Make a playdough garden with these fun, free printable, garden playdough accessories. Kids of all ages will love making a garden full of flowers, bees and bugs, using these printable playdough flower garden accessories. Whether you are working on a spring learning theme, or perhaps your kids are interested in gardens, or insect, or they […]
Bouncy Balloon Painting for Kids
This super fun balloon painting for kids activity will be a hit with all ages! Painting with balloons is a bouncy, squishy, and colourful process art activity that is easy enough for a toddlers art activity, great fun for preschoolers, and interesting enough for older kids too! With just a few basic supplies, this balloon […]
See-Through Paintings
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 all that bare wood with paints that might stain aint gonna happen. I have given up waiting for the damn things to be painted (it’s […]
Six Simple Fine Motor Activities
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 and is an essential pre-writing skill to develop and practice. While fine motor skills are important, they are also really easy to practice and develop, […]
Imaginative Play: Bugs in a Box
Do you want to set up a cool imaginative play scene that’s a little messy, maybe a little wet, but you don’t have anything to put it in? All you need is a cardboard box and a garbage bag. For the Halloween disco at school, Izzy went as ‘bug girl’ with lots of plastic insects […]
Cutting Practice – Making Snowflakes and Sunbursts.
My big boy has had an attack of the ‘can’ts’ lately. If he can’t do something perfectly, first time, then he ‘can’t do it’ at all and often storms off or chucks a wobbly, no matter what anyone does or says. Controlling scissors has been one of his biggest ‘can’ts’. He sees the girls cutting […]
Ten Awesome Drawing Ideas for Kids
There has been an explosion in drawing at the Pickle Farm recently. Zoe and Izzy (almost nine) have always loved to draw and will spend hours creating books, or drawing huge creations. Morgan (five) has finally found some confidence in his drawing skills and now can’t get enough of it. And Noah (two) has just […]
Easy Art For Kids – Drawing on Foil
It’s been about a year since we first painted on foil here at the Pickle Farm and the big kids request this activity over and over they love it so much. But sometimes painting is just too much… not to mention the fact that we have no space to dry the copious amounts of paintings […]
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