You know how it’s hard to find that one book which contains ideas for hands-on learning through play for kids, and where ideas are “do-able”, tried and tested by someone you know you can trust? Well, not anymore! We are introducing a brand new book with over 150 ideas for kids of different age, from babies…
Spring Accordion Wreath with Kid’s Artwork
Do you pile up heaps of your kid’s paintings, drawings and other artwork? Do you upcycle them in some way? Today we share how we used several paintings created by my daughters to create this colorful and cheerful Spring accordion wreath to welcome Spring and decorate our doors! Yesterday we played and learned with calendar…
Bubble Wrap Easter Egg Painting
For today, we decided to try something different than usual (for us!) and use bubble wrap for painting! We created bubble wrap Easter egg paintings! With upcoming Easter, this is such an easy painting idea both my 3-year-old toddler and my 7-year-old enjoyed! My kids adore playing with bubble wrap and we used it before…
Watercolor Crayon Resist Painting
One of the most interesting things about crayon resist painting with toddlers is that you can surprise them with images popping up from, what appears to be, an empty page! Today we painted using watercolors over crayon resist images, mostly spring and Easter themed, like flowers, eggs, and, of course, we had to add some…
Cereal Box Rainbow Purse
This very easy DIY toy project is awesome because even toddlers can participate with marbling part of creating a cereal box rainbow purse. And, of course, they will love to carry around and play with a purse they created themselves! My daughter placed her Boots inside the moment it was done! Do you recycle or…
MILK MARBLING
Today we have done one of the simplest science experiments for younger children – milk marbling! If you haven’t done this before, you should give it a try! It’s really easy to set up and effects are amazing! Supplies to Prepare for Milk Marbling Experiment If you have never done milk marbling before this is…
Gummy and Cork Process Art Painting
After painting pasta yesterday, and seeing how much kids enjoyed it, I decided to do another painting session with them, this time, we have changed up our painting tools a little bit and made gummy and cork process art painting! Today’s challenge for a sensory play was to use kitchen cupboard items and it brought…
Snowflake Painting
This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Winter starts in 2 days! Would you believe it? Not sure what it’s like where you live but here there is still no sign of snow! And kids are anticipating snowy Christmas! Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean we can’t have a bit of winter fun inside! So, we…
Watercolor Christmas Lights Card
It’s already day 10 of Blank Christmas Cards Advent Countdown with Kids, and for today kids have been playing with watercolors!Girls made these easy watercolor resist Christmas lights card and had lots of fun playing around with color mixing and deciding which colors to use. Of course, since they are girls, color choices were mostly red,…
Living in a Beautiful Rainbow World
When I first saw book Beautiful Rainbow World, what attracted me was this stunning colorful front page with a child whose eyes were wide open and looking curiously at me. At that point, I didn’t really expect that this book will provide motivation to talk with my daughters about diversity and teach them so many…