Pattern and Spatial Awareness Fun ideas about how to use shapes to increase pattern and spatial awareness for toddlers and preschoolers. View this kids activity at Learning at Play! ...
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Plastic Jug Jellyfish Craft from JDaniel4’s Mom
Kids Craft: Plastic Jug Jellyfish A plastic jug, a berry container, and some ribbon and make a jellyfish mobile craft. View this crafty activity at JDaniel4's Mom! ...
100 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Kids from The Educator’s Spin On It
100 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Kids Over 100 Ideas to celebrate earth day every day with your child. You will find activities, games, printables, crafts, books and snacks all about the earth. View this kids activity at The Educators' Spin On It! ...
Slushy Science Experiment in a Baggie from Momma’s Fun World
Slushy Science Experiment in a Baggie Hands on science for kids seeing how water turns to ice. View this science experiment at Momma's Fun World! ...
Prewriting Activity: Tactile Letter Formation Cards from Play Learn Love
Tactile Letter Formation Cards A quick and easy spin off of Sandpaper Letters using glitter nail polish. Introduce your children to proper letter formation with these fun Montessori inspired tactile cards and writing rhymes! View this kids activity at Play Learn Love! ...
2 Paper Rainbow Toddler Crafts from Simple.Home.Blessings.
Toddler Craft: Paper Rainbows (2 Ways) Do you have a play date coming up with toddlers or preschoolers? Are you looking for an easy activity or craft to do with them? Here's a couple of VERY basic crafts for toddlers/preschoolers to do using stuff you probably have around your house. And it takes no time at all to multiply it for the group size you have. View this kids activity ...
Tulips Printing
Tulips Printing Fun and easy spring art project. View this kids art project at Blog Me Mom! ...
Tissue Paper Sensory Bin
Tissue Paper Sensory Bin A sensory bin designed specifically for the kids that like to rip and tear. View this sensory activity at And Next Comes L! ...
Train Rocks for Color Made Happy
Train Rocks for Teaching Colors Train rocks are great for teaching colors to kids who love anything transportation related. Learn how to easily make them and use them in a variety of activities. View this kids activity at Color Made Happy! Find more transportation activities like this for preschoolers, including crafts and our favorite books. ...
Milestone Pictures for babies and kids
Milestone Pictures for babies and kids You don't have to be a professional photographer to make these "milestone pictures"! This easy tutorial will show you how (using free photo editing software) to capture your children's like, dislikes, and important milestones a few times each year. View this kids activity at Nothing if Not Intentional! ...
Spring Yarn Tree with Spring Dot Printables
Spring Yarn Tree with Spring Dot Printables This is a fun Yarn Tree Craft. It is easy and great for fine motor skills. It is also a great way to explore the changes in seasons. View this kids activity at 3 Dinosaurs! ...
Literacy Parking Garage
Literacy Parking Garage If you are looking for a way to organize all of the cars and trucks in your house and build a literacy skill at the same time, then this activity is for you! View this kids activity at Growing Book by Book! ...
Homemade Sidewalk Chalk Paint
Homemade Sidewalk Chalk Paint Sidewalk chalk paint is so easy to make and a blast to play with! Both of my children could not get enough! View this kids activity at Buggy and Buddy! ...
Make a Pretend Bird’s Nest
Make a Pretend Bird's Nest We recently had fun making a pretend bird's nest using ribbon, thread, scraps of fabric and other materials gathered from our craft supplies. We added a few craft birds and have enjoyed plenty of imaginative play over the last few days. In addition to simply being a fun activity it was also a wonderful way to teach my son a little about birds. View this ...
Rubber Band Painting
Rubber Band Painting Have some messy fun this spring by using rubber bands to paint. This is the perfect art activity to take outside. View this kids activity at Reading Confetti! ...
Plant a Magic Seed Star
Plant a Magic Seed Star An easy, fun and inexpensive spring activity that will engage your child and ignite his learning. Plant a Magic Seed Star and watch it grow! View this kids activity at Carrots Are Orange! ...
