Outside Water Play Ideas for Kids

We LOVE to play and learn with water! It's a natural sensory material that is absolutely a blast to explore outside while kids cool down in the summer! 

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Color Sorting Ideas for Kids

We love to work with colors and rainbows! Fine motor practice is even more fun when it's bright, brilliant, and beautiful color sorting activities for kids!

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UNO Movement Game for Kids

We play outside as much as we can but lately the weather hasn't been cooperating. What is a parent or teacher to do when stuck inside with active kids who need to move? We turned the classic card game of Uno into a indoor gross motor game! 

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Rainbow Tinker Tray

Our Winter Tinker Tray was such a big success that we decided to make another one. But we're craving spring and color so a rainbow themed was perfect! 

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Where is the Heart? Body Part Identification Game

This body part identification game is the perfect way to keep preschool kids moving while they work on naming parts of their body! 

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Top 10 Valentine's Day Sensory Bins

I love the colors of Valentine's Day plus interesting tactile sensory bin fillers really invite kids to dig right in! We love have found ten of our absolute favorite Valentine's Day themed sensory table ideas. Which one will you try first?

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Stamping Shapes Process Art

I am absolutely loving this monthly process art challenge for our kids! Every single time I am surprised by what they come up with when provided with a few art materials. Yesterday we worked on stamping with simple shapes but it turned into so much more! 

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Winter Fine Motor Activities

Are you looking for ways to keep kids' hands busy this winter? We have an entire collection of polar and snow themed activities for children! The best part is they are strengthening their hands for writing, too!

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I Think I CAN Sight Word Activity

Do you think you can encourage your kids to practice letter formation with this invitation to play with trains? Our train obsessed toddler loved this hands on learning activity!

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Train Snack for Kids

The train obsession still chugs along very strong in our home! We created a train themed snack to go along with one of our kids' favorite modes of transportation!

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Frosty the Melted Snowman Sensory Play for Kids

Have you ever touched oobleck? If you have then you know how utterly irresistible it is and if you haven't I insist you whip up a batch right now! Or at least at some point this winter you have to try oobleck for the perfect pretend play melted snowman. Let us show you how this non-Newtonian fluid creates the coolest Frosty the Snowman you'll ever meet.

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The Cow Jumped Over the Moon Craft

What's your child's favorite nursery rhyme? We love Hey Diddle Diddle so we created an interactive fine motor craft. As your child turns the paper plates to have the cow jump over the moon you can work on teaching prepositional position words, too!

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Stamping Christmas Patterns

If you need a quick and easy Christmas activity for kids, this works for one or two children or a whole classroom of students as a center! We worked on fine motor skills and math as we created and continued our holiday stamping patterns. 

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My Five Senses Book for Kids

Predictable books are a huge step in teaching kids to read. Children are even more motivated when they have written the book themselves! We created this printable book about the five senses for our kids to review this preschool concept. We're also sharing the pattern so you make your own! 

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Marker Airbrush Process Art for Kids

One of the absolute best parts of living in the neighborhood where we live is having neighbors with kids around the same age as ours. Some days this means lots of outdoor play together and other days it means we can borrow an amazing tool to create process art. The kids experimented with markers and airbrushing.

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Play and Learn with Feathers

There are so many ways that kids can learn and play with feathers! Whether you choose colored craft feathers or natural ones, the invitation to create and explore is so inspiring with these light and delicate objects. These are great ideas for Thanksgiving too!

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Kid Made Neighborhood Building Blocks

Our kids love small world play! We set out an invitation for them to create their own buildings since we've been learning to identify places in our community. This creative project also showed just how much they've noticed about our neighborhood!

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Madeline Snack for Kids

This month for Virtual Book Club for Kids we read the book Madeline. Our kids created a snack to go with the story, too. They loved making and eating Madeline hat cookies! 

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Play Dough Monsters

Our little guy is absolutely play dough obsessed! I knew he'd love this invitation to create play dough monsters. I provided a few simple materials and he did the rest! What kid can resist a fun monster?

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Shape Sensory Squish Bag for Kids

Our kids love sensory play! We're learning shapes so we created a sensory squish bag with triangles, circles, and squares. It's irresistible to touch and talk about in the window or on the table. It's super easy to make, too!

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