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Today I am sharing 50 Must-Make, Super Cool DIY Fine Motor Skills Toys. These include homemade toys for toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kids. Make them as a gift or make them together to give your child the gift of MAKING their own toys! How cool is THAT!? Affiliate links are used in this post….
Happy Friday! Today’s Fine Motor Fridays post shares a super simple DIY tutorial for making Fine Motor Toys. You might be gazing at that contraption, wondering what on earth it is. Well I am calling it an Alphabet Tilt Maze. You know those little handheld games you had as a kid where you had to…
We have been on a DIY Toys kick lately. I can’t help it, I like to tinker! We been having so much fun with our cardboard crafts, and today’s DIY Steamroller toy falls in that category. I think tinkering runs in my family. Both my parents like to make and do. My mom is an electrician…
Time for yet another easy and fun DIY Toy tutorial! Today I’m sharing one of our cardboard crafts, it’s a super easy cardboard box bulldozer blade! As usual I’ve the tutorial below, including affiliate links. My two year old son has many obsessions. Yesterday I told you about his Rocket Ship obsession. Today it’s all…
In a world of store-bought toys, I can’t help but get caught up in the fun of creating my own DIY Toys every now and then. These DIY Rocket Ship Toys are my latest creation! This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission. My 2 year old son…
Happy Fine Motor Fridays! This week I have a tutorial for an easy DIY Toddler Toy to Develop Fine Motor Skills! It uses shrink film (commonly known as Shrinky Dinks) and ribbon to make a Ribbon Pull Toy that is sure to get that pincer grasp a workin’! If you don’t have shrink film or you want…
I think the stars are aligning! Somehow I have managed to combine two of my recent craft obsessions- babyfood pouch cap crafts and shrinky dinks crafts- into one fun idea! I noticed that when you use a 1 inch hole punch to punch a hole in shrinky dinks and then you bake them, the resulting…
Today we are sharing a fun musical theatre project- a DIY Growing Pinocchio Nose- made for our Middle School production of Shrek the Musical. This DIY theatre prop would also work for Disney’s My Son Pinocchio as well as Book Character Costumes, Halloween or Fairy Tale Cosplay. We are also including the rest of the…
How much fun do kids have with puppets?! A LOT! That’s why I’m sharing 25 adorable finger and hand puppets to make with kids today! DIY Puppets make a great project as a gift or an activity to do with kids. I also have added some partner shopping links to premade puppets. Puppets are a…
We live in a house in the city, so it’s big enough but not huge. That’s one of the reasons I like to try to find ways to make play things for the kids that are non-permanent. This inspired me to share a tutorial for how to make non-permanent, removable LEGO Walls. I love non-permanent…
Have you guys ever played Angry Birds? Well today we are sharing how we made our own, easy peasy DIY Angry Birds Knock Down Game. There are a couple affiliate links in this post, FYI. My kids recently learned of the Angry Birds apps and think they’re super hilarious. I was sitting around one day…
Today’s post is a buyer’s guide for anyone looking to encourage vertical surface play in their home, classroom, play room or preschool. We love taking things vertical at our house! It is awesome for truck stabilization, core muscle development, hand-eye coordination, should strength and ultimately it aids fine motor skills and even handwriting! And bonus-…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! We are back with playful ways to get kids’ hands moving! Today’s DIY Toy is not only another one of our Recycled Crafts but is great to work on wrist extension and bilateral integration. Note- I did add a couple affiliate links to this post, which just means that if you…
Today’s post is another DIY Toy in our series of construction related recycled crafts. It was super simple to put together and my toddler has been playing with it ever since I made it! Months ago I was talking to my friend Georgina over at Craftulate all about how her son was really into construction vehicles and that…
Today’s fine motor Friday’s post is a simple tutorial to make DIY Preschool Manipulatives. If you come by here often you know we love DIY toys– especially toys made from recyclables! My new mantra is Save the Planet: Make a Toy! When LalyDad and I order out we tend to pick our favorites over and…
Welcome to another week of Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s fine motor activities for toddlers are all about Velcro! Fuzzy, textured, noise-making, velcro appeals to kids in so many ways, and makes for such fun activities. Velcro is one of those materials that can be kind of mesmerizing…no matter what age you are! The sound, the feeling, even…
Ladybug has been on an outdoorsy kick lately. She and her dad camped out in a tent in the backyard, she likes “exploring” and looking for bugs, and she’s been pretending to fish in the back yard using twigs she finds on the ground. I love it, it’s adorable to see my 3 year old…
Yes, I DID say Pimp Your Light Box….because this post is all about making your very own, DIY Light Box that is both remote controlled AND multi-colored! Okay now 90% of people who read this will think, wow, what a major dork! But I know some of you out there are thinking, Aww yeah, I…
-99 playful ideas to help you create fun activities to encourage fine motor skills.
-Chapters devoted to DIY Toys, Busy Bags, Practical Life Skills, Sensory Activities, Art & Crafts, Early Learning and Holiday themed activities!
-Each activity includes full color photos, a materials list and step-by-step instructions.
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Emotions are a tough topic for kids to tackle so today I’m sharing our Emotions Discovery Bottles, which is a fun DIY Toy or craft inspired by Disney’s Inside Out. I’ve added a few affiliate links for easy reference, just FYI. Although Inside Out came out a couple years ago now, we still consider emotions…
