Welcome to our ice unit! Over five days we’re exploring ice through sensory play, science, art, and storytelling. Five days of ice activities NurtureStore hosts regular themed weeks of creative learning activities, giving you ideas, lesson plans, and printables all year round. This week our focus is on ice: how to make it, how […]
Is your preschooler working on their scissor skills? Make this spaghetti cutting bin! A fun and easy way to practice using scissors. A life skills activity.
As part of Earth Day, we are learning about the 3 R's, reduce, reuse and recycle and so we wanted to share with you this Free Recycling Sort. It's an easy and engaging activity for the kids to help them understand the concept of sorting. We actually used the free printable in 3 different ways in the classroom.
Welcome to our ice unit! Over five days we’re exploring ice through sensory play, science, art, and storytelling. Five days of ice activities NurtureStore hosts regular themed weeks of creative learning activities, giving you ideas, lesson plans, and printables all year round. This week our focus is on ice: how to make it, how […]
My boys LOVE pirates, and the Tuff Tray is the perfect place to set up some great small world scenes and activities to explore. Below we show 7 of our favourite activities: Digging for treasure, Pi…
For Virtual Book Club for Kids this October we are spotlighting Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney! This week we hosted a pajama party themed preschool book club and had so much fun reading
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
My boys LOVE pirates, and the Tuff Tray is the perfect place to set up some great small world scenes and activities to explore. Below we show 7 of our favourite activities: Digging for treasure, Pi…
Egg box flowers are so simple, and yet so beautiful. Once made, the flowers can be used in a variety of ways. Find out below how we made ours and what you can do with them.
Welcome to Day 13 of 31 Days of Backyard Nature Fun, a month-long series offering simple ways to get outside exploring the natural world. To catch up on what we’ve been up to, you might want to head here. You know those days when the kids are itching to run around, hop, jump, skip or […]
My boys LOVE pirates, and the Tuff Tray is the perfect place to set up some great small world scenes and activities to explore. Below we show 7 of our favourite activities: Digging for treasure, Pi…
Fairies are a popular theme. We love tuff tray play ideas. Our tuff tray gets used for a variety of activities and themes. This time is was small world play with fairies and our recycled cardboard …
Ideas for Chinese crafts for kids at Chinese New Year, including Cherry Blossom inspired Chinese fans, Painting with coin printing and more.
My little ones and I have been having a blast together! We are loving and learning like crazy. I always start the first few weeks with a TON of bonding activities to help students get to know each other and form loving relationships. The classroom climate is THE most important thing to focus on (in my opinion) to have a successful year together! Teaching my kiddos to have empathy and treat one another with kindness and respect is first thing! When I saw this perfect idea on Cara's wonderful blog "The First Grade Parade", I knew I had to make it my own and do it with my tiny tots. We began by reading the story Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. I explained that we were going to read a story that shows how very important it is to treat one another with love and kindness. I held up a large heart cut-out and explained that each of us has a heart and our heart's hold all of the good feelings and love that we have. We were pretending that the heart was Chrysanthemum's heart. As we read the story, the kid's passed it around and every time someone said something hurtful to Chrysanthemum, we crumbled her heart a little more. This showed how our hearts are feeling when we get our feelings hurt. At the end of the story, the other characters say much nicer things to Chrysanthemum. The littles tried to smoother her heart back out now that she was getting some love back, but the damage was done and they quickly noticed that her heart did not look perfect. They realized that it is quite hard to fix a wrinkled heart, no matter how hard they tried! The moral of the activity was that the words they say to each other can leave hearts feeling sad long after we say them. We worked to heal her heart by bandaging it up! We glued the cute poem in the center as a reminder to choose our words carefully. I also made little bracelets for them to wear! I used strips of black construction paper as the bands :) We hung up the heart in our room as a reminder! You can download the heart poem and bracelets for FREE by clicking below! Hope you are having a relaxing weekend :) XO
ice art sculptures: combining messy play, creative art and science experiments all in one colourful kids activity.
Make learning fun with the Lottie set of printable nine times tables charts. Download this FREE printable 10 Times Table Chart for kids!
My boys LOVE pirates, and the Tuff Tray is the perfect place to set up some great small world scenes and activities to explore. Below we show 7 of our favourite activities: Digging for treasure, Pi…
Lily & Lottie brand by Lauriebelles.These Essential Shorts by Lily & Lottie offer a comfortable and relaxed fit with a thick elastic waistband and adjustable drawstrings. Perfect for any activity, these shorts also feature a cozy fleece interior for added warmth. Stay stylish and comfortable all day long with these must-have shorts.Materials: 85% cotton 15% PolyesterInseam: 4” | Rise: 13"Small: Waist: 27"Medium: Waist: 28"Large: Waist: 30"Curvy Measurements:Inseam: 4.5" | Rise: 14"XL: Waist: 32"2XL: Waist: 33"How we measure: Waist: Measures the circumference of the hem while laying flat.
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
Here's a fun home-made game you can play in the winter - perfect for the Winter Olympics too! It's also an excellent game for asthmatic children, encouraging them to blow out steadily.
Tons of fun & simple activities for Pioneer Day including pioneer games, food ideas, books & movies to celebrate Pioneers.
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
Teach children the important job bees do and ways we can work together to help protect and look after them, through fun, play activities.
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!
Make Homemade Moon Sand Recipe the Taste Safe way for toddlers to provide a fun and easy sensory activity for anytime of the year.
Today I'm sharing how to make an adorable tin can windsock! It would be a cute decoration for the 4th of July! First, rinse out a tin can. Then spray paint it blue. At first,
These Harry Potter printable coloring pages are perfect for parties, movie nights or just a fun way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy day!