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Cooking With Kids Recipes
We’ve updated our Cooking With Kids Page! Now you can find all of our recipes in one place when you are looking for a snack, appetizer, breakfast, lunch, dinner, or desert idea to make with the kids in the kitchen. Cooking with Kids is such a sensory-rich learning experience and a development of life skills, as well.…
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Kid Friendly Antipasto Skewer Recipe
This week on our Cooking With Kids series, we’re sharing some of our favorite ingredients in a kid-friendly Antipasto Kabob Skewer Recipe. Every other week, we’ve been cooking our way through the alphabet with the Cooking With Kids A-Z series and we are up to O for Olives. My kids could eat a whole can…
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Healthy Snacks for On-the-Go Families
Getting out of the house and experiencing your city or town is a must when you have kids. Whether you pack a picnic for the park or play in a nearby creek, getting out and being on-the-go is fun for the whole family. Outings to parks, zoos, local amusement parks, or museums are a great…
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Aunt Quotes
This blog post on aunt quotes is an OLD one on this website. The origins of this blog began many years ago (You can read all about The OT Toolbox and our start.) But one thing we love is being an aunt to many nieces and nephews. This brings us to our favorite quotes about…
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Honey Roasted Nuts Popcorn Snack Recipe
If your kids are like mine, they are always hungry. The request for a snack happens at least 2,435 times a day. I try to fill them up with healthy and protein-filled snacks like nuts to give them a little more oomph in their snack time. These honey roasted nuts are a great snack for…
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Pop! Squirt! Splash! Book for Activities with Soap, Water, Bubbles
These creative play activities use soap, water, bubble play with hands-on activities and creative play ideas for kids with the book, Pop! Squirt! Splash! Developed with an intention to create fun and creative hands-On activities for kids using Soap, Water, and Bubbles, this book shares fun ways to play! I am…
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Healthy Back-to-School Snack Ideas
This post is brought to you by Bolthouse Farms Kids™ and The Motherhood. All opinions are my own. With four kids, mornings are a blur. We’re rushing to get everyone fed, dressed, brushed, polished, and out the door without forgetting anything (or anyone!). Inevitably there are forgotten homework sheets, a rush to find the baby…
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Back to School Morning Routine Story Stones
These Back-to-school story stones are sure to help with the ease of getting back into routines of Fall and School. Whether your child is going to Kindergarten for the first time, or returning to school this Fall (or returning to routines of homeschool!), these story stones will help with getting kids used to the steps…
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Base Tens Operations with Paper Clips
There are many games with paper clips that support development of fine motor skills, and making this paper clip chain is just one! You’ve probably made a paperclip chain at one point or another. But did you ever think about the learning that is happening, too? In first grade math, base ten is a big…
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Deep Blue Sea Sensory Bin
There are so many books out there that are just fun to read. The Deep Blue Sea is one of those books. Sure you learn colors and prepositions with this book, but the simple phrases and fun pictures make this book one that we read over and over again. In this month’s Book Club Play…
