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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…
Did you know this week is World Nursery Rhyme Week? Fun right? We have had fun in our house with our book related activities and nursery rhymes fall in that group for us, since we most often read rather than sing our nursery rhymes. Today I have another DIY Toy to go with a nursery…
Welcome to a very special edition of Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s fine motor skills activity not only comes with a free printable that goes along with a beloved children’s song- but it comes with a HUGE announcement! Today is the launch of our brand new book called 99 Fine Motor Ideas for Ages 1 to…
Today I’m teaming up with a great group of bloggers to bring you fun Halloween Read and Play ideas! My idea is a playset that you can use for pumpkin activities for toddlers and preschoolers! Note affiliate links are included in this post, which means that if you click a product link and buy something,…
Nursery Rhymes are a classic element to any childhood. My kids will ask to recite the same ones over and over, the rhymes are so much fun to them! Pop Goes the Weasel somehow never gets old in our house. That is why I’m so excited to join the gals over at Sugar Aunts and…
Welcome back to another week’s Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s Fine Motor Games are so very simple to set up and so versatile too! They make nice little concentration games that could be used to focus on bilateral coordination and visual scanning. My son really likes to tinker and figure things out. He loves books with…
It seems like summer just started but it is already time to start thinking about back to school! Today I have a super fun Back to School Craft for you with this easy Pool Noodle Pencil! I think this would be a pretty funny teacher gift or a fun craft for a back to school…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! Today’s DIY Toy is the Ultimate PVC Play Table in a Bag! Playing trains, building with LEGO, lining up roads and driving cars- these are all great playful ways to help kids develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills! I call this the ULTIMATE play table because you can use it…
We have reached a new level of craziness in our house and it all centers around Disney’s Frozen Movie. I love to craft, learn and play using anything that captures my kids’ attention so today I’ve got a fun Frozen Olaf Craft. This is of course on top of our other Frozen Craft that we…
Welcome back to Dino Week! Today is the Dinosaur Crafts Day of the Play, Craft and Learn with Dinosaurs Series! For our super fun kid-made dinosaur crafts, we added to our arsenal of preschooler cutting practice projects and made these awesome DIY Dinosaur hats for kids! Okay technically Miss Almost Four made one hat and I…
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…
Easter always sneaks up on me so I am prepping early with these Peeps Puppets Easter Games! This post will tell you how to make them, including a materials list with affiliate links as well as the details on the free printable Peeps template! This will be the first Easter that we will have a preschooler in…
Today I have an easy tutorial on how to make a DIY Alphabet Pocket Chart from felt! My kids are both at really fun stages in learning. Miss Three knows all of her letters and letter sounds pretty well these days and we love games that reinforce that knowledge. Mister One somehow already knows a…
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…
Today I am thrilled to announce the launch of a wonderful new resource filled with fun activities for infants and toddlers! Zero to Two ~ the book of play is a new eBook from Cathy James of Nurturestore and I am over the moon excited I am to be one of the contributors! Inside this eBook you will find…
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…
 Welcome back for week three of Fine Motor Fridays. Craftulate, And Next Comes L, Stir the Wonder and School Time Snippets are with me as well to share another round of new fine motor skills activities. This week I wanted to find a fun way for my three year old to practice twisting and turning….
Today we are joining Sun Scholar’s 100 Days of Play series with OVER 100 other bloggers! The point of this series is to really play with your kids every day- but also to find super simple ideas that don’t require a lot of gear or set up. I think I have something that fits that…
 I’m back with yet another way to use pouch caps…this time it is Fairy Wands and Toadstools! I told you I was obsessed. When we did our guest post for Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails we made this fun Pouch Cap prince and princess wand set. They have really turned into so much more…
