Recycle your old yogurt containers by making them into buckets (Originally published June, 2011)We love making crafts from recycled materials, and those yogurt containers have got to be good for something! How about the sand box? Recycle those plastic containers into something [...]Continue Reading
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Creative Christmas Day 11 – Let it Snow! Model Village
Two weeks until Christmas!Have you been singing carols with your kids? I was schooled on how to sing O' Christmas Tree today at lunch. (There are WAY too many versions of that song in my opinion, and none of the ones on You Tube were the ones my five year old has been singing at Kindergarten, [...]Continue Reading
Stab That Shape! Sensory Activities with Foam Trays
How to entertain a preschooler and toddler with nothin' but trash... If you've got a preschooler, I recommend you never throw away a foam tray before using it to its full sensory activity potential! We have enjoyed breaking and stabbing foam plates before, such as when we made our Foam Plate [...]Continue Reading
Shrinky Dink Easter Egg Ornaments
Recycle foam plates into this quick Easter craft We're recycling number 6 plastic again by making it into homemade shrinky dinks. You know Shrinky Dinks, yes? We've been having fun salvaging plastic from our recycle bin to make these. (See my other recycled platic shrinky dink post [...]Continue Reading
Toddler Toothpicks Fine Motor Activity
Have a spice jar handy? How about toothpicks? That's all this toddler fine motor activity requires.I set the empty spice jar on the ground and set out ten toothpicks (I counted before laying them out so I would know I got them all picked up at the end of play.)I picked up a toothpick and [...]Continue Reading
Foam Plate Sensory Play
A foam plate...hmmm, this has interesting possibilities for sensory play...Uh oh, Leland seems out of sorts this morning, I better give him something interesting to do right away...Maybe he'd like to stab holes in the letter 'L'... I'll draw a leaf too...there, that's kind of cute...Sure [...]Continue Reading
