The possibilities for using these free blank alphabet booklet printables are limitless! Make collages, draw pictures, use for copywork – how fun!
Category: Early Learning
Pond Life Play Scene Idea
I love this play scene idea, it has so many educational possibilities! Creating a play scene like this and slowly building upon it as you learn more about pond life would make a great unit study. It would also make a fun way to use items found on nature walks and during nature study. As children manipulate and play with the various parts of the play scene, scientific learning can be easily reinforced. This is something that would be both easy to make and store.
Source: oneperfectdayblog.net via Ann on Pinterest
The source links above will take you to the original blog where you can learn more about this fun idea!
Freebie Find – Sight Word Practice Printable
Source: teachmama.com via Ann on Pinterest
Click on the links or the image to get this great free printable!
Motivation Monday
“Children need to have religion made attractive, not repulsive. The hour of family worship should be made the happiest hour of the day. Let the reading of the Scriptures be well chosen and simple; let the children join in singing; and let the prayers be short, and right to the point.”
The Missionary Magazine – March 1, 1898
Nature Study Week ~ Craft Ideas
Creative play ideas that incorporate nature study abound all over the internet. Here are a few links to get you started. Click on the source link below each picture to go directly to each site.
Objects found on a nature walk become nature-based crafts.
Source: momenttomomentdk.blogspot.com
15 Crafts Inspired by the Great Outdoors
Source: blogs.babble.com
Craft Idea for Toddlers
Source: familyfun.go.com
Make a Bug!
Source: fun-stuff-to-do.com
33 Nature Art, Craft and Play Ideas for Kids
Source: artfulparent.com
Inspiration For Toddler Activity Bags
Looking for ideas for activity bags/boxes for the toddler/preschool set? Here are a few ideas gleaned from Pinterest that I’m sure will inspire you to create hours of new learning experiences for your children. Follow the source links at the bottom of each picture to learn more about each idea.
Busy Board – hands-on fun while improving fine motor skills.
Source: countingcoconuts.blogspot.com
Shape Sorting – inexpensive stickers can provide hours of productive fun
Twenty-Five Activity Ideas – includes a printable master supply list
Source: passionatehomemaking.com
Motivation Monday
The mother should be the teacher, and home the school where every child receives his first lessons; and these lessons should include habits of industry. Mothers, let the little ones play in the open air; let them listen to the songs of the birds and learn the love of God as 
expressed in His beautiful works. Teach them simple lessons from the book of nature and the things about them; and as their minds expand, lessons from books may be added and firmly fixed in the memory. But let them also learn, even in their earliest years, to be useful. Train them to think that, as members of the household, they are to act an interested, helpful part in sharing the domestic burdens, and to seek healthful exercise in the performance of necessary home duties.
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 416, 417.
The Adventist Home Educator 