Our Winter Wonderland post is a potato print penguin with a wintery scene!
My daughter loves penguins, so when I signed up to participate in blogging with the other Winter Wonderland bloggers, I knew what that I wanted to do a fun arts/crafts involving a penguin! At first I was thinking of making a styrofoam penguin, but we are low on funds at the moment so I wanted a cheaper craft that was still fun to do! Thus, the idea of potato print penguins was born!
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Our Winter Wonderland post is a potato print penguin with a wintery scene!
My daughter loves penguins, so when I signed up to participate in blogging with the other Winter Wonderland bloggers, I knew what that I wanted to do a fun arts/crafts involving a penguin! At first I was thinking of making a styrofoam penguin, but we are low on funds at the moment so I wanted a cheaper craft that was still fun to do! Thus, the idea of potato print penguins was born!
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This week for letter O has been all about otters! Esmeralda and I have been reading Oscar Otter, an I Can Read Book by Nathaniel Benchley. Since we have been enjoying that book, we chose to continue the otter theme by adding it to our nature alphabet book this week! We found our facts from otter-world.com. Here is some of what we learned below:
Consume mainly fish even though most assume most of diet from plants and berries!
Males are called meowters, females are queens, and 
In this week’s addition for my tiny tot, you will find a bedtime book, gross motor skills, fun after nap-time activity, and a fun arts/crafts activity! Look below to see what we have for you!
Bedtime Reading:
This week’s bedtime story was not something my tiny tot (20 months) enjoyed. We read Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. He would only pay attention for a couple of pages. I think there are just too many words to listen to. However, I kept reading it anyway because I 
This cute cheerio necklace is such a simple and easy activity to do with your young ones! The best part is they can do most of this all by themselves while working on their fine motor skills and you most likely already have all of this at your home! It also makes for a fine snack when done!
What You Need:
Cereal with a hole in it (i.e. Cheerios, Froot Loops, etc.)
Yarn or string
Scissors to cut the string
What You Do:
Measure string around child's neck and then cut at 
Each week, I will feature five posts that were linked to the previous week’s Kid’s Co-Op linky to share with you!
Creative Kid Snacks has brought the kid out of me after seeing these awesome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle apples. I cannot wait to make and share these with my kids and husband as a surprise one of these days.
If you are looking for a fun 3D craft, take a look at this 3-D snowplow craft to do with your boys, or even girls who are into big vehicles like this, from Reading 
For letter N, Esmeralda and I wanted to take a look at a flower so we ended up looking at the Narcissus. There is actually a lot of interesting facts about the Narcissus that was a learning experience even for me! We got our information from The Flower Expert. Here is some of what we learned:
Most popular flower in Germany!
Some species include jonquils, daffodils, and paper whites!
Mostly native to the Mediterranean region!
Available from November to April!
Most common species 
Welcome to Day 5, the last day of the Kid Blogger Network ABC series. Here at Home Learning Journey, we are exploring the ABC’s of raising toddlers! Today includes letters U through Z.
U: Unconditional Love
Anyone who has children completely understands that you never knew how much love you could have for a person until you have children! These little toddlers just have a way of melting your heart. No matter if they are pretending that they cannot hear 
Each week, I will feature five posts that were linked to the previous week’s Kid’s Co-Op linky to share with you!
CAUTION! Twins at Play has an awesome post for a DIY water ramp that I know my kids would love to play with since they love playing in water.
This yarn octopus from Simply Home caught my eye as soon as I saw it because it is so cute, and we are doing our own octopus craft next week!
Learn Create Love has a fun winter craft for you: snowman art!
These paper roll flower