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Learning While Traveling: 3 Free Activity Packs
There are so many wonderful learning opportunities for kids when traveling. I made 3 free travel packs for kindergarteners, grade school kids, and pre-teens so you can try these activities with your kids on your next trip. If they like them, you can use The Trip Clip website to print hundreds more activity pages just … Continue reading Learning While Traveling: 3 Free Activity Packs
Spelling Word Search Puzzles: 1st-5th Grades
The Trip Clip has built-in spelling curriculum for 1st-5th grades based on these word lists from k-12reader.com: 1st grade2nd grade3rd grade4th grade5th grade Make your own You can use The Trip Clip website to make as many word search puzzles as you want using the built-in spelling words. You can also enter your own spelling … Continue reading Spelling Word Search Puzzles: 1st-5th Grades
Backyard Scavenger Hunt
Try it now Edit it A customer asked me a while back to add more clipart that would help them make a backyard scavenger hunt. I recently added a bunch of clipart to the Custom List, including some images kids can find in their backyard. What else would you put on your list?
4 Checklists to Survive the Summer with Kids
With kids out of school for the summer, rhythms and childcare you've counted on the rest of the year fall away. Some families thrive with this lack of structure, but others could benefit from returning at least a little of that structure to their summer days! Here are four checklists that can help. You can … Continue reading 4 Checklists to Survive the Summer with Kids
Unconventional Summer Learning Ideas
Summer is a great time to work on skills with your kids that they won't learn in school. From life skills, to establishing a fitness routine, to building good reading associations, there's lots you can teach your kids this summer. Parents can print the packet I created to use with their kids, and teachers can … Continue reading Unconventional Summer Learning Ideas
Summer Fun with Kids
Here are some ideas for how to have fun with your kids this summer. All of these can be printed or used on your phone for free. You can also use The Trip Clip website to edit them if you want to make any changes. Try it now Edit it Try it free Edit it … Continue reading Summer Fun with Kids
Share the Load: A workbook for parents striving to be equal partners
My husband and I have worked hard to share our parenting responsibilities as equally as possible because we're aware that even when women work full time outside the home, more of the childcare and housework still falls on them. Sharing these tasks equally has been pretty tricky for many reasons, from defining 'fair' (especially once … Continue reading Share the Load: A workbook for parents striving to be equal partners
100 New Clipart Images
I've added more clipart to The Trip Clip website again - this time for the Custom List. There are 100 new images you can use to make your own picture list, bringing the total number of images to 1800. It's too many to easily put into a single image, so here's an example of some … Continue reading 100 New Clipart Images
New Social Skills Clipart
In the last couple of months I've made a number of new checklists to help teachers and parents work on social skills and social emotional learning with kids. I've needed a bunch of clipart that wasn't available on the social skills activity, so I've added it! There are now 56 new images in the social … Continue reading New Social Skills Clipart
Teaching Kids About Mental Load
The term mental load, also called cognitive labor, refers to the invisible, intangible tasks involved in running a household. It's the work of planning, organizing, managing, and thinking that is often overlooked. Women traditionally take on more of the mental load, without pay and often without acknowledgement of how much time and energy it takes. … Continue reading Teaching Kids About Mental Load
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