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Color Sorting with Dyed Pumpkin Seeds
Playing with Pumpkin seeds and Color Sorting with Dyed Pumpkin Seeds were something I thought about as soon as we carved our jack-o-lanterns this year. We sorted the seeds into a super sensory playing activity that ended up having a great learning component too! We ended up using our dyed pumpkin seeds in so many playful…
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Turkey Napkin Rings
Another Turkey craft happened in our house! This time we made a Turkey Napkin Ring. And just in time for your Thanksgiving dinner place settings 🙂 This is another cardboard turkey craft that uses a recycled paper roll…much like this toilet paper roll turkey post that we updated recently. Today’s cardboard tube turned into a…
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Dinosaur Craft and Pretend Play
Dinosaurs and pretend play are two of the favorite things to play in this house. This craft was such a fun combination of the two and we had an absolute blast creating these dinos…And playing with them! This dinosaur craft kit is such a fun craft. We loved seeing this come in the mail. The excitement in our…
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Fine Motor Pincer Grasp Color Match
This fine motor pincer grasp activity uses colored beads to work on fine motor skills while kids color match beads to play dough. When threading beads onto dry pasta (or skewers, toothpicks, or other “sticks”) stuck into play dough, children improve various skills necessary for pencil grasp and functional grasp. Use this simple fine motor…
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Elmo Birthday Decorations
Looking for Elmo birthday decorations for a Sesame Street Party? This is the place for fun! We had an Elmo birthday party years ago, but I still love these ideas for engaging activities that support creative play and development! Elmo Birthday Decorations We celebrated a special little lady’s 2nd birthday this month when Baby Girl…
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Corn Husk Stamping Fall Art
Use some Indian corn here and used a few pieces of the husks to create fun stamping art project. Fall Art: Corn Husk Stamps This little fall art craft was fun to let the kids just go and create art as they liked! I set out a few dried corn husks and paint on paper…
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Color Shape Sorting, Patterns, Counting
This sorting and pattern activity is a great fine motor and visual motor task for young learners. I love that the fine motor aspect builds pre-writing skills as well as math skills. You’ll also want to grab our color and count worksheet for more fine motor work with math and patterning as well as sorting…
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Creative Sight Word Practice with String
Big Sister has been practicing her sight words a lot! we keep practicing and practicing and she is really confident in her ability. Knowing my little girl, she needs to feel confident in order to try new things. If she thinks something is hard (even something she’s never tried before) it is just rough from…
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Sight Word Bottle Cap Stampers
This was a quick activity using Big Sister’s sight words. She’s been learning so much in Kindergarten! Being our oldest we are SO amazed at the words she can pick out now and KNOWS just weeks into school! It seems like our little girl was just a pink little baby fresh from the hospital and…
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Motor Planning Spider Web Maze: Fine Motor Eye-Hand Coordination
This is an updated post from years back. Create a life-size indoor (or outdoor!) spider maze that kids can climb in, on, around, and through. This is just one of our favorite spider activities for building skills. Add a fine motor portion to the activity and work on vision activities like visual motor planning and…
