Tales from Marydale Lane

Hi! I’m Maddie Van Buskirk, an early learning educator for a children’s museum. Welcome to Marydale Lane, a blog sharing my love of children’s picture books and creative process art.

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View fullsize Beading! A combination of fine motor strengthening, color recognition, patterning (an early math skill), counting, spelling, and a beautiful celebration of pride! 🌈 . 🏷 #earlylearning #earlylearningactivities #preschoolactivities #earlymath #pridei
View fullsize Happy Pride Month! I just posted some of my favorite activities for color mixing and exploring rainbows in art on my blog- check out the link in my story or you can find it through the link in my bio! 🌈 🏷 #pridemonth #artactivitiesforkids #toddler
View fullsize May is AAPI Month! I posted a few of my favorite picture books by AAPI creators on my blog- the post is linked in my story and my blog as a whole is linked in my bio. Of course I had to start off with A Big Mooncake for Little Star by the wonderful @
View fullsize Slime play! Stretching slime, pressing manipulatives like gems or pebbles into slime and pulling them back out, as well as using scissors to cut slime ALL contribute to building pre-writing fine motor skills, and that’s besides the fact that it