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Featured Preschool Decorating Ideas
Custom Tea Tray
The next time your preschooler wants to have a tea party, why not serve it on your own custom tea tray? This tray is easy to make, using decoupage and photocopied images from your preschooler’s favorite storybook. You can even create a tray to match the theme in your preschooler’s bedroom, by using leftover wallpaper. Make snack time extra special for you and your preschooler!
Rooms That Grow With Your Preschooler
Are you getting ready to decorate your preschooler’s bedroom? Thomas the Tank Engine and Barbie won’t always be the ideal theme for your preschooler’s bedroom. Instead of redoing your preschooler’s bedroom as he grows, try using some of these simple techniques to create a bedroom that will grow with your preschooler.
Chalkboard Window
An easy and inexpensive project for your preschooler’s bedroom or playroom is a chalkboard made from a recycled window frame. If you don’t have an old window frame handy, don’t despair. Chalkboard paint is so versatile, you can apply it to almost any surface, from plastered walls to closet doors. Let your preschooler’s imagination run wild with their very own chalkboard!
Featured Potty Training Articles
Six Potty Training Travel Tips
Most potty training “gurus” would agree that successful potty training requires consistency. Where does that leave a family on-the-go? Discover great tips, advice, and products to help you succeed in potty training your child while maintaining your busy lifestyle.
Potty Training Your Preschooler
Preschool parents share their success stories and confirm you’re not the only one who has nightmares of your kid being the one teenager on the block still in diapers. If you think you’ll be changing diapers forever, this article’s for you.
Potty Training Rewards 101
Watching your preschooler grow and learn new skills is always wonderful. One of the biggest milestones in your child’s life is potty training. Need some quick ideas for rewarding your preschooler’s potty training efforts? Read this article to get ideas for recognizing a job well done.
Getting Ready for School
Making Sense of your Preschool Options
Choosing a preschool program for your preschooler can be overwhelming. Understanding all of your options can help you to make the best choice for your preschooler’s individual needs.
Is Your Preschooler Ready for Kindergarten?
Are you wondering if your child is ready for kindergarten? Has your child finished or is close to finishing preschool, but you’re unsure whether they are ready for kindergarten? Kindergarten readiness is not something that just comes with attending preschool. Kindergarten requires certain skills. Does your child have the skills for kindergarten? Is your preschooler ready for kindergarten? Take the kindergarten readiness quiz to find out.
Featured Preschool Crafts
Preschool Caterpillar Beanbag
Turn a plain tube or knee sock into an adorable and fun preschool spring toy! Even the youngest preschooler can help out with this simple Preschool Spring Craft. Using dried beans, an old sock, and rubber bands, you and your preschooler can create this funny, floppy homemade caterpillar toy.
Preschool Flower Photo Magnet
What’s a refrigerator without precious handmade magnets from your preschooler? Pastel and perfect for spring, this quick and simple preschool spring craft allow your preschooler to display his/her photo with pride on your refrigerator.
Preschool Spring Sunshine Purse
A cute and bright spring craft, the Preschool Spring Sunshine Purse makes a fun little dress-up item for any little girl. Using just a few simple materials, this sunny purse is inexpensive and fun to make.
Featured Preschool Education Articles
Coping with Separation Anxiety at Preschool
It is common for your preschool to experience separation anxiety when they are dropped off at preschool. Dealing with a preschooler who does not want to leave your side can be difficult. If you are consistent they can learn to trust their new preschool environment and their new preschool teacher.
Preschool Circle Time Routines
Get the most out of your circle time activities by creating a routine that holds your preschooler’s attention and helps them to learn basic preschool skills. An effective preschool circle time needs to stay fairly short and engage preschoolers in lively conversation.
Featured Homeschooling Articles
Discovering Your Preschooler’s Learning Style
One of the advantages of homeschooling is the ability to create a learning environment that suits the individual needs of your child. This article discusses the ways that people learn and how you can choose a curriculum with this in mind.
The Homeschool Decision
Asking yourself some basic questions can help you uncover your goals and motives for you to make the homeschool decisions that are right for your family.
The Homeschool Community
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or go it alone. Check out the amazing support available to homeschooling families based on a shared philosophy, religious affiliation, and location.
Featured Preschool Book
Rattletrap Car
Written by Phyllis Root
“Poppa turned the key, brum, brum, brum, brum. Clinkety clankety bing bang pop! They were off to the lake in their rattletrap car. They didn’t go fast and they didn’t go far when…” Will Poppa and his kids make it to the lake in their rattletrap car? This adventurous trip to the lake may require a little ingenuity and tasty food to get them there!
Science facts for Kids
scifacts.net is a great source for fun science facts for kids. With entertaining, Learn interesting earth facts, amazing chemistry facts, cool space facts, funny facts about animals, articles about dinosaurs like the liopleurodon, planets, weather miracles like the eye of a hurricane, Science Facts For Kids is the most interesting compilation of facts about science and planets for kids. We hope you enjoy and have fun exploring the website.
Children love to explore the natural world. They love to make sense of it. By the fourth grade, we squash that curiosity with the way we teach science. We wish to hear from you. Please email us with details of how you have used Kids and Science products in your Home or in instructional situations… We welcome any suggestions. Please let us know of any kind of educational materials you would like for us to carry, and we will try to add it to our product line.