Nature walks are one of our favorite things to do together. Exploring the trails in our neighborhood, the urban forest, the ponds and boardwalks - there is a lot to see. Exploring becomes even more fun when the kids have the chance to learn about what they’re exploring, crossing things off of their list and
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Get Outside and Make It: Popping Sidewalk Paint
Making exploding Sidewalk chalk was on our bucket list as part of the activities we wanted to do this summer. These were easy to make, the kids had just as much fun making them as they did waiting for them to pop, and mixing the colors while painting on the sidewalk after they popped. Popping Sidewalk
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How to Make Sponge Brushes for Water Fights
When it comes to activities during the summer, there are very few trips to the toy store - very few apps asked for and very few hours spent watching television. Activities during the summer around here are spent catching up on every ray of sunshine that we’ve missed during the winter and playing, playing, playing.
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How to Make Colored Koolaid Scented Bubbles
There are literally more than twenty things that are on my list of things to try that you can do with Koolaid. Today we tried the first one and made bubbles with our favorite flavors and had some fun on the grass with them. Koolaid BubblesBubble syrup, divided. A 1/4 tsp of Koolaid in each container.
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Two Ingredient Easy Puffy Paint
We make a lot of the art supplies around here. Surprisingly, there are few ingredients that are needed to make something really, really cool. One of the most popular activities we’ve done this weekend is to make puffy paint. The kids really love it because they can lay it on really, really thick and it’s
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10 Kids Activities to do with Food Coloring
Food coloring is one of the staples of fun and activities around here. We use it to make crafts, paint and art supplies - and you can find a few boxes in the pantry at all times. Neon, regular and custom colors you can find at Michaels can be used to create any color you
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Easy Preschool Spring Cardstock Puppets | Rainy Day Activity
It’s a beautiful rainy afternoon out there today. We spent some time out in the rain and were inspired by the Spring weather, the rain and the puddles. We decided to come home and create some puppets so we could create our own springtime rain walk under the coverage of the porch while we played
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Five Toddler Friendly Activities with Stuff You Have at Home
Every day it’s the same thing, late in the morning. Just about an hour into the baby’s morning nap and Olivia cannot for the life of her wait any longer to play with her sister. I listen to her creep up the stairs and then watch her on the monitor in the bedroom going up
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Valentine’s Day Sensory Box
Are you looking for something to do with your toddler to celebrate Valentine’a Day? Sensory box activities can be a great way to spend a cold afternoon indoors and they’re easy to dress up and create holiday inspiration with inexpensive accessories. This is one that we created last year, and stored the beans and accessories
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Make This: Easy Valentine’s Day Koolaid Playdough
If playdough time at your house is anything like it is here, someone’s always putting the Playdough in their mouth. That’s life with a toddler and a baby I suppose - but it makes me a little uneasy (and queasy) when I think about the kids chomping down on that nice long list of ingredients
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How to Make Snow Cupcakes
Looking for a way to get those indoor kids outside? For the past three days the response to ‘Let’s go outside (before I go insane)’ were met with screams of how it’s too cold, it’s too windy and I don’t want to go outside! Well, on day three where she just didn’t want to go
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How to Make 2 Ingredient Cloud Dough
When the weather hits minus twenty we don’t go outside. In fact, a walk to the mail box that is literally across the street and down the length of a couple of houses the toddler is in tears and screaming that she is freezing. Well, I can’t say that I don’t blame her - I’m not
