After finishing off this sprinkle jar of sprinkles for some rice crispy treats my son asked if “we could keep it for our kitchen”. I said yes immediately and washed it out, but as I was drying it I had a better idea. I had my 2yo picked out 5 colors, then he filled a […]
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Monster Mates Valentine
All you need is paper towel tube cut in half, some paint, a white pencil (or crayon or chalk pen), black paper, and googly eyes. Add whatever you’d like inside! We added some chocolates and stickers. Let the kids paint the tubes however they’d like, and let dry. Once dry push half the end of […]
Activities / Crafts / Educational / Fine Motor Skill / Moral Development for Children
“I Love You To Pieces”
With Fathers day right around the corner I thought I’d share what the kids made for their Dad for Christmas. Each kid was creative, and came up with their own from the cookie cutters, and markers I had on hand. You lay 10 popsicle sticks out and then take an 11th to make level. Once […]
Activities / Educational / Fine Motor Skill / Little Ones Needs
Math and Writing Aids
When children are first learning how to write and do simple counting or simple addition sometimes it’s best to have some sort of aid readily available. The Dad Lab has this method of the cloths pins and popsicle sticks on his page with a lot more great ideas. https://www.facebook.com/thedadlab I found these rainbow colored popsilce […]
Activities / Educational / Fine Motor Skill / Little Ones Needs / Mom Hacks / Organization
Little puzzle problems…
If your kids are anything like ours they love puzzles, which means you probable just accumulated a bunch more. It also amazes me how many times they will do the same one over and over also. Over the years I feel I’ve finally found a real system that works for us. All the little 24-48 […]
Crafts / Fine Motor Skill
Easy Quick Firework Fun!
For this you just need paper, markers, pom poms, and either double sided tape (rolled tape might work in a pinch) or that clear contact paper which would allow for the whole thing to be sticky. Tape up a sheet of paper, I just pulled a chunk from their IKEA art roll. Then just draw […]
Activities / Educational / Fall / Fine Motor Skill
Halloween Sensory Bin
Goodness did my little ones just absolutely LOVE this sensory bin. It was a huge winner for all three of my kiddos and the mess really wasn’t that bad. I used old left over toys from our Halloween bowl (we don’t do candy just fun toys) and just a bag of eye balls I found […]
Activities / Crafts / Educational / Fall / Fine Motor Skill
Fall Tree
This is a quick and easy idea for if you have one or multiple children. You can even send these out and have multiple families create this for grandparents. If you just have one or each of your children doing one their own you just make one tree truck and branches then let them go […]
Activities / Educational / Fine Motor Skill
Cars Counting Game
Our son LOVES cars right now, in particular Hot Wheels now. So I’ve been looking for ways to get math into our schooling that wouldn’t be boring. The Dad Lab https://www.facebook.com/thedadlab had this one day a while back and I decided to jump on it. He placed stickers on them so the cars could go […]
Activities / Educational / Fine Motor Skill / Moral Development for Children
Dress up Clothing….
Like most parents I know we also have a love hate relationship with the dress up clothing. Why? Because it gets strewn about everywhere and then you end up almost breaking your neck slipping on a dress or something that you didn’t see becuase you were caring a large baby or something. However I’m here […]