Rice + Easter eggs = Fun toddler Easter egg art project! Are you dying Easter Eggs with your kids? With my large group of toddlers in my home daycare, I’m not brave enough to do it this year but we are doing a bunch of crafts and art projects to make our own Easter Eggs! […]
Glow in the Dark Letter Matching Sensory Bin
Here’s a new twist on learning letter! Make a glow in the dark letter matching sensory bin! Sensory bins are always fun for kids, from infants to preschool and beyond, and we can’t get enough of them. My daughter and the daycare girls love to play in sensory bins. This simple glow in the dark […]
Seek & Sort Color Recognition Game for Toddlers
Do you have a toddler at home? Looking for a simple color recognition game that is easy to set up and providers lots of learning about colors? My daughter and daycare kids have been getting more and more familiar colors lately and they really enjoy any game or hands-on activity, like our bubbling color mixing […]
Painting with Cotton Balls For Kids
Do your kids like art activities? This painting with cotton balls activity is so much fun! We love any painting activity, especially fingerpainting, but the girls really enjoy getting to paint with more than just brushes. Our pipe cleaner painting was so much fun! With spring on the horizon, I decided to get out some cotton […]
Easy Paper Plate Crown Craft for Kids
Let’s turn paper plates into princess or prince crowns! This simple paper plate crown craft for kids has been a favorite of ours for some time. Partly because we love dress up and pretend play activities, which this craft lets you do when your crowns are dry! Any time we can do crafts that we […]
Fine Motor Activities for Toddlers: DIY Light Table Lacing Cards
We do a lot of fine motor activities for toddlers on the light table, like our cutting water beads activity or our loose parts play, but this week we did a simple fine motor activity with our easy DIY lacing cards. Fine Motor Activities for Toddlers: DIY Light Table Lacing Cards (Post contains affiliate links […]
Shape Art; Painting with Toilet Paper Rolls
Painting activities are always simple art activities I can pull together easily and the kids really enjoy them. We’re always on the lookout for new ways to play with paint, like our glow in the dark painting or our painting with pipe cleaners. This week I used toilet rolls for some shape printing! Shape Art: […]
Spring Flower Sensory Bin with Water Beads
Celebrate spring with this fun water bead and flower sensory bin for kids! Have you played with water beads yet? They are seriously some of our favorite sensory materials! The girls loved it when we got to cut and squish them on the light table and even just simple water bead play is always a […]
Personalized Gross Motor Game for Kids with Mirrors!
It’s time for our Light and Reflections Series with some of my fellow awesome bloggers!! Last month we focused on letter recognition by having fun with some letter tiles and water beads but this month our theme is Music and Movement!! As part of this theme, I made a fun gross motor game using a […]
Glow in the Dark Painting with a Black Light
Simple open-ended art activities are some of my favorite activities to do with MB. She loves to create and art is definitely her thing! This time we added a new twist on her favorite painting activity by using a black light! We’ve had lots of fun with our black light in the past and this was […]