Preschool Powol Packets

Do you have a little monster truck lover? Then you will love this new Monster Trucks Preschool Packet! It is available ONLY as a pdf that you can download and print...and for 3 days, you can get it for FREE!! Your preschoolers can practice writing numbers and names with these adorable monster truck-style characters, flaming rings of fire, traffic flags, and more! There are also dotted lined pages for practice writing numbers, letters, names, and anything else you want to put on the lines...next to an awesome monster truck, of course! What all is in this packet? You will find the following: * Count & clip cards! * Number tracing! * Number writing! * 4-piece puzzles! * 2-piece count & match puzzles! * Dot-to-dot shapes! * Coloring pages! *Name-writing lines! * Cutting practice! * Line tracing practice! * Hidden pictures (find and count)! ** 23 printable pages!! ** Common Questions: * Can I print more than one set? You can p

What makes the moon phases?  And what does the moon taste like?  This easy, hands-on science activity lets your kiddos visualize the way moon phases are formed while becoming part of the sun-Earth-moon system themselves! If you've ever taught space science you know that a common misconception is that the Earth's shadow somehow creates the moon phases. This little activity should make it very clear that the Earth's shadow is only involved in eclipses, and that moon phases are created by different angles between the moon and the sun . The supplies you need are simple: a lamp or flashlight , a dark space , and a little ball .  I colored a golf ball black because the design was distracting from the lesson. I always start by asking the kids to tell me what makes the phases of the moon. This lets you know if you need to correct any misconceptions or just introduce new ideas. The other cool thing about this lesson is that it includes room for your preschoolers

Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, United States, is the longest cave system in the world (that we know of!) and has fantastic tour opportunities for kids and adults of all ages! We recently met up with another  family and spent two days at the caves and on the Mammoth Cave National Park property. I won't lie...I love caves! I have a geology degree because I think rocks are one of the coolest things on the planet, so visiting these caves with my kids and our friends was perfect! The entire adventure started with choosing a tour. There are more than a dozen to choose from! You can (and should!) make reservations online in advance, especially if you are going during summer or Spring Break seasons. We went in March, so we thought we could just show up and grab tickets, which made things a little more complicated. If you wait until the day of your visit, you have to buy tickets in person at the Visitor Center. But, they sell out FAST! We showed up at about 10:30 in the morning, and

Do your kids love STEM activities and projects? Do you?!! If so, you will love this collection of seven exciting and creative STEM activities! They each include a purpose--either a challenge to complete or a project to design--that has a final project they can share with others! Plus, they all have an element or art, so if you're looking for STEAM activities, this is also the perfect list!  What kind of projects are these? these are projects that integrate several STEM subjects (most of them integrate all four): science, technology, engineering, and math. These particular projects also all have an art or design aspect, which I love because it gives your kids a chance to be creative and solve a problem. And the best part is that these problems have such a massive number of solutions that there really is no "wrong" way to do them, which gives your children an incredible amount of freedom as they work on them! These are in random order, so feel free to read th