These materials and activity ideas will definitely come in handy to keep kids busy when I just gotta get something done!
I have been trying my best to prepare myself and the kids for when the baby gets here in a couple of 
Hands on kids activities for hands on moms.

These materials and activity ideas will definitely come in handy to keep kids busy when I just gotta get something done!
I have been trying my best to prepare myself and the kids for when the baby gets here in a couple of 

Does this look familiar to you? A tub of blocks, dumped out all over the floor?
This constantly happens in our house. Any tub of toys gets dumped out in its entirety. Blocks are very common to be strewn about the floor.

Who knew Styrofoam packaging from a ceiling fan could provide such entertainment to two little boys?
Add some tools [real tools!] to some good old Styrofoam and let the boys have a blast destructing it.
Or is that all they’re doing?

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 

Dominoes!
I think there’s a lot of potential that could be done for activities with Dominoes, but for now, I just let the boys explore them and see what they thought of them.
Henry immediately began to make a road with them, and George 

I was trying to get some bars in the oven to bake, and the boys were not getting along for the life of them the other day and I needed to separate them.

After listing a bunch of toddler activities yesterday, I realized busy play is really good for them. Where it just opens up the door to exploration of materials or a new concept for them.