My daughter loves to play dress up and any sort of dramatic play activity. She’s especially fond of cooking and kitchen dramatic play activities lately. This spaghetti shop for kids pretend play activity has seriously been one of her favorites and she spent a long time (an hour and 20 minutes!) playing and exploring with […]
Preschool Activities
Learning activities, art activities, and fun crafts for preschool aged children.
Simple Kids Castle Craft
Do your kids enjoy working with clay? Here both playdough and clay are materials that the kids all enjoy using. We’ve been talking a lot about gnomes and fairies lately, a new favorite imaginative play interest for them, and the kids were concerned that their fairies and gnomes didn’t have a house to live in because we […]
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 […]
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 […]
Virtual Book Club for Kids Intro & A Giveaway!!
Welcome! I’m excited to announce that we will be participating in the 2014-2015 Poppins Book Nook!! And what is a better way to start out this year’s virtual book club than with a AMAZING giveaway? Do you want to win a FREE Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 32GB WiFi 4G w/ Charger? Keep reading if you do!! […]
Mardi Gras Mask Craft for Toddlers
Make this fun Mardi Gras mask craft for kids today! We like doing Mardi Gras crafts because they are usually colorful and sparkly! We’ve had some fun glittery art supplies sitting in our cabinet just waiting for a fun craft activity and this was just the activity to get them out for! Mardi Gras Mask […]
Melted Bead Suncatcher Mobiles
Pony bead crafts are some of MB’s favorite craft activities and these melted bead suncatcher mobiles are no exception. They are super easy for kids to create and this time there was no stinky melted bead smell in the house like we had when we made our Melted Bead & Salt Dough Ornaments! Melted Bead […]
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 […]