Fun with Little Blue and Little Yellow
Fun with Little Blue and Little Yellow Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni is one of our favorite books! The story inspires so many fun writing, art and even science activities. Stop by to read all about a fun activity to do with your child after reading the story! View this kids activity at Buggy and Buddy! ...
Outdoor Gross Motor Activities
Outdoor Gross Motor Activities Lots of simple ideas for practising gross motor skills outside. View this kids activity at Let's...! ...
Graphing Fun For Preschoolers
Graphing Fun For Preschoolers Fun ways to teach graphing to your preschooler. Includes Venn Diagrams, Bar Graphs, and Coordinate Mapping. View this kids activity at Learning at Play! ...
Fine Motor Practice: String Fruit Loops onto Pipecleaners
Fine Motor Practice: String Fruit Loops onto Pipecleaners This colorful activity is wonderful for toddlers that are learning colors. Children get to work on fine motor skills while having fun building with fruit loops! The base is made out of play-dough balls. So fun! View this kids activity at For The Love of Learning! ...
Paper Shred Play!
Paper Shred Play! We don't have a shredder so we made our own paper shreds! Check out how we played with them! View this kids activity at Kz and Me! ...
Designing Playscapes: Our Playroom
Designing Playscapes: Our Playroom When we moved to our new house, I had a chance to design some fun playscapes for our children. Here is a tour of the fun elements of our playroom. View this playroom at Fun at Home with Kids! ...
Get a Free April Activity Calendar
Free April activity calendar This is a free calendar I've made for April that you can download. It has lots of ideas and links that you can click through for the how-tos or books lists. Save it to your desktop for when you need inspiration! It's not fancy, but it's fun. Get the calendar at The Usual Mayhem via Mummyology! ...
Making Handmade Paper
Making Handmade Paper Using scrap paper, a blender, a window screen and a whole bunch of water, you can make beautiful handmade paper with your kids. This is a fantastic activity to do around Earth Day because it's teaches recycling! Once the new paper dries, it can be use for cards, gift tags, art projects, and more! View this kids activity at Miss Allison's Art! ...
How Our Daughter Potty Trained Herself
How Our Daughter Potty Trained Herself Not even a month ago, it seemed like my daughter was the only child her age (almost 2 1/2) who wasn't interested in potty training. We have a little baby. I’m TIRED of all the diapers. I wanted our big girl potty trained, so I tried to force it. If only I had known then that one day, magically, our daughter would potty train herself. Okay, ...
Musical Teepee
Musical Teepee Adding a little musical teepee to an outside space is a simple, cheap and fun opportunity for developing play. View this kids activity at Wabibito! ...
Sink or Float Sensory Sink with Natural and Found Objects
Sink or Float Sensory Sink with Natural and Found Objects A quick and easy to set up activity for toddlers or preschoolers to explore the concepts of sinking and floating. Try this at the sink, in a container or outside at the water table. View this kids activity at My Nearest and Dearest! ...
Easter Pudding Painting
Easter Pudding Painting Who doesn't like chocolate. This week we painted cute eggs and bunnies with chocolate pudding! We also did some other great Easter activities like bunny ears and set up an Easter train. View this kids activity at An Idea on Tuesday! ...
Baby’s Natural Easter Basket: Wood-Burned Eggs
Baby's Natural Easter Basket: Wood-Burned Eggs Skip the plastic Easter eggs, and use beautiful, wood-burned eggs in your child's Easter basket. Solid wood eggs with hand-drawn, wood-burned designs are easy to create and will be a meaningful, natural gift for your child. You can even get your child involved by engraving their drawings onto the eggs! View this kids activity at One ...
Five Little Bunnies Printable Finger Puppets
Five Little Bunnies Printable Finger Puppets Now that spring is in full effect at our house, we have been playfully reciting the adorable rhyme "Five Little Bunnies". I designed these free printable finger puppets to use as we sing along and I'm excited to pass them on to you. View this kids activity at Playdough to Plato! ...
Dissolving Rocks
Dissolving Rocks Make dissolving "rocks" using a few ingredients you probably already have in your pantry. Hide little surprises inside for even more fun! View this kids activity at Reading Confetti! ...
