It's already almost Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day seems to just require all of the crafts. And I'm 100% okay with that. Stamped Heart Valentine's Day Pipe Cleaner Craft I love this simple stamped heart Valentine's Day activity. Make your own pipe cleaner stamps at home using just a few basic materials you probably already have at home. To make your own pipe ...
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Lava Lamp Sensory Bottle & Bag are Perfect for Valentine’s Day
Let's have some super simple fun making a lava lamp sensory bottle or bag! These are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to explore on Valentine's Day (or really, any day)! My kids love to make sensory bottles and sensory bags with me. They're two activities in one, making them together, and then playing with them! Check out our 48 Five Senses Activities for Kids to ...
Heart Garland for Preschoolers to Create for Valentine’s Day
Create adorable Heart Garlands with your kids! This simple Valentine's garland craft focuses on cutting skills, perfect for preschoolers (3-5 years old). Use up old paper scraps for extra eco-friendly fun! A heart garland wasn't in the plan when we started cutting out hearts. George just wanted to do an activity, and cutting out hearts sounded like a good idea since Valentine's ...
Valentine’s Day Sight Word Hearts for Early Readers
Work on Valentine's Day sight words with a sweetheart reading activity, from Julie, that's perfect for early readers and kindergarteners! My son is getting into beginning reading and sight words. As we start his reading journey, I want to be sure to keep things light and fun! Valentine's Day Sight Word Hearts for Early Readers We dreamed up this simple sight words activity ...
Cookie Cutter Painting for Valentine’s Day
A simple way to get creative for Valentine's Day, especially great for toddlers, is with a heart shaped cookie cutter painting activity! I love finding new ways to paint, especially for the holidays. Using cookie cutters is such a fun and creative way to make art. My kids totally love cookie cutter painting. It can get a bit messy, but no messier than any painting activity ...
DIY Magnet Activity Table for Valentine’s Day Learning
One fun hands on activity to learn in many ways! I love this magnet activity table! Welcome Dhiyana of Sparkling Buds! Hello, hands on: as we grow readers! I’m happy to guest post on one of my favorite blogs. Thanks Jamie for the opportunity! I have noticed all kids love to play with magnets. I feel that they are surprised to watch things snap together ...
14 Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt Ideas that are Lovely for Kids
There are so many ways to do a scavenger hunt, aren't there? We have so much fun with them! Whether its a spur of the moment scavenger hunt or a themed one like these Valentine scavenger hunt ideas! Valentine's Day is right around the corner and while I was looking for ideas to do our latest Valentine scavenger hunt, I found a whole bunch of other Valentine scavenger hunt ideas ...
Kids Heart Hunt to Find the Ways I Love You Countdown to Valentine’s Day
I have been wanting to do a Valentine's scavenger heart hunt for a long, long time... probably since last Valentine's Day! I wasn't sure how exactly I wanted to do it, but I had ideas floating around in my head. We've done a simple Valentine's hunt activity in the past with just some numbered hearts to find and match. It was a great number learning activity and the heart ...
Valentine’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers That are Just Plain Cute!
These Valentine's Day crafts for preschoolers are the perfect way to spend a cozy afternoon. Especially Valentine's Day crafts for preschoolers because the kids can get into it a bit more than a toddler would with crafts. There are so many more options when you get to the preschooler age when they're more controlled in their ways (at least a little bit). And they can ...
How to Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Kids
Time away with your hubby or significant other on Valentine's Day is so special, but family fun time to celebrate Valentine's Day with the kids has its place in this special day, too. While I LOVE celebrating the season of love my MY love, I also cherish creating special hands-on memories with my boys. Sometimes, it's hard to know how to celebrate Valentine's Day with kids, ...
A Lovely Week of Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
Enjoy lovely Valentine's Day activities with the kids for a fun week full of love! I don't usually go overboard with holidays (at least not too much). When it comes to blogging about our activities, its usually better if I start blogging about holiday activities 6+ weeks before the holiday. And that just is too hard for me. Even for Christmas, that's hard! So this ...
Shape Penguin Craft Kids Will Love for Valentine’s Day
Have you ever wanted to try building a paper penguin craft from just shapes? Here's a Valentine's Day craft for kids that's lots of fun and looks adorable too. Not only will kids learn shapes during this activity, but gluing is a great skill that helps develop hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. For this craft we used hearts, circles, ovals, triangles, ...
Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt with Numbers
Hunt for numbers and hearts with a fun Valentine's Day scavenger hunt. This Valentine's Day scavenger hunt for hearts is one of my all-time fave activities. Maybe just because it's a scavenger hunt, but I also really get into Valentine's day crafts and activities too, so this is a great combo using them both. I first shared this idea a couple years ago during the middle of ...
Super Simple Valentine’s Day Cards Any Kid Can Make
This Valentine's Day activity for kids from Hands On As We Grow contributor Rachel is so easy and fun, kids of any age can do it! Even the youngest or least crafty kids will be smiling making these simple Valentine's Day cards. They make sweet keepsakes for family and friends. Making Valentine's Day cards is also a great way to teach your kids about ...
Who Do I Love? Message Board Craft for Valentine’s Day
This Valentine's Day craft from Hands On As We Grow contributor, Francis, is a great fine motor activity that works on weaving and yarn wrapping. Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to make cute Valentine's day crafts and also to take the time to tell people you love them! This year, we decided to make a special "Who Do I Love?" message board to share drawings and messages ...
Valentine’s Day Stamped Cards
Make easy Valentine's Day stamped cards with this easy activity. CraftProjectIdeas.com is showing the love this February. They sent me this fun stamp kit! Henry and I decided to try making Valentine's Day stamped cards. Easy Valentine's Day Stamped Cards Henry and I broke out our kit to make some Valentine Cards! I haven't ever owned a stamp before, so this was a thrill for me, ...
Kids’ Art Valentine’s Day Keepsake from Triple T Mum
A lovely keepsake you can make from your child’s art work that would make a lovely gift for someone special and it doesn’t have to be just for Valentine’s. View this kids craft at Triple T Mum! ...
Sponge Art Painting for Valentine’s Day
Beautiful Valentine's Day sponge art is fun to make and do! After a round of cookie cutter painting, George was still going strong and was in the mood to paint, so we moved onto sponge art for Valentine's Day! So simple to do too! Sponge art is versatile [literally any shape can be made) and it's a fun sensory activity that results in a pretty piece of art! Let's create ...
Stamped Heart Valentine’s Day Art Project
A Valentine's Day art project that kids and even toddlers can do on their own! Upcycle a toilet paper towel tube to make an abstract heart art project! Be sure to be inspired by all our Valentine's Day projects we've been doing! Time to get creative with an abstract Valentine's Day art project! How can you not like abstract art that's by a toddler? All you need to do this ...
Valentine’s Day Art: Shaken Painted Hearts
This is a super fun, active way for toddlers to make Valentine's Day art! So, literally, get moving and get creative. A bonus, this Valentine's Day art is also a no-mess art activity! We're kicking off with some Valentine's Day art for this fun holiday with some shaken painted hearts, an idea I got from Toddler Approved! This was such a fun no-mess craft to do - with crazy ...
Valentine’s Day Art: The Kids’ HeArts
I'm not sure what it is about this Heart art that I like so much. Maybe its because both the boys did it together. Or maybe its because I found out how nicely Henry can cut and follow a line. Or maybe its just because its close to Valentine's Day, and love is in the air. Collaboration seems to be the key around here lately. I've been collaborating with other ...
10 Valentine’s Day Crafts & Activities
Here are 10 Valentine's Day Crafts & Activities for the kids to do! What I may love even more than doing the crafts and activities themselves. The outcome of the craft. Look at my mantel! All homemade crafts done by my very own 2 year old. They may not be perfect - but they look pretty awesome all together. Happy Valentine's Day! ABC = abc - add a little learning to this ...
A Valentine’s Day Activity or Two: Patterning & a Heart Hunt
Here's a Valentine's Day activity or two. We didn't just do crafts to get ready for Valentine's Day... Scavenger hunts are always a blast, this is an easy version of one. Plus a chance to practice patterns! Patterning as a Valentine's Day Activity: I've noticed other blogs with toddler's doing patterns. I've never once tried to explain what a pattern is to Henry. Things ...
Valentine’s Day Craft: Tissue Wreath
This is one of my favorites so far! Henry got busy painting a piece of white butcher paper. We get it from the bakery, you could use any kind of construction or art paper roll (affiliate link). While he painted, I cut out a wreath shape from cardboard (Chalk in My Pocket, where I got this idea, used a pizza delivery box for this). I then got busy making 'flowers' out of ...
