Hands on kids activities for hands on moms.
Holy cow there are a lot of ways to decorate Easter eggs! From homemade natural dyes to decoupaging to using your hot glue gun!
Branch out your ways of decorating Easter Eggs with one of these 26 new creative ideas!
We’ve tried a couple of these methods you 
Its time to get outside with some of these fun outdoor activities for kids, that are simple enough to do right now!
I love this time of year. Well, not exactly quite yet. There’s still snow this year! But
It’s the week of St. Patrick’s Day and we’ve got some kids activities that we’ve done for it!
Rainbows and Shamrocks seem to be what we like around here…
What do you think of when you think of St. Patrick’s Day?
Rainbow Activities &
Earlier this week I featured a bunch of simple spring crafts for kids to do since spring is right around the corner. As a part of that, there are 12 rainbow activities that make
I am seriously excited to share this collection of spring crafts for the kids. Why? Because that means spring is just about here! Goodbye snow!
As we’re not the craftiest kids around, we like to keep them as simple as possible.
What do you
We have been loving fine motor activities! George seems to prefer these types of activities, so we tend to do a lot of them!
To have some quick activities ready to go, I started jotting ideas to do that are great for fine
Sensory activities are almost always a no fail activity. It opens the door for free play. It lets the kids explore a material. And its just fun!
Sensory activities tend to end in a mess at our house. But if you’re not a
Valentine’s Day has got to be the funnest holiday for the kids to do crafts and activities! They always just love it and we always go overboard with all the hearts!
George cannot get enough hearts! Every day he wants to do something
I’ve been on the lookout for some simple, and of course, cute Valentines for school. I’d love for Henry to be able to make the Valentines for his class this year.
As I’ve been browsing for ideas, I can’t help but find so
Learning activities for toddlers are pretty much as basic as it gets when it comes to intentional learning activities.
These learning activities are more to introduce a concept to the toddler, then to test his knowledge on it.
Some basic things an older toddler
I have a thing for using tape in activities, and tape resist art is a fun way to be creative with it!
I love using tape resist art as a cool way for toddlers to do an art project
These are my top 10 indoor activities that I’ve done with my kids as they were toddlers. Since its winter time, and in Iowa, its freezing cold, I gotta have a handful of these up my sleeve.
Indoor activities are great to have
We’re going to walk through what it means to be a hands on mom, from A to Z.
I’ve talked previously on how to become a hands on mom by overcoming some common hurdles,
Some tips for keeping it clean while having lots of messy play fun from Growing a Jeweled Rose.
A messy way to play in the new year!
Hello, my name is Crystal, writer and creator of the play based website
Learning activities enforce a child’s knowledge of what they’re already learning through play.
These activities are usually best received when your kid is interested in the topic already. It is almost impossible to force a child, of preschool age or younger for sure,
The kids and I have had a blast with Christmastime activities this year! I thought I’d place them all in one spot, along with some of my faves from last year!
With one week to Christmas, there’s plenty of time to do a
I’m not sure where this entire fall went, but its already Thanksgiving next week! And that means Christmas is way too close already!
Since we haven’t been doing a lot of crafting lately [because
