Do you need to keep kids of different ages occupied? Are you looking for an activity that will work for the toddler, the preschooler and the school kids? These ideas and activities for multi age groups will help you keep everyone busy and happy! Have you got a group of kids of all different ages […]
Monster Play Dough Mats – Free Printable
So you’ve seen our free printable people play dough mats right? Well my play dough mad kid is bored with making plain old people, he wants to make MONSTERS!!! So of course I did what any conscientious parent would do…I made him some. Monster Play Dough Mats Noah and I came up with two monster […]
Three Quick and Easy Drawing Activities
I hear it in the tone of their voices. Things are about to go to hell in a handbasket and I really don’t have the energy to deal with fighting kids this afternoon. I don’t have the energy to deal with anything, but I still need make dinner and hang the washing so before things […]
Absorption Painting – An Easy Process Art Activity
Sometimes the best creativity happens when you least expect it. This absorption painting activity happened by accident, when we’d finished another activity and had some liquid watercolors left over. I went to get some more paper to use up the last of the paint, but when I came back my boys had grabbed the paper […]
Object Tracing – An easy drawing activity for all ages
A group of kids, all different ages, all looking for something to do. It’s not always easy to find one activity that suits a variety of ages, and keeps everyone interested and happy, but this object tracing drawing activity really hit the spot for this group of kids. I had 6 kids ranging in age […]
Ten Cool, Kid-friendly, Glow in the Dark Videos
“Why do some things glow in the dark?” That’s what my nine year old asked me the other day, and finding out the answer started a bit of an obsession with things that glow in the dark! While investigating what things glow in the dark and why, we discovered some really cool videos, so we […]
Make A River!
“The sandpit is boring!” My six year old did have a point. Our sandpit had been neglected for a while and even though I’d pulled all the weeds out and dug over the sand, it still wasn’t very enticing. I suggested a few ideas… “Let’s bring out some animals? Find some old containers and spoons? […]
Colour Mixing – What kids learn from this simple art activity
“Can I experiment and mix my own paint colours?” My nine year old had been looking through our newest art book, Art Workshop for Children by Barbara Rucci (affiliate link), trying to decide which project he’d like to try first. There are so many interesting ideas and beautiful images in this book, but eventually he […]
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