Homemade Valentine’s Day crafts for kids. Here are three: the toilet paper heart card craft we did, and the Whoppee cushion and crayon heart that we received.
Month: January 2014
90 Second Newbery Film Festival 2014!
With Newbery season upon us, it’s also time for the 3rd annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. It’s a video contest in which kid filmmakers create movies that tell the stories of Newbery award-winning books in 90 seconds or less. These movies are funny, ingenious, and impressive! (Curious? We’ve gathered 25 of some of the best entries here, from a shadow-puppet version of Grace…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Celebrating Diversity in Children’s Literature
Valarie from Jump Into a Book and I welcome to you Multicultural Children’s Book Day! We have a wonderful group of bloggers who are posting today!! 2GirlsLostInaBook · 365 Days of Motherhood · A Bilingual Baby · A Library Mama · A Simple Life, Really? · Africa to America · After School for Smarty Pants · All Done Monkey · Andi’s Kids Books · Anita Brown Bag · Austin…
From Trash to Fine Art: Upcycled Plastic Sculptures
Turning trash into art is my kind of recycling! We saw these pieces of marine animals made out of recycled plastic at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (where we also loved the jellyfish and seahorse exhibits). Sayaka Gantz made these sculptures out of reclaimed materials that might have otherwise been polluting the ocean. Both sides of her…
I’m Joining Kid Lit Blog Hop as a Hostess!
I’m so excited to be joining Kid Lit Blog Hop as a co-hostess. It’s one of my very favorite blog hops! Welcome to the 31st Kid Lit Blog Hop where twice per month (the 1st and 3rd Wednesday) we continue to develop a dynamic and engaged community of children’s books bloggers, authors, publishers, and publicists….
Get Kids Reading Strategies: 12 Surefire Ways
I searched five years of digital photographs looking for photos of my kids reading and I only came up with the handful here. Why? It’s not easy getting kids reading, especially to love reading enough that they choose it over more exciting things like screens, playdates or sports! I started my blog after my oldest…
10 Perfect Read Aloud Books for 3rd Grade
Looking for books for your third grader? Take a look at these top 3rd grade read aloud books, including chapter books, picture books and mysteries! I had the great fortune to meet The Nerdy Book Club founders at a dinner for Anne Ursu hosted by Walden Pond Press to celebrate her latest chapter book, The Real…