My kids are so excited about Christmas, they will ask me every day in December if it was Christmas. Since 2 years ago, I have made a countdown activity every December as a fun way for my kids to visualize the number of days left till Christmas. A fun way to countdown to Christmas This Paper Plate Snowman Countdown Craft… Read More
Christmas is our FAVORITE holiday! And we are so excited to kick off December with a full shelf of Christmas theme learning activities! To read more about how we do learning at home with our theme based learning shelf, I encourage you to read our How HTS Workspage first. To know why we do theme based learning, check out this page. Christmas… Read More
One of my favorite thing about Christmas is… counting down to Christmas! Fun Way to Visualize Number of Days Left to Christmas This Santa Down the Chimney is SO (or too) fun, to be perfectly honest, half the time the counter isn’t on the right number. My children love sliding the Santa down into the house MANY times a day…. Read More
1 Learning Toy, 2 or More Ways to Learn I have a toddler and a preschooler at home. And I’m always trying to maximize the use of the learning toys I create. Like this TP Roll Christmas Tree! I made one learning toy, but there are multiple ways to learn and play with it for kids of different ages. How… Read More
Wait a minute, did you say Science, Math and Art all in one activity? You heard me right! We always love multi-skills and cross subjects activities here. As simple as it looks, this invitation to create covers many learning areas. Depending on the ages and interests of your children, you can choose to explore each learning area as much as… Read More
It’s full on Halloween fun this week at Happy Tot Shelf HQ and I just have to give everything a Halloween makeover. Like this clever idea of counting in 5s with hands from lnnally and Chalk Academy that I bookmarked few months back. Before we can get to the counting part, we got to first make the hands, or rather… Read More
