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Patriotic Edible Slime

June 22, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Looking for an edible slime that is red white and blue? This patriotic edible slime is one that your kiddos can literally take a bite out of!  Making this edible slime is a lot of fun, but you need to just realize from the start that your kids are going to be eating it as

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Filed Under: Edible Sensory Play, Sensory, Summer

Sensory Games Using Homemade Slime

March 16, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

So many ideas for sensory games that use homemade slime. Never know what to do with all the slime your kids make? Here are 10 ideas. We love to make homemade slime around here. My 5 year old would make it every day if I let her, and multiple times a day at that. It

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Filed Under: Learn Through Play, Sensory

Gold Slime: Crunchy and Stretchy Clear and Gold Slime!

February 19, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Gold slime that combines clear glass slime with gold foil confetti glitter, for a stretchy and crunchy beautiful gold slime. Slime is such a fun sensory tool for kids. It is slimy, stretchy and fun to make. Children feel like young scientists when mixing ingredients to make something new. This gold slime is crunchy and

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Filed Under: Sensory, St. Patrick's Day

3-Ingredient Edible Caramel Slime

October 17, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This edible caramel slime is made with only 3 ingredients and is perfect for Fall sensory play for babies, toddlers and older children. We love to experiment with different slime recipes. One of our favorite ways to play is to make edible slime so that we can sneak tastes as we create and play! We

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Filed Under: Fall, Sensory, Sponsored Work

Fluffy Jello Slime Recipe with Mythical Beasts

March 26, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This fluffy jello slime recipe uses a base of contact solution, white glue and baking soda, and adds a fluffy component, jello!    There are so many fun slime recipes you can make, but this fluffy jello slime recipe has been one of our favorites yet! The slime is squishy and fluffy and irresistible. We

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Sensory Tagged With: activities for kids, sensory play for kids, sensory play for toddlers, Slime, slime recipe

St. Patrick’s Day Green Edible Slime Recipe

February 5, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

Edible slime recipe made from just a few kitchen ingredients. Perfect as sensory play for toddlers. Excellent kids activity to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!   Slime is so much fun to play with! It’s such a great sensory material for kids, and despite is stretchy, sticky texture, can be somewhat contained for some squishy sensory

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Simple Moana Slime for Ocean Sensory Play

June 29, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This Moana slime has the perfect texture for sensory play and is made with contact solution as a borax alternative. Add some Moana toys and shells and play! The slime craze is real. My 4 year old is obsessed with Moana-anything right now, so naturally when she saw the glitter glue display at Target, we

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Preschoolers, Sensory Tagged With: disney, kids activities, moana, moana ocean slime, ocean play, pretend play, sensory play

Halloween Slime for Sensory Play

September 28, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone 3 Comments

It’s no secret we LOVE sensory play at our house. The stickier and slimier the better! I know that is not the case for a lot of children, this Halloween slime is the perfect mix of squishy and slimy but it does NOT stick to your hands! Sensory activities encourage exploration and encourage children to

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Filed Under: Elementary, Halloween, Holidays, Learn Through Play, Preschoolers, Sensory, Toddlers, Uncategorized Tagged With: Halloween, Holidays, Homemade, Homeschool, Preschool at Home, Sensory, Slime

Sand Slime at the Beach

May 17, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 1 Comment

 My kids love going to the beach. We are lucky enough to be within about an hour drive and take advantage of the mid-week beach lull in the summertime. I like to throw a couple extra goodies in the beach bag to make something crafty or fun AT the beach! Sandcastles can actually get old

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Filed Under: Elementary, Learn Through Play, Outdoors, Preschoolers, Sensory, Summer, Toddlers

Firework Watching Binocular Craft with Recycled Toilet Paper Rolls

June 23, 2020 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

This Firework Watching Binocular Craft with Recycled Toilet Paper Rolls are perfect for making certain the kids have a great view for the upcoming fireworks show!  It’s no secret that the fireworks on the 4th of July are the best part of the day! And sometimes, the kids just feel as though they can’t get that

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Memorial Day/4th of July

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