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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…
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…
It’s the last day of LEGO Week over at Toddler Approved! If you’ve missed our other LEGO ideas, we shared a DIY Removable LEGO Wall and a LEGO Camping Lantern on previous days. We also shared our ULTIMATE PVC Play Table in a Bag which would be great to use with LEGO! Today I’m sharing…
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 are following up our DIY Lego Wall post with a collection of DIY LEGO Birthday Card tutorials– all for the Toddler Approved LEGO Week! If you have a LEGO Lover in your family or circle of friends, you should keep these in mind for their next birthday party. They would all be cool to…
This week for Fine Motor Fridays we have another Disney Frozen Craft for you to go along with our Jointed Frozen Olaf and our Frozen Inspired Chill Out Jar. Make sure you stick around at the end of this post to see what the other Fine Motor Fridays gals have been up to this week!…
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…
Today’s post offers a fun, free DIY project that allows for a wide range of ABC Letter activities for kids. These free printable alphabet cards are so versatile and can be used with babies, toddlers, preschoolers- even school aged kids! I have been planning these cards for months and as I was starting to thinking…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
