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 […]
Printmaking for Kids with Recycled Cardboard!
Do you have train lovers at home? Or kids who love to paint without bushes? If so this printmaking art project is for them! Printmaking for Kids Using Recycled Cardboard! It’s an easy art project for kids that uses materials we normally would have just tossed into our recycle bin and forgot about. Plus it gives […]
Simple Easter Egg Sensory Bin with Rice
My daughter and the daycare kids have had a blast with this Easter egg sensory bin with rice. It’s simple to make and offers great learning opportunities for toddlers and preschoolers. Easter and spring activities have been taking over our house a lot lately. After making some sensory art Easter eggs with rice I decided to […]
Marbleized Easter Egg Craft for Toddlers
Let’s make colorful marbleized Easter egg craft! I love simple Easter ideas for toddlers and preschoolers. I don’t typically dye or decorate real eggs with my toddlers, mainly because I have a large group of toddlers and just me. Those dye kits aren’t great at coming out of carpet and clothes so instead, I like […]
Ice Building Blocks- Simple Summer STEM for Kids
It’s summertime! Let’s make building blocks that can cool your down! This is a simple STEM activity for kids that both my toddlers and preschoolers loved. It’s super easy, what’s simpler than making ice, and these ice building blocks kept my kids busy until the were nearly melted! Plus it’s a great way to introduce kids to simple science. Ice […]
Spring Flower Counting Cards for Toddlers
These flower counting cards are quick to make but packed with learning! And kid-approved! I love simple and hands-on math games for toddlers and preschoolers, like our counting with pom-poms activity or our ping pong ball counting game. These beginning math games are fun for that toddler or preschooler in your life but also teaches […]
Virtual Book Club & Bird Feeders Craft
Welcome to the March edition of the Poppins Book Nook! This month the theme is “Where In the World” and to go along with that we read a book about the outdoors and made some bird feeders! For those of you not familiar with Poppins Book Nook, it’s a monthly virtual book club created by Enchanted Homeschooling […]
Easter Egg Art Project with Rice
Rice + Easter eggs = Fun toddler Easter egg art project! Are you dying Easter Eggs with your kids? With my large group of toddlers in my home daycare, I’m not brave enough to do it this year but we are doing a bunch of crafts and art projects to make our own Easter Eggs! […]
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 […]
Seek & Sort Color Recognition Game for Toddlers
Do you have a toddler at home? Looking for a simple color recognition game that is easy to set up and providers lots of learning about colors? My daughter and daycare kids have been getting more and more familiar colors lately and they really enjoy any game or hands-on activity, like our bubbling color mixing […]