Fun Learning Activities Kids
Playdough is a favorite with most kids. Here is a great project to keep kids entertained with playdough as they make animals. Kids Activities Blog hopes your little one (and you) enjoy this indoor fun activity. Playdough Our preschool lesson themes are based on books and topics that Bear {4 yrs} has chosen to make [...]
Puzzles are super easy to make. Do you still have any valentines or old Christmas cards left at your house? We have a bunch leftover from our holiday season. My son loves his valentines and won’t let me dump them into the recycling bin yet, so we’ve decided to reuse them in a variety of [...]
For a sweet homemade Christmas gift that your kids can make, try this fun project. Use fabric paint to paint a shirt with these two methods. Kids Activities Blog loves to share cute ideas like this that lets kids customize items they might already have around the house. Homemade Christmas Gift Supplies shirt {or other [...]
This homemade Christmas gift idea is fun, simple, and quick to create. Art magnets make a perfect handmade gift for family and friends. Each one contains a miniature art masterpiece making them a very personal gift. And the best part of all? They not only look beautiful, but they’re also functional. Kids Activities Blog loves [...]
A Thanksgiving preschool craft is a great way to introduce your kids to this holiday and encourage them to be more grateful. If you enjoy having your children play and explore painting, but don’t love a lot of paint everywhere. Salad spinner painting may just be your kind of painting. We just painted the [...]
We still need some ideas for Thanksgiving crafts. Although I love doing hand and foot print crafts I wanted to refrain from doing the hand print turkeys, just because I know many people already know how to do them. So, I decided to do a “play” on the traditional hand print turkeys; we are making [...]
Over the next week, we are going to be exploring ways to celebrate Thanksgiving. We thought it would be fun to kick it off today with a dozen November activities to get you started. Watch Kids Activities Blog countdown to Thanksgiving for even MORE Thanksgiving activities. We love November and filling our days with fall [...]
Do the beautiful colors of autumn have you searching for creative fall crafts for kids? If so, then this leaf craft may be just what you were looking for. Kids Activities Blog has many fall crafts like this to keep you little one happy. Fall Crafts for Kids Fall is a time of raking leaves [...]
November crafts aren’t just turkey related. They can be something that is just colorful, fun, and a wonderful family activity. Kids Activities Blog loves creative projects like this that the whole family can enjoy especially beautiful paper crafts like this. November Crafts One afternoon, my preschool twins N and M were particularly restless. Normally they [...]
If you are looking for a fun craft to make with things you already have at home, then take a look at this cute idea. You can make your own Sea Stars! We hope you enjoy this paper craft and be sure to look for more ideas like this on Kids Activities Blog. Craft to [...]
As my little one gets older, I am looking for ways to “measure his growth”. One of the best ways I have found has been by using his hands & feet to make art! There are so many amazing ideas using littles ones fingers, handprints, and footprints to commemorate the seasons throughout the year. We [...]
Make a vase that will remind you of times past. This simple recycled craft is made with a pair of your child’s old shoes. Kids Activities Blog loves to find easy {and inexpensive ways} to get kids involved in the craft process and this recycled shoe vase is easy enough for a child to create. [...]
Another Halloween activity! We love Halloween so much! I love that Rory is getting so into Halloween too! Just the other day she asked me if we were going to make any witches! (Now I am thinking of another project we can do before Halloween that incorporates witches!). One of my favorite things about Halloween, [...]
Halloween crafts for kids is something we are seeking here at Kids Activities Blog knowing that parents, caregivers and teachers are searching high and low for the perfect one! The good news is that today’s Halloween craft, Make a Ghost is something that can be done easily with supplies you likely already have and it [...]
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 [...]
Pumpkin A pumpkin is the most popular decoration for fall and Halloween. They are eye-catching and colorful so they look great displayed in a window. With this Halloween craft, your child will feel so proud to see their own cute pumpkin hanging in the window for all to see. It is fun to add texture [...]
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! Let’s celebrate! We also get to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day so we will kick off our celebration with a Mexican art craft! Hispanic Heritage Month Just a fun fact: Many people think that Mexico’s Independence Day is Cinco de Mayo but it’s actually on September 16th. Hispanic Heritage month runs from [...]
We love doing fall crafts with our preschoolers. Thank you!!! In our weekly Wednesday afternoon Kid’s Meme, It’s Playtime, there have been dozens of autumn activities linked up over the years!! There are tons of great activities for kids linked up each week. With the deepening days and the crisper temps – it’s the perfect [...]
This fall craft is easy to make and uses basic household items like paper plates, paint, and construction paper. Fall Craft The fall is filled with wonderful symbols. There are black cats, bats, pumpkins, leaves and bundles of hay to name a few. My family loves to visit a local apple and pumpkin farm that [...]
It’s been really, really hot here. I’m talking about 110 degree highs every day! Perfect weather for wax crayon art. It’s hot enough to melt crayons in my van. Unfortunately, I know this from personal experience. We decided to see how well they would melt outside and experiment with an art project while we were [...]
Crayon art goes beyond just coloring! Wax crayons are fun to color with – a staple of preschooler craft times everywhere. In addition to coloring and crafting with crayons, we have collected the best art projects from around the web for you to enjoy with your kids! Kids Activities Blog hopes that you will be [...]
Our kids love to draw and have literally hundreds and hundreds of crayons over here, many of them mere shards. We’ve melted the crayons to create “new” crayons, but today I had a new “plan” for our leftovers. Several months ago I saw a post by Suzy’s Sitcom where she melted crayons and then painted [...]
It is time for kids to go Back To School. Here is a fun craft made with crayons that you can make with your kids to help celebrate going back to the classroom. Crayon Magnets My children get crayon boxes as gifts all the time so we have our fair share of coloring supplies. I [...]
Printmaking Printmaking is a fun activity that can be done a lot of different ways. You can make prints from woodcuttings, carved rubber, styrofoam, and even a painting on plastic. Basically, any raised surface that can be painted or inked may be suitable for printmaking. This printmaking idea is a twist on traditional string art. [...]
My daughter loves paper crafts. Playing with colorful construction paper, scissors, and glue sticks can keep her entertained for hours. Recently she cut a lot of long strips of paper and it reminded me of this fun craft that I did when I was young. Paper Weaving Weaving paper is a wonderful craft project for [...]
There is something special about handing down to your children heirloom crafts that you remember from your own childhood. It’s the perfect time for harvesting lavender right now so I decided to show my girls how to make a lavender wand. They are very pretty, really easy to make and smell wonderful. Lavender is often [...]
Monsters. If we didn’t just have a reptile birthday party for the kids we would have totally had a monster bash – these activities look cute and fun. Thanks to all the bloggers who have linked up to our weekly kids meme, It’s Playtime. We glean most of the posts we feature here and on [...]
Our summer has been filled with trips to coastal locations- Hawaii, North Carolina, Virginia, and Big Sur. My toddler and preschooler have spent a lot of time in the water and have been really excited by all of the boats they’ve seen. Today I wanted to share a simple paper boat craft we created based [...]
My son, like many kids I know, loves monsters. He likes to pretend monsters are coming over for parties. He likes to paint monsters. He was thrilled when I made him these 3D paper monsters from an origami paper cup. He had me drawing silly faces the other day. (He likes telling me what to [...]
Nicholas has been learning about the muscles in his body. He’s learned about the tree types of muscles – smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. He is working on learning the names and locations of some of the major skeletal muscles in his body. How Do Muscles Work? We have read about how a muscle works through [...]
