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DIY Tambourine Craft
Want to make a recycled tambourine? We’ve got you covered with our plate tambourine craft from years ago. We used recycled clear plates for a colorful tambourine that the kids loved! We made these clear DIY tambourines as a baby sensory toy that was a big hit with all of the kids. The clear plastic…
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Lowercase Letter Formation Baked Cotton Swabs
Have you ever made baked cotton balls? Today we’re sharing one of our newest creative play ideas with baked cotton swabs! These are a colorful manipulative for learning and fine motor play. Today we’re sharing how we made baked cotton swabs and using them in a Kindergarten Preparation busy bag to build letters. This is something…
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Freight Train Preschool Book Snack Idea
We joined the Preschool Book Club in another round of connecting a fantastic preschool book with crafts, activities, and (this time) a Snack! Freight Train is an eye-catching book, with it’s bright colors. We used those colors to create a Preschool (or any age) snack based on the book. Hosting a playdate? Reading Freight Train…
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Strawberry Whole Wheat Pancakes Milk-free Egg-free
We’re back for another week of our Cooking with kids A-Z series and today we bring you Strawberry whole wheat pancakes made milk-free and egg-free. While this cooking with kids recipe is one that builds many skills, it’s a great addition to a strawberries activity theme, too. Strawberry Pancakes Recipe This week, we are on…
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Great quote for parents of young kids
Sometimes a quote is all you need to know you are not alone! I love this quote about my home. It’s just about perfectly describes the mess, the noise, and the fingerprints (they are seriously EVERYWHERE!) It also describes what really matters. That is the part of motherhood and parenting small children that is sometimes…
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Robot Activities and Crafts for Kids
This week on Share It Saturday we’re featuring Robot crafts and activities for kids! We loved the Robot Memory Game linked up from Brain Power Boy last week and had to feature it, so off we went to find more fun ways to build robots, create robots, and make robots with kids! Build-a-Robot activities and crafts for…
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Recycled Seedling Planter Animals Craft
It’s no secret that we love to create crafts and activities using recycled materials. Especially during April and right before Earth Day, we wanted to make a recycled material craft. We pulled out recycled seedling planter containers to create animal crafts. I always have left over seedling planter containers in the garage from gardening and flower…
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Tractor Footprint Art for Kids
We LOVE print art at my house. My kids are 2, 3, and 6yr right now. I love making fun keepsakes with their little prints. They love making them just as much as I love keeping them. The transformation from a handprint or footprint into say, a Bunny, is just so much fun…
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Books About Recycling for Kids
We love to make crafts and activities using recycled materials. Love it. So when we joined the natural parenting and earth month series at Alternative Learning, we knew we had to do something with recycled material crafts. Looking around the internet a bit, we were able to find the best craft idea books for creating kids’ crafts using recycled materials. These…
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Bernoulli’s Principle Tissue Paper Glider
Today we’re excited to share how to make glider using tissue paper. This tissue paper glider is a fun way to build a project together with the kids and explore airfoil and Bernoulli’s Principle. Using just a few materials, you can easily construct this glider and watch it sail! Add this simple experiment to your…
