Spring is sprung! At least as far as I’m concerned. The weather has been wonderful. Little B has been getting outside, digging in dirt, playing chef with a bucket of water, stick for ladle, bits of nature as ingredients, jumping in the trampoline, doodling with sidewalk chalk.
She has also been doing some fun activities indoors related to spring, flowers, animal babies, and life cycles. I think we’ll keep at those themes for the next couple of weeks as there is just so much to explore.
I like to get some crafts ready to go in bags so she can do them whenever she wants. It is really helpful to have a variety of activities prepared ahead of time for school time. Little B made a rainy window, paper daffodils, and handprint Easter Lily crafts with a little help from me.
I cut and colored this rainbow craft and Little B glued the parts together. It is hanging up beside the butterfly life cycle mobile.
We played memory match with these very cute cards from Mr. Printables.
Little B really liked playing this cooperative game from Family Pastimes. You plant the garden, then harvest it by taking turns rolling a die as the seasons change. Hopefully you have all your crops harvested before winter, if not you can always try again next year!
We played this cute animal baby and mommy memory match game.
I helped her make this poster about what flowers need.
I made some printables for her to play shop. You can find them here for free. There is a register mat/money sorting mat, two styles of price tags, play money, addition mat, money reference chart, shop signs, and some more.
Little B helped start a mini terrarium in a jar. All three kids started some seeds in wet paper towels in cups. When they sprout we’ll transfer them to the clear root view planter. Little B picked peas to start. She also put some beans to soak in water for dissecting later this week.
Little B’s workboxes for the week, thistle blocks, peg board shapes, sequencing cards, lacing beads, kumon workbook activities, and animal snaps cards.
I made colored salt for the kids to make art and play with. You can find instructions here.
You can use the colored salt for a fun prewriting activity. Little B wasn’t interested. I used to make this for the big kids when they were younger. Ds really liked drawing letters in the salt with his finger.
Little B using her hands to mix, mound, and spread the salt. She really had fun with this. I saved the leftover salt in a gallon bag and she requested to play with it again the next day.
Loving Lit and Learning 
What a great schoolroom ! Love the paper flowers 🙂
Thanks! 🙂