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Valentine’s Day Tea
We have been loving tea recently in our house. After Christmas, the whole house came down with a bug, and sore throats and coughs hit us all. A cup of tea (decaffeinated for the kids!) with a bit of honey helped a lot. With Valentine’s Day coming up, this Beau-TEA-ful tea bag is an easy way…
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Easy Shapes Big Rig Craft
We love easy kids crafts. When you can add learning and crafting, it’s just bonus! We’ve made a few other easy shape vehicle crafts before: Our fire truck craft, school bus craft, and Backhoe craft were all big hits in our house. We continued the easy shapes learning with a Big Rig Truck craft. This one was easy and fun!…
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Bottle Cap Math Activity
This bottle cap math activity doubles as a fine motor activity to develop precision, in hand manipulation skills AND counting by tens using bottle cap math! Bottle Cap Math Big Sister is working her way through first grade and loves when she has math homework. She works hard at math but when she “gets” the concept, she…
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130 Sensory Play Ideas
Looking for a few fresh sensory play ideas? These sensory activities are full of fun and creative ways to explore the senses while learning through taste, touch, sight, smell, the auditory sense, and even proprioception and vestibular sensory systems! One of our favorite ways to explore and learn with kids is through sensory play. There’s a…
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Best Dough Recipes
When we looked at our top ten posts of 2014, we noticed a funny thing. A few of our most popular blog posts were homemade play dough recipes. You must like play dough as much as we do! We had to put together a collection of our top play dough recipes of the year to…
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Top Ten Posts of 2014
Wow, what a year 2014 has been! It’s been a blur of a year with a new baby, three kids in three different schools, play dates, volunteer positions, activities, and lots of fun and play around here. It’s so hard to believe that this year has gone by at lightning speed. When you are a…
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New Year’s Eve Countdown Chain
This New Year’s Countdown Chain is a fun way to count down the hours leading up to the New Year. Use this as a New Year countdown activity for kids leading up to the hours right before midnight. This countdown chain activity would be great for a noon years eve activity, too! Use the New…
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Snowball Activities
There is just something about fun snowball activities that make learning fun! These snowball games and snowball ideas can be used in winter occupational therapy activities or in hands-on learning with a snowball theme. Winter fun and play is here, so snowball games are the way to go for learning activities with movement. With winter in…
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Practice Sight Words with Balloons
We’ve got a big collection of sight words. We started last year when Big Sister was in Kindergarten, and we’re continuing this year in first grade. The fun thing about our sight word activities is that they can be used and modified for all ages. When kids practice sight words, they need repetition to memorize the…
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Quick and Easy Christmas Activities for Kids
This time of year is a busy season for families. There is a sense of rush, rush, rush to get everything done on time. The busyness of the Christmas season does not mean that kids can’t play and learn with creative activities. These are a few ideas that I found on my iphone camera. These…