Valentine’s Day Activity: Countdown Tree
A pretty simple Valentine's Day activity, that's also a pretty decoration, that your toddler or preschooler can make for Valentine's Day! Paint one small tree branch. Stick branch in small pot. Decorate tree. Look at and smile. I just cut a couple of branches off one of our trees (probably not ideal during blizzard conditions). I was planning on only doing one and for it to ...
Paper Valentine’s Crafts for Kids
These fun paper Valentine's crafts are perfect for young and older kids! Sometimes, kids are just drawn to certain crafts (especially paper crafts!). Just ask them. Kids are refreshingly honest with everyone. They haven't learned the difference between being honest and being polite yet; so they'll tell you if they dislike your haircut or think that outfit looks odd. ...
25+ of Our Best Valentine’s Activities & Crafts for Kids
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 with hearts! So we have been... for the last month, at least! Its not always just about the hearts though. We can't forget about all the ...
Adorable DIY Heart Frame Craft for Valentine’s Day
Add foam hearts to a wooden frame for Valentine’s Day with your kids using just 3 simple supplies in this craft. Keep it or share the love with a friend! Download the FREE Week of Valentine's Activities for Kids right here! It's almost Valentine's Day! Bring on the hearts! Foam hearts are great for so many activities, so I always have some on hand. We've used them to ...
My Birthday Celebration! 5 Days of Giveaways
Over the years, we have shared lots and lots of Christmas crafts and activities here at Hands On As We Grow, and even quite a few Hanukkah ideas this time of year. But December is also my birthday month! I turned the big 4-0 this past weekend! Since that's a big number, I want to celebrate with you! I want to share something a little different this year with you, to show ...
Play This Easy No-Prep Valentine’s Game for Kids
We love this easy, no-prep Valentine's game for kids to practice numbers and colors, from Shawna! Play This Easy, No-Prep Valentine's Game for Kids Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and love is in the air. My girls only want to do activities that involve hearts and the colors pink and red. Making Valentine's Day crafts is so much fun, but this year I also wanted to ...
Valentine’s Activity for Kids: Hunt for Love
Show your preschooler you care with a fun scavenger hunt Valentine's activity! I decided that we needed some kind of Valentine's Day activity to do, instead of just crafty and artsy ideas. We did a heart hunt last year, with great success. But this year, I wanted to make Henry think about love a little. So I came up with the Hunt For Love Valentine's activity. To ...
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 like this before for Valentine's Day. This time we made it with shamrocks and green and orange colors for St. Patrick's Day. I made this wreath with George this time. I set ...
Valentine’s Cutting Skills Tray & Collage Making from little bins for little hands
We practiced our fine motor scissor cutting skills with a Valentine's themed activity! We also made a fun collage out of our trimmings! View this kids activity at little bins for little hands! ...
Mother’s Day Craft for Kids to Make: Tissue Paper Flowers
Henry and I had a little fun making some tissue paper flowers! We made two different types of tissue paper flowers for my mom's Mother's Day craft that kids can make! Tissue Paper Flowers on Contact Paper: Henry got to work cutting up different colors of tissue paper (sneaking in some scissors practice). I had tissue paper with dots and stars on it, too. Those were his ...
Preschool Craft: Shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day
Make a string of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day! It's a perfect fine motor activity for preschoolers, too. We liked our Strings of Hearts in our dining room so well during Valentine's Day! We were talking about them one night at dinner, thinking that we should take them down. Henry didn't want to. So Dad suggested we make a craft for St. Patrick's Day coming up. My wheels ...
16 Valentine’s Celebrations from The Heart Project Party!
Earlier this week, Cathy of NurtureStore and I hosted a very hoppin' Valentine's Day party for The Heart Project! A bunch of moms joined the party and swapped ideas for Valentine's Day, including family celebrations and traditions, as well as recipes and crafts. Cathy shared yesterday a few of the Valentine's crafts and recipes that party-goers chimed in with. Today, I'm ...
Cute Heart-Themed Fine Motor Craft for Kids
Poke and thread curly ribbon into a Valentine's Day heart for a cute fine motor craft for kids from Alisha! We love decorating for Valentine's Day! And this super simple fine motor craft is both easy and adorable. Plus, you've probably already got all the materials you need right at home - totally cutting down prep time to under 5 minutes! Cute Heart-Themed Fine Motor ...
Simple Textured Yarn Heart Craft for Decoration
DIY a fun Valentine's Day decoration with a textured yarn heart craft that's perfect to do with your kids! George wanted to make something with yarn. So we made a yarn heart craft with it! We've done a few yarn crafts in the past, so I thought making a heart for Valentine's Day would be a fun twist! I quickly drew a large heart on a piece of scrapbook paper. Simple ...
