Unleash Your Creativity with Pop-Up Cards This is one of my favorite holiday crafts! 🎉 Once you make one pop-up card, you can whip up a few more and turn them into a whole pop-up book that kids will absolutely gobble up! 🦃 All you need is cardstock, scissors, crayons or markers, and a sprinkle of imagination. These pop-up projects are not just fun; they’re a fantastic creative literacy activity for kids. I first got hooked on making pop-ups after taking a workshop with Robe

Norbert is a Worry Wart. And he loves to show up (especially at bedtime) to list every single thing that could go wrong. 🙄 Sound familiar? Your kids—or the kids you work with—might not have a Norbert yet. But chances are... they’ve got worries. Big ones. Small ones. Sneaky ones. And that’s where Norbert comes in. Why Give Worry a Name? When kids give their anxiety a name, a face, and even a goofy voice, something amazing happens: Worry becomes easier to handle. Instead of

Did you know… Snakes smell with their tongues?🐝 Bees hear with their legs? These wild facts recently sent me tumbling down a rabbit hole of story ideas about how different creatures use their senses to explore the world. (Stay tuned—there may be a book called Taste with Your Feet in the works!) But in the meantime… Let’s talk senses —and how we can use them to help kids manage stress and anxiety. 🌈 A Simple, Sensory Trick for Calming Nerves One of my favorite quick tools

It’s back-to-school time…Woohoo! Or should I say…Choo Choo! 🚂🚂🚂 Back-to-school can be such a fun time of year–new teachers, new friends, new experiences.  It can also be a stressful time of year–new teachers, new friends, new experiences. 🤣 That’s why I created LESS STRESS EXPRESS, a series of ten short videos with simple fun exercises to help kids (and adults!) calm down, relax, and banish worries. In case you haven’t guessed by now, it has a train theme. 🛤️ 🚃 As we pu