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Hello Friends, Have you ever felt like you don't have the resources, Like you are not creative enough to eliminate the struggles you and your child are experiencing as you try to learn and build new skills as you play and explore together? I want to show you that it's just not so! I want to share with you a way that you can Play, Learn and Grow with your child IN SPITE of these feelings of Limitations or Struggles . I believe that when you engage with your child in activities that are centered around them, they naturally are engaged and develop an interest in the activity and learning what lessons the activity provides. Building New Skills and Engagement doesn't have to be work! it can be fun for both you and your child. When I work with clients I help them create "Invitations to Play, Learn and Grow". I describe an invitation as any activity that is set out for a child to explore and engage in at their own pace. These activities are always open end...

Happy Monday Friends!  Today we are starting a new Theme "Bugs".  This week we are going to talk about the different kinds of bugs, Where they live, what makes them the same/different. Today we talked about the sequence of events involved in the different jobs that bugs have. You can find the video in the group. I would love for you to join the conversation. Creative Campus Early Childhood Learning Activity Group   https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/  share your favorite Bug themed activities. This week we are also talking about Event sequencing. how can you practice this skill while you explore and study bugs?  Share your ideas with us and check in every day for fun new learning ideas. If you want even more fun learning ideas with bugs. Check these out. (Bugs) https://yescourse.com/~/creative-campus/#!invitations-to-play-with-open-ended-play-loose-parts-play-bugs-and-plants/1/zn7px/ I cant wait to hear all your fun ideas for lea...

Hello Friends! Do the children in your life enjoy Pretending to engage in Grown Up tasks?  do you ever wish you could create fun learning and skill building experiences for them at home or in the classroom that mirror adult experiences?  In this training I help you begin the process of setting up Invitations that engage kids in Learning and Skill Building by doing!  Get your copy of this training HERE! https://yescourse.com/~/creative-campus/#!store/learning-by-doing/  once you have gone through it, and you begin to put your own experiences together, join us in our community and share your ideas and experiences with us. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Enjoy the rest of your day!  Your Creative Solutions Creator and Professional Mess Maker! Theresa @ The Creative Campus Online.com

Welcome Back!  This week I would like to share with you Tips, Tools and 10 activities for learning and building Social Skills. You can access all this content FREE by clicking the link below! I will be happy to answer any and all questions you have as you use these fun and engaging ideas. https://yescourse.com/~/the-creative-curriculum-creator-service/#!store/week-14-creative-curriculum-weekly-training-social-skills/ If you are looking for even more Silly learning fun that will support you in building social skills, I would like to invite you to download my "Invitations to Play with Open Ended Loose Parts" program. For $65.00 you will get 30 days worth of fun Learning activities. Click the link below to get started! https://yescourse.com/store/invitations-to-play-with-open-ended-loose-parts-and-silly-monsters/?ref=4422 I hope you have a great day of Learning and Skill Building!  Your Creativity Producer and Professional Mess Maker! Theresa @ T...

Hi Everyone! What are you working on? how can I help you Learn and Build Skills using Play? If you are looking for fun engaging ways to Learn and Build New Skills while Building New Skills using Make Believe Play, check this out! Then come share with us how you have used these activities, tips and tools to learn and engage. https://yescourse.com/store/week-5-creative-curriculum-weekly-training-series-make-believe-play/?ref=53be If you are looking for more fun ways to get kids engaged in learning while building new skills, then opt in to my Monthly Invitations to Play Program! 30 Days of Learning Activity fun for $65 per Theme  https://yescourse.com/~/creative-campus/#!store/invitations-to-play-with-open-ended-loose-parts-candy-land/ If you ever have any questions, or need help in any way creating Fun and Engaging activities You can always send me your questions and I will help you in anyway I can. Your Creativity Producer and Professional Mess Maker, Theresa

Tip: Ask kids questions that get them engaged in investigating leaves.  Tip: Set out a variety of leaves and tool for kids to investigate Tip: let the kids create art with leaves to work on small motor skills.  What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites Sponge painting leaf piles. (can add a handprint rake) What can you find in a tree ( loose parts sensory bin) Play Dough Fall Trees ( cut leaves out of silly shapes) Leaf Identifying Memory Leaf Counting/ Shape matching game Leaf Investigation and Tree Identification Game (fun way to learn facts about tree species). Leaf positioning Listening Game I spy with my little eye ( leaf or tree part descriptions) Create Story Problems using leave...

  Tip: Build Language Skills ( Direction giving games, Guessing Games) Tip: Build Teamwork (Simon says construction, Tip: Build Listening Skills ( What Does it do? Encourage the child to act out what different construction vehicles do) Show pictures of different ones. Tool What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites Activities: Build a city Build your favorite form of transportation ( can you make it move? ) Use Large or Small Blocks to Build Roads or train tracks. Put cars and trains in your playdough table. Use popsicle sticks to build houses or buildings. (decorate them with paint and other art pieces.) Talk about homes around the world and construct your favorite ones using Loose Parts. ...

