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Color Match Amy Sherald's Art
This invitation to explore encourages and exposes children to several elements of learning. To set this up print out images of Amy...
Jan 29, 20211 min read


Invitation to Build and Create LOVE
Love written by Corrine Averiss and Illustrated by Kirsti Beautyman is a beautiful story about understanding emotions when separating to...
Jan 28, 20211 min read


Invitation to Frame Kehinde Wiley Art with Loose Parts
Most of us know that art is important for children. But beyond why it is important for them to create art it is just vital to expose...
Jan 26, 20211 min read


Ten Little Shoes
Let’s talk feet. Why you ask on an Early Childhood Education platform? For two reasons 1) In child development we focus so much on how...
Jan 25, 20212 min read


Words and Your Heart
Words and Your Heart by Katy Jane Neal is book about how your heart makes you and the power of words. This book is the perfect...
Jan 24, 20211 min read


Comfy Corner
Comfy Corner// Children need a place they can retreat to when they need to think, rest, or just decompress. Comfy corners give children a...
Jan 23, 20212 min read


Oui and Si
With the pandemic so many have been creating amazing learning aids. Oui and Si founded by a French and Spanish professors, have created a...
Jan 22, 20211 min read


Arctic Small World Play
Small world play is simply when children explore figurines, loose parts, and sensory materials that reenact scenes from nature, books,...
Jan 20, 20211 min read


Invitation to Dress-Up Play
In dramatic play, dress-up play is role playing and storytelling that helps children develop ideas about how the world works in so many...
Jan 20, 20211 min read


Invitation to Plant Growth to Dream
Growth all starts with a conversation. Whether you set an invitation to explore, create or play to honor Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.,they...
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Invitation to Explore Frozen Winter Nature
Freezing nature has always been one of my favorite invitations that I typically do in spring with all the flowers in bloom. When I saw...
Jan 16, 20211 min read


Slide Ranch Farm
Slide Ranch is located on the Marin coast near Muir Beach. This is the perfect place to connect children to nature through exploring the...
Jan 15, 20211 min read


Small World Play: Little Penguins
ChristIan Robinson is hands down my all time favorite illustrator for children‘s books. In the book Little Penguins written by Cynthia...
Jan 14, 20211 min read


Invitation to Explore a Wooden Geoboard
What is a geoboard? A flat board with pegs sticking out accompanied by bands. The goal is simply to wrap the bands around the pegs, and...
Jan 13, 20211 min read


Invitation to Paint Happiness, Sleep, and Love Prints
After getting inspired by @katy.renfro year after year with her snowflake prints, I had to give it a try to integrate art with three of...
Jan 12, 20211 min read


Snowball Maze
Invitation to blow the snowballs through the maze is a great way to encourage children to practice the exercise of breathing. Blowing not...
Jan 11, 20211 min read


Invitation to Create Julián at the Wedding
After creating Julián Is a Mermaid with loose parts a while back, I knew it was time to do an invitation for Julián at the Wedding by...
Jan 8, 20212 min read


Do Better
We have to do better, as humans. Especially for our future, the children. It is up to each of us to do better. Keep reading those books,...
Jan 7, 20211 min read


Invitation to Play with Cars
We have fully entered the stage of car, car, car, car, car alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll day long. From the moment he wakes up, the...
Jan 6, 20212 min read


Invitation to Play in the Kitchen
Dramatic play, imaginative play, creative play, role-playing, make-believe or just plain pretending…is a foundation of childhood...
Jan 4, 20211 min read
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