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Welcome to another week of Fine Motor Fridays! Today I’m sharing a collection of kids activities on a vertical plane. I also have some affiliate links for easy shopping if you want to take your child’s play vertical! Recently I watched an EdWeb educational webinar about Fine Motor Skills by Marianne Gibbs of Write Out of…
Welcome back to another month’s Virtual Book Club for Kids! I’m joining with the other VBC bloggers to share a Leo Lionni book activity with some Little Blue Little Yellow Twisty Cups! I’ve added a couple affiliate links to make shopping easy, FYI. The Virtual Book Club for Kids has introduced my family to so…
Hiya! It’s time for another Fine Motor Friday! Today I’m sharing one of our Spring Activities for Kids with this Easy Butterfly Magnet Maze. I’ve got a couple affiliate links in there in case you want to order the supplies. We like our recycled crafts in our house and use quite a lot of materials…
Welcome back to another Fine Motor Friday! Today I have ideas for construction paper crafts that use all kinds of fine motor skills. It focuses on my toddler’s latest obsessions too! Yes, my 2 1/2 year old is obsessed with Monster Trucks. Trains and construction vehicles too, but right now, totally Monster Trucks. He’s been…
Today as part of the A to Z Rainy Days Blog Hop I am putting together ways to have fun with a cardboard box, because who doesn’t have one of those laying around on a rainy day? These cardboard crafts have been seen on my blog and other favorite blogs of mine. Can’t wait for you all…
Welcome back to the Busy Bags Blog hop, a monthly themed blog hop to bring you fun, easy ideas to keep kids busy. Today it is all about Rainbow Activities! Busy bags are meant to be simple activities you can put together into bags or boxes and just grab one when your child could use…
Coming at you today with some super simple pre writing activities for toddlers. Nothing crazy and very low-prep. Lately I feel like I have just been sharing the simplest things. Like really, you turned a box into a bulldozer blade? Congrats! It’s the kind of thing that I’d do to occupy the kids while I…
I don’t know about where you live, but it’s getting pretty cold here and everyone I know is busy planning for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Today I am sharing some fun printable Christmas Activities for Kids as part of the Busy Bag Blog Hop, so if you are a big fan of busy bags, be sure…
My four year old daughter is all about pretend play these days so when I decided to join a Busy Bags Blog hop hosted by Playdough to Plato, I knew I had to create some pretend play busy bags for preschoolers! These three busy bags were a HUGE hit. My daughter really loves the idea…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
 Here we are again to bring you some fun Fine Motor Activities for Kids on Fine Motor Friday! Today we have an activity that includes cutting practice, squeezing paper punches, pasting, sorting and lots of fun! My preschooler still enjoys playing with her toy kitchen even though we have had it for two years. Lately…
It’s the last Friday of October which means our 4th Fine Motor Fridays post. It was going to be our last but it sounds like several of us are going to keep this train a rollin’ and do another month of Fine Motor Activities posts! Here is the SUPER fun and SUPER easy DIY fine…
 Welcome back for week three of Fine Motor Fridays. Craftulate, And Next Comes L, Stir the Wonder and School Time Snippets are with me as well to share another round of new fine motor skills activities. This week I wanted to find a fun way for my three year old to practice twisting and turning….
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…
