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 […]
Mind Jars & Mini Mind Jars For Kids
I’ve been making meditation jars (aka mind jars, calm down jars, & time out jars) since first learning about them years ago in a college psychology class and we usually have at least one large meditation/mind jar available during the day when my daughter is having a hard time. Mind jars are fairly easy to […]
Counting with Circles on the Light Table
Welcome to a new year of our Light & Reflections Series with Dyan from And Next Comes L, Katie from Happily Ever Mom and our newest collaborator Devany from Still Playing School! All year long we will be bringing you a new post each month centered around light and reflections with a different theme each month! […]
Fine Motor Light Table Activity: Cutting Water Beads!
This is such a fun light table activity that helps develop fine motor skills! Water beads are some of our favorite sensory materials. We generally play with the same batch for quite some time, around 4-6 weeks, before it’s time for a new batch to be “grown.” Usually we have a squishing party outside and […]
Christmas Light Table Play: Decorating Trees
Are you looking for some fun Christmas light table activities this holiday season? Well you’re in luck because our Light & Reflections series is back with some fun light play activities for winter & Christmas! We focused on Christmas activities on the light table and did some Christmas Tree decorating with loose parts! These DIY light table Christmas […]
Light Table Geoboard Activities: Letters and Shapes
Geoboard activities are always a hit with my kids but today we decided to switch it up a bit and try a new twist! I wanted a simple light table activity and that built on the kid’s current interest, learning letters and shapes, and this activity was perfect for that. This activity is part of our Light […]
Turkey Feather Counting Light Table Game for Thanksgiving
Here in the United States we have Thanksgiving is coming up soon. Because of this upcoming holiday we’ve been busy learning about turkeys and doing turkey crafts in my home daycare. To keep with this Thanksgiving theme and all the the turkey themed activities we’ve been doing I put together this simple Turkey feather counting game. We used ours […]
Halloween Light Table Color Sorting & Counting
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time for some simple Halloween light table sorting activities! Sometimes is fun to just grab a bunch of random items and let the kids use them as they see fit on the light table. For Halloween, we’ve been busy playing with spiders, skeletons, bats, and pumpkins on the […]
Fall Jack-O-Lantern Preschool Activity (Book Inspired)
This fall jack-o-lantern preschool activity is so much fun! It’s also a great way to help young children learn about big emotions and how to manage them. This simple learning activity was created based on one of our favorite pumpkin-themed fall books: It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff. It’s a classic story that is […]