Vegetable Flashcards

Fall is finally here and I’m excited to finally have Vegetable Flashcards in the line up. These were so much fun to illustrate and so perfect for those fall sensory bins. Some of the more obscure veggies are hilarious to hear Sofie practice. Here’s a list of ideas for how to use these flashcards for different kinds of learning and play.

• Set up a farmers market stand and use the cards as signs for bins for different foods

• Pair them with fruit flashcards and have your toddler separate them out by type

• Turn them over and have your toddler pick them out and say the word for each

• Sort them by color (and match or pair with other color toys or flashcards)

• Set up a fall sensory bin using leaves, foods, chickpeas, corn and other fall foods

• March the veggies in the kitchen as you’re cooking to help with real life object identification

DIY Simple Ghost Pancakes

Have I mentioned that I love Halloween!? Okay so Halloween is definitely my favorite holiday and I’m loving all of the black and white monochrome vibes now so I had to try these little ghost pancakes. These were such a simple DIY toddler activity — I woke up this morning and decided on a whim to do it. I was able to prep it and make them all before Sofie’s morning hanger kicked in!

These little ghost pancakes were so simple to make and you don’t even need to have a steady hand to do it. I just grabbed a simple pancake recipe, plopped them on the griddle at 250, added some googley eyes and plastic spiders and bam! Spooky pancakes perfect for the holiday season.

Pancake Recipe

• 1 1/4 Cup Flour

• 1 1/2 Cup Milk

• 3 Tablespoons Butter Melted

• 1 Teaspoon salt

• 1 Tablespoon sugar

• 1 Egg

• 3 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

Halloween Boo Activity Kit

OMG! It’s spooky season and I’m so excited for all of the amazing Halloween goodies this year! I’m kicking it off with this adorable printable activity set. This set is perfect for a little Flisat table setup or you can use the pieces as decor for your Little Boo’s Halloween Party. I’m doing both this year and I’m teaming up with my favorite @CharsJar_s to bring you a spooky little collaboration.

• Printable Halloween Activity Set

• Resin Halloween Pieces

Rainbow Blocks

Okay so I got these amazing rainbow GNF colored blocks from Chars Jars Shop (use code GNF10 to save) and I’m absolutely in love. Well, I should say that Sofie is in love. So I was hoping to practice stacking, color matching, building, and sorting, but Sofie has decided that throwing them around the room the way to go! Luckily they’re super durable. I’ve been trying to have her practice with the Alphabet Placemat here by pairing colors to the letters — we’re not quite there yet. But in any case, I hope you’ve had a chance to snag one of these educational placemats from the shop. They’re so versatile! We’ve used them for learning, play dough, and during meal time. The different shapes and colors always keep Sofie entertained when it’s taking time to get dinner on the table.

Back to School Printable Classroom

This set was so much fun to design, but it was even more fun to watch Sofie play with.

• Printable Classroom: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1066224135

• Pencil bows: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SewDaintyBowtique

• Wooden Pencil: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OakAndCoshop

It’s the perfect way to get your kiddo in the mood for back to school or for your preschooler, perhaps a way to introduce them prior to their first day of school! Dramatic play is so important for kids and Sofie had so much fun learning these classroom concepts. Pretending to write on the chalkboard, practicing her ABCs, learning the alphabet, practicing telling time on the clock and practicing the days of the week were such a blast. She was quite distracted by having the apple on the board. We also used the little cards to practice school subjects. Sofie really liked the gym card because it has all of the balls on it. She kept saying, “Milo’s ball!” We played with this little setup for about two weeks and everyday Sofie would be the teacher teaching me a new subject.

School Supplies Flashcards

I’m working on an epic Back to School drop this year because I love love love all things back to school! I can’t wait to share all of the details, but first us is this awesome School Supplies Flashcard set. This flashcard set includes:

• Notebook

• Lunchbox

• Scissors

• Crayons

• Globe

• Paints

• Pencil

• Backpack

• Books

• Glue

It’s the perfect way to get your kiddo in the mood for back to school or for your preschooler, perhaps a way to introduce them prior to their first day of school! This flash card set is a great way to expose them to fun kinder-concepts as they get used to the idea of going back to school. Pictured here with these adorable wood toys from @oak.and.co Oak And Co Shop

This flash card set will be available on it’s own and as part of the BTS bundles dropping August 6-8th.

Lemonade Stand Dramatic Play

I absolutely love summer and now that we live in a little neighborhood, I finally have the opportunity to show Sofie what a real lemonade stand is all about. Not only is dramatic play great for learning life skills and practicing scenarios and situations, it’s also great for learning new words and phrases that toddlers otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to. This printable lemonade stand set is now available on the shop so that you can try it too!

LIFE SKILLS

• Pouring

• Counting money

• Writing

• Customer service

• Inventory management

• Supply and demand

• Marketing

• Temperature (hot, cold, melting)

PHRASES

• “How much does this cost?”

• “Here’s your change.”

• “Would you like more?”

• “Keep the change.”

• “Have a nice day!”

• “Thanks for stopping by.”

• “How are you today?”

Looking to snag this awesome set? Download the PDF by either signing up for the GoodnightFox Newsletter or Download from Etsy for $1.00.

Busy Littles + GoodnightFox Bugs Collaboration

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with @_busy_littles to bring you this adorable memory game card and resin pieces set. We’ll be selling these as a bundle through Busy Little’s instagram shop so don’t miss out on your chance to snag this limited edition set. Preorders begin July 10th-12th!

CharsJars + GoodnightFox Tangrams Collaboration

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with @charsjar_s to bring you this adorable Tangram Flashcard and Resin Piece play kit. We’ll be selling these as a bundle through Chars Jars Etsy Shop so don’t miss out on your chance to snag this limited edition set — Use code GNF10 to save on your order!

Rainbow marshmallows

So you all know that at my house we love edible play. Sofie is just finally rounding the corner on not putting absolutely everything into her mouth. But while she does, we love this fun foodie adventure of dying marshmallows and sorting and eating them along the way. This one was super simple to do, we just grabbed some sauce dishes and made all of the colors of the rainbow. We of course used our Goodnight Fox Rainbow Colored Flashcards to practice matching. Then we when dunked a handful in each color and mixed them around until they had absorbed as much of the color as we wanted. We set them out on paper towels to dry on a baking sheet so that the colors wouldn’t bleed into each other. But I didn’t realize that the sticky marshmallows would stick to the paper towels as they dried. So needless to say there were some casualties left behind. But it was still a ton of fun and very few ingredients and prep work involved.