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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Preschool Activity boxes

The homeschool dilemma is always- what to do with the little ones while you are schooling your older children? Making activity boxes or offering games for your preschoolers is not a new idea in homeschooling circles, a wise idea I've never quite completely pulled off.

This article http://www.wondertime.go.com/life-at-home/article/art-house.html in Wondertime magazine inspired me to go out and gather some boxes and art supplies to keep Amie busy this school year without any prep time for me (after the intitial gathering, that is).

The boxes Amie is working with in the two photos are a dot-art box with special dot art paint bottles and a special coloring book, and a craft-art supply box containing waterpaints, stamping ink, stamps, markers and peel and stick foam shapes. I have a few other busy boxes...a geoboard kit, animal figures kit, big playdough kit, chalkboard/chalk kit. I am hoping to add others later so we will have a nice rotation of activities to keep her busy. She was very pleased to have her own activity to work on last week. Read the Wondertime article if you get a chance, it was more about a portable art kit in a tackle box-very nice idea I will be working on gathering next month. The magazine is also a beautiful one, I subscribe to it and enjoy each issue.

Labels: homeschool

posted at 8:25 PM
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7 Comments:

At 6:45 AM, Randi said...: I have been thinking that i need to find some more things for my littlest one to do. We are doing kindergarten work but i have found that she is only ready for the reading part (learning her letters). I guess since I thought we would be doing "school" I wouldn't have a need to find her projects to do. Today, I will be putting a box togther!
At 7:11 AM, Susanne said...: I don't homeschool but this kind of thing came in handy when the older ones had homework. Gave the little one something to do while I was involved in helping with the homework. Also great to give them while I was busy cooking supper.
At 8:11 AM, Hen Jen said...: Randi,

my kids all love doing crafty things, it was nice to put the stuff in a box so I didn't have to run around gathering things up. Have fun with the homeschooling!
blessings,
Jenny
At 4:21 PM, Mrs. Darling said...: I bookmarked you. I love your blog. I'm a Charlotte Mason homeschooler with a few of my own touches thrown in. I love this paint box idea. What a neat thing.
At 7:33 PM, Hen Jen said...: Mrs. darling, thanks for the kind words, and thanks for visiting. I went over to your blog and visited, liked the paintings by your kids! I'll stop by when I have more time to read.

blessings to you,
Jenny
At 7:13 AM, Jenn said...: Thanks so much! I never quite have done it this way, but I think it will work so much better!

Normally we have deep plastic boxes that ALL the children's art supplies go into, they each have one. However, making up kits with a limited amount of supplies needed for each project seems like a better way for mess-patrol. :)

Jenn
At 12:39 AM, Hen Jen said...: Jenn, hope is works for you. I went to visit your blog, wow 6 kids, you do have to do mess-patrol
:) I like all the recipes on your blog, the bread recipes look good, I will be giving those a try.
blessings to you this week,
Jenny

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