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KidKraft Train Table Review Trundle Drawers Gift for Kids
We own a KidKraft Train Table with Trundle Drawers and wanted to review it’s versatility for creative play and learning. A train table is a key tool in therapy and learning in the home and classroom, to boost many skills. We love to come up with frugal ways to encourage development of the child. Using…
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Gratitude Craft Counting Blessings with Kids
We are so blessed. Our family, our health, our home, everything that we do and say each day is because of the blessings that we have been given. We are thankful all year long for all that we have been blessed with, but this time of year, it is especially appropriate to count and express…
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Holiday Tradition Ideas for Families
With the season of holidays beginning, this is the time of year to pull out bins from the attic, decorate the house, and renew holiday traditions. Families the world over celebrate Christmas in many different ways, with traditions unique to their families. It’s a joyful time of year and we wanted to celebrate the joy…
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Tools in Fine Motor Skill Development
Fine motor skills can be developed with so many tools that you have around your house. We love playing in creative ways to work on fine motor skills. Tools for Fine Motor Skills Work on scissor skills with a bunch of fun ideas from Living Montessori NowUse broken crayons (Planting Peas) to work on a more…
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Unique Uses for Baby Wipes
This is an old blog post on unique wipe uses for baby wipes and we’ve given it an update. Occupational therapists use some unique materials in occupational therapy sessions. Toys, games, and even recycled materials can help to support OT goals! Here, we’re covering ways to use wipes in OT! Why Use Baby wipes in…
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How to make an easy Light Box for play and learning
We’ve made a DIY light box before and have loved playing and learning with light. Light boxes are such a great way to encourage fine motor, sensory, visual perceptual skills, handwriting, language, creative thought process, and more. We made another version of our Super Easy Light Box and when I say super easy…it doesn’t get much easier!…
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Glitter Letter Manipulatives for Learning
These DIY letter manipulatives were very easy to make. The kids and I have been playing with these letters for a few weeks now. We love playing with learning elements and we’ve done a lot of letter identification activities. This one was fun to make and for playing! Letter Manipulatives Letter manipulatives are a hands-on…
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Littlest Pet Shop Party Ideas
My daughter (age 7) is a HUGE planner. She loves to create, plan play ideas, write lists, plan parties, and organize. My favorite scenario that she pretends and plans is her pet shop/beauty shop/school/day care. (Really, that sounds like a genius operation!) When we had the opportunity to plan a Littlest Pet Shop…
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Skip Counting by 5s
First grade math is fun stuff! It’s all new to us as Big Sister works her way through first grade. She’s our oldest and so it’s neat to see how much she’s learning in such a short time in school. We’ve done math activities throughout her Kindergarten year and we’ll be supplementing the first grade curriculum at…
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Baked Cotton Balls Ten Apples Up On Top Activity
This Ten Apples Up on Top activity was a huge hit with my kids, because they love the book, so making baked cotton ball apples was a fun way to play through the book. And as a pediatric OT, I loved the fine motor and heavy work input that was an added benefit. You can…
