Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are my own. Need a fun indoor activity due to rain or heat? Have you tried glamping! S and I often pull out sheets and blankets and turn our living room into a campground. After making the Starlight Lantern from Kiwi Crate, we thought the perfect activity […]
5 Ways to Play with a Water Table
Outside, check. Water table, check. Now what fun way can we use our water table? Here are 5 ways to get more use out of your water table than the traditional water play. Alphabet Soup: ABC Practice – To help my daughter practice her ABCs, we set up an alphabet Soup. As she pulled out the […]
Arctic Small World Play
One of the great things about going on trips is being able to explore new environments, learn about different animals and appreciate an experience that we would never see at home. On our recent cruise to Alaska, S was excited to see glaciers and icebergs. Her absolute favorite item to see are animals/marine life. […]
Bike Wash – Outdoor Fun
It was a HOT day and I wanted a water activity for S to make it bearable to be outside. We pulled out her princess bike, a bucket, dish soap, rags and sponges in order to wash her bike! S squeezed some dish soap into the bucket and then added in the water. I offered […]
Failed Bubble Painting turned More Messy Potion Fun
I kept seeing on Pinterest bubble paintings; where the child blows bubble in a bowl of colored soapy water and then you place a piece of paper on top to get the bubble image. We attempted to make bubble paintings and while we got the bubbles to appear on the paper, they were extremely light […]
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Last week we had wonderful spring weather and almost all of our plants in the backyard had flowers on them. I asked S if she wanted to go on a photo scavenger hunt and photograph all the flowers in the yard. Yes, yes, yes as her response. She was so excited for me to hand […]
Outdoor Play: Washing Station
After a winter of sitting outside, S’s sand/water table and toys were looking very dirty! Not to mention the sand had been rained on a couple times and was due to be switched out. So, I asked S if she wanted to help me wash the toys and of course she said yes. I emptied […]
Ocean Small World
S has been talking about wanting to take a trip to the beach – specifically Orange Beach, which we visited about two years ago. So, it was only appropriate that our next small world play be ocean. We had some sand in our water/sand table that I pushed to one side and then S […]
Garden Imaginative Play
Now that spring has finally sprung (at least here in the South) and since S loves to garden we did a garden imaginative play/small world. To make seed packets I took a couple envelopes and added a flower sticker to one and a pea label to another. I filled the envelopes with leftover colored rice […]
Early Learning: Letter E
S has been saying she loves and cannot wait for Easter since Christmas. I thought it would be fun to have some learning activities centered around Easter. I always mixed up the activities and try to balance the fun with practicing writing and numbers. Below are links to the printables that we used this week: […]