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Turtle Thumbprint Art
Make a fingerprint turtle and work on fine motor skills! This turtle craft is a huge hit with kids. We have a love for print crafts. From creating with handprints to pipe cleaners, stamping art is fun for kids and a creative way to explore shapes, colors, and textures. Fingerprint Turtle We made this…
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Flip Flop Math Commutative Property of Addition
Big Sister is moving right along in math! She says it’s her favorite subject in school and loves when she has math homework. (Is this child mine?? 😉 ) Some of the things she is learning in first grade throws me off as a parent going through this for the first time. Is my baby…
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How to Make Homemade Blender Baby Food
I’ve got four babies and have been making baby food for what seems like a decade. Ok, so it’s only been for about seven years, and with chucks of non-baby food time in there. Regardless, with four babies, we’ve had a TON of splattered sweet potatoes and mashed bananas smeared on the high chair! (And…
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Rainbow Smoothie Recipes for Kids
We LOVE healthy fruit and veggie smoothies in our house. When the kids hear the blender blending, they come running! So when I saw this smoothie recipe below, I knew I had to feature it. I love the rainbow of colors in the smoothie recipe.. Then I started thinking that we need more colors of smoothies here!…
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Books to Say I Love You to Kids
Is there anything better than snuggling up under a fuzzy blanket with your kids and reading “I love you” books? This time of year (and all year long!) I love you books tell our kids that mom and day love them always, forever, and no matter what! We love these books for Valentine’s Day and…
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Apple Dumplings Recipe Cooking With Kids
We are huge fans of Cooking with kids. There is so much learning to be had in the kitchen when kids are measuring, listening, following directions, reading, and following safety rules. And the fine motor skills are pretty awesome, too: mixing resistive dough, pouring with skilled dexterity, opening packages, cutting with the dominant hand, using the…
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Valentines Sensory Bin
Today I have a Valentines sensory bin that is so easy to set up, and you can use the materials you have on hand, while helping kids develop fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, crossing midline, and so much more. Sometimes simple play ideas are the best. A simple bin of corn (or dried beans/peas/lentils/sand/flour/rocks…) and…
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I Love Ewe Sheep Handprint Art
We are new to hand print art, (but made a super cute “Olive You” fingerprint craft last week. Seriously cute.) and we’re now addicted! There’s something about cute little kid fingers and toes covered in paint that makes a mama go, “Awwwww!” and want to keep it forever in the scrapbook. Or if you’re like this…
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Pattern Activities for Kids Math Play
Patterns are a beginner math exercise that we saw a lot of in preschool and Kindergarten. Starting with an AB pattern and working up to ABC, ABA, and ABCD, patterns are just the beginning of a math foundation. We’re always pointing out patterns in our play, and it seems like it helped once Big Sister…
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Olive You Fingerprint Valentines Art
Looking for a Valentine’s day activity that doubles as a sensory activity AND holiday craft? The cuteness factor of this Olive You thumbprint art is too much and I can’t wait to create (a ton) more handprint, footprint, and fingerprint crafts with the kids. Print crafts are one of those mementos that are more than…
