Easter Playsilk Basket and April Curriculum Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to the winner of our Sarah's Silks Easter Basket Giveaway, Alana Hyrtle! 

Alana was randomly selected out of all of those who entered and will receive a beautiful playsilk basket worth $100 as well as an April Early Childhood Curriculum from Little Acorn Learning! 

Thank you to all who participated!

Easter Playsilk Basket Giveaway from Sarah's Silks

A warm March welcome to Little Acorn Learning's newest Sponsor, Sarah's Silks!

I can't begin to tell you how special Sarah's Silks have been to my family and business all of these years. It still amazes me how something so very simple can bring so much joy to a child like these beautiful playsilks do.

Not only have they been so special for the children in my life, they are also such a beautiful way to decorate for the seasons. I've used them for our nature tables, to fill our Easter baskets, under a pretty bouquet of flowers on our dinner table and so many other ways.

Some flashback photos:

Their simplicity is what is so amazing about them. They inspire free, creative and independent play that sparks the imagination. A blue silk can be a river, a green can be the grass.. I've used a pretty yellow silk rolled up as the sun in many of  my circles when I was teaching at the Waldorf school. I can't begin to tell you how many forts have been built in my little school and Kindergarten class with play clips and silks.

That's why I am so extremely excited about today's giveaway. Sarah's Silks is generously offering to give one free Easter Playsilk Basket (a value of $100!) to a lucky Little Acorn winner!  And just for fun, we've decided to throw in our April Early Childhood Curriculum too (a $18.75 value)!

Here's what is included in the offer:

Simple Easter Basket
Green playsilk
Blue playsilk
Playsilk Wings/Cape
Hair Garland
Two Play Clips
Play Wand
April Early Childhood Curriculum

Here's how to enter (as simple as 1-2-3):  

1. Follow Little Acorn Learning and Sarah's Silks on Facebook and Instagram
2. Comment Here, on the Facebook Post or Instagram Post
3. Tag 3 Friends if you comment on FB or IG or share the link to this blog post with 3 friends

Commenters on all three formats will be pooled together and a winner will be randomly selected and announced on March 26, 2019. Only one chance per person so you can comment wherever you wish. 

Best of luck!  

Bird Study and Nature Notebook Journaling

Supplies Needed:

Bird Binoculars

Nature Notebooks from September Monthly Curriculum

Crayons/Watercolor Pencils/Pencils or Pens

Bird Field Book from Public Library (optional)

After your morning circle, take the children Bird Watching. Take along binoculars, a field book from your local library, your nature notebooks and something to color and write with for your journaling. As you walk, share this week’s nature verse and help the children look for birds.   

Suggestions for Small Children:

Print out photos or draw the types of birds you saw on your walk and have the children glue them to their Nature Notebooks. If a bird holds a certain color, have the child color along side of the photo with that crayon. Count how many birds you saw on your nature hike today and make a note of it. Have children draw a picture of the weather outside during your hike. Have children draw a picture of the birds they saw or other interesting things they came across.

Suggestions for Older Children:

You can take this experience a step further depending on the age of your child. If you brought a field book along, have children journal about the types of birds they saw and their specific names and attributes. Have them make note of the weather, the behavior of the birds and the color and size of each. They can make a quick sketch, write poetry or just write about their day.  

Enter Our April 2019 Photo Contest

This Month's Theme:  Gardening with Children

1. Follow @littleacornlearning on Instagram 

2. Post and tag us in no more than 3 photos per family or school @littleacornlearning

3. Tag 3 friends in the comments here to do the same: www.instagram.com/littleacornlearning

We will then share the photos and ask our Community to vote and click the ones they LIKE the best! Please understand entering this contest gives Little Acorn Learning permission to use your photos in the contest and future marketing with credit to you. 

Be sure to LIKE your own photos on our Facebook Page and ask family and friends to do the same. 

The winners of our contest will receive a FREE e-book of their choice from Little Acorn Learning. 

Our contest will end on April 15th and votes will be tallied. 

Best of luck!