Every child loves to show their love for mom with handmade gifts! And if those gifts are made from recycled materials, Mother Earth is happy as well. We prepared a collection of 60 green Mother’s Day crafts kids can make and give to their moms to shower them with love! Of course, all of these…
Green Recycled Winter Crafts for Kids
Winter season is a perfect time to stay inside in a warmth of your home and engage kids in crafting! We collected over 120 green recycled winter crafts to make with your kids! Raid your recycle bin and prepare to upcycle paper rolls, old newspapers and magazines, cardboard and shoe boxes, plastic bottles and caps,…
Amazing Rubber Band Activities for Kids
Rubber bands are a lot of creative, colorful fun to experiment with. They’re also an excellent way to work those fine motor skills with little fingers. If you are looking for fun rubber band activities and games to play using a few other materials lying around your home, take a look at this list of amazing…
Rubber Band Fine Motor Play Using Household Items
Rubber bands.. elastic bands… elastic loops… gum bands…. no matter what you call this stretchy object they are great for developing fine motor skills. We raided our recycle bin to find a variety of household items and use them for rubber band fine motor play. Stretching out the rubber band strengthens the muscles in the…
Pom Pom Fine Motor Target
We are huge fans of using pom poms within play. They are cheap, you can soon make a huge collection and they are the perfect size for fine motor activities. For the letter P in our A to Z Fine Motor Series we set about creating a Pom Pom Fine Motor Target game. I wanted…
Tunnel Race with Pom Poms
This past week has been raining and although it’s Summer according to a calendar, we were mostly inside thinking of ways to make it more fun with things we had on hands. This simple tunnel race game with pom poms was created in just a few minutes and kids were having the blast and laughed…
Magnets and Yogurt Cups Play
Today’s simple invitation to play using magnets and plastic yogurt cups turned to something completely different as play continued and my toddler decided to use additional elements to prolong the play. As we played with our magnets and cups, we talked about letters, numbers, colors and worked on fine motor skills. There was a bit…
Pretend Play Blush
Having 2 little beauties at home can be very challenging! They want to put up a make-up like grown ups! Well, not going to happen! Instead, we made this simple fake blush they can use for their beauty salon pretend play. Have you seen other ideas where we turned things from recycle bin to new…
Recycled Easter Egg Card
With Easter coming up in a couple days, we created these simple Easter egg cards using things we had on hand – magazines! Today’s post is another in 60 Days Junk Play series and you’re welcome to see other #junkplay ideas both ours and created by number of other kid-friendly bloggers. You will need to…
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…