With just a muffin tin and some fine motor tools you can use household ingredients to work on counting and motor skills! Because we have been working on winter-themed projects, we used cotton balls and marshmallows as our counting materials. I like to use tweezers and large tongs for
Archives for January 2015
2 Ingredient Fake Snow with Shaving Cream
This 2 ingredient fake snow combines shaving cream and baking soda to make a squishy, snowy sensory base for Winter play. Winter themed play just begs to incorporate snow. If you live in a warm weather area, make this 2 ingredient fake snow to play with indoors. Or, if you
Arctic Small World Play
Continuing our ice and snow exploration for January, we put together an arctic small world complete with a block of ice, water, ocean animals and ice skaters. A small world is simply a miniature play scape intended to evoke imaginative play. We used the freezing temperatures outside
Invitation to Create: Winter Wonderland
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I did a quick bathroom raid to find some wintery-looking materials for a simple invitation to create. I love just setting out some small loose parts and seeing what the kids can produce! I found some cotton
Magic Frozen Paint
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Calling all Elsa lovers! This super simple ‘Frozen Ice’ paint is just salt water! Kids love the magic of painting with ‘water’ and having it turn into ‘ice’! Plus, there’s a little science component as well 😉 We started by finding some coarse salt in
Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards with Fine Motor Practice
I love it when such a simple project turns out so beautiful and really involves the kids’ creativity! I’m a sucker for homemade gifts of any type. I found these heart cards at the craft store (you could just as easily use card stock) and thought they would be perfect