Super Simple Yarn Wrapped Hearts
I have a couple of yarn activities coming up for Valentine's Day! I'm so excited to share them with you! This first one is shared by Erin of Bambini Travels and is great for little hands! This is a simple Valentine ’s Day activity based on the book Extra Yarn (affiliate link) by Mac Barnett. After reading this delightful book several times we were itching ...
Watercolor Hearts Made from ‘Newsprint’
At the beginning of the year, we get all these new phone books. The phone books hardly get used to begin with, and then we have the all the old phone books as well. So it was time to do something fun with them before just throwing them in the recycle bin. (Gotta love upcyling, right?) Painting the pages seemed like a good idea! The boys loved this! If you don't have any phone ...
Valentine Craft for Kids: Strings of Hearts Chandelier
A learning Valentine craft for kids to this Valentine's Day! String up some pretty (and easy!) hearts to your dining room chandelier and it'll set the mood with every meal. I cannot tell you all the levels of learning that Henry worked on when making this chandelier of hearts. Counting Patterning Cutting Threading Sequencing Just to name the obvious ...
LOVE Banner for Kids to Make
Its official. I'm officially in Valentine's Day mode... and that may be good or bad since its still only mid-January! Eek! But, I LOVE this LOVE banner the boys made! I think I could keep it hanging in the doorway all year long! Its beyond simple too. I cut out the letters from white card stock. The boys decorated them however they wished! They chose to use crayons and ...
30+ Valentine Card Ideas for School that are Super-Cute for Kids
These heart-themed crafts double as super-cute kids Valentine card ideas for school that their friends will just love! I've been on the lookout for some simple, and of course, cute kids Valentine's Day cards for school. I'd love for the kids to be able to make the valentines for their classmates, teachers, grandma and friends this February. As I've been browsing for ideas, I ...
Penguin Activities for Preschoolers
Embrace some winter charm with hands-on penguin activities for preschoolers! As a mom, I understand the importance of keeping little ones engaged, especially during those longer indoor winter days. Discover hands-on penguin-themed activities that are both simple and fun for preschoolers. Let's create a winter wonderland of learning and fun for your little ones! Join in the ...
Super Simple Number Match Slap with Playing Cards
Grab some playing cards for a lively game of number match slap! You'll love this super hands-on way to work on number matching skills! I just realized the potential of playing cards and learning numbers. Duh! Super Simple Number Match Slap with Playing Cards We played a number match game with them, they're great for number recognition! Even more so than recognizing ...
20 Mess-Free Sensory Bin Ideas Your Kids Are Going To Love
Sensory bins have become an extremely popular activity among young children and wow, do they ever love them! So why not sensory bins without the mess? FREE Week of Sensory Bins Download! Sensory bins provide kids with fun ways to explore multiple senses all at the same time. It also improves fine motor skills as well as language development. However, if just the ...
DIY Sticker Busy Box for Easy Quiet Time Play for Kids
Setting up a sticker busy box to entertain your children, like this activity from Alisha, is super easy and has minimal upkeep! Are stickers a staple around your home too? I quickly realized that my kids accumulate a lot of stickers; from restaurants, parties, school, gifts, and even the grocery store. I didn't want these stickers to go to waste, so we started making ...
Easy Egg Carton Matching Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
This is a crazy simple egg cartons fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers that can be color or shape matching, number learning or even letter case matching. My toddler loves any kind of insertion fine motor activity and also loves to match colors. My preschooler on the other hand mostly wants to do an activity like this if it’s a race to beat his baby sister ...
Lovely Valentine Painting Idea for Toddlers to Scratch, Roll, and Resist a Heart
This Valentine art for toddlers idea includes three methods of painting! Pick one, or do all three with your toddler. Since George keeps wanting to paint hearts, I've been trying to come up with different ways to make some Valentine art for toddlers that's not the same ol' finger painting over and over again. I think I've been doing good so far. Most have been classic ...
Make These Easy Snowflakes for a Snowy Garland
I found a new way for young kids to make some easy snowflakes! We made a whole bunch and hung them in garlands on the window. Cutting snowflakes is a favorite pastime of mine, and beginning to be for my kids too. Its something we look forward to every winter season. And often make them before Christmas, especially if we don't happen to have snow. It helps get us in the holiday ...