Spring and Easter Sensory Tub
Spring and Easter Sensory Tub Spring and Easter sensory tub View this kids activity at Healthy Mama Info! ...
Easter Jellybean Graphing Free Printable
Easter Jellybean Graphing Free Printable A jellybean graphing activity and the die that goes with it to distract the kids. If you need something to do to steer them away from the real candy, download it and enjoy! View this kids activity at The Usual Mayhem! ...
Kids Crafts: Easter Bunny Treat Cups
Kids Crafts: Easter Bunny Treat Cups Make these cute little bunny treat cups with the kids, with just a few materials. They make perfect little baskets for friends, neighbors, teachers and more. View this kids activity at The Taylor House! ...
Documenting Your Child’s First Years
Documenting Your Child's First Years Better than a baby book! Make these simple, digital monthly "newsletters" to record the highlights of your child's growth and development and stop drowning in thousands of unsorted digital photos. View this kids activity at Kz and Me! ...
Pom Pom Drop
Pom Pom Drop A fun fine motor and sorting game for preschoolers. Super easy and frugal! View this kids activity at Dirt and Boogers! ...
Heuristic Play for Babies
Heuristic Play for Babies Heuristic play for babies. Have you heard of it? The idea is rather simple; “heuristic play” is all about letting kids interact with household objects without intervention from adults. Think: kitchen ladles instead of plastic phones and wooden napkin rings instead of battery-operated cars. Check out the box of household items we repurposed as toys for our ...
Egg Color Matching Activity
Egg Color Matching Activity Here is a simple activity that is great for toddlers learning colors. This is a great introduction to math because it is all about sorting by color. It cost me only $1 to create! View this kids activity at For The Love of Learning! ...
Foil, Feathers, Fingerpaint…Fabulous!
Foil, Feathers, Fingerpaint...Fabulous! A process-art activity for toddlers that entails finger painting on a giant foil canvas...with feathers! View this kids activity at Two-daloo! ...
Creating A Snail Garden
Creating A Snail Garden Snails are one of Jake's most favorite things... he likes to keep them as pets (for about 20 minutes) and went through a really fun phase of carrying them around with him to 'cuddle'. Now, I'm pretty laid back when it comes to mess and dirt and I really do let Jake play freely... but I really couldn't have snails in the house.. Jake was fairly reluctant to ...
Math with Thomas
Math with Thomas Use trains to practice math skills such at graphing, tally marks, and addition! View this kids activity at Royal Baloo! ...
Dirt or Mud Sensory Box
Dirt and/or Mud sensory box A fun dirt/mud sensory box for the kids to explore. Lots of ways to play in the box. View this kids activity at Frogs & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails! ...
A Special Way to Connect to Your Child
A Special Way to Connect to Your Child Using storytelling and sharing snapshots of who you were as a child makes your children feel closer to you and can serve as a valuable teaching tool. See how to Connect at Fireflies and Mud Pies! ...
Coffee Filter Spring Flowers
Coffee Filter Spring Flowers A great Spring activity. Coffee filter flowers allow kids to be creative, a little messy, is super easy to set up AND has pretty results - what could be better! View this kids activity at Making Boys Men! ...
Color Matching Garden for toddlers
Color Matching Garden for toddlers With this easy spring themed activity, kids can create their own crafts sticks garden while learning and matching colors. View this kids activity at BlogMeMom! ...
Create An Edible Sensory Garden for Children
Create An Edible Sensory Garden for Children See it. Feel it. Smell it. Taste it. Gardening takes time and effort, but an edible sensory garden can be small and easy to maintain while still activating kids senses AND allowing them to benefit from the garden experiences; responsibility and care of a living plant, harvesting, and cooking with their own harvest. View this kids ...
No Sew Easter Bunny Felt Playmat
No Sew Easter Bunny Felt Playmat A no sew felt playmat to celebrate Easter and practice counting. Includes a carrot garden with removable carrots, three bunnies, a hillside burrow, and several places to hide 15 Easter eggs! View this kids activity at Fun at Home with Kids! ...
