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How to Make a Cootie Catcher: Easy Instructions and Learning Ideas for Kids

Tanya — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:00:26 +0000

Cootie catchers are one of those classic childhood activities that never seem to go out of style.

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How Dolls Support Creative Learning in Homeschool and Montessori Environments

Tanya — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:29:55 +0000

In homeschool and Montessori settings, where play-based learning is central, dolls support the development of social-emotional skills, fine motor coordination, language, and creativity through self-directed activities.

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Homeschooling STEM: Hands-On Electrical Projects for Kids

Tanya — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:01:50 +0000

Electrical projects are a great way to help kids learn basic concepts. This is because they offer a chance to explore scientific ideas while having fun.

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Educational Benefits Of Jigsaw Puzzles

Tanya — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:41:58 +0000

Jigsaw puzzles are a valuable educational tool that can significantly enhance learning outcomes for homeschoolers.

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Inspired by Montessori Curriculum for Toddlers PDF (225 pages)

Tanya — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:50:00 +0000

Let’s be completely honest for a minute, guys, in regards to the best Montessori curriculum for toddlers PDF. I think we can all agree that homeschooling a toddler or having a toddler at home while we homeschool our older kids can be as easy or as daunting as you want it to be. Regardless onContinue Reading

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The Best Gift Guide Light Table for Kids

Tanya — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:18:00 +0000

Light tables can be used for anything! Hands-on light table ideas galore float through my head non-stop whenever I think about a lesson.

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Preschool Cutting Practice with 3 Pairs of Scissors – Part 2

Tanya — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:19:00 +0000

In this article, we will cover some cutting practice activities that preschoolers can do with 3 pairs of scissors: blunt blade scissors, training scissors and advanced decorative pattern scissors.

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Physical Education Homeschool Curriculum for Kids [Video]

Tanya — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:48:00 +0000

Come learn how to incorporate a great physical education homeschool curriculum into your home education! You are a busy homeschool mom, I get it! It is hard trying to stay on top of everything when it comes to homeschooling, keeping up with the home and more. And on top of all of the core homeschoolContinue Reading

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Preschool Cutting Practice with 3 Scissors – Part 1

Tanya — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:01:29 +0000

What are the best scissors to start preschool cutting practice? There are some that help children be more successful as they practice their fine motor skills.

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Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers

Tanya — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:04:00 +0000

Let’s focus on fine motor skills in this post. Fine motor skills for preschoolers is so much more than just play. It is a great repetitive practice for pre-writing skills, for developing finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination and even for the ability to operate everyday tasks (now and for the rest of their lives). As you canContinue Reading

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Montessori Geography: Continent & World Maps for Lacing

Tanya — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:09:48 +0000

Children learn Montessori Geography in many different ways. But did you know that you can mix and match Montessori subjects to maximize learning? That is RIGHT! In this post, we will be talking about a way to learn about Montessori Geography, in this case, the continents of the world and at the same time, learnContinue Reading

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Famous Artists for Kids – 30-page Printable Bundle

Tanya — Fri, 15 May 2020 18:14:49 +0000

What do you do when your children are in an arty mood? Do you include them in Art History studies or just let them do inspired Work? Come and get these 10 famous children’s artists projects! It’s a nice 30-page package which is ideal for kids to learn about 10 great artists for young children. Come and check out our famous artists for kids – printable activities bundle! Famous Artist Projects for Kids Teaching Art just got a lot easier! Here are 10 great children’s art projects that are artist inspired Art! You can start is as early asContinue Reading

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Free Printable Dinosaur Games and Activities for Kids

Tanya — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:08:08 +0000

Whether you are looking for printable dinosaur games that use dice and moving spaces ahead? Or do your kids just love dinosaurs and are looking for free printable dinosaur games? Regardless, you came to the right place! In this post, you will find all kinds of fun dinosaur printable games and activities for kids, soContinue Reading

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How to Teach Easy Cooking Recipes for Kids

