I love to make simple and fun homemade toys and books, and today’s I Spy Foam Book is both of these things! Bonus, it’s all in a little booklet and kids can take it with them when you travel or wait in doctor’s office or in a restaurant to keep them on their seat! There…
Yellow Yarn Wooden Spoon Puppets
We are on our penultimate letter of the A to Z Fine Motor series. For the letter Y we opted to explore yarn. Not just any yarn though – yellow yarn. I wanted to see how my son would cope with wrapping yarn around an object. We created a Wooden Spool Puppets with Yellow Yarn…
Racing Eggs Game
Today we are sharing very simple 3D board game you can set up in several minutes for your kids. Egg racing game is great to play around Easter when you have some extra egg cartons and plastic eggs around although it can be played whenever you wish. My 3-year-old and 7-year-old daughters both enjoyed playing…
3 Ways to Repurpose Scribbled Children’s Activity Book
Today we are going to show you how we upcycled one of toddler’s workbooks in 3 different ways. Repurposing books or book pages is another of material prompts for #junkplay challenge and we used what we already had at home. You can use our ideas as an inspiration since you probably don’t have exactly the…
12 Reasons to Make Homemade Toys
Creating and building your own homemade toys can be a very handy and cheap way to get kids new toys, to keep the play all fresh and new, and in many cases to upcycle many of everyday items you already have at home. Kids love toys! Furthermore, kids love having new toys every once in…
Wool Sheep Stick Puppet
My kids adore to sing Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme! Yours too? These wool sheep stick puppets are really easy to create in under 5 minutes! We hope you will create several with or for your kids to play and sing! One of our favorite ways to play is when we can sing a…
Touch and Match Game – DIY Tactile Cards
For today’s sensory activity, we have upcycled and used from our home everything needed to create our little game for exploring textures. Read on to see what we used to create DIY tactile cards for Touch & Match Game and how to play with it! By the time kids were ready to move on to…
Homemade Sensory Alphabet Cards
Creating letter cards which allow toddlers and preschoolers to experience the sensation of touching and feeling each letter is the basis of our touch and trace homemade alphabet sensory cards. There are many methods of teaching children how to recognize and write the alphabet, and sensory alphabet cards have been used in many classrooms, especially…
9 Amazingly Easy Ways to Use Stickers for Learning
Let’s face it: kids love stickers! They like them if they are with their favorite cartoon characters or even if they are simplest round color stickers! Is it because they are sticky? Who knows!? What we can do as parents (and teachers) is: use this affection to introduce new knowledge to our kids. This page…
How to Make a No-Sew Plastic Bag Tutu
If you have a little girl in your house like it is in my case, good chances are that you spend a lot of time dancing! Which is not at all bad – dancing helps develop gross motor skills and entertains our kids! On this page, I will share a tutorial for creating ballet tutu…