Carrot Easter Baskets-Free Printable
Carrot Easter Baskets-Free Printable Super cute printable Easter Baskets. Perfect for Easter Egg hunts or to give as gifts. View this kids activity at My Little 3 and Me! ...
Texture Crawling for Babies
Texture Crawling for Babies Create a textured runway for your crawling baby! We used common objects from around the house to create this sensory rich runway for Kz to explore. Check it out! View this kids activity at KZ and Me! ...
Nature Walks and Photojournaling for Toddlers
Nature Walks and Photojournaling for Toddlers I just love seeing what catches the eye of my toddler while we're exploring the outdoors. One day we both grabbed our cameras and headed outside to capture a few of the sights during our nature walk. Whether a real or imaginary camera, toddlers will love snapping away and pointing out interesting items that grabs their attention! View ...
Kid Garden: Starting Plants from Seeds
Kid Friend Food Gardening - starting plants from seed. My kids and I love planting a spring veggie garden and usually start all our plants from seed. It is not as hard as it sounds! We've shared our top tips on starting plants from seed! View this kids activity at Picklebums! ...
Nature Scavenger Hunt for Kids
Nature Scavenger Hunt for Kids Get your kids active outside with a Nature Scavenger Hunt! View this kids activity! Submitted by Chrissy at The Taylor House. ...
Plastic Bottle Scoops for Sand and Water Play
How to Make Plastic Bottle Scoops for Sand and Water Play Recycle plastic bottles into child sized scoops quickly and easily. These are great for the sand pit or for water play. View this kids activity! Submitted by Picklebums. ...
Make a Wind Catcher
Make a Wind Catcher Learn how to make a wind catcher from items you pick up in nature. View this kids activity! Submitted by Trisha Stanley. ...
Making Shiny Easter Eggs with Syrup
Making Shiny Easter eggs with syrup Painting with syrup is so much fun and it creates beautiful glossy and shiny pictures. View this kids activity! Submitted by Scribble Doodle and Draw. ...
Colors of Spring
Colors of Spring Go on a color hunt in your backyard or local park discovering early spring flowers in various colors. View this kids activity! Submitted by Cerys at Rainy Day Mum. ...
Sunlight Science
Sunlight Science Teach kids about light refraction with this fun science experiment for kids. View this kids activity! Submitted by Janine LaTulippe. ...
Giant Dot-to-Dot for Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Giant Dot-to-Dot for Fine and Gross Motor Skills Make a giant dot-to-dot to get kids using their fine and gross motor skills together! View this kids activity! Submitted by Erica at What Do We Do All Day?. ...
Felt Board Easter Eggs
Felt Board Easter Eggs Decorating (and redecorating!) Easter Eggs on a felt board is a simple, creative holiday activity that even the littlest hands will enjoy! View this kids activity! Submitted by Melissa Lennig. ...
Montessori Inspired Easter Activities
Montessori Inspired Easter Activities Easter themed Montessori maths activities View this kids activity! Submitted by Isil Simsek. ...
Tips for Tummy Time with your little one.
Tips for Tummy Time with your little one. 5 Tips for Tummy Time Success. Perfect activity for little one's development. View this kids activity! Submitted by Simple. Home. Blessings.. ...
Recycled Jars Rainbow Luminaries
Recycled Jars Rainbow Luminaries Recycle Glass Jars to Rainbow Luminaries for St. Patrick's Day View this kids activity! Submitted by Esther. ...
Finger Leg Puppets!
Finger Leg Puppets! We had loads of fun creating puppets that use our fingers as their legs! There's a free printable template to help make this activity easy for everyone to enjoy. View this kids activity! Submitted by Picklebums. ...
How to Dye Easter Eggs with Kool-Aid
How to Dye Easter Eggs with Kool-Aid Looking for a fun, different way to dye Easter Eggs this year? Try Kool-Aid! We had a great time last year and ended up with gorgeous eggs. It was also quite frugal - after sales and coupons the Kool-Aid was free! View this kids activity! Submitted by Michelle@SimplifyLiveLove. ...
