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Rainbow Suncatchers – A Kid-Made Spring Activity

Rainbow Suncatchers – A Kid-Made Spring Activity

March 6, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone 2 Comments

This simple rainbow suncatcher craft turned out beautifully and is great for a variety of ages, you will really be able to see the difference in ability with age but no matter how ‘accurate’ these are they will come out beautiful! I started by using placemats with a piece of

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Learn Through Play, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers Tagged With: Colors, Homeschool, kids activities, kids crafts, preschoolers, rainbows, suncatchers, toddlers

DIY Melted Crayon Valentines

DIY Melted Crayon Valentines

February 11, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  We are jumping on the melted crayon train this year for Valentine’s Day! I wanted to find something cute and crafty for Mack to make for his class, after all it is his first ever Valentine’s party! Like me, I am sure many of you have encountered many versions

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Holidays, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Valentine's Day Tagged With: arts & crafts, hearts, Homemade, valentines day

DIY Kids Valentine’s Day Placemats

DIY Kids Valentine’s Day Placemats

February 7, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

  Our Valentine’s crafting is in full swing! We put together a couple of the projects that we have been working on this week to create our fun kid’s placemats! These are perfect for seasonal decor, or for a kid’s Valentine’s party, which is what we are using them for!

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Holidays, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Valentine's Day Tagged With: Arts and Crafts, hearts, kids crafts, paint, valentines day

Invitation to Create: Winter Wonderland

January 13, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

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

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Winter Tagged With: kids crafts

Magic Frozen Paint

January 9, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

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

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschool Science, science, Toddler Arts & Crafts

Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards with Fine Motor Practice

Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards with Fine Motor Practice

January 1, 2015 By Katie Chiavarone 1 Comment

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

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Holidays, Uncategorized, Valentine's Day Tagged With: cards, diy, fine motor, hearts, Homemade, valentines day

C is for Candy Cane: Simple Kids Craft

C is for Candy Cane: Simple Kids Craft

December 13, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

          I’ve had a box of candy canes sitting around waiting for me to come up with some crafty thing to do with them…I got sick of them staring at me, taunting my lack of inspiration, so we smashed them up and made ‘candy cane glitter’.

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Christmas, Holidays, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Toddler Arts & Crafts Tagged With: art, candy canes, christmas, crafts, glitter, kids activities, kids crafts

Sugar Cube Igloos

Sugar Cube Igloos

December 9, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

We are continuing our ‘winter’ activities and started discussing igloos today! Whenever I’m unsure of how to explain something like how ice can be insulating and create heat to a 3 year old I turn to children’s books…much easier! Curious George Builds an Igloo to the rescue. So once we

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Learn Through Play, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschool Science, Preschoolers, science

Simple Snowflake Craft: Painting Salt with Watercolors

Simple Snowflake Craft: Painting Salt with Watercolors

December 4, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

           This is such an easy and fun craft that incorporates a little bit of science! You only need a few materials that most of you probably have lying around your house. Have you ever painted with watercolors on salt? The watercolor travels along the salt making

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschool Science, science, Toddler Arts & Crafts Tagged With: crafts, kids activities, salt, science, watercolors, winter

‘T’ is for Turkey Thanksgiving Craft

‘T’ is for Turkey Thanksgiving Craft

November 20, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 2 Comments

This fun Thanksgiving turkey craft uses the letter ‘T’ to combine some early reading and letter identification with arts and crafts.   This super simple ‘T’ is for Turkey craft is so much fun for holiday preparation! We were inspired by this turkey craft and added our spin on it with handprints. My

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fall, Holidays, Learn Through Play, Preschool Arts& Crafts, Preschoolers, Thanksgiving, Toddler Arts & Crafts, Toddlers Tagged With: letters, literacy, november, thanksgiving, turkey craft

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