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Share It Saturday #7 and Our Week In Review
Happy Weekend Everyone! We are loving all of the links being shared by so many creative bloggers. It is so much fun to scroll through the Share It Saturday post for an idea and put it to use in our home. We love seeing the things you have been doing. Each week has brought a…
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Pipe Cleaner Fun
Try this fine motor activity that uses a simple item you probably already have in the house right now: a plastic water bottle. Add a few pipe cleaners for a fun activity that boosts skills like fine motor skills, visual motor skills, bilateral coordination, and more. Fine Motor Skills and Learning Colors with Pipe Cleaners Baby Girl…
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Letter Bin
This was a great bin to pull out on a cold wintery day. This bin of letters has been at our house since Big Sister was around 18 months. I found the letter sets on sale and got 3 or 4 of them for a really inexpensive learning toy. Big Sister would play with this…
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Valentine’s Day Snack Mix
Need a Great Last Minute Preschool Snack for Valentine’s Day? This was invented while rushing through the grocery store at 9:00pm after a long day. I saw this Whole Heart cereal and grabbed it up. It was on sale…I guess this is the week to eat heart shaped cereal 🙂 Little Guy is my early riser…
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DIY Snowflake Stampers
This is a super easy and fun activity to do with the kids. We have done this so many times recently…with all kinds of different foam stickers and the kids keep asking to do this craft again, and again, and again! Save those bottle caps. They come in handy for tons of crafts and activities. …
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Body Parts Activities for Toddlers
This body parts activities for toddlers is a fun activity to teach young kids about body part names using a baby doll. We love this body parts activities for babies, too because babies AND toddlers can relate to using a baby doll and adding band aides to different body parts! body parts activities for toddlers…
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Share It Saturday #6 and our week in review
I brought the kid’s easel up from the basement after they were in bed one night so they would wake up to a fun surprise. They loved seeing it in our living room and the little message made them smile. Here is a rundown of some other fun things we did… Painting (turned into little brother painting big…
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Using Stickers to Help with Scissor Skills
There are so many fun ways to use stickers for fine motor skill development. Stickers can be used in scissoring to work on accuracy, scissor control, snipping paper, manipulating the paper to turn corners and curves when cutting. It can be really tricky for a kiddo to manage all of those areas if they have…
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Easy Valentine’s Day Craft
We made window decorations using some contact paper, tissue paper, stickers, and bits of yarn. This was really easy…Trace a cookie cutter onto contact paper and let the kids go to town! Peeling stickers, pinching the tissue paper into little crumbles, and grabbing clumps of yarn bits all work on those fine motor skills. I…
