Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Living Color by Steve Jenkins Why we love this book: Steve Jenkins is one of our favorite nonfiction authors. He uniquely combines art and science to create books that are equally beautiful and educational. His stunning artwork in Living Color emphasizes the fact that animals come in so many amazing [...]
Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Colors Everywhere by Sam McBratney Why we love this book: Sweet Little Nut Brown Hare and Big Nut Brown Hair are back with another day full of exploration, conversation and love. What a perfect way to spend Father’s Day. . . A simple day spent getting to know each other’s [...]
GIVEAWAY of the Week: IKEA paint box and paint brushes Why we love this IKEA paint box: We loooooove these vibrant water color paints! The colors stay bright and colorful long after the children paint a picture. Another fabulous feature are the over-sized round pans of paint, making it easier for little hands who are [...]
As Father’s Day rapidly approaches, we’d like to take this opportunity say thank you to all of the Daddies who take our children out into the big wide world. Rather than heading to the electronics store to buy Daddy the latest and greatest gadget, we’ll save-up to spend precious time with Daddy creating memories. We’ve [...]
Beginning when MacGyver was 6-months-old, Daddy began reading to baby MacGyver every night as part of their bedtime routine. Little did he know that eight years later Bedtime Books with Daddy would still be going strong. For those of you who don’t know our Man of Steel, I began calling him this because he truly [...]
Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Peek! A Thai Hide-and-Seek by Minfong Ho Why we love this book: Where do we begin? Each week when we highlight and GIVE AWAY a book we think, “This is our favorite book we’ve given away!” We really do love all of the books we GIVE AWAY and this week’s [...]
Going Beyond our Book of the week: Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney Art Appreciation: Introduce the art medium of pen and ink and watercolor used by Anita Jeram in the touching illustrations of this book. This extension can be done across age-levels in a homeschool setting. For preschoolers, it works well [...]