My kids love making homemade valentines and love painting with cars so it's easy to see why these "You're a wheel-y great friend!" valentines are such a hit! We first made them when my son was two for all of his friends and since then we've made them as valentines, thank you cards, birthday cards...pretty much anything you can think of! My three year old is very excited to get to make valentines to pass out to her friends this year and these are … [Read more...]
Alphabet Activities for Preschool: Heart Puzzles
Today I am teaming up with +Jamie Reimer from hands on: as we grow and +Jackie Higgins from Ready Set Read for a Valentine's Day for Kids Google Plus Hangout! We'll be sharing Valentine's Day themed letter activities for preschoolers--it will be so much fun! It will air LIVE both here and on my G+ profile page at 3pm EST today. But no worries if you miss it--you can check back to either place anytime you want to watch the video! As you can see … [Read more...]
David McPhail Book Activities for Children
This month's Virtual Book Club for Kids author, David McPhail, was new to us so I am super excited to see all of the fun book activities for children featuring his work that everyone is linking up. We checked out many of his books from the library, but the one we had the most fun with was Piggy's Pancake Parlor (Action Packs). Piggy's Pancake Parlor is the story of a little pig who is taken in by a farmer family. Mrs. Farmer teaches him how to … [Read more...]
Squishy Snow Sensory Activity for Preschool Kids
We love fun activities for preschool kids and toddlers at our house so it makes sense that this squishy snow sensory activity is a big hit during the winter! Squishy snow, also called clean mud, is easy to make, fun to play with, and NOT a mess to clean up. All you need is a bar of Ivory soap, a roll of toilet paper, and 1-1.5 cups of hot water. I set out a large plastic bin and let the kids rip up the roll of toilet paper into it. Even making it … [Read more...]
Picasso for Kids: Cubist Portraits
We love doing kids art projects in the style of great artists for the bimonthly Kids Get Arty series. This month we had fun doing an easy Picasso for kids activity-- cubist-style portraits! We went online and studied lots of different portraits that Picasso had done. We talked about the differences between his work and portraits done by other artists and looked at other cubist style portaits to find similiarities. The 4 year old, 6 year old and I … [Read more...]
Christmas Fun: Holiday Ornament Exchange
The holidays are filled with exchanges...cookie exchanges, gift exchanges and ornament exchanges! We took part in the Christmas Ornament Challenge and Exchange hosted by Red Ted Art, Inspired by Family Mag, The Imagination Tree, and Mom to 2 Post Lil Divas and got a beautiful ornament in the mail! We were paired with All about the Whites who sent us this gorgeous Fabric Ornament Ball! Head to her site to see the instructions and check out her fun … [Read more...]
Fun Kids Craft: Upcycled Gingerbread House
This month's author for the Virtual Book Club for Kids is Jan Brett! We checked out a bunch of her books from our library and have had lots of fun reading them. My littlest one turns 3 on Saturday and is having a gingerbread themed party so, of course, the two Jan Brett books that got the most love were Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Friends! In Gingerbread Baby, Matti is a little boy who uses a special recipe to make his own Gingerbread Baby who … [Read more...]
Christmas Craft for Kids: Family Tree with Mini-Ornaments
We had so much fun doing my son's preschool's "family homework" last week! They sent home a large green sheet of paper and asked each family to create a Christmas tree to be displayed at the school. When we were talking about what our family should do the kids were adamant that we each make our own mini-ornament to put on the tree--which I thought was a great idea! At first we were going to try and glue string bead necklaces (we have tons that we … [Read more...]