Tanya — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:00:11 +0000

Go beyond teaching your children how to make a boiled egg and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! It’s awesome for kids to learn Practical Life activities, including delicious easy recipes. Getting kids in the kitchen and teaching them how to cook real food is sooo important! Start with young children (as young as 18 months)Continue Reading

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Sensorial Montessori Curriculum Free Fabric Box Tutorial

Tanya — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:07:13 +0000

What are the benefits of Montessori education? If you are reading this post about a Montessori lesson, then you already know how special of a method Montessori is. The benefits of doing Montessori at home, at any scale (as a complement to your curriculum or as your only curriculum), the benefits are wonderful. When IContinue Reading

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8 Free Very Hungry Caterpillar Printable Pictures for Cutting Practice

Tanya — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:49:03 +0000

The very hungry caterpillar printable pictures for cutting practice download is beautiful with cutting practice worksheets for free. If you have been following our blog for any given time, you will know that we love Eric Carle the very hungry caterpillar printables! They are awesome preschool worksheets and games that are inspired by the wonderfulContinue Reading

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The Best Christmas Gift Guides for the Montessori Family

Tanya — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:40:49 +0000

Have you been looking or thinking about Christmas gifts for your family, but you want the gifts to mean something? Here is a great Christmas gift list with ideas that you will love and find inspirational. Take a look at The Best Christmas Gift Guides for the Montessori-Friendly Family! We appreciate you reading our postContinue Reading

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Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers – Bead Transferring Activity

Tanya — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:15:19 +0000

We have been building on a wonderful series about fine motor skills for preschoolers. And we have shared with you a series of wonderful activities and ideas that not only foster and strengthen fine motor skills, but they actually help develop them, if they have been found to be lacking. In this post, we showContinue Reading

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Christmas Activities & Fine Motor Skills Practice Printable

Tanya — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:14:51 +0000

Christmas will be here before we know it! I love to get creative with the kids and make homemade cards for friends and family members. In this post, we will share some fun ideas for Christmas Activities & Fine Motor Skills Practice Printable set. These fine motor skills worksheets are great for cutting practice and alsoContinue Reading

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Farm Animals Pictures: Preschool Cutting Practice Worksheets {Free Printables}

Tanya — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:00:44 +0000

Here is an awesome set of printable Preschool Cutting Practice Worksheets with farm animals pictures that your kids will love! Do you need resources for a farm unit? These are definitely the ticket to include in it! Montessori at Home Farm Animals Books To study more about these farm animals pictures, we always grab some books andContinue Reading

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Fine Motor Skills Practice while using Letters to Form Words

Tanya — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:03:09 +0000

We love finding different ways for fine motor skills practice, especially for preschoolers because they help with prewriting. In this post, we are going to be talking about practicing fine motor skills, learning to form new words and learn to spell words using wooden trays and letters. Montessori at Home Fine Motor Skills Practice When itContinue Reading

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Helpful Activities for Fine Motor Skills

Tanya — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:17:37 +0000

First of all, The Natural Homeschool and co-hosts are so excited to welcome you to this week’s “A Little Bird Told Me” Link Party #150! We have so many amazing bloggers out there that are writing some incredible posts. It is exciting finding great posts that are shared on this linky. We love it when bloggers come over every weekContinue Reading

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Sidewalk Chalk Ideas for Early Writing

Tanya — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:53:53 +0000

When the weather starts to get warmer, we love heading outside to find fun ways to play with educational topics. In this post, we will share with you some awesome sidewalk chalk ideas for early writing! My daughter enjoyed not only reviewing her alphabet letter names and sounds, but she also loved practicing writing theContinue Reading

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Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers: Transferring Activities

Tanya — Thu, 04 May 2017 11:04:31 +0000

Babies have extremely rudimentary skills. Their movements are spastic. They have practically no fine motor skills until they are about 6 months old and even then, they are extremely unrefined. As they grow into toddlers, they have the ability to pick up a spaghetti noodle using the pincer grip. They can do so much more!Continue Reading

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printable Days of the Week and Food

