Fun Learning Activities Kids
What is your favorite game to play with your child? Have you thought about trying to make your own game based on holiday theme or simply something your child is really interested in? Here is a great explanation on how to make a file folder game that your child will love. We at Kids Activities Blog [...]
Jennifer Kincaid is a San Francisco-based multimedia artist and independent producer working in Crowdsource Art and Audience-Interactive Participation Art. Her work focuses on facilitating audiences to explore, discover and be seen through creativity and community.
Whether rendering an internal landscape in autobiographical abstract paintings, capturing a found moment in photography, or facilitating creative interaction through crowdsource art projects, Jennifer’s work is about moving through life with the urge to create and connect. In all her compositions, she seeks to illuminate the personal experience.
Would you love to know 50 ways to save money? Here are some general tips on how to be frugal, ways to save money in your household, with your kids, and when feeding your family. Do you have a tip for frugal living? Please share your ideas here at Kids Activities Blog. How To Be Frugal [...]
What happens when you let a pumpkin rot? That was the question proposed by my son last year…so we decided to find out. Rotting Pumpkin: We carved our pumpkin & put it on the porch to greet visitors. After a few weeks, our pumpkin, who Reese named Jack Rotty, began to get a little mushy. [...]
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 [...]
Play Bubble Shooter A bubble shooter: a brilliant mechanism combining bubbles and the act of shooting. This Play Bubble Shooter was borne out of desperation. At one time we had many bubble wands. They have since disappeared into their secret hiding places somewhere in our garden. No matter, this Do It Yourself Bubble Shooter is [...]
Whenever we go out to the mall or playground Rory and I see little girls wearing cute little tutu skirts. They are completely adorable and, in my opinion, completely overpriced! I have looked at buying some for Rory, and have seen them on sale for about $20- $30. I have a hard time spending that [...]
What fun it is to practice shaping letters using some old rope from a clothes line. You can bend it and shape it in the all of the letters of the alphabet. Have Fun with Rope Letters After forming the letter, what would be more fun the slipping along the rope with a sideways walk [...]
Are you planning on watching the Olympics with the family? Do you have a favorite Olympic sport you like to watch? I am always amazed at all the sports that make it into the Olympics, so fun. Here is a fun snack to get your kids in the Olympic spirit. We had our own backyard [...]
Nurturing the seed of creativity in our kids is a beautiful thing! My love for painting and all things art was developed at a very young age and I believe it was because of all of the encouragement I received from my parents and teachers. I still remember in Kindergarten, my teacher praising my work [...]
“Let’s play soccer!” It really doesn’t get any simpler than this! We put this fun game together in just minutes, yet it provided us with an entire afternoon of giggles! We all had SO much fun and believe it or not, blowing through a straw is an important skill for kids to master. The clever use [...]
Letterboxing is the ultimate scavenger hunt. It’s a fun family adventure where you follow clues to find a letterbox. What is a Letterbox? A letterbox is a small weatherproof box that someone hides in a public place like a park, trail, and even a cemetery. Then they post clues online to help you find the [...]
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 [...]
There is a lot of do-it-yourself, creating at our house. It’s fun to see how taking a child’s lead can turn into a great play idea. My daughter has been attending swimming lessons and commented that the floats the children use are cool, because they stick to the side of the pool walls. A suggestion [...]
“Upcycled” or recycled art is a great way to re-use items that would otherwise end up in the dump or at a recycling plant. It’s a great way to get creative and use free art materials! We recently created recycled art with biodegradable packing peanuts. Biodegradable packing peanuts are not like styrofoam packing peanuts which [...]
Some of the best toys are the free ones. Pasta became one of those unexpected “play supplies” in our house. Please tell me I am not the only parent who discovered a box of pasta – far past it’s expiration date – in the back of my pantry! Time to put that pasta to use! [...]
We had a blast today at the park playing with our homemade Marshmallow Shooters! They are very easy to make with some basic supplies. Here is all that you need to make two shooters: Supplies: Plastic cup – I used a Glad disposable food storage cup. The tops had cracked but I couldn’t bear to [...]
These are my daughter’s new friends at home- Balloon People or Balloon Friends, as she calls them. Best part of this is that she designed them all. She has had a lot of balloons in her room for her 4th birthday. She has made some balloon drawings on some of those. And one of the [...]
With Thanksgiving approaching, Nicholas and I have been talking a lot about Native American Indians. We learned about how they hunted for food and made all of their own supplies. We learned about how they made their own tools by carving them from wood and stones. I thought about getting some soft wood that is [...]
Kids don’t need toys, they don’t need “programs”. I love a few of the activities linked up in It’s PLaytime last week! These are things you can do with your kids almost anywhere with no preparation – and they won’t cost you a dime. Looking for more ideas? Check out our weekly link-up below. Lots [...]
I love making cut-out sugar cookies with my kids during the holidays, but let’s be honest…it makes a huge mess and takes a long time! If you’re looking for a quick way to make Halloween cookies with your kids, check out these adorable Candy Corn Sugar Cookies! No cookie cutters, no rolling out the dough…so [...]
Lacing cards improve hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills in preschoolers I love lacing cards. They are an easy activity to take with you to keep children busy in the car. There aren’t many parts to them, they don’t take batteries, and they are completely silent. But lacing cards aren’t only a good thing for [...]
Three year olds are curious, active – at least mine seem to have an endless supply of energy. They are beginning to make comparisons and differentiate patterns, colors and love to play pretend. Here are just a few of our favorite three year old activities. These activities were gleaned in part from from our weekly [...]
A good foundation is important for both buildings and for life. This week’s sponsor, Cerra, is a company with a wide variety of products, ranging from comforting oils, candles, journal aids and more. Their products help remind us to be grounded in who we are and to build with what we have around us. They [...]
. 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 [...]
I made some Valentine’s Day bean bags for the kids so we could have a special hide and seek game this morning. This craft is super easy. You don’t even have to sew! Plus, you could use this idea in so many different ways and for different holidays. Check it out. I used some red [...]
Ice is a necessary outdoor play ingredient in Texas summers. Temps haven’t dipped below 100 this week. Ice Play Solid frozen water is my preschooler’s friend. They can drop cubes, watch ice melt on their chalk drawings, chomp on cubes, throw them down their shirts. Pretend cook, stirring icy slivers. Here are several ways that [...]
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 [...]
Have candy? Peanut butter? Some apples? We made monster apple faces with the leftovers from our birthday party this past weekend. During the kids birthday party we had a candy buffet for the kids to decorate their own cupcakes – it was a huge hit! We couldn’t let the leftovers go to waste – time [...]
