Our house is filled with homemade Halloween decorations and one of our favorites are the paper plate spiders hanging in the playroom! They are super easy to make and can be done by kids of any age. There is no wrong or right way to make a paper plate spider. I think it's fun to just set out a bunch of supplies and see what the kids come up with. It's also interesting to do activities like this year to year and see how their creations … [Read more...]
Cookie Math Play Dough Mat Busy Bag
Play dough mats make great busy bags--kids get a fun hands on activity that is easy to take on the go! We love to use play dough for math practice and came up with this fun cookie math counting and addition activity. Cookie Math Busy Bag Supplies: Play dough Chocolate Chip Cookie Play Dough Math Mat Free Printable That's it! This busy bag is super easy to put together. Just print the play dough mat printable and grab some play dough! … [Read more...]
20 Sight Word Games to Play Indoors
Ready to have some fun learning sight words? We love sight word activities that let us move and learn and I've found 20 different sight word games that you and your kids can play inside. They are the perfect way to practice when the weather is bad outside. Sight Word Practice Activities: 1. Light Saber Sight Word Practice 2. Cup Crash Sight Word Game 3. Spider Web Sight Word Match 4. Bean Bag Toss Sight Word Game 5. Blowing Down Sight … [Read more...]
Science Activity: Pumpkin Investigations
Science is everywhere in the fall! The weather is cooler and it's a great time for little scientists to get out and explore the world around them. We were excited to get our first pumpkins of the fall pumpkins a couple of weeks ago and decided to use them for some scientific investigations! Pumpkin Learning I made the kids a printable to use to record their predictions and estimations about the different properties of the pumpkin and then we … [Read more...]
Halloween Matching Game for Kids
Looking for a simple Halloween kids activity? We've got one that glows in the dark! Safari Ltd. sent us their Glow-in-the-Dark Halloween Toob to play with and we used it to create a fun matching game! I had originally thought we could make spooky glow in the dark tracks with the figures and try to match those up, but it was hard to make tracks with the figures so we ended up with prints instead. We used Glow in the Dark paint, the figures from … [Read more...]
Acts of Kindness Books for Kids
I truly believe that small, intentional acts of kindness can change the world and work very hard to teach my kids that even at their ages they can really make a difference. That's why I love today's post so much! My friend Erica from What Do We Do All Day? is the book list queen and curated this wonderful list of books that focus on kindness for me and my readers. I am so excited to read these with my kids! I'm so pleased to have this opportunity … [Read more...]
Sensory Bin for Kids: Halloween Witch’s Stew
Halloween is the perfect time for a slimy, messy sensory bin for kids! For this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids post we read What's in the Witch's Kitchen by Nick Sharratt and then pretended to cook up some of the icky things we read about in the book. The story is an engaging lift-the-flap style book with two different choices on each page, one normal and one gross. The kids really enjoyed the silly things that encountered in the witch's … [Read more...]
Kids Paper Plate Craft: Black Cat
Paper plates crafts are easy to do and a great activity for a multi-age group. They are a favorite in our house for play dates or holidays because you can set out the materials and let the kids put them together independently. This black cat would be fun to make at a Halloween party! We used a black paper plate, construction paper, glitter, googly eyes, a pom and a pipe cleaner to make our cat but you can use whatever materials you have on hand. … [Read more...]
