Lets go under the sea! This week our Light & Reflections Series is back and it’s all about sea life for our “under the sea” theme. For this month’s theme we turned our light table into an ocean small world! If you have an ocean unit coming up at preschool or an ocean lover this is […]
Doughnut Shop Pretend Play With Homemade Playdough
Let’s be bakers with this doughnut shop pretend play prompt! This month the theme for the Poppins Book Nook (a virtual book club for kids) was “In The Kitchen” so we set out to find cooking related books and activities. My girls love to help in the kitchen but none of the kids cookbooks at our library caught […]
Pirate Slime Recipe for Sensory Play
Ahoy! Are you ready for an adventure? This pirate slime recipe is sure to please those little pirate fans in your home! We’re back for another round of our Virtual Book Club, it’s a fun way to connect picture books with preschool art projects and learning activities! This month our book/craft theme is “Ye Old Pirates” […]
Small World Play: Gnome & Fairy Garden
My daughter and the daycare kids love the peg gnomes & fairies from our fall nature table so much that they end up staying out all year long. They’ve been part of our calming sensory bin and our DIY felt play mats. This time they got their own small world to live in! Gnome & Fairy Garden: Small World Play […]
Dramatic Play: Spaghetti Shop for Kids
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 […]
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 […]
DIY Felt Play Mats: Farm & Grassland Pretend Play
My kids love our felt car mat so I decided to make one for our Anamalz. I decided to make DIY felt play mats with a farm and grassland theme. I drew out a basic template of what I planned to do and then cut my felt to match, I organized it a bit […]