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DIY Cardboard Bricks
If you’ve ever found yourself with a stack of empty Amazon boxes, then this DIY cardboard bricks project is for you. We made giant cardboard blocks many years ago and the creativity that resulted was enormous! As a pediatric occupational therapist, I love to recommend toys that support development. Block activities and building bricks are always on therapy toy lists. So, when my own kids were involved with the…
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N is for Napkin Newt Craft
We love making cute crafts and our dining room wall can attest for that. There’s a nice gallery of kid art going on on all four walls (and the ceiling, too!) and this cute newt craft is sure to make the wall! We’re joining bloggers from all over in the 31 days of ABCs series hosted by All…
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Easy Shapes Backhoe Craft
We’ve been making a few Easy Shapes crafts with vehicles recently. A school bus or fire truck craft are fun ways to create and learn shapes with little ones. The crafts are great teaching opportunities for vehicle lovers! We made this Backhoe craft with simple shapes: Backhoe craft for kids: This post contains affiliate links. We started with…
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DIY Decoupage for Crafts and Activities
When you make crafts with kids, there is glue involved. We use glue sticks, glue in bottles, glitter glue, and a dried cereal/milk combination that turned glue on the surface of the dining room table. Just kidding about that part. Sometimes. We wanted to share a decoupage glue that we use all the time in crafts…
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Glow in the Dark Play Dough Silly String Dough
We’ve been having so much fun lately making all sorts of play dough. There’s so much to do with play dough…from pretending, to working on fine motor skills…play dough is one of our favorite ways to play. And the fun ways to make play dough; Oh boy things can get crazy in the play dough…
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Pete the Cat White Shoes Cookies
It is so much fun to explore children’s books through crafts and activities. This week in the Preschool Book Club, we’re baking up some sugar cookies to go along with the book, Pete the Cat I love My White Shoes, by Eric Litwin. This was such a FUN (and tasty) way to read and play with one…
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Hanging Ghost Craft Recycled Containers
Looking for some Halloween learning, play, crafts, and activities? This ghost craft is a fun one to do with the kids and makes a spooky yet kid-friendly Halloween decoration! Halloween is such a fun time of year for crafts and activities with the kids. Spiders and ghosts can be cute for the kids and not scary at all. This…
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Fun Unique Library Book Lists for kids
We visit our library at least weekly. Sometimes more. It helps that we live minutes from the building. And that we have a SUPER great library with awesome children’s librarians and programs galore for the kids. And, we just love checking out books. We have our favorites that we always pull from the shelves (Pete…
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Pumpkin Thumbprint Craft
Many years ago (2014 was the original date of this pumpkin thumbprint craft!), we made a Halloween painting with thumbprint pumpkins. We actually included fingers too, and made the pumpkin patch painting with fingerprint pumpkins as well. This Halloween sensory activity was a fine motor powerhouse and one of our favorite Halloween occupational therapy activities.…
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Oreo Ghost Cookies
Need a quick and easy kid-friendly Halloween treat? These Oreo ghost cookie ghost snacks will fit the bill for preschool parties, school-aged parties, or a play date. Any Halloween party would be a little sweeter with these easy ghost cookies! Ghost Cookie Halloween Treats This post contains affiliate links. I started with a package of Oreo…
