Activities Archives | Homan at Home https://homanathome.com/category/activities/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:02:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://i0.wp.com/homanathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-cropped-cropped-Thick-Line-Logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Activities Archives | Homan at Home https://homanathome.com/category/activities/ 32 32 96718749 31 June Activities and Crafts for Preschool Kids https://homanathome.com/2024/04/june-crafts-for-kids/ https://homanathome.com/2024/04/june-crafts-for-kids/#respond Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:57:22 +0000 https://homanathome.com/?p=27193 With over 30 fantastic crafts and activities tailored around favorite June preschool themes, we’re serving up creativity for everything from Father’s Day and Juneteenth to summer vacation and beyond! Holidays in June The month of June has plenty of special days! There’s celebrations of identity, history, nature, and family. Here are some of the bigger...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2023/02/valentines-day-mad-libs/feed/ 0 22340 Cardboard Coloring https://homanathome.com/2022/07/cardboard-coloring/ https://homanathome.com/2022/07/cardboard-coloring/#respond Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://homanathome.com/?p=19968 Encourage creativity with this no-prep activity perfect for long summer days! Growing up, my mom was the queen of what she called “trash toys.” The idea is simple — find something that would normally go in the trash and give it a second life by turning it into something to play with. Modern day crunchy...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2022/07/cardboard-coloring/feed/ 0 19968 Write Your Own Book https://homanathome.com/2022/05/write-your-own-book/ https://homanathome.com/2022/05/write-your-own-book/#respond Thu, 19 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://homanathome.com/?p=19647 Help your kids get a head start on literacy this summer by writing and illustrating your their own books! I’m going to put on my teacher hat for a moment here and talk about something I’m seeing both with my own kiddos and with others I work with. The last 2-3 years have caused a...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2022/05/write-your-own-book/feed/ 0 19647 Keep Kids Busy During Quarantine (PreK-2nd Grade) https://homanathome.com/2022/01/keep-kids-busy-during-quarantine-prek-2nd-grade/ https://homanathome.com/2022/01/keep-kids-busy-during-quarantine-prek-2nd-grade/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2022 04:21:08 +0000 https://homanathome.com/?p=18657 Stuck inside with your 4-8 year old? These five themed quarantine days full of activities built around literature and learning require very little from you to keep your kids busy and moving! It really feels like we’re on our way back to March 2020. My school district closed schools last Friday and Tuesday because we...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2022/01/keep-kids-busy-during-quarantine-prek-2nd-grade/feed/ 0 18657 Don’t Crack the Egg – An Easter Matching Game https://homanathome.com/2021/04/dont-crack-the-egg-an-easter-matching-game/ https://homanathome.com/2021/04/dont-crack-the-egg-an-easter-matching-game/#respond Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:25:37 +0000 http://homanathome.com/?p=14919 Collect eggs, try to find the Easter bunny, but above all, don’t crack the egg! Free printables mean you can play this festive and simple matching game. This is just an Easter take on the game Don’t Wake the Shark. Michelle over at MollyMoo is has created a fish matching game with a twist that...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2021/04/dont-crack-the-egg-an-easter-matching-game/feed/ 0 14919 St. Patrick’s Day Mad Libs https://homanathome.com/2021/02/st-patricks-day-mad-libs/ https://homanathome.com/2021/02/st-patricks-day-mad-libs/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2021 03:02:57 +0000 http://homanathome.com/?p=14664 Get ready for the holiday with these two adorable mad libs stories. Add your own words to find out how a leprechaun finds her luck and what waits at the end of the rainbow! My kids love mad libs. They’re 4 and 6 right now, and every silly or unexpected word sends them into gales...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2021/02/st-patricks-day-mad-libs/feed/ 0 14664 Noon Year’s Eve Party Ideas https://homanathome.com/2020/12/noon-years-eve-party-ideas/ https://homanathome.com/2020/12/noon-years-eve-party-ideas/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:29:26 +0000 http://homanathome.com/?p=14382 Don’t want to stay up until midnight with the littles? Hold a Noon Year’s Eve party before lunch with these fun ideas and links! This was an idea we had last year, but never got around to putting up. Basically, my kids never make it until midnight, and let’s be honest, these days I don’t...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2020/12/noon-years-eve-party-ideas/feed/ 0 14382 Ninja Training (A Stuck-at-Home Activity) https://homanathome.com/2020/04/ninja-training-a-stuck-at-home-activity/ https://homanathome.com/2020/04/ninja-training-a-stuck-at-home-activity/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2020 01:54:09 +0000 http://homanathome.com/?p=12714 It’s week 3 of self-isolation here. We’ve been mostly doing just fine in spite of the dramatic increase in screen time (nothing else has worked when it’s time for both Mom and Dad to work), but now I’m starting to run out of ideas. Enter ninja training! It’s getting warmer here, but for those days...

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]]> https://homanathome.com/2020/04/ninja-training-a-stuck-at-home-activity/feed/ 2 12714 14 Free or Cheap Activities for Valentines https://homanathome.com/2020/02/14-free-or-cheap-activities-for-valentines/ https://homanathome.com/2020/02/14-free-or-cheap-activities-for-valentines/#respond Sun, 02 Feb 2020 04:13:01 +0000 http://homanathome.com/?p=11404 This year, I’m trying to be better about being the fun mom. You know her — she’s all over Instagram and Facebook with pictures of her and the kids doing fun, well-thought out activities. Now, I know life isn’t Pinterest- perfect, but I realized a bit ago that I could do better. For a while,...

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