Learning (Plus its Fun!) Indoor Obstacle Course for Kids
I worked a little learning into an indoor obstacle course for the kids that may have let them climb and walk on my dining room table... it makes it fun when Mom says its okay to break the rules once in awhile! Why is it week after week, I've been saying "I need to get the kids moving!"? Maybe because we've been stuck inside for what seems like eternity and we are all going just a ...
SPLAT! The Sight Word Swat! Be Consistent & Simplify for Activity Success
Try this simple and fun game of sight word swat called, “Splat!” But first, hear it from this activity mom how she simplifies and stays consistent for activity success! Anna is an enthusiastic mom of 2. "Charlie is 4, he'll be five in May. And Mabel is 2." After 12 years of teaching kindergarten, Anna extended her maternity leave indefinitely due to the Covid pandemic. ...
Simple Banana Messages Science Experiment for Kids
If you're looking for a fun, fast, and super simple science experiment; you've found it! This writing messages on bananas experiment requires no-prep and will intrigue your little scientists (and maybe even you). Check out these 50 Simple Science Experiments at Home for more science fun! Banana Messages Experiment Materials: BananaToothpick Writing on Bananas ...
Spiral Ghost Craft for Halloween with Cutting Practice
Spiral crafts are great cutting practice for preschoolers, and this spiral ghost craft is so fun for the kids to make this Halloween season! I have a couple ghost crafts for Halloween coming up, I guess I've been in a ghost-y mood. This one is a simple Halloween ghost craft that a preschooler can make using scissors. Its a great cutting activity for them to practice ...
Paper Clip Chain Activity is Quick Fun for Fine Motor Skills
A quick paper clip chain activity for the kids to make that's excellent for fine motor skills! So simple. Hook the paper clips together to make a chain. I learned something from the supplies activities poll I started a week before I did this activity. That paper clips are in most of your homes. And yep, I have them too. Paper Clip Chain ...
Upper & Lowercase Letters Heart Matching Activity for Preschoolers
Try this fun heart matching activity to teach the difference between uppercase and lowercase letters! I had no idea what Henry knew at this point when it came to upper and lowercase letters. He could recognize most uppercase letters for sure, but lowercase I really didn't know... But this was definitely the next step we needed to take in learning letters. I wanted to help ...
Super Simple Soapy Sensory Foam Activity for Kids
Whip up some sensory foam using just dish soap and your food processor! Let your kids explore the foam for a fun sensory experience for all ages! This sensory foam has been on my list to do again with the boys for ages. It's been a long time since I did this with George and Henry for Valentine's Day one year. Super Simple Soapy Sensory Foam Activity for Kids Louis got to ...
Light Up Ghost Craft for Halloween
I love making Halloween crafts with the kids! I'm not sure why, but its close behind Christmas crafts and making crafts for Valentine's Day. We haven't even gotten a chance to decorate with pumpkins yet, but have gotten a good start for Halloween with the spiral ghost craft we made and reading in a Halloween fort! Now we've lit up the buffet with these light up ghosts! A ...
Kid-Made Valentine Snacks for the Classroom
I absolutely love when I can make my little ones speechless. It happens so rarely, and when it does, I always feel like I'm awesome. These valentine snacks accomplished just that! And they make wonderful valentine snacks for the classroom too (so you could have about 25 little ones speechless ... AWESOME). Do you make homemade Valentines for school? Or try another one of our ...
Find the Letter on the Heart
Valentine's Day doesn't have to be only about crafts for the kids to do. We usually use it as an opportunity to sneak in some lovely learning activities too! Plus, this one works on fine motor skills. I adapted this find the letter activity from a previous activity we did in the fall that I shared on PBS Parents, that was A is for Apple. The point of this activity was to work ...
Shake, Shake, Shake to Make Art!
One of the best, and probably funnest, ways for a toddler to make art is by shake, shake, shaking it! I don't do this nearly enough with the kids. Which is sad because I'm such a fan of big art. Coming in oh-so-close to being the best, is a little less messy version of toddler crafting: contact paper collages. However, back to our shake-shake art for toddlers. This is messy, but ...
BIG Beginner Weaving for Kids
So many of the crafts and activities we do with our little ones are FULL of learning already. Take weaving for kids as an example. It's a fun craft, and little ones love weaving, but it is also full of math. Counting, one-to-one correspondence, and patterning are all at play as my little ones are... well... at play. So, of course, I was excited when I found a cute weaving for ...
