Rainy day kids' activities

Invitation To Create: Cupcake Factory. Open ended creative craft for kids. Great for color recognition & fine motor development. Perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and elementary kids.

Over 200 summer activities for kids to keep them from getting bored! Try these summer boredom busters out on your little ones!

How to make sand slime for kids (EASY SLIME RECIPE)

Water beads are an amazing sensory material for children who are out of the mouthing stage.

I love, love, love this! I keep berating myself for having not conjured it up in one of my brainstorming sessions (honestly I am still hopeful that one day I will invent the next ‘lego’). In the meantime, I just marvel at gems like these… it reminds me that the simplest of ideas are the …

Take bath time up a notch and make it glow !

For quite a while now, I've been seeing posts on some of my favorite kid-centered blogs about water beads. While they looked like fun in se...

Wondering what to do with water beads? This post shares where to get water beads, how to hydrate them, and some of the fun things kids can do with this great sensory material. We love water beads. LOVE them! I've been sharing some of our water bead play on Instagram and Facebook lately and have been surprised by how many people are either not familiar with them or ask what to do with water beads. So, I thought I'd put together a post with where to get water beadshow to hydrate themand some…

A colorful pile of blank homemade books! Don’t they just speak of creative possibilities? Stories and drawings and hand-drawn comic books! Journals, projects and secret codes! These books are really easy to make (yes, even if you aren’t crafty) and now that we have a stack of them we’re ready any time inspiration strikes. Mom’s […]

Duplo building - Eiffel tower complete

Dioramas have a school project loveliness about them and are wonderfully tactile in this digital age. I’ve been meaning to make a construction site for my son for some time now and was motiv…

Homemade Cars track for my son - he wanted a spiral track around a mountain with a tunnel at the top. A little cardboard, expanding foam, paper mache, paint, and... Voila!

Building with LEGO® is pretty cool and great for STEM activities! This time, my son wanted to try out a zip line like we had seen in a book. I knew there would be several interesting concepts he could explore through hands on play! Check out our collection of over 40 unique LEGO® activities for kids. So many great ways to incorporate LEGO® into a STEM environment! AWESOME STEM PROJECT: BUILD A LEGO ZIP LINE FOR KIDS! BUILD A LEGO ZIP LINE FOR EXPLORING SLOPES, TENSION AND GRAVITY Science is…

Make the perfect fluffy slime every time with this easy fluffy slime recipe.

LEGO Marble Maze - awesome OT activity for fine motor coordination, visual motor coordination, motor planning, bilateral hand use, visual tracking, attention and more! Mama.Papa.Bubba.