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 
Fine Motor Activity: Rubber Band Passing Game
March 13, 2013 by 4 Comments
Egg Scavenger Hunt to Make Words
March 12, 2013 by 4 Comments
I set up a fun scavenger hunt with plastic eggs, with a twist of making words by matching up the found letters.
Set up for the Egg Scavenger Hunt:
I wrote a few spring related words on a piece of
Egg Splatter Painting for Easter
March 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
The boys made these eggs by doing splatter painting with a toothbrush. It was a new way for them to paint and they had fun with it!
Grab some old toothbrushes to splatter paint with! I always save our old ones for cleaning
Learning with Blocks: Shapes & Colors
March 6, 2013 by
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
4 Instruments for Kids to Make from Kiwi Crate
February 26, 2013 by 8 Comments
The Making Music activity kit from Kiwi Crate is full of instruments for kids to make! Time to make some music!
I got this chance to review a Kiwi Crate, they offer single crates, or activity kits, to order [instead of the
Water Activity with Newspaper
February 20, 2013 by 3 Comments
This is one water activity that actually just grosses me out… I have a thing against certain items being wet… bread especially, but paper isn’t much different. The wet newspaper is not something I’d like to touch myself.
But, oh did my
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt with Clues
February 19, 2013 by 5 Comments
We love scavenger hunts! I took this rainbow one a step further than we usually do and made it a scavenger hunt with clues!
I even made the clues a printable for you to print off yourself to do your own rainbow
Simple Valentine Craft: Make a Vase!
February 8, 2013 by
We are just about Valentine’d out after all this Valentine craftiness that we’ve been doing! But we just had to do a quick bottle craft to make vases to put some flowers in for Valentine’s Day! [ahem... hint hint hubby!]
These vases are
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
Sensory Activity: Dry Pasta Noodles
January 29, 2013 by 3 Comments
Pasta noodles make for a great sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers to explore with their sense or touch and even sound.
I set out a tub of macaroni noodles along with several items to play with.
Items to include for this touch and
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
Kids Designs for Tissue Boxes
January 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
After voting in the White Cloud Tissue Box Designs [through their Voting App] for the Children’s Miracle Network, I was so inspired to make our own tissue box designs!
Henry wasn’t too excited about it until I showed
Building with Blocks & Technology
January 15, 2013 by 2 Comments
Using the iPad as a guide for building with blocks brings technology into a real hands on activity. Photos can be taken of any tower of blocks to rebuild!
What’s awesome is that once you get your child started with this activity, they’ll
Snowman Craft from Tin Cans!
January 9, 2013 by 8 Comments
This snowman craft [that's also a wind chime] was so fun. I’ve had this idea in my the entire fall and couldn’t wait to have the time to do it with the boys!
Things started rocky, for sure, but I do love the
Box Train made from Cardboard Boxes
December 31, 2012 by 6 Comments
A box train got made over the holidays with all the packaging and cardboard boxes!
This year I did almost all [probably 98%!] of my Christmas shopping online, so boxes were in plenty this year.
I didn’t let the boys play with them
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.
