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Honey Bee Games and Activities Inspired by The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh
We used our honey bees in a fine motor game where we matched the number of bees to the number on a honey pot. The pinching motion to open the clothes pin is great for strengthening the muscles in little hands. It really develops the arches of the hands and allows the child to improve…
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Fairy Small World
This fairy small world activity is an old one on our blog, but do you believe we still have the small world fairy house that we made many moons ago? I love that the small world fairy garden was a sensory bin activity using materials we had around the home, including our sand box! This…
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Balls in the Baby Pool
Putting ball pit balls in a baby pool is a great sensory room DIY ball pit that kids love. Whether you play inside or outside with the baby pool full of water, this sensory play activity is one of our favorite ball pit activities! Baby Pool Sensory Play We’ve been loving these last days of summer before…
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Clay Nature Art Sculptures
We’ve been enjoying some beautiful weather and having TONS of outside play. We’ll hang out in our back yard and get into all kinds of ball throwing, tree climbing, water playing fun. One morning we pulled out some lumps of clay. They were combined into pretty swirls of colors. Ad a few leaves and sticks…
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Messy Sensory Play for Kids
Messy and Sensory Play for Kids! We love getting messy with sensory play with our kids. There is so much learning. And fun to be had! We’ve featured sensory play before and we just couldn’t help doing it again! These features are a great way to explore colors and textures with a lot of learning…
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Color Matching Lego Matching
Legos and Play Dough to Match Colors This was a super easy and very fun fine motor activity we did one day. Perfect for the littlest ones who find dinner-prep time is time for Mom to hold her while sautéing chicken …cough, Baby Girl, cough… Pull out one color of play dough and one matching…
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Window No-Mess Sensory Spelling
No-Mess Sensory Spelling: We’ve done the no-mess window painting a few times before (Seek-and-find, and Colored gel mixing to name a couple) and had a lot of fun with it. This time we added a spelling component to add a few Kindergarten sight words to the fun. This is so easy and Big Sister had fun…
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Family Reunion Lawn Games
Games and Activities for Outdoor Family Fun! We had a big old fashioned family reunion this summer with lots of family, food, and fun! Us Aunts were in charge of the kid’s games and activities and had a blast putting the activities together…and playing, of course! We started out by researching the best outdoor lawn games…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Party details
Little Guy celebrated his 4th birthday with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle party. He’s been loving all things Ninja turtles recently and asked for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Party for months! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Birthday Little Guy and Big Sister celebrate their birthdays in the same month and we’ve been doing…
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Back to School Countdown Ideas
We love coming up with fun back to school ideas, and this back to school countdown is a great way to get back into the routine at the end of Summer before school starts. Kids will appreciate the visual schedule that gets them excited about a new school year! Why Use Back to School Countdowns?…
