We love to explore with natural materials and items we find out in our yard or parks. The girls have been especially fond of rocks lately so to encourage this interest we rounded up some rocks and agates and pulled out the light table. Exploring rocks and agates is a great, hands-on way to introduce […]
Light Play Activities for Kids
Light table activities and black light activities for toddlers and preschoolers.
10+ Halloween Light Table Activities
Looking for fun Halloween light table activities? We love light table activities and Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, so why not combine them? Below is our list of the top 10 ways to play with your light table this Halloween! Truthfully I couldn’t stick to just ten, I had to throw in a […]
Halloween Story Stones on the Light Table
Lets make some simple DIY Halloween story stones! We love our light table and now that fall is here the weather is changing and it’s getting darker earlier so we’ve been using it a lot more. With Halloween right around the corners I figured it was time for something Halloween themed as my daughter and the daycare […]
All About Me Activity: Photo Puzzles on the Light Table
Turn photos into puzzles! These light table photo puzzles have been such a hit with the kids! They love seeing photos of themselves and it’s a sneaky want to practice counting and number recognition! Ha! It’s that time again when we share activities as part of our Light & Reflections Series with my favorite fellow […]
Glue Art on the Light Table: Suncatcher Craft for Kids
Our Light & Reflections Collaborative Series is back this month and its all about art! My daughter has been really into glue lately so I wanted to created an open-ended art or craft activity that used the light table and some glue. I debated just letting her create on the light table itself but instead we […]
15+ Light Table Learning Activities
Do you have a light table? We love ours! There are so many fun light table learning activities that you can do on it! From math to literacy to science and much more! Below you will find 15 of our favorite light table learning activities! These are kid-approved ways to use your light table that […]
Salt Tray Letter Hunt Game for Kids
We’ve recently been getting a lot of use out of our rainbow salt tray on the light table. In order to keep them engaged and the salt tray interesting I decided to switch it up a bit and turned it into a letter recognition game on the light table. Salt Tray Letter Hunt Game for Kids For this activity […]
Rainbow Salt Tray for Pre-Writing Skills Practice
In addition to all the letter learning activities we’ve been doing recently we’ve also started some activities to work on our pre-writing skills! For this particular pre-writing activity we primarily did it on the light table but below you’ll see it’s also fun for kids off the light table! Post contains affiliate links for your convenience, see disclosure for […]
Light Table Nature Collages with Loose Parts
Today we are excited to share these simple light table nature collages with you! Our Light & Reflections Series, a collection of fun kids activities that incorporate light and/or mirror play, theme is “Nature & Animals” today so we got out our light table loose parts and created some scenes from nature! I liked using loose parts […]