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Find It Series  by Highlights from Timberdoodle’s Tiny Tots Kit is a set of 4 puzzle books. Each page has 3 items that go with the theme for your child to find. What I found really neat is that the things you need to find are raised up a little bit from the page, so you can rub your finger along the page and feel the outline of what you are spotting. This is perfect for little ones. Not only will they get to see the items but also feel the book and get those motor skills goes. Since there are 4 books to this series you can rotate them and keep it interesting for younger kids. My daughter had a blast with these books. She was easily able to find each item in the books. Her favorite was the bedtime book; she said because it’s purple. Since they are not to big we’ll be able to take them on the go in case we go somewhere that our daughter would get bored. I like to keep them out when I do school with our oldest so that our youngest has something fun to look at and play...

We have found an amazing homeschool group in our area that does field trips at least 1-2 times a month and weekly play dates. Thanks to our group we’ve gone to the zoo, Sea Center Texas and strawberry picking so far. I am even scheduling a new field trip to the local equestrian center so all the kiddos can learn first hand how a barn operates and the care that goes into having horses. If you’re in a homeschool group, a good way to save money is buddy up with people who have memberships to where y’all are going. When we went to the zoo another mom got us in for free with her membership. Field trips don’t just have to be going to a place to learn about what they do. Homeschooling on the road can a mini field trip itself. Finishing up our first week of homeschooling this year we were actually at the beach. After completing school for the day our daughter got to go down to the shore for fishing, ocean views and sand castle building. Some fun field trip ideas are: Zoo B...

Decorate for Halloween with these super cute dolls. Price:      10$ each + shipping Choices: Witch Frankenstein Dracula Pumpkin Bat Zombie Cowboy Skeleton Ghost My items are intended for decoration purposes. Not intended for children or infants to play with as some parts can be a choking hazard.  This doll is handmade by me, Daisy Luckey, from a design and pattern by  AradiyaToys . 

It’s back-to-school for most of the kiddos in our area so I thought it would be good idea to let y’all know what we do for back-to-school. We actually school year round with each school year starting the first Monday of January. I have made some traditions because when I went to school I would get myself up, get myself breakfast and then head off to school. Even though I loved school getting myself ready and sending myself off wasn’t fun or exciting. We start off the first day of school with a big breakfast. I make a fritata, which is basically an open-faced omelet, adding in all of our daughter’s favorites. Green onions, spinach, tomatoes, bacon, cheese, cheese and some more cheese. Along with a big cup of chocolate milk. While she is still eating I set up all the items we’ll be using that day during school. For our curriculum we use Timberdoodle Co. Once breakfast and teeth brushing are done our daughter gets to choose what she would like to wear that day. PJs or regu...

Our daughter loves arts and crafts.  Djeco So Pop  is another amazing art project that she had a blast doing. I got it through Timberdoodle and it also comes with their PreK Curriculum Kit. The kit comes with 4 different projects and all the pieces you need to put them together. This particular kit came with little envelopes for each project that had sequence in them so I popped out each item for the projects and put them in the envelopes so everything would be ready go when do each one. Djeco also give you a glue stick so you can glue the pieces on the boards but I have found the glue they provide isn’t that great so instead we use hot glue. What I really like about Djeco art kits is that they give you a little booklet that shows where to put each piece on the boards. It shows you through pictures so if your child doesn’t read yet it’s not a problem. Easy for a young kid to follow and great for the parent because you don’t have to read a lengthy instruction book....

The book  What Do Grown-ups Do All Day?  came with our 2018-2019 Timberdoodle PreK Elite Kit. It goes through 14 different job sights and explains each job within them. The explanations aren’t to long so it’s easy for kids to grasp the concept of each job. Even though it only does 14 job locations it showcases different jobs for each place. For me there was a huge downside. The very first job sight is a school which I don’t mind but it never mentions that some families homeschool. As a homeschool mom I’d love it if this book also included this way of doing school. Since the book doesn’t mention homeschool I found a book called This is My Home This is My School by Johnathan Bean. To better explain that some families send their children to public school while others, like ours, do school at home. What I do like about What Do Grown-ups Do All Day? is seeing which job our daughter would like to do if she was on that job site. Or having a great one-on-one conversation about ...

Animals + Places  is great for building creative skills. Although, it shows you how to draw facial features and other things in different ways. It allows kids to draw them anyway they want. Some pages are blank to let the child get extremely creative by drawing whatever they please. It is however very repetitive either with “draw what’s missing” or just coloring. I wouldn’t say it’s a must have but it’s definitely fun for kids. Going to the doctor or somewhere that your kiddo would get bored then this would something fun to keep them occupied.