Fun Learning Activities Kids
Turbulence on a plane can be frightening for kids. Before their next flight, show them this great demonstration with Jello to help calm their fear of flying. Kids Activities Blog always loves science experiments that involve food! Turbulence on a Plane After 9/11/01, I developed a fear of flying. In trying to overcome it, I enrolled [...]
Pranks for kids can be great fun with April Fool’s Day approaching. “April Fools!” , we shout to one another after pulling a super fun prank on them. For years, our family has enjoyed this silly holiday, trying to trick one another with harmless fun. There are a TON of great ideas floating around out [...]
December activities are often family-related and seem to make great keepsakes for years to come. The same is true for this fun hand print art project in which the entire family can participate. We at Kids Activities Blog love bringing families together in such wonderfully fun ways! December Activities I love hand print art! We [...]
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. [...]
Another fun hand print project! The past few months, Rory has been very into birds. She loves all kinds of birds; ducks, flamingos, roosters, eagles, and owls. Owls are one of Rory’s new favorite animals, she has a book called; “Say Hello to the Snowy Animals,” that she loves. One of the pages has [...]
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 [...]
Monster trucks are all the rage at our house and have been for quite a while. Recently, my son Bear {4 yrs} and I created a fun new game called Monster Truck Bowling. It was a huge hit! So I expanded on this success with math and messy art activities. Prior to beginning the main [...]
Playing with paints is a favorite activity at the Quirky Kid household. Just this afternoon we had our paint pens out creating more colorful clothespins (never have enough of them). Here are some of the recent paint activities that we have enjoyed replicating through the It’s Playtime linky. Each Wednesday afternoon we co-host a linky [...]
Dinosaur Pasta Craft My boys adore dinosaurs. They love they way dinosaurs look. They love dinosaur names. They love playing with their dinosaur toys. They love pretending to be dinosaurs. As I do our weekly grocery shopping, I spot dinosaur pasta. How could I resist? With so many varieties of pasta, the pasta craft possibilities seem endless. Make [...]
When the sun is shining and the children are feeling creative my girls love nothing more than heading out into the garden and creating some big, messy, joyful art. The extra space the garden offers, and the fact that tidying up is that much easier when you can just get out the garden hose to wash [...]
There are so many fun activities you can do with playdough! Remember our previous posts, Playdough and stencils and last years It’s Playtime with Playdough. Our older kids loved play dough when they were younger (and have since moved on to learning with legos). Meanwhile, the playdoh fun is having a rebirth with our youngest [...]
You can encourage creative learning in your child by giving them unusual materials to work with. How about giving them some edible ink the next time they are completing a worksheet? What is edible ink? It is super easy to make and it tastes great too. There are only 2 ingredients: yogurt and food coloring! [...]
Remember that craze from last year? Of melting crayons? We made our own melted crayon art. We are blest to live in Texas where the summers are nice and warm. Who needs a hairdryer for this art project when you can use the sun! In our playroom I had an empty wall that was begging [...]
I can almost smell the Fourth of July fireworks! I have never made any Fourth of July crafts before- so today was a first for me. Rory told me that she wanted to “paint hands and feet” today; so I couldn’t let her down. I knew I wanted to do something “Red, White, and Blue,” [...]
We love Easter Traditions and Activities – one of our family’s favorite thing to do together is to use art to decorate a “spring tree”. I saw this activity, in an extremely old Better Homes and Garden’s Family Activity book, and jumped on it we were so excited! I had to tweak this Easter craft a [...]
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 [...]
Kids love playing with ink stamp pads. They use rubber stamps with them but they also like to stamp their hand or even their thumbprints. Why not turn those simple thumbprints into a cute piece of art – Thumbprint Art! All you need is some paper, ink stamps and a thin black marker. Let you [...]
It’s another round of It’s Playtime. This week we are doing a round-up of posts relating to paint. There are so many ways your kids can play with and interact with paint! Thanks Adventures at Home for inspiring this post. Last week she had fun marbling paper with shaving cream and dye. The results are [...]
One of my favorite things about camping is the food. Food cooked on a fire tastes so much better than the “everyday” food we make at home! A couple of weekends ago we went on a camping trip as a family – it was wonderful! Typically, we have camped in tents, but this past trip [...]
We have some huge pine trees in our backyard that are always dropping tons and tons of pine needles. This week we decided to collect a bunch of them (plus a few pine cones) and make some pine needle paintbrushes. We used the pine needle paintbrushes to create some mini masterpieces on these itty bitty [...]
With Spring rains we need LOTS of ideas of rain activities to occupy the kids when the weather is less than ideal. Thanks to everyone who added their posts to last week’s kid activities blog hop, It’s Playtime. I love browseing all of your posts! Today’s featured collection was inspired by the activities over at [...]
We love all the colors in a rainbow, they bring smiles to our faces. We had numerous colorful posts linked up last week in our weekly kids meme, It’s Playtime. Todays post is inspired by Kate, of Picklebums. She had fun with her kids and droppers full of paint. They had fun creating blotted rainbows [...]
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! [...]
I love homemade napkins, especially ones that are full of character and personality (i.e. the kinds that don’t show stains). Thankfully, I also have kiddos who love art and painting, the bigger the better. With a couple of yards of linen fabric, some elmer’s markers and acrylic paint we were set to decorate. . . [...]
It’s Playtime and all the fun kids activities posts that are linked up each week are the highlight of my Thursdays! I love browsing all the fun things you and your kids have done and/or created! Here were a few of my favorites from the last Playtime link-up. Make Valentine Ornaments. Mommy Labs made a [...]
Are your kids home from school and going batty? Here are several of our favorite activities that were linked up to It’s Playtime over the past year. Perfect to entertain and engage your kiddos during a long week off of school. We are taking a break from Playtime this week to to enjoy our families [...]
Play dough is one of our favorite kiddo activities. If there is a dull moment in our house, the kids beg to get the color-filled tubs of doughy fun down from hiding. I’ve figured out a way to get my kids to enjoy play dough, and make our dinner – at the same time! We [...]
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 [...]
Today’s featured activity from It’s Playtime is so simple! I love how Liberty, and her girls over at Our Creative Day, used air drying clay and nature items found around their home to create stunning ornaments. . . Many thanks to my co-hosts, for making this weekly link-up a lot of fun! If you are [...]
Four year olds love life and enjoy creating, tinkering, and exploring. Here are some of my favorite activities that I have used to help engage and interact with my four year olds. Build your own blocks from a tree. These Tree Blocks are great for re-creating “natural” scenes. If you have pencils (or pens) toilet [...]
