Hands on Kids Activities for Hands on Moms.
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Simple Activity: A Tape Road

To me, a tape road is a no-brainer simple activity to do.

With all boys in the house, we’re always doing ‘things that go‘. And roads are built constantly. Whether it’s from train tracks, drawing roads,

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Yarn Craft for Kids: A Circle Garland!

I’m not really sure what to call this yarn craft, because the craft got adjusted many times during the process. Remember last week when I had two failed crafts before having a success with the vehicle tracks painting? Well, this is one

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Washing Toys Water Activity for Toddlers

One of the most basic water activities you can do is to wash the toys.

Its a perfect indoor water activity for toddlers to do. Just make sure to prep just a bit so there’s not a complete mess to clean up.

I laid

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7 Tips for Toddler Activities While You’re Busy With the Big Kids

Today is an exciting day! Today, we’re bringing the Top 20 Moms to Follow on Pinterest to our blogs. I am super thrilled to have Alissa of Creative with Kids sharing with you today. She is the guru of solving

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A ‘Spy Game’ Scavenger Hunt

A fun and easy way to get the kids moving. Go on a ‘spy game’ scavenger hunt.

Scavenger hunts are always a hit here. It’s an easy way I can get the boys moving without little effort on my end. And they love,

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Mixing Colors on the Window

I set up an activity for mixing colors, without actually mixing them physically, just with light.

As you may know, I love activities and crafts for the window. We have a huge picture window in our living room that just

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Reuse Lotion for a Smelling Sensory Activity

A sensory activity can be done with almost anything!

As the simplify part of the Seventh Generation 7 day Journey to Natural Beauty, I did some spring cleaning and found an entire basket full of lotions that I haven’t

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Fine Motor Activity: Rubber Band Passing Game

A fine motor activity that focuses on hand strength using rubber bands.

I called this activity a game to my boys. They were super excited to play the game and wanted to know what it was called. I didn’t

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Painting with Eggs & Rolling Balls

Gets the kids moving and creative at the same time while painting with eggs. Just the plastic Easter egg kind, not real ones! [Though that brings an idea...]

It’s sometimes hard to do a toddler art activity when all they do is just sit

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Learning with Blocks: Shapes & Colors

I went back to the basics for George to learn shapes and colors with a block activity since he’s been all about the blocks lately.

A very fast setup [excuse the scribbles on the paper!]. While the boys were

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St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Wreath

We’ve been having some fun with St. Patrick’s Day crafts and decorating the house with plenty of rainbows and shamrocks! We added to the collection with a shamrock wreath to display.

Henry and I made a wreath

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Sort by Color Button Activity

A simple sort by color activity for toddlers. This is simplified to make it as easy as it gets for toddlers just learning their colors.

George has been slowly learning his colors. Ever so slowly. Some days it seems like he gets it

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Shamrock Window Craft for St Patrick’s Day

We made these shamrock suncatchers to hang in the window! So pretty and an easy toddler craft for St. Patrick’s Day.

 

 

Here’s how Henry and I made our shamrock craft for St. Patrick’s Day,

I laid out a piece of contact paper, sticky side up. Henry added

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Pick up Blocks! A Fine Motor Activity

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!

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Homemade Heart Bird Feeder

Make your very own homemade heart shaped bird feeder to feed the birds this February for Valentine’s Day and National Bird Feeding Month!

 

 

I’ve been seeing these a lot around blogs lately so I wasn’t sure if

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Valentine Letter Learning & Matching Activity

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