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Easter is around the corner and it is time to prep for your class party or family get together! Last week I shared a super fun Free Printable to make Peeps Finger Puppets and that got me looking around for Easter Coloring Pages and Other Free Printables. When my friend Sarah at Little Bins for Little Hands…
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…
This week for Fine Motor Fridays I’ve got a fun St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Kids that has bonus Fine Motor Fun added in! We haven’t done much for St. Patrick’s Day at our house in the past. We usually get together with friends at a family-friendly Irish Pub in Chicago. It’s pretty fun to…
Valentine’s Day is Friday, can you believe it? I needed a quick and easy DIY Valentine’s Day Card to send to my daughter’s preschool class. Yep, they’re due tomorrow. I know this holiday is synonymous with chocolate, but the kids will get enough from others, so I wanted to do a Non-Candy Valentine. I had…
It has been a while since we have posted about light table activities so today I have some super easy Valentine’s Day themed light box or light table activities. This activity utilizes the red option of our remote controlled multi-colored light box. If you don’t want to add these lights to yours, you could try using red tissue…
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…
Today we are joining with Mama Miss and a huge group of lovely bloggers for the 20 Days of Kid-Made Ornaments Series. Our ornament is pretty easy to make but I did have to try out several different combinations of paint and markers to get it right! To start I took some bubble wrap and…
Today I am joining the 25 Frugal Days of Christmas series Frugal Homeschool Family with an fun, frugal ornament that you can make with your kids every year! Hop on over to Frugal Homeschool Family to see how to do it- and the secret ingredient that makes it frugal- and then scroll through our other…
This week for Fine Motor Fridays I have a Fine Motor Christmas Game that can be used for a wide range of ages, from baby to preschoolers. For babies you could use it to work on pincer grasp, for toddlers or preschoolers you could use it to practice with any number of tools- tweezers, chopsticks, clothespins- whatever you…
Welcome to the mega, super, awesome Fine Motor Fridays- Christmas Roundup Edition! I am teaming up with the usual (awesome blogger) suspects to bring you a “progressive roundup,” if you will, of Fine Motor Christmas Activities! Each blogger has chosen a different fine motor skills topic and has compiled an inspiring list of activities from…
Christmas is a fun time of year for kids. We do plenty of activities throughout the season that are purely for fun, but I do try to sprinkle in some things that help my kids learn or develop in a fun way. To that end, we are doing some fun Christmas Cutting Practice Activities this…
We are settling into the holiday season with Christmas right around the corner. Ladybug’s Preschool has started doing Christmas Crafts for Kids so we’re doing some at home as well. You know how I love sneaking in extra fine motor skills when we do activities and art projects and three-year olds like the variety and…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays, a collaborative series that brings you new Fine Motor Activities every week! This week we are in the Thanksgiving mood so we have been playing some Fine Motor Games using Cranberries! Last week I was completely inspired by Sarah’s Cranberry Fine Motor Activities post so we got some cranberries…
We are still on a fine motor skills kick in our house so I wanted to do a CUT-Punch-PASTE project to make a Thanksgiving Fine Motor Activity. I thought back to our L is for Leaf Paper Punch Puzzle and thought we could do something similar with turkey feathers. I put the whole thing on…
Note: This Arts & Crafts Supplies for Kids Gift Guide includes affiliate links and was sponsored by Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores. This time of year we have a lot of gift-giving occasions– several kids’ birthdays and of course Christmas is just around the corner. I’m teaming up with a LARGE group of FABULOUS bloggers…
Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community. This fantastic Kabocha Squash Frozen Yogurt was created as a Halloween Party recipe for a sponsored post for Mariano’s via Collective Bias®. Have you ever cooked with a Kabocha squash? I had never heard of it when I first spied this guy amongst a…
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…
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…
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…
Well I am super proud of completing every one of the aprons I wanted to give as Christmas gifts! The day before one x-mas get together I actually completed 7 aprons in less than 7 hours! Of course I had cut and pressed all my fabric the night before, but still. Yay for aprons! (You…
