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  • Share It Saturday #19 and Our Week In Review

     Our Week-In-Review… It’s that time again! We are ready for the weekend and hope you had a wonderful week. We have so much fun with Share It Saturday.  We love seeing what you’ve been up to each week.  Here’s what we’ve been up to… We made some blue sand this week and did a little letter formation…

  • Blue Sensory Play for Toddlers

    This was a fun activity that the toddlers around here loved.  I put a bunch of little objects out on a tray, all in shades of blue.  Different textures, shapes, and sizes were perfect for little exploring hands.  Baby Girl and my niece and nephew played with these for a while. Once they had enough…

  • Scooping Ice

    This was an easy play activity to set up one morning.  A few spoons, a bowl of ice, and a mini muffin tin made for an extra cup of coffee for momma! I pulled this tray-of-fun out on a morning that my niece and nephew (18 months) was here with us and Baby Girl went…

  • Calming Waterbead Sensory Bin

    We play a lot with water beads.  These blue water beads were part of a 3 pack I found at Walmart.  I wanted to try a calming sensory bin for a while, and the blue water bead pack was perfect!   …with three crazy kids, mom needs a little calming activity every now and then…

  • Playing with purple (tripod grasp with Wikki Sticks)

    We pulled out the Wikki Stix again! The kids had a ball pushing them into a grated cheese shaker… and worked on their tripod grasp while they were at it! Baby Girl and my niece and nephew (both 18 months) were really into this. There were a lot of little hands reaching in there at one point.  They…

  • Share It Saturday and Our Week-In-Review

    We’ve had a fun week and hope you have, too! Here’s what we’ve been up to this week: We celebrated a special little nephew’s 2nd birthday party with a Pirate theme. Watch this space for more party details! We had a real toy I Spy activity going on one day.  This was a last minute…

  • Pirate Party Telescopes

    Pirate Party Details: Pirate Telescopes from Empty Paper Towel Rolls… Arrrggg Matey!  I celebrated the 2nd birthday of my little guy with a theme that he loves best…Anything Jake and the Neverland Pirates will make him smile!  These personalized telescopes were a great party favor for a Pirate theme birthday party.  The best part was that they…

  • Dollar Store Spring Garland

    We had this Garland up for our Easter decorations and have used it in previous years, too. We took down some of our Easter décor but Big Sister said we need to keep this garland up because it is Spring. And we need Spring decorations 🙂 This was so easy to make.  I got a pack…

  • Create Your Own Race Track…fine motor play with Wikki Stix

    There are many ways that Wikki Stix are used for fine motor skills and this homemade floor race track is a favorite! We loved getting down on the floor…hello, core strength!) to make this DIY race track with wikki stix, but the fine motor benefits are even greater! Let’s break it down… wikki stix for…

  • Share It Saturday #17 and Our Week-In-Review…

    The weekend’s here! We’ve had a busy week with lots of fun play activities: A few sensory bins… A little time at the library, and a LOT of time outside: And a bunch of little Pirate Party details for a niece and nephew‘s birthday party happening this weekend… Share It Saturday! Our Features: Our Featured…