Do your kids like art activities? This painting with cotton balls activity is so much fun! We love any painting activity, especially fingerpainting, but the girls really enjoy getting to paint with more than just brushes. Our pipe cleaner painting was so much fun! With spring on the horizon, I decided to get out some cotton […]
Easy Paper Plate Crown Craft for Kids
Let’s turn paper plates into princess or prince crowns! This simple paper plate crown craft for kids has been a favorite of ours for some time. Partly because we love dress up and pretend play activities, which this craft lets you do when your crowns are dry! Any time we can do crafts that we […]
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 […]
Shape Art; Painting with Toilet Paper Rolls
Painting activities are always simple art activities I can pull together easily and the kids really enjoy them. We’re always on the lookout for new ways to play with paint, like our glow in the dark painting or our painting with pipe cleaners. This week I used toilet rolls for some shape printing! Shape Art: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mardi Gras Beads Process Art for Kids
Read for some Mardi Gras beads process art you can do with your kids? We picked up a pack of Mardi Gras beads from our local Dollar Tree (5 for a dollar) to add to our dress up station but before they made it to the dress up clothes we used them for some art […]