Simple kids crafts are my favorite! Not only are they easy to set up, but then kids can make them again and again on their own. These glitter pumpkin sun catchers are so fun that your kids or students will want to create their own sparkly pumpkin patch for your windows! One of our favorite Halloween books is The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin (affiliate link) by Joe Troiano. It's a sweet story about how one pumpkin's differences ending up … [Read more...]
Create a Kindness Jar with Kids
If you ask my kids they'll tell you that we do acts of kindness in our family. We love sushi. And board games. And dance parties. And kindness. A couple of years ago made the decision to do intentional acts of kindness on a regular basis and the results have been better than I could have imagined. We've done big things like hosting a food drive play date and adopting a child from a giving tree for Christmas, but most of the time our kindness acts … [Read more...]
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Activity
Mo Willems' Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (affiliate link) is one of our favorite books so we were thrilled to see that it was one of the choices for this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids! We came up with a super fun Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! activity {a play dough kit!} to go along with the story. For anyone who doesn't know, the Virtual Book Club for Kids is a monthly series where we feature a different author each month and … [Read more...]
Back to School Teacher Gift
We like to make back to school teacher gifts for our teachers at the beginning of the school year. This year we were short on time so we grabbed Starbucks gift cards and I came up with cute free printable gift tag to go with them! Back to School Teacher Gift Printable coffee gift card of your choice empty iced coffee cold cup tissue paper (Starbucks has cappuccino colored tissue paper they will give you!) BACK TO SCHOOL TEACHER GIFT … [Read more...]
DIY Mail Box and Letter Writing Practice
This easy DIY mail box is sure to inspire lots of great pretend play. Use it sneak in a little learning, too. Our mail box beckoned us to write letters. DIY Mail Box This is a very easy tutorial for building a mail box. Find a large cardboard box {or whatever size you want for your mail box}. Carefully cut a door in the side. Use a utility knife to cut 3 sides of a rectangle. The fourth side of the rectangle folds down. You now have a door to … [Read more...]
Mouse House Craft
This cute mouse house craft was my 4 year old son's idea. He saw the granola bar box and placed his toy mouse inside. We found a book at the library that goes along with the craft perfectly. {Affiliate links are included in this post.} A New House for Mouse A New House for Mouse by Petr Horacek is a cute story about a mouse searching for a new house that can fit her and her apple. Mouse peeks into the burrows of several animals to see if they … [Read more...]
Summer Sky Salt Watercolor Craft
Summer calls for simple and easy crafts. This sunny sky salt watercolor painting craft fits the bill! We had so much fun creating and painting a summer sky with lots of fine motor fun mixed in. If you've ever done salt painting before, you know how much fun it is to mix watercolors and watch the textures change as the paint dries. Summer Sun Craft for Kids To make our sun, we snipped the sides of a paper tube. This would be a great way … [Read more...]
How to Make Invisible Ink with Lemon Juice
I have been wanting to try invisible writing with lemon juice for awhile now, but we haven't gotten around to it. We were sent a copy of Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors (affiliate link) written by Rachelle of Tinkerlab and when my preschooler saw it in there and asked to try it I immediately said yes! Invisible Ink with Lemon Juice lemon juice (any citrus will work) cotton swabs cardstock iron I love simple … [Read more...]
