Fun Learning Activities Kids
Katey never gets bored. Her three children, hungry husband, and backyard urban chickens see to that. You can read about all the unnecessary but fun things she does to avoid doing the dishes at her blog Having Fun at Home.
When I was pregnant for my third baby I was always looking around for things that would help my other two children share in the excitement of a new baby in the house. Having activities for our kids lined up seems to help ease the transition and forestall feelings of jealousy a bit when older [...]
Do you have kids who are forever crumpling and mussing your important papers? Then I have a fun art project for you… Crumple Art Cards! As your children make the art for these homemade cards they don’t need to worry about keeping their pages neat- they are destined to be crumpled anyway. The crumpling is [...]
It’s easy to complain about all of the summer sun we get here in Texas, but there are lots of fun ways to make the most of it. A couple of weeks ago our family harnessed the heat to make dashboard raisins, and I love Holly’s idea for making a solar oven to roast s’mores. [...]
Summer is the perfect time to find packages of colorful drinking straws on sale at your grocery store. I think they are a terrific crafting material. Drinking straws are easy to cut, come in lots of colors, and are super cheap (you don’t feel badly throwing them away when you are done). We’ve combined drinking [...]
I feel like I have come full circle with this activity. Water beads were originally manufactured for florists to be used with flowers. Since then though, parents have been putting them to all kinds of creative uses. Water beads can be lots of fun on light tables, with shaving cream, and in science experiments, [...]
I have all kinds of good memories from the 4th of July as a child. Everything about the day is a celebration- the food, the fireworks, the family get-togethers. And of course, those things are just that much more exciting to a child if he or she gets to wear something celebratory at the same time. [...]
I really like it when I am able to spend time on a present for a child instead of money. Many of the gifts my mom and grandma made me as a child are still treasured in our house today (as opposed to a lot of the store-bought presents which ended up in garage sales [...]
Nothing entertains a preschooler better than nonsense! Every month when my four-year-old receives an issue of her children’s magazine in the mail, one of the first things she flips to is the silly picture feature. Hidden in the picture are dozens of nonsense items for her to find and circle. We decided the other [...]
When my sister and I were growing up we had a steamer trunk full of paper dolls. It was probably our favorite thing to play together. Now that I have two daughters who are old enough to play with dolls I thought it would be fun to introduce them to some of the many paper [...]
Making butter used to be a hard, time-consuming job. But of course, for centuries, almost everyone did it. When my kids and I read a story book about life in old Appalachia recently and saw the pictures of a butter churn and children pumping away at it, we decided that we wanted to give making [...]
Our kids love the memory game, and I love playing it with them because it helps them practice taking turns, good sportsmanship, and of course, it strengthens their memorizing skills! I really liked the fun seashells and stickers version of the game that Chasing Cheerios came up with a while ago, and thought that I [...]
My mom always said that her favorite Mother’s Day gifts were homemade. I think that’s a sign she’s a pretty good mom. Sometimes it’s hard though to find a homemade gift idea that is meaningful and that will last. I’ve always thought that homemade photo gifts like this photo rubix cube or these photo magnets are a [...]
When you’ve lived in your home for a few years, cleaned it hundreds of times, and played hide-and-go-seek more times than you can count, you feel like you know every nook and cranny. There’s nothing like an indoor photo treasure hunt or an indoor safari though to make you realize that there is more to the interior of [...]
It’s always great when kids can get a fun sensory experience with paint without actually touching the paint. If I plan an activity where my kids come into contact with paint I know I’m bargaining for about 30 minutes to an hour of clean-up around our house (of course, sometimes it’s fun to just embrace [...]
Are you looking for something meaningful to do with your children this Easter weekend? Last week a Quirky Momma shared how to encourage kindness in our children this Easter. This week, our family was inspired by Ann Voskamp and Multiple Mommy (who linked up her garden to our It’s Playtime, Kids Activities Meme) to plant [...]
I like finding ways to involve kids in blessing others. Even if its something as simple as sending a birthday or thank you card to a friend, it’s nice to share the experience with them. Ever since I saw this idea for converting toddler scribbles into silhouette cards, I’ve been using art from my two and [...]
As a mom, you spend so much time fighting messes, sometimes it’s fun and a little freeing to just let go and embrace the mess {read to the end to find out how Quirky Momma is making it EASIER to embrace messes with the help of Seventh Generation}. Life is messy! Kids are messy! Our [...]
Has this ever happened to you? You’re reading a fun book along with your child, get to an exciting or pivotal point in the story, and your child asks a question that makes it clear they had NO IDEA what was really happening all along. It’s easy to overestimate a child’s comprehension of what they have [...]
We love drawing and the kids love magic- especially when they get to play the magician and impress you with something amazing. My mother got the idea to make this craft, a magic picture, years ago when she saw the basic technique used to illustrate a children’s book. Ever since that time, she has been introducing [...]
My parents arrived for their recent visit to our house with two classic gifts for their grandchildren: play-doh and plastic stencils. Both were good gifts in their own rights, but I thought my mother was a genius when she suggested we use them together. We’ve been having so much fun! Ideas for Play-doh [...]
I just love melty beads! There are so many nice things about them- the way they feel on your fingers when you put your hands in a bucket of them, their bright colors, and their lack of toxic fumes when you melt them (unlike so many plastics). The classic melted bead project though -with a [...]
Over the years of crafting, the Quirky Mommas have painted with crayons, we’ve thrown our paint, even painted our napkins and we’ve learned… Art is at its best when it is Big… Messy… and… Colorful! When you’re a parent, art is at its best when it is Clean… Contained… and… Entertaining for long periods of time! [...]