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I Only Have Eyes For You | Monster Valentine with a Free Printable from Tutus & Tea Parties
These kid made Valentine's Day cards are great for children to create for friends and classmates. View this kids activity at Tutus & Tea Parties! ...
Last-Minute Personalized Valentine Cards
This post brought to you by Treat.com. All opinions are 100% mine. Sometimes we just enjoy crafting and doing activities for Valentine's Day that I often forget about sending out any cards! That goes for birthdays... Christmas... and pretty much anything else too. They just get forgotten. I found a gem to help me out when I'm in these tight spots! I just had the best time making ...
Sticky Heart Collage Window Decoration
I mentioned the other day when the boys cut out all those hearts for the Heart Garlands they made for the window, we used the 'scraps' or the outside pieces of the hearts to make something else. They thought this heart collage on the window was just fantastic to make. And I can't complain myself, I absolutely love it. Especially the way they worked together to make it! It was so ...
Comparing Shapes with Snowballs
I set up a shape activity for comparing shapes, more specifically, the size of the shapes. And since its winter, I had to make a snowball activity! In big math talk, we're talking (very loosely) about the area of shapes. With my trusty painter's tape, I taped out four different shapes on the floor. A square, triangle, diamond and a rectangle. I wasn't about to take the time to ...
Simple Valentine Craft: Make a Vase!
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 super simple for the kids to make and turn out super pretty! I'm not a coffee drinker at all, but International Delight's (affiliate link) ...
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 I wanted to post another one. But this is probably the one Valentine activity that Henry was so excited to do. And he could do about 90% of it all by himself. All you ...
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 recommend doing this activity in something other than water because I now have some blank letter tiles! I got a tub of water ...
Valentine Window of Toddler Painted Hearts
I love it when the kids make something to decorate our windows, and a Valentine window just had to be done! Since George has been asking non-stop to paint more and more hearts, I dug out some heart shaped paper doilies that I had bought a couple of years ago after Valentine's Day. We started with coloring a few with dot markers, and regular markers, just drawing on them, making it ...
Match Upper & Lowercase Letters Bracelet
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 for days. It keeps it on his nightstand at night. And won't let it out of his site. It becomes his pride and joy. We've never made one at ...
Melted Crayon Art: Crayon Shavings
I've seen various ways to make melted crayon art around, so we wanted to make one ourselves using crayon shavings. Henry, Grandma and I made some pretty art with crayon shavings! And it was fun to do! The crayon shavings are what makes this art so pretty, but it also gave Henry some time to work on his fine motor skills. Henry did his own pile of crayon shavings ...
Art : DIY Upcycled Crayons
Long ago, when there wasn't any reason to Beat the Heat. My mom had a bucket full of old crayons with lots of bits and pieces. So, Henry, Grandma and I made some upcycled crayons. I read, somewhere at the time, about a tip for removing the paper on the crayons by soaking them in water. It didn't seem to help, and some reason, I had the brilliant idea of adding hot water ...
Yummy Edible Valentines
Growing up, frosted graham crackers was one of my favorites. Every time my mom made cupcakes, cake or brownies, the extra frosting always went on graham crackers. Even though these are pretty yummy, I'm not sure why they were a favorite, maybe its just the memories that are my favorites - or maybe its just because Mom makes everything better. I got this idea from Toddlers Busy ...
40+ Totally Awesome Activities to Do with Toilet Paper Rolls
Looking for activities with a common household item These fun and totally awesome activities use the simple supply of toilet paper rolls. Save them up or grab them as you can for crafts, learning activities, games, and more. Check out these 7 Paper Plate Activities for More Exciting Fun! Toilet paper rolls are great to have on hand for that special activity time of ...
20 LOVE Activities & Crafts for Preschoolers to Make with Love
The season of love deserves some LOVE crafts and activities, right? How about some for the kids to melt your heart with? Love has been on my mind a lot the last couple of weeks (more so than usual) since I've been sharing my love with the kids every day with our Valentine scavenger hunt. Sharing something I love about them each and every day. The boys get so excited ...
Collaborative Heart Project Fundraiser
I am putting together a collaborative fundraiser between bloggers. This is a heart project because all proceeds from this fundraiser are going towards the American Heart Association (AHA). If you are a blogger and would like to participate, please read through the details below and email me with your interest at handsonaswegrow(at)gmail.com. This is Valentine's season, so ...