animals Archives - Books and Giggles Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:38:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://booksandgiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-BG-favicon-23-3-32x32.png animals Archives - Books and Giggles 32 32 Our Amazing Birding Adventure with Kids https://booksandgiggles.com/birding-with-kids/ https://booksandgiggles.com/birding-with-kids/#respond Sat, 16 Apr 2016 02:06:00 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/04/birding-with-kids/ We recently took the kids to a bird rookery in High Island, Texas. I know it’s a departure from my usual posts, but it was too amazing to keep to myself!   Birding With Kids – Part One My kids’ excited voices broke through the chorus of nesting birds and frogs. I imagined dirty looks...

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]]> https://booksandgiggles.com/dog-craft-and-story-for-preschoolers/feed/ 3 Kitten’s First Full Moon Craft for Preschoolers https://booksandgiggles.com/full-moon-craft/ https://booksandgiggles.com/full-moon-craft/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:49:00 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2015/10/full-moon-craf/ Today I’m sharing an easy craft to go with a much-loved picture book. You could also do it as a stand-alone Halloween craft, but it’s more fun with a book, don’t you think? You could even do this at another time of year and use a cat that’s less spooky. The Caldecott winning Kitten’s First...

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]]> https://booksandgiggles.com/full-moon-craft/feed/ 3 Sight Word Safari https://booksandgiggles.com/sight-word-safari/ https://booksandgiggles.com/sight-word-safari/#comments Sun, 17 May 2015 23:31:00 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2015/05/sight-word-safari/ Memorizing sight words doesn’t have to be boring. If you have a fun selection of sight word games, your kids will relish the time spent playing them with you. The game I’m sharing today is perfect for kids who like dramatic play. I have used the little plastic animals that my 5 year old twins enjoy, but you could...

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]]> https://booksandgiggles.com/sight-word-safari/feed/ 9 Adorable Animals Preschoolers Can Draw https://booksandgiggles.com/animals-preschoolers-can-draw/ https://booksandgiggles.com/animals-preschoolers-can-draw/#comments Fri, 01 May 2015 04:42:00 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2015/04/animals-preschoolers-can-draw/ I was instantly in love with the adorable animal drawings my twins brought home from their Montessori preschool recently. During free play time at the end of the day, they’d used the standard Montessori material called a metal inset to trace ovals.  In Montessori, kids usually have a prescribed way of working with metal insets....

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