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Let’s get this party started: At home

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It’s fun to start thinking about all the great projects you are going to work on with your children.  But before you add kids to the glue and glitter mix, you’ve got to organize your space.

Even though our house is small, I still wanted to dedicate an area to learning and crafting.   My thoughts:  it actually reduces the amount of space that supplies take up (because they aren’t spread out all over the house) AND I know exactly what I have to use (saving money because I can find the boxes of crayons and don’t buy more!).

In my quest to create an organized area of my own, I found some fabulous ideas .

I love this space by Maya at Maya*Made.  She has used peg board and bull dog clips to display her children’s art and a bookshelf with cans of various sizes to hold all of their supplies in just one corner of her house. This way all of the pencils, crayons and paintbrushes are accessible, but not all over the place.  Read more here.

Simple Mom added shelves to a unused wardrobe to hide her art supply stash.

If only I had more space, I would attempt to recreate Lisa Mahar’s room, shown on Ohdeedoh.  I am coveting all of those labeled plastic bins.

And Mandi from Organizing Your Way, lists 10 containers that you probably have laying around your house that will (cheaply) help you organize your craft supplies.

Don’t have an extra corner in your home? Use a tackle box to store a portable art table like Amanda at Kiddio.

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  3. I am setting up my new office and my daughters playroom in a new house so this post was very inspiring. I just hope my stays looking like that everyday.

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Shark Week Learning for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks. 

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game. 

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom. 

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more. 

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet. 

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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