It’s winter holidays here, that means that I need art activities that are interesting and challenging for the bigger kids, but also easy enough for Noah (four years old) to join in. Today we decided to experiment with newspaper and paint. We came up with two ideas for printing with newspaper, one super simple, and […]
Kinetic Sand Stamping – Easy Sensory Play.
Try this fun and easy way to play with kinetic sand! It said it right there on the box “98% sand and 2% magic” and as I dumped the kinetic sand out onto the tray we discovered how true that statement was. It looks just like ordinary sand, the stuff you’d find at the beach, […]
Setting Up a Drawing Basket
Noah is almost four and he loves to draw and ‘write’ and ‘make stuff’. To make drawing and writing and making stuff easier for him and me, we have set him with a drawing basket. Noah’s drawing basket is nothing fancy, just an old metal file basket that is a bit battered and bent, but […]
Crystal Painting
We discovered this gorgeous crystal painting activity by accident when our attempt to grow epsom salt crystals was a failure. Sometimes, failure is beautiful. Find out how to make crystal paint on purpose over at Fun at Home With Kids.
Finger Painting With Added Extras!
Finger painting is all about squishing, smoooshing, sliding, squelching, wiggling, and slipping around in paint. It’s more sensory experience that art actvity, and it is all about the process, the doing, and not much about the finished product. We LOVE to finger paint at our house. We love to get our hands all slippery with […]
Magnet Madness – Three DIY ways to play with magnets
“Do you think you could get the front off our old washing machine?” I am pretty sure my husband wasn’t impressed by my question at 3pm on a holiday Monday when he was painting our new laundry. But he was the one who kept the broken washing machine, you know, ‘just in case it might […]
Five Easy Alternatives to a Water Table
I love to set up water play and other sensory play for my kids. It can get a little messy but it’s an activity that always engages my kids for long periods, they will often all happily play together and it seems to calm fractious nerves, so it is worth a little mess. We don’t […]
Free Printable Imaginative Play Mats
These free printable imaginative play mats are perfect for small world dramatic play, or use them as a play dough mat or printed drawing prompt. There are so many fun ways to use these fun printable play mats. I have long lusted after some of the gorgeous felted play mats like the ones you see […]
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