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Bubbles are always a favorite with kids but can get costly if you continually purchase them. I’ve given you a very frugal recipe for bubbles and some educational applications. They may seem a little far fetched but teachers are notorious for being able to make anything educational! 🙂

Bubble Recipe:
4 cups water
1 cup dishwashing liquid (I used generic and it worked just fine)
1/4 cup corn syrup

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and have some fun!

Educational Applications:
1. Using pipe cleaners, create various shapes (circles, triangles, etc-we did a heart) to help your child learn or review shapes. Use the pipe cleaners as bubble wands.
2. While measuring out the ingredients, discuss measurements and fractions (i.e. 1/4 cup ).
3. Talk about the steps you completed to make the bubbles and write them down on separate sheets of paper (gather the ingredients, measure each ingredient, combine the ingredients, gather/make bubble wands, play with the bubbles, clean up). Mix the steps up and have your child sequence them.
4. Have your child observe the colors in the bubbles and let them draw/color what they observe.
5. While playing with the bubbles, review beginning sounds with your child (b for bubble, p for pop, etc).
Bubbles can also be used to teach eye contact, turn taking, and a variety of other social and language development skills.

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We’ve been having some table manners issues with Will lately so this week I came up with a craft that is geared towards improving this behavior. I have included educational modifications at the bottom of the post.

Materials:
1 toilet paper roll
1 paper plate
Various colors of construction paper ( or 1 color based on your preference)
tape or glue
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St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner so how could I not dedicate this week’s craft to such a fun holiday?!

Pot of Gold Learning

Materials:
empty butter container (or yogurt, sour cream,etc)
yellow construction paper
glitter and glue
black construction paper (or whatever color you would like your pot of gold to be)

Directions:
1. Use the yellow construction paper to make circles that will be your “gold coins”. Ensure you make them big enough to write on.
2. Label the “coins” with your desired learning topic (there is a list of ideas below). I labeled mine with some of the 100 high frequency words, Will’s name, and sets of shapes.
3. Cut the black construction paper to fit around the container. Cover it with glue and sprinkle glitter all over it. Definitely have your child help with this-they will love it!
4. Glue the glitter covered paper around the butter container, put your “coins” inside, and you have a pot of gold! Allow your child to reach in and pull out their golden nuggets of learning!

Educational Ideas for your “coins”
-Word names for numbers (one, two, three, etc). Have your child identify them.
-Math symbols ($,+,-, etc). Have your child tell you what function they perform (add, subtract,etc).
-Pictures of objects found in the past and present times. Have your child tell you when they are from.
-Shapes and have your child identify them.
-Upper and lowecase alphabet letters.
-Rhyming words and have your child match them.
-Pictures of solids, liquids, and gases and have your child ID them.
-Pictures of coins or bills and have your child ID them.

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If you go into any drug store or dollar store, you are sure to see tons of Easter decor out and about, especially the ever popular plastic Easter eggs! If you’re like me, you keep them to reuse every year so you probably don’t need to buy more. I thought it was a good time to give some learning activities you can do with the eggs. The kids I used to teach always loved them!

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