Keep your kids busy and learning with this easy light table counting game for spring! We recently made these DIY Spring Counting Cards and the kids had such a great time them. Their interest and obsession with that easy counting activity inspired this light table activity version. The activities are very much the same, just different […]
Light Play Activities for Kids
Light table activities and black light activities for toddlers and preschoolers.
Glow in the Dark ABC Alphabet Matching Game
Fun ABC Alphabet learning ahead! We’ve done a few different activities that glow in the dark, like our Simple Counting Game and our DIY Glowing Letters Sensory Bin, and the kids are really big fans of them so I’ve decided to do more glow in the dark games. Letter matching and recognition is a new skill for my older toddlers so […]
Spring Water Bead Sensory Bin for the Light Table
Attention water bead fans! Here’s a spring water bead sensory bin for hours of fun! We love spring but in our neck of the woods spring usually means rain, and lots of it, so we have to find spring activities that bring spring to us in other ways. Sensory bins are a great way to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Imaginative Play with Transparencies on the Light Table
We’re always looking for fun new light table activities. I’ve seen many kids activities that involve transparency film/paper and an overhead projector (OHP) but we don’t have an OHP so I’ve never put much thought into using transparencies. Well until recently that is! My daughter got a peel and stick play set with reusable stickers […]
Counting Practice for Toddlers with Pom Poms & Tubes
We’ve been doing a lot of hands on counting activities lately and this is one of my daughter’s favorites. For her and the other toddlers in my daycare counting practice is our way of beginning math activities and doing some critical thinking at the same time. Of course to them these math games are just playing and having fun! […]
Water Bead Letter Matching Game for the Light Table
Do your kids love water beads? Are they beginning to learn letters? Then this water bead letter matching game is perfect for them! It’s a simple activity that mixes sensory play with letter recognition practice and fine motor skill development. We used this on the light table but it’s also fun off the light table […]
Light Table Free Play with Loose Parts
Free play with loose parts on the light table! This is one of our favorite open-ended activities! We do a lot of planned light table activities throughout the week, especially in the winter, most of the time our list table is used for free play. I’ve received quite a few emails from people wondering what […]