Friendship High Fives
Friendship High Fives We wanted to surprise my son's friends by sending them "high-fives" through the mail. We were able to think about friendship, and let his friends know why we love them! View this kids activity! Submitted by Carolyn @ The Pleasantest Thing. ...
Color Lab: A Messy Playdate and Language Stimulation Activity
Color Lab: A Messy Playdate and Language Stimulation Activity A messy playdate for toddlers incorporating color mixing, cornstarch "goop," and language stimulation ideas to get your little ones talking! Includes extension activities for older children. View this kids activity! Submitted by Stephanie at Twodaloo. ...
St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin & Learning Activities
St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin & Learning Activities Encourage sensory exploration as little ones search for gold and other treasures in this St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin. You'll also find ideas to incorporate language and math skills into playtime. View this kids activity! Submitted by Shaunna at Fantastic Fun and Learning. ...
Help the Leprechaun Find His Gold
Help the Leprechaun Find His Gold (5 days of activities) Search for two gold coins every day for five days until you can return all 10 of the leprechaun's missing coins. Links to each day of activities from the initial post here. View this kids activity! Submitted by Fun At Home With Kids. ...
Easter Activities for Babies and Toddlers
Easter Activities for Babies and Toddlers Easter is just around the corner. Here are some fun Hands on activities, crafts, books and sign language for your baby or toddler to enjoy for Easter! Don't wait! Bring out the eggs and bunnies now for hours of fun! View this kids activity! Submitted by Kim Vij at The Educators' Spin On It. ...
Color Mixing Lab
Color Mixing Lab What happens when you mix red and blue? Let your kids find out with this fun hand-on color mixing lab. View this kids activity! Submitted by Terri at Creative Family Fun. ...
Bring Culture & Anti-Bias Learning into Your Home & Classroom
Bring Culture & Anti-Bias Learning into Your Home & Classroom Cultural and Anti-Bias activities belong in Early Childhood classrooms. This post includes several easy ways to integrate and introduce these concepts to young children. View this kids activity! Submitted by Marnie Craycroft. ...
Making a Bookmark with Tear Art
Making a Bookmark with Tear Art Here's a fun little project to make using materials you probably already have at home! These tear art bookmarks are great for little hands and make the perfect gift for loved ones. View this kids activity! Submitted by Chelsey~ Buggy and Buddy. ...
Capture Nature in these Ice Sun Catchers
Capture Nature in these Ice Sun Catchers Winter crafts are more fun when you let the kids outside! Display your nature collection this winter in these beautiful ice sun catchers. Even if you live in a warm climate, kids can make them in the freezer and then hang them outside! View this kids activity! Submitted by Becky at KidWorldCitizen.org. ...
Dinosaur Tracks Matching Activity
Dinosaur Tracks Matching Activity Practice observation skills by matching dinosaurs to their tracks! View this kids activity! Submitted by Sara @ Mom Endeavors. ...
Shaving Cream and Colored Sand
Shaving Cream and Colored Sand Shaving cream is a fun sensory material for kids to play with. To enhance the fun I added some colored sand in. View this kids activity! Submitted by Roopa at Putti's World. ...
Hole punch rainbow cards
Hole punch rainbow cards A really fun way to preserve kids art work and create cards View this kids activity! Submitted by The Fairy and The Frog. ...
Hexi Cards – Download, print and play!
Hexi Cards - Download, print and play! Free printable 'hexi cards' are a simple idea that are lots of fun for all ages. View this kids activity! Submitted by Picklebums. ...
Rainbow Suncatchers
Rainbow Suncatchers Use plastic beads to create a beautiful rainbow suncatcher - just in time for St. Patrick's Day! View this kids activity! Submitted by Melissa Lennig. ...
Shamrock Mosaics
Shamrock Mosaics Use up all those construction paper scraps to make this Shamrock Mosaics. View this kids activity! Submitted by Roopa at Putti's World. ...
Finger Paint a Rainbow
Finger Paint a Rainbow Lots of fun for toddlers, with a great lesson about color mixing - we're finger painting a rainbow! View this kids activity! Submitted by Cathy @ NurtureStore. ...
