Want to give out handmade Christmas cards? Not sure how to make them with young children? Our Christmas card process art is here to help! We love making our own cards and giving them out to family and friends. Having a home daycare means that I usually have young children in my care and this […]
Managing Messy Play & Messy Art for Kids
As you’ll in see some of our activities, like our glowing shaving cream or our cloud dough, we don’t mind messy play. I’d say 3/4 of our painting activities end in a paint covered child. Recently I have received a number of emails from people asking how I manage all the mess and if I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Glittery Christmas Tree Collages for Toddlers
Need a simple toddler art activity for Christmas? Make these simple Christmas tree collages today! The best part about this activity is that it can use all those odds and ends you have collecting dust in your art supply closet! I threw together this glittery Christmas tree craft with all the sparkly and glitter items […]
Glow in the Dark Shaving Cream Sensory Play
Blow your toddler’s mind with glow in the dark shaving cream! If you have toddlers (or preschoolers!) at home then sensory play is probably pretty popular in your house! I know it is in our house. Sensory play is probably one of my toddler’s most favorite activities. This week we decided to try a classic, […]
Gak Recipe & Play!
My kids love anything sticky, slimy, or gooey so today I offered them two choices, Gak (AKA Flubber) or Goop. After much debate the older ones decided on Gak because it was “more bouncy” and they didn’t have to share one container. The goop (cornstarch and water mix) is gooey and messy but we only make […]
Cloud Dough! Super Fun Sensory for Toddlers!
We were in the mood for a new sensory activity, something messy as weather has given us a break and we can actually be outside for awhile! So today we broke out some sensory tubs and made up some cloud dough. It’s super simple! Two ingredients that most of us have on hand all the time: flour and baby […]
The Flour Finger Painting Experience
One day a week I have just infants so on these days I try to expose them to some type of exploratory or messy project that I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing with them when I have other children to focus on as well. Today was finger painting! Finger painting is always a really fun activity for […]