activities for preschoolers

Build Your Own Robot Free Printable

May 21, 2013

When Morgan was around about three he fell in love with robots… or ‘lobots’ as he called them back then. It’s comforting and also slightly surreal that as Noah approaches [...]

Laminated Pastel Drawings

May 14, 2013

I was given a gift card to an office supplies store for Christmas. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, I was also given an hour to wander around that store… [...]

Finger Painting on Foil

May 7, 2013

We have a longstanding love affair with foil in our house. We’ve painted on it, drawn on it, made Christmas decorations out of it, and today we got out the [...]

Graph Paper Drawing – Where Art and Maths Combine.

April 30, 2013

We had some friends over last week, and after almost a whole day running around, jumping on the trampoline, dancing, dressing up, playing vets, and chasing chickens by late afternoon [...]

Acorn Season – Why Collecting Stuff is Good for Kids

April 16, 2013

It’s acorn season. We live in an area where huge old oak trees are everywhere, stretching their ancient branches heavy with acorns and covered in luminous green leaves almost down [...]

Snippets of Play – Scooping

April 11, 2013

We often do elaborate, new and ‘exciting’ activities with the big kids, and Noah (who is coming up to three years old!) happily tags along and joins in. Sometimes I [...]

Printable Playdough Garden

April 9, 2013

Right before Easter, in a last minute rush, I made some printable bunny cupcake toppers. A day or so later I spied those very same little bunnies hopping through a [...]

Bouncy Balloon Painting

April 2, 2013

I don’t like balloons. Well actually I don’t mind balloons on their own, but when you combine balloons with kids, it always ends in tears. Well almost always… In a [...]

Five Ways to Get Started With Imaginative Play

March 26, 2013

Noah is two years and 9 months old and suddenly his imagination has gone into over drive. He has gone from limited and very simple imaginative play such as a [...]

See-Through Paintings

March 19, 2013

I love the idea of painting on windows with my kids, but the only child height window we have is… ahem… still not painted, so letting my kids loose near [...]

Six Simple Fine Motor Activities

March 12, 2013

Fine motor skills are what we early childhood educators talk about when we mean all the small muscle, refined movements of the hands. It also relates to thinks like eye-hand-coordination [...]

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