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Hey-o! It is the last day of Dinosaur week and for my Dinosaur Recipe I’ve got an awesome Ice Cream Excavation with Chocolate Dinosaur Fossils ! I am in LOVE with this simple, healthy treat…oh and my kids are too! This banana ice cream based dessert is such an easy way to “cook” with kids in…
Hello from Dinosaur Week! Today I have a fun Gross Motor Skills Activity as I join up with Craftulate’s Play, Craft and Learn with Dinosaurs Series! These DIY Dinosaur Stilts for Kids are super easy and lots of roaring, stomping fun! When thinking about dinosaurs, one of the first things that came to mind was…
Summer break is here, have you made the most of it? It’s not too late to make this summer awesome! In fact, I have just the thing to help! I’ve teamed up with 5 amazing bloggers to co-author the new eBook Backyard Summer Camp! I’m beyond excited and incredibly proud of the work that went…
Today I am participating in a blog hop organized by Sarah of Little Bins for Little Hands to talk about basic sensory activities. Sarah had the idea to do an “Un-challenge” of sorts…instead of setting up a parent-led themed sensory activity or small world exploration, Sarah thought, what if we all set out the same basic sensory…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! We are getting ready for Mother’s Day around here and wanted a simple craft project to do with the kids. My answer was this easy edible paint idea using nothing but chocolate! If you have kids that put everything in their mouths, you may not put painting at the…
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…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! Today I am bringing you Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers using hammers! LalyDad took Miss Three to a free Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop for the first time recently and they made a terrific birdhouse. They had a lot of fun and Miss Three was in a very peppy…
Welcome back to our collaborative weekly series, Fine Motor Fridays! I’m teaming up with a group of kid bloggers to bring you another set of original, playful Fine Motor Activities! This week I have 10 ways to use BIG BUBBLE WRAP for playful fine motor skills activities! Back when I was working on my Bubble…
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…
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…
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…
We are back for Fine Motor Fridays with a funny little craft inspired by a question my 3 1/2 year old daughter asked me. She saw a cartoon episode about loose teeth where they talked about the Tooth Fairy but the show didn’t give a lot of information for someone who is new to the…
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 to our collaborative Fine Motor Fridays series! We’re back with another fun fine motor skills activity, this time using something a lot of moms may have laying around the house- Velcro rollers! My hair is naturally wavy/curly…but not the kind that looks nice without some taming. So I’ve had these Velcro rollers sitting in my…
Today I am taking part in an awesome series from Craftulate called the Ultimate Guide to 50 Craft Materials. My contribution to the series is all about straws, so if you have some on hand and you want to do something fun with them, check out the ideas below! It is a linky too so bloggers pleas…
Welcome to a new year of Fine Motor Fridays! I’m back with our group of lovely bloggers to bring you more fine motor skills activities! I love making DIY Toys from recycled materials and this is one of my favorites! This week I finally made a toy for my son that has been on…
I am teaming up with a group of bloggers from the Kid Blogger Network to participate in the Best Kids activities of 2013 Blog Hop. Each of us will choose our favorite post from 2013 and share it in the linky below. Of course, being the indecisive person that I am, it was very hard…
Back in October I started this series with a group of fabulous bloggers with the idea that we would post a new Fine Motor Skills post every Friday that month. We all had so much fun with it that we just kept going with it. There are so many places for inspiring activities to help your little ones…
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…
