's Day was right around the corner, we started on hearts! I have two weeks worth of Valentine's/Heart trays to share, and then will show them in action. Week 1 - The Heart Matching heart shaped cookie cutters to traced, laminated cards. A great lesson for Big , Medium ,  and Small . Clipping Clothespins I made these last year, and put them in a glass heart shaped bowl. This was a favorite! (and yes, he did clip them on his fingertips more times than I can count - he's still a boy!) Sticker tray This was post play - the original tray had blank paper where the used paper is now, and sticker sheets cut in half (to fit) in the bowl. I found the stickers at Walmart last year,...

                 *LINKING UP TO TOT SCHOOL GATHERING PLACE* Seeing as how these are such 'girl colors' (yes, in our house, they are still girl colors! We have enough girls that we have never had to tell our boys that they are girl colors - they figured it out on their own!), I wasn't sure how much Buddy was going to enjoy these colors. In fact, oddly enough, I had the least of all for these colors, I think. I had a little of this, and a little of that, but nothing that screamed out for much creative genius in tot trays. So we went a little simple with the ideas - things that were easy to put together, which is a good thing since life seems to be extremely busy for us here lately. Here are the trays: Pink and Purple Sorting Pink and Purple One-To-One correspondence - hand transfer Pink and Purple puzzles: Purple Grapes and a Pink and Purple Elephant Pink and Purple Sensory Bucket: Pink Scoop - Target Dollar Sp...