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Wedding Soup Recipe Cooking With Kids
This week in the A-Z Cooking With Kids series, we’re sharing one of my kids’ favorite recipes. My three older kids (and now the baby is loving it too!) LOVE Wedding Soup. It’s one of their most requested meals. We’re making our way through the alphabet with our cooking with kids series and this week…
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Patriotic Crayon Salt Dough Recipe
This play dough recipe is a spin on the classic salt dough recipe. Add a few broken crayons and you’ve got a crayon salt dough recipe that is sure to be a hit with the kids! It’s just one of our crayon play dough recipes that are fun in so many ways! Memorial Day, Fourth…
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Constellation Crafts for Kids
My kids are SO into stars, the galaxy, and outer space in general. So, when we saw a glow in the dark constellation mobile linked up in last week’s Share It Saturday, we had to feature it. We searched the internet for the best Constellation Crafts out there. This collection of crafts will definitely come in handy…
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DIY Whiteboard Busy Bag Kids Travel Kit
Traveling with kids is extremely difficult. There are the bathroom breaks, the “Are we there yet”s, the bickering, the whining…sometimes a 6 hour drive with a car-full of children is one of the toughest forms of self-torture there is. Travel with children doesn’t need to be a torture chamber on wheels, though! We made this DIY dry erase board travel kit for…
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Crayon Salt Dough Recipe
This crayon salt dough recipe is an old one here on The OT Toolbox. It’s a dough recipe that is not only bright and vivid, it’s a great salt dough recipe that kids love to make. In fact, if you are wondering about how to color salt dough, we have the tips for you…it involves…
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Bow Stamp Art Flower Craft
Our recent Painting with Pinwheel art was such a hit that we had to try another stamp art activity. We made this gift bow flower stamp art craft in honor of a special little one in our house who is celebrating her first birthday. Using the gift bows as a stamp made the cutest flower art. This…
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Use a Marble Run on the Water Table Sensory Play
Recently, we posted an image on our instagram page of an outdoor sensory play activity. We pulled out our marble run toy and the water table for sensory and fine motor fun. This was such a hit on a hot day that we have played with the marble run and the water table many more times since. We…
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Honey Peanut Butter Rice Krispy treats
One of our favorite easy lunches is a peanut butter and honey sandwich. The combination of peanut butter and honey is so good, with sweet, chewy, and packed with protein. When we heard that the A-Z Cooking With Kids recipe for this week was H is for Honey, we knew that we had to go with our favorite…
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Dyed Pasta Tic Tac Toe
We love a fun game of tick tac toe. We play with pretty much any manipulative and on paper with shapes, letters, numbers, or drawings. This Pasta Tic Tac Toe game used dyed pasta and has kept us busy for many a game of tic tac toe! EASY Tic Tac Toe game with dyed pasta…
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I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Color Identification Game
Preschool Book Club is back again, this time with a craft activity and game based on the book, “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!”. We’ve created a body part identification book activity for this book before, and were excited to read an play the book again! This time our activity addressed colors and body parts, and was…
