It is time for Mom’s Library again! I really liked many art projects and simple crafts I found recently. They are beautiful, yet simple, that you can quickly gather necessary materials you already have at home and enjoy the creativity with kids. Here are today’s feature: 10 Easy Art Projects for Kids Art with corn and crayon – just the name of the project sounds interesting! Have you done any art project with pipe cleaner? We have two ideas here: Pipe… Read more

It is Mom’s Library time again! It took me over an hour just to look through what’s been shared – not to actually read all, just look through and find what to feature and bookmark the articles to read later.  There are over 200 articles shared last week.  It is simply amazing. It is hard to pick what to feature – so many great learning ideas.  While looking through the list, I saw many alphabet learning activities, so many that… Read more

I am very excited to see so many great articles linked up this week.  A big theme I saw is a lot seasonal activities.  Fall is a season with tons of learning topics – season change, color change, leaves, pumpkins, apples, rocks, … I am very impressed by everyone’s creativity in finding different ways to help our kids learn! In autumn, we are having tons of leaves? What can you do with all the leaves?  Here is an easy craft with… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again. In the past several weeks, I made a creative learning activity series from the posts shared at Mom’s Library. If you missed them, make sure check them out.  Especially the one from last week: Creative Learning Activities with Candy. Here are the rest Creative Learning Series articles: Creative Alphabet Learning Activities Creative pattern practice ideas Creative artistic activities Creative sight word activities Creative Science Activities Today I am sharing some easy art projects that young kids can… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again. So far we have shared several creative learning activity ideas: Creative Alphabet Learning Activities Creative pattern practice ideas Creative artistic activities Creative sight word activities Today we are going to see some creative science activities. I love combining science and art in learning.  Here is a fun way to learn drawing butterfly and butterfly science at the same time. What I am most impressed is this liver model made out of toilet paper rolls… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again.  So far we have shared several creative learning activity ideas: Creative Alphabet Learning Activities Creative pattern practice ideas Creative artistic activities Today, I am going to sharing more creative learning ideas – creative sight words learning activities.  Sight words are essential to kids reading ability development, and there is no better ways to learn the sight words than repetition.  It can be boring if all we do is to use flashcards.  Here are some creative… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again. For the past two weeks, we shared Creative Alphabet Learning Activities, and creative pattern practice ideas.  Today we are sharing some creative artistic activities. I enjoyed today’s features, because they used stuff we see every day and re-purposed them for artistic play.  Isn’t this what art is about? Great artists are those who have special eyes and minds, discover or connect things most people don’t, present their discoveries in a way that will enlighten people… Read more

I always get excited when it is Mom’s Library time, as you never know what is going to be shared each week. Last week, I featured Creative Alphabet Learning Activities, today I am sharing creative pattern practice ideas. Pattern recognition and creation are important skills for preschool kids to master.  It is not only one of the fundamental math skills, but also contributes to broader social development. Through pattern recognition, children are able to make predictions about what comes next… Read more

Welcome back to Mom’s Library. Last week, we featured 4 creative teaching ideas, today we have some more creative teaching ideas, but are more focused on learning letters. Measured Mom is one of my favorite learning website, today she shared a reading curriculum. From her article, I learned a couple new ideas in teaching alphabets, such as sorting the pictures by the objects’ starting letters, and grouping the rhyming pictures together.  To learn more ideas, make sure visit the article. I like the idea… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again.  Today I am featuring 4 creative teaching ideas. What do you do with the junk mails?  Throw them away?  Next time, you might want to save some, for some scissors fun with junk mail. I am sure kids will have fun with these disappearing shapes!  Kids will learn shapes, science, and fine motor skills. What a fun way to teach numbers, letters, and shapes with these water balloons! I just love this – build… Read more

Welcome to Mom’s Library. We had a lot articles linked up last week. If you have not visited, make sure visit Mom’s Library from last week. Today I want to feature some ideas on helping kids enjoy readings. There are a few articles shared last week about encouraging reading and recommended books.  Do your kids like reading?  Mine does.  We tried from his early years to read with him a lot and do activities based on books together.  Although nothing… Read more

At last week’s Mom’s Library, I shared several fine motor activities. Today I found more and thought you would like to know too. We also have a Stylus to giveaway. If you have marble balls at home, you really should visit Marble Madness Play and Learning, there are several fun marble activities there I am sure will keep your little one occupied for a long time. This Hand Painted Glue Batiks is fun and requires fine motor skills and patience, but… Read more

Every time when it is Mom’s Library time, I always found something new and interesting.  Today is the same, I discovered several art projects that I would never think about by myself, and they all looked so beautiful. Have you ever seen paintings by salt?  This article not only shared a salt art by a great artist, there is also a detailed instruction on how to create salt art at home. Are you going to the beach?  Make sure check… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again. Hand writing is a hard job for little ones, and fine motor skill plays an important role in hand writing.  This week I am featuring some fine motor skill and writing activities for young children.   Can you think of 10 ways of writing letters?  I couldn’t till I read the article on writing the letter W. This reflection writing is so neat, I am sure your little one will have a good time… Read more