Shamrock Science for Kids
Shamrock Science for Kids This is a fun hands on science with a holiday twist to it for kids. View this kids activity! Submitted by Catherine at Momma's Fun World. ...
Make a Rainbow Marshmallow Science Experiment
Make a Rainbow Marshmallow Science Experiment Create a rainbow of colors with this simple science discovery activity for preschoolers. View this kids activity! Submitted by Shaunna @ Fantastic Fun and Learning. ...
Marbleized Rainbow Clover Garland
Marbleized Rainbow Clover Garland A rainbow shamrock garland for St. Patrick's Day. View this kids activity! Submitted by Jaime. ...
How to Make a Rainbow
How to Make a Rainbow Learn how to make a rainbow like the ones you see in the sky using materials you probably have on hand. View this kids activity! Submitted by Trisha Stanley. ...
Practice Printing Bags
Printing bags A fun way to practice printing shapes, letters, sight words and more! View this kids activity! Submitted by Scribble Doodle and Draw. ...
Plate Rainbow
Plate Rainbow Make a rainbow scene with a painted styrofoam plate. View this kids activity! Submitted by Suja@Blogmemom. ...
Sensory Salads
Sensory Salads A fun sensory activity for children of any age! For my older child it was about color recognition and for the younger whom I watch it was about discovering soft. View this kids activity! Submitted by Gail Alvarez. ...
Rainbow Car Paintings
Rainbow Car Paintings Use play to teach your kids about colors by making a rainbow using paint and cars! View this kids activity! Submitted by Megan Sheakoski. ...
Rainbow Colored Rice
Colored Rice Kids can help make this colored rice - and so many things you can do with it afterwards! View this kids activity! Submitted by Georgina @ Craftulate. ...
Shaving Cream Rainbows
Shaving Cream Rainbows Combine learning about color mixing and sensory play by making shaving cream rainbows! View this kids activity! Submitted by Megan Sheakoski. ...
St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Sink
St. Patrick's Day Sensory Sink St. Patrick's Day sensory sink is a great way to keep kids busy and they learn while playing. View this kids activity! Submitted by Jaime at Frogs & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails. ...
Dinosaur Fossil Sensory Excavation
Dinosaur Fossil Sensory Excavation This is a dinosaur fossil excavation sensory activity. This is great for toddlers and preschoolers who put everything in their mouth, the dirt is edible! This is a fun and hands-on way to learn about dinosaur fossils while enjoying a great sensory experience. View this kids activity! Submitted by Brittany @ Love, Play, Learn. ...
Alphabet Photo Scavenger Hunt
Alphabet Photo Scavenger Hunt Photo scavenger hunt through the house for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet. Fun way to practice letter sounds and budding photography skills. View this kids activity! Submitted by Fun At Home With Kids. ...
A COLORful Scavenger Hunt
A COLORful Scavenger Hunt An easy-to-set-up, fun, & frugal activity all about color! Send your kids on a scavenger hunt throughout your house to find examples of color. View this kids activity! Submitted by Terri @ Creative Family Fun. ...
Steam Train Table Tent
Table Tent - Steam Train A tent to go over a table, with felt steam train decorations. Also a door and window. Looks super cute and great for little boys to hide inside! View this kids activity! Submitted by Georgina @ Craftulate. ...
Homemade flannel board
Home made flannel board Flannel boards are great for all kinds of fun learning activities. Find out how to make your own! View this kids activity! Submitted by Castle View Academy ...
Wet and Dry Sensory Play: Learning About Opposites
Wet and Dry Sensory Play: Learning About Opposites Encourage toddlers and preschoolers to learn about opposites with this fun messy play activity. Compare wet and dry materials from the cupboard. View this kids activity! Submitted by Shaunna at Fantastic Fun and Learning. ...
Math Games
Math Games 3 math games you can play at breakfast, to work on addition, counting, and learning odd and even numbers. We add a bit of extra fun by using Lego pieces! View this kids activity! Submitted by Carolyn at The Pleasantest Thing. ...
Create a Food Themed ABC Book
Create a Food Themed ABC Book Make a food themed ABC book with your preschooler! View this kids activity! ...