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 We are joining up with Red Ted Art once again for their Kids Get Arty Series. This series encourages you to view works of art with your children and then find an age-appropriate way to extend the exploration of the artwork. This Pointillism Art Project for Kids uses old paint swatches, paper punches, glue…
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…
Looking for kids activities, crafts and recipes involving apples! Well get ready because here they come! I’m teaming up with a group of awesome kid bloggers for a blog hop ALL about apples! This bloghop was organized by Jill over at Blessed Beyond a Doubt and will be seen on over 20 great blogs! Bloggers, come…
Kids love Halloween so why not give them some fun ways to work on their fine motor skills that have a spooky twist?! Here are four totally simple ways to practice cutting during the Halloween season…plus one that takes a litttttle more prep time. But not MUCH more! We did these all outside to cut…
This scissors practice activity for preschoolers is perfect for any kids that you know who like to laugh….which I bet is all of them! I like to call him the Cutting Practice Spider! We have had so much fun exploring fun ways to practice using scissors these past few weeks. Ever since reading about the…
It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time to pick a featured post from last month’s Magic Moments Mondays! I’ve chosen a post from Racheous about how she instills in her children that “It’s okay to be who you are.” I like this post because it’s a reminder that you don’t have…
Well big surprise, I’ve got another shrinky dink project for you! We are having a lot of fun finding ways to use this fun material! It’s pretty easy to work with once you get the hang of it. I do recommend following the tips and tricks found on the packaging instructions as well as…
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…
Hi! Is this your first time here? We’d love to see you again on our Facebook Page to follow along with the fun! My 3 year old daughter has been going through a Robots phase now that her Circus fascination has ended. I saw this post on Artchoo‘s facebook page last week with a challenge:…
Hi! Is this your first time here? We’d love to see you again on our Facebook Page to follow along with the fun! Melty beads- sometimes called Hama Beads or Perler Beads-Â are colorful bits of plastic that you typically use to make designs and fuse them together using an iron or by baking them. They…
We have been playing a lot with Melty Beads this week, finding all sorts of ways to play with them- and we haven’t even melted them yet! This project gave my 3 year old a lot of opportunities for learning and development as well as a project that she and I could do together. Here…
With a three year old getting ready to start preschool, I wanted a fun, easy back to school countdown craft to help us build up some excitement. We did a store bought advent calendar at Christmas time but 25 days of wanting to open all the remaining doors on the advent calendar was a bit much. The…
 We’re back for another Magic Moments Monday, what a lovely collection of posts we had last month! They ranged from exploring fireflies on a warm summer night to a mother’s message about perseverance in parenting, and many more. This month I am featuring a post from Chelsea at Moments a Day about recognizing simple…
This picture was taken in my back yard and if you cannot tell it is a picture of my daughter using a magnifying glass to look at a GIANT MONSTER CICADA. At least that is what *I* thought she was looking at. To my daughter it was a new buddy. She found him on our…
We have a group of playdate friends who organized a Busy Bag/Activity Exchange so I was trying to think of something that would be fun and yet personalized, so that each kid would have their own special item. I’d seen I-Spy bottles and figured they are easily customizable, so I thought I’d give it a…
Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community. I joined this organization because I knew they worked with Mariano’s and I was really excited for the opportunity to work with them. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and Mariano’s. The opinions are all mine though!…
My 3 year old is really interested in the circus lately. It started with an Olivia book but I’ve been trying to find other ways to engage her with the circus theme. She still really likes obstacle courses and it has become one of our favorite things to do when we have time alone when…
It’s that time again for a wonderful bi-monthly series from Red Ted Art called Kids Get Arty. We participated last month with a craft that kept on giving, our Kandinsky Jello Art. You would think the jello would have been eaten right up but Ladybug only ate a piece at a time, so it kept for quite some…
I had the pleasure of getting together with another crafty blog mom recently- George from Craftulate– for our first ever messy playdate. The moms and the kids in this case were all a little mess-averse so we were nervous but excited for the playdate. The moms each mixed up a batch of messy materials. I…
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…