Theme:  Gardens and Science Tip: Build Responsibility skills by building an jar garden. Tip: Get kids to try new foods be allowing them to grow and prepare dishes and new foods. Tip: Gardens are a great way to study plants, Bugs and Flowers and Learn how things grow.   What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites 1) Build Gardens In Jars 2) Match Tops And bottoms of Fruits and veggies ( can be labeled with numbers and groups of items) 3) What Do you need to build a garden? Tools?  Supplies? * child directed list 4) how does it grow? ( Life Cycle Stages sensory bin) 5) build a meal.( use loose parts to represent foods) let kids create meals would be great for play dough. 6) how many parts does it have? W...

Tip:  Animal Theme is a great way to get your kids learning and moving Tip: Listening activities are great ways to get kids learning about animals and using classification skills. Tip: offering different materials and letting the kids mix them together is a great sensory building experience when learning about “Animal Homes” Tool: What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ If you are looking for more details about any of these activities.  Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites I make this sound and move this way!  … Who am I      2)  Where Do I live Sensory Matching Experience      3)  Mix and match animals (animals that live in different areas cut in half)    ...

Tip: Robots is a great theme to use to practice building Speech Tip: Building Robots is a great Art and Small Motor Activity Tip: Use Robots Theme to build Eye Hand Coordination by seeking and finding robot parts. Tool: Use a bin of Loose parts and a deck of cards with Each Part on it. Play "I Spy". As each person find the part on the card they chose, they get to add it to their robot. (provide each player with a robot outline). What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites Robot Factory ( Create stations where you work on robots in different ways) Scavenger hunt Team work robot builder How To Build a Robot Instruction Book ( Child Dictated) Match the parts Small Motor Robots Robot Vests and Hats ( add knobs an...

Theme:  Transportation Tip: Use Child Directed Stories and Engage the kids in creating their own city. Tip: Get kids to think about the kids of art supplies they could use to create Boats, Planes or Cars Tip: Eye Hand Coordination and Matching. Create a memory game of different car parts. Matching the correct parts to their car. What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!   OR   Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator! ( 30 Minute FREE call! ) http://thecreativecampus.weebly.com/free-creative-content-creator-call.html Top 10 Favorites Shape Vehicles Can you make it go? Build Cars, Planes, Boats from recyclables Show me how it moves ( movement ) Move From  Place to place ( child directed stories using transportation) What Does it Need to get from place to place ( Tracks, Roads, Water) build e...

I have an exciting surprise for you going into the New Year!  I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK!  that's right. I have compiled my favorite activities and turned them into a book that you can use to learn a New Skill each week of the new year! I give tips, tools and of course an activity for each day of the week. I know you will enjoy this book as much as I have enjoyed writing it. The great thing about this book is that you can use these activities over and over. You can swap out the themes or the learning tools you use while keeping the goal and structure of the activity. That was the inspiration behind this book. I wanted to give you my favorite activities, but put them together in a way that they could be used over and over again with different themes, and outcomes. If you want to get on the list to get a copy of this book BEFORE it comes out on January 1st! you can add your name and information to the list Here: http://thecreativecampus.weebly.com/book-play---learn---grow-using-...

Happy Holidays Everyone!  I hope your holidays are off to a wonderful start. I have an exciting surprise for you going into the New Year!  I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK!  that's right. I have compiled my favorite activities and turned them into a book that you can use to learn a New Skill each week of the new year! I give tips, tools and of course an activity for each day of the week. I know you will enjoy this book as much as I have enjoyed writing it. The great thing about this book is that you can use these activities over and over. You can swap out the themes or the learning tools you use while keeping the goal and structure of the activity. That was the inspiration behind this book. I wanted to give you my favorite activities, but put them together in a way that they could be used over and over again with different themes, and outcomes. If you want to get on the list to get a copy of this book BEFORE it comes out on January 1st! you can add your name and informatio...

Funday Friday! I think we all love Keepsake Projects! I would like to offer you a few options that i always enjoy! 1) Shape christmas Trees! ( use cups or containers dipped in paint). I also love to do this with hand prints layered in the shape of a tree. Then my favorite part! get out the loose parts and art pieces. Decorate your Tree! 2) Gingerbread or Cinnamon Playdough! make your own playdough. this is great small motor pratice as well as a great way to built attention span, as you give step instructions. roll out the dough and encourage the children to use Cookie Cutters. (great eye hand coordination). Then either bake them or let them dry out. They Smell Great! I am also issuing a Challange with a Gift From me to you! you can read the details here!   TODAYS CHALLANGE!   Today I want to know what your favorite Holiday/ Winter Activity is and why?  Head over to my fb group and share your favorites! as a thank you ...

    Good Morning Everyone! I am back with another gift for you during my "12 Days Of Christmas".    Today I wanted to give you some examples of activites that I create when I am working with someone who is looking to Learn and Build New Skills as they Play!    Below are just a FEW of the types of things I have created for people based on what their child needs, what their child's learning style is and their current skills level.     1) Math Activities and Games 2) Science Experiences and Experiments 4) Language /Vocabulary Building Game 3) Routine Step Schedules 5) Small Motor Skill Builder Activities 6) Sensory Experiences   7) Gross Motor Games 9) Anxiety Reducing Activities for Separation and other situations ( step by step Routines) 10)  Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving Skills See Something You Want or Need to help your child Learn, Create or Engage as they Learn and Build New...