Tanya — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:25:12 +0000

We love The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle! In this post, we will share with you a cute lesson I had with my daughter where we practiced the days of the week and food with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. She really enjoyed it and so did I! With this lesson, you will get TheContinue Reading

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Montessori Practical Life ~ The Best Way to Sew on a Button {for kids} Printable

Tanya — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:01:52 +0000

When it comes to Montessori Practical Life curriculum, the main idea is to instill in children confidence, not only to know that they can do things themselves, but to actually do them! It is such a fascinating feeling to try something new and succeed. It is an even more fascinating feeling to observe a childContinue Reading

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Playdough Alphabet Games for Fine Motor Skills

Tanya — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:05:48 +0000

As we have been talking about fine motor skills over the course of several blog posts, having a variety of activities to offer children to practice these skills is not only fun, but it takes boredom and monotony out of the equation completely. In this post, we will show you how you can target severalContinue Reading

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Color Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

Tanya — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:02:04 +0000

As homeschooling parents, we are always looking for great and creative Preschool activity ideas to use with our little ones. We want to maximize their learning while they are having a great time. Enjoying learning is important, especially at this young age. So, for our unit on colors, we will share with you this setContinue Reading

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Using a Loom to Practice Fine Motor Skills with Preschoolers

Tanya — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:02:46 +0000

We have been doing several activities that help my kids practice and reinforce fine motor skills. We have been using jumbo beads, scissors, play dough, color sorting activities and many other things. In this post, we are using a loom to practice fine motor skills with preschoolers. We will show you how I used theContinue Reading

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Lacing Toys Develop Fine Motor Skills

Tanya — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:03:30 +0000

Fine motor skills are really important to the development of dexterity, eye-hand coordination, careful and gentle hands and finger movements, handwriting and other important mobility abilities. Practicing fine motor skills sets up little ones for success! Let them practice them as much as possible, in the form of games and hands-on activities. One of theContinue Reading

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DIY Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers

Tanya — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:01:56 +0000

This is a very practical and very fun post. I decided to not spend tons and tons of money on fine motor skills materials, but rather, come up with my own DIY fine motor skills for preschoolers by using everyday objects that we already have at home. I am excited to show you some of theContinue Reading

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Fine Motor Skills Workbooks for Preschool & Kindergarten

Tanya — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:03:27 +0000

When it comes to fine motor skills, it can be a fun or tedious task for both you and your preschooler or kindergartener. Most importantly, practicing fine motor skills is paramount, not only for writing, but for countless skills that are needed in life. Why not make this practicing entertaining and more like a game insteadContinue Reading

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Montessori-Inspired Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers (Lessons & Free Printables)

Tanya — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:00:42 +0000

Have you ever implemented any Montessori Method works in your home or homeschool? I know that it can be a daunting thought, but believe me, including it in your daily lives is easier than you think. Let me show you a couple of ways here. Montessori at Home: Practicing Fine Motor Skills for preschoolers is paramount. TheyContinue Reading

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100+ Fine Motor Skills for Toddlers (Free Printable List)

Tanya — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:00:27 +0000

Here is an amazingly awesome post for you! It is full of great ideas and a long list of 100 fine motor skills for toddlers and preschoolers. This list can be used as a progression for children ages up to 5 years. I also have a free printable list so you can print it and useContinue Reading

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Snail Mail Fine Motor Skills Practice & Link Party #42

Tanya — Wed, 27 May 2015 04:01:10 +0000

Hello, everyone! The Natural Homeschool is so excited to welcome you to this week’s “A Little Bird Told Me” Link Party #42. We have so many fantastic bloggers out there that are writing some fabulous posts and we would love for them to share what they’re most proud of. Here are our awesome featured posts this week: Snail Mail Fine Motor SkillsContinue Reading

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Easy Fine Motor Skills Crafts & Ideas

Tanya — Tue, 05 May 2015 13:00:32 +0000

Welcome to our second post of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Series! Be on the lookout for a new post every day this week and me sure to visit our landing page at the end of the week to see all of the posts we put together for you! Visit our caterpillar and butterfly hub HERE!Continue Reading

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