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Christmas Sensory Bin **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 4 of 25 Days of Christmas Play This sensory bin was super easy and quick to throw together. Dried split peas and Christmas potpourri! I put the whole mix into a deep basket so the kiddos could stir the mix around. Little Guy loves cinnamon and knew immediately what the sticks were! Baby Girl loved…
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Nativity Play **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 3 of 25 Days of Christmas Play Act out The Story of Jesus’s birth with dolls…stuffed animals…Barbies 🙂 Big Sister was playing with her bin of dolls, Little Petshop animals, and Little People yesterday. She had them all set up in front of the Little People barn. They were all arranged in…
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Scented Snowman Playdoh **25 days of Christmas Play**
DAY 1 of 25 Days of Christmas Play! This is the first post in a series of Christmas-themed play ideas. It’s a season of rushing, big family meals, travel, shopping, wrapping…It’s easy to forget the real reason for this season. Seeing my kid’s excitement for Christmas this year is so much fun! So contagious!…
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Magnet Play: Apple theme
This was a play invitation I set up one day for Big Sister and Little Guy. Paper clips, magnets, tissue paper, and the corn bin. ((The Babies were sleeping…tooooo many hazards with this one!)) The Big Kids had fun exploring with the magnets. We tore the tissue paper into small squares (Tearing paper into little…
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Paint Baggie: Letter Formation and Seek and Find
This was a fun activity we did before Thanksgiving. I wanted to get this posted before the holiday, but never got the chance. I love this play idea because not only does it address so many areas (letter formation, fine motor skills, visual scanning, color learning…), but it can be done any time of year……
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Indoor Play: 3D Drip Paint
Today we have a fun messy play idea to do with kids: making 3D Drip Paint! This creative painting idea is an old one on the blog, but it’s a fun and creative way to explore the tactile sense with creative expression. Plus, occupational therapy practitioners know the value of activities that drive interest, and…
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Indoor play: baby edition…spoons and cups
Indoor Play Ideas This was a simple invitation to play that I set up for the babies one day after breakfast was finished. They loved the idea! Putting spoons in the cup, taking them out of the cups… Banging the cups off of the table… Hearing the loud sound when they rattled the spoons around…
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Dream Catcher
This is a fun project that I helped my daughter create. She has been having some dreams that wake her up crying in the middle of the night. One night she told me she had a dream that she was in a pet store and a penguin picked her up, then an alligator chomped her arm! …
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Baby Cowboy Costume
Our Baby Boy needed a cowboy outfit to wear to his birthday hoedown and a DIY Woody vest was the perfect addition. A baby cowboy costume is just too cute! I wanted to keep it simple and tasteful. I already had a pair of jeans, a plaid shirt, and a cowboy hat in Baby Boy’s…
