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It’s go time! Get your kid-official Olympic bracelets – just in time for the games! What’s your favorite color of the Olympic flag? Blue, yellow, black, green, or red? On opening day, February 7th, wear one or all five colors! Continue reading
I’m so excited to be a part of the Ultimate Guide to 50 Craft Materials brought to you by Craftulate. She’s organized this wonderful series featuring 50 bloggers, each crafting with a different material. Our ultimate guide to yarn features DIY yarn pom pom sticks for painting, drumming, or just plain ol’ fun! Don’t forget to link up your yarn posts at the bottom of the page.
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Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres full of crafting fun! It’s so versatile – you can cut, tie, lace, stitch, weave, and glue it! In the past, we’ve explored yarn activities that focused on fine motor development, tracing letters, and lacing. Today we’ll drum to the beat of pom poms sticks and paint! Continue reading
Today’s learning activity for preschoolers is easy to set-up, fun, and educational. Our heart tissue paper by number activity helps reinforce a child’s understanding of basic numbers, color matching, as well as improve fine motor skills. All it takes to get started is a few basic materials you probably have lying around craft table + love! C really enjoyed our turkey tissue paper by number craft, so we thought we’d try it for Valentine’s Day too! Continue reading
Today’s heart sensory collage explores tactile sensations, cutting, and fine motor skills. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, this seemed like a great opportunity to create with red materials. This child-led activity give C a chance to explore materials he collected with minimal instruction from me. Continue reading
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Vroom! Frightening McMean, Tormentor and I-Screamer rev up their car-crushing engines for foil painting fun! Today we’re building a monster truck racetrack out of cardboard, paper towel rolls, and aluminum foil. We had so much fun playing with our monster truck sensory bin, so we thought we’d bring the trucks to the foil track! Rolling wheels, high-octane attitude and big, bold personality make monster truck painting fun!
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Whew! It’s a hot day on the desert! Our desert small world includes animals, plant-life, tumbleweeds, and moldable sand cloud dough! Continue reading
Welcome to Winter Books, A Craft and Activities Series. I am so exciting to be working with the super-talented All Things Kids Moms to bring you winter books and related activities. Frogs Snails & Puppy Dog Tails, Sugar Aunts, Fun-A-Day, All Done Monkey, House of Burke, and Mammas Like Me and myself are collaborating the first Monday of each month to bring you a new series.
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Na-na-na-na BATMAN! Let’s start the new year off with a POW! – superhero style! My son is really getting into superheroes, so homemade sparkly play dough and matching bags seemed perfect for his party! Making homemade stencils is inexpensive, easy, and fun! Plus, you can use the stencil for other creative projects! Plus, printable tags and stencil are included! Continue reading
