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Woohoo it is Fine Motor Friday again! I’m wearing a sweater and eating soup so fall is officially here. I already saw pumpkins in the grocery store so I suppose it is time to get planning for Halloween! Last week we had a fun Halloween Printable that was great for working on visual scanning and…
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 to my first post for the Virtual Book Club for Kids! Today’s book extension activity is inspired by a super fun book by Mo Willems called The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? We have a ton of books in our house because my family and friends all gave us books in place of greeting cards…
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…
I’m so excited to be joining up this year with the Virtual Book Club for Kids, which is an amazing group headed by Kristina at Toddler Approved, Cerys at Rainy Day Mum and Kim at the Educators’ Spin on It! As a group these talented ladies get together to provide you with tons of book…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! We are going a little crazy with contact paper lately after last week’s sticky dresses and robot outfits. This contact paper doll dresses activity is pretty similar but my daughter loves it so much I though I’d share it too! If you saw last week’s post, you know that my daughter…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! Today’s Preschool Fine Motor Activities were SUPER fun! We’ve done contact paper fine motor skills activities before- but never like this! My daughter wanted to play dress up one day and asked to wear a white dress like a fairy she had seen that day. We don’t have a white dresses…
With the Back to School season starting I’ve got my mind set on some themes I’d like to work on with the kids. As you might be able to tell from my 30 Back to School Crafts post last week, I’ve got apples on the brain! So today I’ve got Apple Themed Fine Motor Skills…
Happy Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s super simple fine motor activity might look like the top two items on your back to school list, which is one of the reasons I love it- they are everyday materials! So. You give pencils and erasers to an elementary school aged kid and clearly they’re school supplies meant to…
Back to school season is getting started here and it always reminds me of shopping for school supplies. Yesterday’s Pool Noodle Pencil was silly and fun, but I think today’s super cool back to school crafts would make fun additions to any pencil case! They are super simple Conversation Bubble Pencil Toppers! My daughter had…
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! We are back with the usual suspects this week with an A is for Apple Craft using a simple CUT-punch-PASTE method. This is a super simple craft that incorporates cutting practice, paper punches, gluing and drawing to encourage fine motor skills practice. A is for Apple Craft Materials: Red and green…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Friday! Today I have free printable Play Dough “Pinch Challenge” Mats that make great fine motor activities for pinch strength! Partner affiliate links to products we recommend are used in this post. I was out to dinner with a couple fellow mom recently and one of them mentioned that much…
How has your summer been so far? Are those kids staying busy? We’ve had a blast checking out activities from our Summer Camp Book! This lantern is straight out of the book, and my daughter LOVES it. The best part is that she helped make it and she can use it over and over again!…
You heard that right- today I have some SUPER COOL Dinosaur Crafts to share with you and they are called Snappets! You might remember that we recently participated in Dinosaur Week with our DIY Dinosaur Hat, Easy Dinosaur Stilts and Ice Cream Dinosaur Excavation. Today’s dinosaur craft is a little different. Let me tell you…
It is time for another Fine Motor Friday! Today’s simple fine motor skills activity is all about learning colors for toddlers. Mister 1 noticed Miss 4’s Frozen Fractals sticky collage on the window the other day and I thought he might like to stick some torn paper onto it. He went crazy for it so…
Welcome to the Hop for Hope! This post about ways to paint without paintbrushes highlights the lovely ideas of Heather from Crayon Box Chronicles who is spending time with her brand new baby, Savannah Hope, as she fights for her life. Check out their story on their Prayers for Savannah Hope Facebook Page! Heather shares so…
Today I am participating the in the ABCs of Nature Blog Hop hosted by School Time Snippets! The letter I chose was F for Flowers. My preschooler loves flowers- loves looking at them, picking them in our back yard, smelling them and asking to buy them at the store. We have in the past played…
Today is the first post in a three week collaborative series all about ways to keep your kids learning over the summer! Today’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree Activity is my contribution for week one- Learning at Home! (Note: This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.)…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s fine motor activities all feature one common ingredient: SLIME! We are not frequent messy play people, as you could tell by our first messy playdate and our basic rice sensory play day. But slime was actually quite a hit with my daughter so during little brother’s nap time we mixed…
