Fun Learning Activities Kids
Two year olds are so curious. Their brains just love to soak in the world around them. I try to have as wide of a variety of things for my kids to enjoy. My favorite activities for 2 year olds can be grouped as: Exploring, Fine Motor Skill Development and Messy. Looking for other age [...]
We Quirky Mommas are on a camping kick! A few weeks ago we played pretend camping at home, we made a tent from PVC pipes and this weekend my daughter is off to her first sleepover – and it’s going to have a camping theme! I love watching the kids go on grand adventures in [...]
It is not quite cool enough yet to play outside for long periods of time. It is still 100+ degrees here in Texas, but we are dreaming of the 90s and bookmarking some fun outdoor play ideas as inspired through last week’s It’s Playtime Link-up. Each week over a hundred bloggers link up their favorite [...]
. Simple activities are great! They give our children the freedom to be creative, to adapt, imagine and create. Of the hundred plus activities that were linked to in last week’s “It’s Playtime” the one by Kelly of Little Wonder’s Days grabbed my attention. On a day when I am sick or when we have [...]
As summer is drawing to a close, I am dreaming and scheming of different things I can do with our deformed and wilted pool noodles. Thanks Chocolate Muffin Tree, Frugal Fun for Boys, Gratefully Growing and Mama Pea Pod for submitting a bunch of inspiring ideas in previous It’s Playtime Link-ups. I am thrilled our [...]
We team up to run the kids play activities link-up, It’s Playtime, each week with Hands on : as we grow, Let the Children Play, The Imagination Tree and Messy Kids. Each week you, our beloved readers submit your favorite play posts to show up on all of our blogs. This week I have the [...]
Last week we made a Lego Catapult and my boys started making catapults out of everything in sight. They made this one make out of Tinker Toys. A Tinker Toy catapult is pretty simple construction and soon marbles were zinging across the house. Let’s go outside! Ryan(10) had mentioned that he had changed the angle [...]
Last week my family visited the Genghis Khan Exhibit at the Iriving Arts Center. As part of the exhibit, there was a real life size trebuchet and a smaller model catapult made out of wood that the boys could send ping pong balls shooting across the museum. It was a crowd-pleaser. Ryan, my 10 year [...]
We have tubs of playdough around here and love making our own batches. Just last week we had fun creating coffee playdough. Here are four creative posts that inspired me to play with playdough. Thanks for submitting them to It’s Playtime! Kate of Picklebums, had fun with her kids, some jungle toys and props, and [...]
Cars, the movie and the toys are beloved friends of my four year old. This summer, Redbox is asking moms, “What’s the best animated movie that both kids and parents can enjoy?” Plus, they are rewarding 2 lucky people with a chance to win $10,000 as part of the Redbox Summer of Fun & Games [...]
This post is in honor of International Mud Day… whoever made the last Wednesday of June “mud-day” does not live in Texas. The heat index was 107 yesterday and it’s dry, very dry… while we LOVE mud and LOVE playing outside, this is just not the time of year for outdoor play (well, after 8:30 [...]
.The kids and I made our first video (well, that I can remember) using car marionettes. Chevy DFW inspired this post, they dared me to make a video with my kids and cars. My minivan isn’t quite movie worthy, let’s just say its got more than it’s fair share of dings and is it’s typical [...]
Kids have the most vivid imaginations; I just love hearing the stories my preschoolers come up with and the worlds they create in their pretend play! Here are several ideas of ways you can help get the creative juices flowing from the minds of your little tykes:Made by Joel has a great collection of printables [...]
All kids love playing with playdough. Here are some of the best playdough recipes I’ve found from the web, along with a bunch of different ideas of ways we can use playdough to play and learn with our kids. 1 – In the blog, Creativity in Progress, Sunghee created a fun way to showcase those [...]
Looking for ideas of ways to help your preschoolers explore their world? Sensory tubs are a great! Most preschoolers love touching and feeling things. Tubs (or in our case, a kiddie pool) full of sensory objects are sure to keep your kids engaged and exploring! . Some of the things you can put into your [...]
Christmas is coming my kids LOVE counting down to the big day. Here are a bunch of different types of advent calendars that you can use with your kids to count down the days till Christmas. Advent begins four Sunday’s before Christmas (so yesterday) but as we are moving and I didn’t want to spend [...]
Wondering what resources we are using in our Activity-A-Day “Learn to Read” Calendars? Here are a bunch of our favorite resources that we use each month! . Homemade Learn-to-Read resources: Phonics Flip Chart – Make this nifty tool to help your kids learn the way that letters sound together. We have several. Once for three [...]
Have you noticed a theme this past week? We have been learning about things that begin with the letter B in this months Activity-a-Day Calendar. These are just a few of the “B” things I’ve come across this past week: . If it weren’t for the fact that my youngest preschooler has recently decided bath [...]
We are having a series of tips and tricks that have helped us on our last road-trip. We drove through 9 states and spent nearly 60 hours in the car with three kids aged 3, 2 & 1. Crazy. Some of the things we used to help us maintain our sanity included: buckets, plastic Easter [...]
I am on vacation, not camping, but at the beach – whoohoo! Kristina, from Amenity Home, has graciously offered to guest post for us today! She takes her preschooler camping regularly – something I admire. I am a bit worried about what my kids could get into; I love the tips and ideas she has [...]
This is my preschoolers favorite way to paint! Basically, it is what it sounds like; shaving cream mixed with paint. We usually mix the shaving cream with tempera paint as it has the smoothest consistency and is the cheapest! We have three tubs of primary colored paint: red, blue and yellow that we mix to [...]
As my oldest has recently begun sounding out letters to form words, we are beginning to review a bunch of different early literacy programs and curriculums. To find what works and what are the most interesting reading programs out there! This is the first in what I hope to be a long (although occasionally sporadic) [...]
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This is a spin off of a previous post. The kids have a ton of pent-up energy today! Time for a variation on the boredom buster dice. We made an exercising dice. … With a dice and labels, we marked the sides of the dice with exercise options: Jump, Hop, Stomp, Clap, Arm Circles, and [...]
Today was one of those days where the weather is grey and miserable and our runny noses have us staying home from our usual activities. However, my kids aren’t about to let a little sniffle stop them from playing so, inspired by the topic of children’s show we saw this morning, I set up an [...]
“Mommy, I’m Bored” or “Mommy I wanna do something”. My kids used to drive me crazy with that several times a day. Well, they still do… but now I have a comeback. Go roll the activity dice. We bought wooden blocks (available at most hardware and craft stores) and covered them with paper. Here are [...]
What kid doesn’t enjoy playing with dirt? This week we are learning about dirt and earth and the kids have enjoyed burying toy cars, bugs, beads and eating utensils in the dirt. Feeling the dirt between their fingers, watching dirt become mud when we add water to it… and basically having fun getting dirty! Here [...]
