This is a quick block activity to promote fine motor skills for the toddlers that just loves blocks! Add in an everyday item such as your kitchen tongs, and it makes it fun and exciting to just pick up blocks!
Fruity O’s Rainbow Color Craft
February 14, 2013 by 24 Comments
This is a fun rainbow craft for kids to practice their colors. Use whatever colored cereal you have to make this colorful rainbow!
Rainbows are a great medium for kids to practice their colors, you could also go on
Valentine Letter Learning & Matching Activity
February 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
Match up Scrabble letter tiles to candy hearts for a letter learning activity that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day!
The boys have been begging for a water activity lately. And seriously, I am just blank lately!
This is what I came up with… though I
Match Upper & Lowercase Letters Bracelet
January 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
Henry matched upper and lowercase letters to make a bracelet for Valentine’s Day using letter beads and Valentine’s Day words.
He often comes home from school with a bracelet that he made. He is always so incredibly proud of it, and wears it
Wrapping Paper Snowflakes
December 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Henry and I made some cool snowflakes from wrapping paper!
See how we did it over on Kiwi Crate’s The Studio!
Cutting snowflakes are great cutting practice for a preschooler and work their fine motor skills.
Cotton Bud [Q-Tip] Snowflake Craft
November 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
Welcome Maggy from Red Ted Art as she shares a lovely winter craft!
Last year, she shared her gingerbread house Christmas cards, this year, Maggy is sharing a snowflake craft!
Well, it is
Gingerbread Mummy Halloween Treats
October 23, 2012 by 6 Comments
As you may already know, we own a bakery. The boys spend a lot of time there with Dad and I. Dad does the baking, I decorate cakes.
It wasn’t too long ago that someone passed along a photo to me of these
Fine Motor Activities on It’s Playtime
October 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
Since I shared a few gross motor activities to do last week on It’s Playtime, I thought I’d turn it around and focus on the little things, like a few fine motor activities.
To have lots of inspiration
Fine Motor Activity with Drawer Knobs & Screws
September 4, 2012 by 4 Comments
Another toddler busy play activity!
I’ve been after my husband for some nuts and bolts. I know he has a bunch somewhere [he saves absolutely everything, I'm sure he has a stash!]. I decided to take a look
Sidewalk Chalk Drawing & Mark Making
August 14, 2012 by 4 Comments
Sidewalk chalk has never really been a hit here before.
We don’t have the smoothest sidewalks or a very smooth driveway. So I’ve just never pushed it. I don’t even enjoy drawing with it on it, so why should they? [I’d
Drawing Activity: Chalkboard Connect the Dots
July 30, 2012 by 4 Comments
I found a simple way to have Henry work on writing [fine motor skills] as well as refreshing his counting skills.
I also wanted to give him confidence that he could create drawings with just simple lines.
Using
Push Pin Geoboard: Made by Child!
July 15, 2012 by 4 Comments
A geoboard has been on my list of things to make for the kids for a long, long time. They’ve always seemed like such a great means to work on fine motor skills but yet letting the kids
Toddler Fine Motor Exploration with Clothespins
July 10, 2012 by 3 Comments
Clothespins! Perfect for those little fingers!
I was thinking about pinching the spring-type clothespins and how great that would be for hand strengthening. But, I found that I had a bunch of these old-fashioned ones too [we had both types out].
A bucket and
Make Your Own [Life-Size] American Flag
June 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
The American Flag is awesome for learning!
There’s patterning, there’s counting to be had, working on fine motor skills, and I even thought measuring could be mixed into this activity,
Play Dough with Tees, Straws & Pipe Cleaners
June 14, 2012 by 2 Comments
A simple play prompt.
Play dough. Tees. Straws. And pipe cleaners added later.
The boys and I made play dough and I simply added these items to it.
It was a great sensory activity because the play dough was still even warm from making
Simple Straw-Threaded Shoestring Necklace
June 7, 2012 by 6 Comments
I don’t think is can get much more basic than threading with straws, can it?
That’s what I’m all about lately. Getting back to the basics. The simple activities. That are easy to whip up and stuff I have [and you probably do
Toddler Activity: Pipe Cleaner Sprinkles
April 10, 2012 by 15 Comments
We have these little containers from the bakery that hold glitter. When I empty them, I just can’t throw them away. They seem so useful for something.
They’re like a giant spice container with huge holes. If you don’t have anything like this
