Skip to content

Fun and Easy Ways to Get Creative With Your Kids!

Free Printables
Subscribe
Affiliate Advertiser

Subscribe

Click Here to subscribe to our newsletter. Never miss a post. We will send all new posts straight to your in box!

Advertisements

Like this:

Like Loading...

Like this:

Like Loading...

Free Printables
Subscribe
Affiliate Advertiser

Advertisements

Search

Search for:

Categories

Categories

FREE Worksheets

Free Printables

Join Social Spark

Social

View PlayLearnKids’s profile on Facebook
View PlayLearnKids’s profile on Twitter
View PlayLearnKids’s profile on Instagram
View PlayLearnKids’s profile on Pinterest
View Play Learn Kids’s profile on Google+

Like Us On FaceBook

Like Us On FaceBook

Instagram

We have been struggling with getting everyone out the door in the morning and evenings aren’t too smooth either... I made this ‘chore chart’ for them to follow and keep track of what needs to be completed. This morning we were all ready WAY before it was time to leave 🙌🏻

Salt Dough Ornaments: Mix together: 4 Cups Flour, 1 Cup salt 🧂 and 1 1/2 Cups of warm water 💦. Roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, cut out your shapes (add some designs and patterns for fun texture) and don’t forget to use a straw to punch out a hole 🕳. Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for about an hour. Let cool, paint 🎨 and add string or ribbon 🎀

Rolled up all the artwork fun we did over the weekend and will recycle ♻️ it to become some fun wrapping paper!!! There is something extra special about receiving a gift with homemade paper 🙌🏻

Practicing our patterns with cardboard boxes 📦 ♻️ and paint sticks. Makes for a beautiful mural! 🌈

Give them lots of opportunities to practice their writing ✍🏻 She felt so special being able to print peoples names on their gifts 🎁

Best investment ever! My good friend convinced me to buy my daughter a CD play 💿 and books on CD. I thought she was crazy... why not just listen to a book on audible or though our Amazon Echo? I am now a believer in ‘old’ technology. My little one can be found quietly listening to her books 📚. She feels so independent using her very own CD player and turning the pages on her own. It’s a very concrete experience for them to pick up the book and CD 💿 instead of just asking Alexa for a story. Her night stand has a storage box with all of her books to pick from. Amazon sells a crazy 😜 amount. I know what Santa 🎅🏻 will bring this year 😉

The easiest and our stand by science experiment 🔬 Baking soda and vinegar. I add a drop of food coloring to the vinegar and some fun droppers to up the fun 🙌🏻

We were away over Thanksgiving and California actually got some rain! ☔️ 🙌🏻 The smoke is all gone and my little learner was able to measure the rain collected in her rain gauge for the first time.

Let your little ones help out in the kitchen. They are more likely to eat if they helped to prepare it and you are teaching them independence and an important life skill. We bought these ‘kid friendly’ plastic knives from curious chef 👩🏼‍🍳 (not sponsored). As always, supervise your children while in the kitchen 🙌🏻

Isn’t this the most gorgeous, edible birdhouse we just hung in our favorite tree? This weekend we will try to recreate it. We have a cardboard house from Michaels and will cover it with peanut butter and then place different seeds all over it. The birds in California are needing extra food and water since we have had such terrible wildfires.

Collaborative art piece 😉

My dinosaur 🦖 loving nephew came to visit so I set up a dinosaur 🦕 washing station for him. First I let him use an egg beater to beat up all of the bubbles and then he spent so long cleaning and scrubbing Mr. T Rex. He even got his teeth brushed. 🤩

Making homemade play doh never gets old over here 👈🏻 Our favorite recipe is: 2 Cups Flour, 2 Tablespoons Cream of Tartar, 2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil, 1/2 Cup Salt and 1 1/2 Cups Boiling Water. Mix it all together. Sometimes I need to add some extra flour to find the right consistency. Add some essential oils for a great sensory experience too 🙌🏻

It’s funny how using different materials can make all the difference! A marker and some rocks and creating words become a game! We had fun working on the ‘at’ family.

Colored rice for our sensory table activity this week. Place uncooked, white rice in a large ziploc bag with a tablespoon of white vinegar and some drops of food coloring. Shake vigorously until the color mixes all over. Lay the rice flat on a baking sheet until it dries. I added muffin tins, ice cream scoops, cookie cutters and silicone molds.

Just starting to learn to read can be a little frustrating. We created a 100’s chart to cross off each book she read. When she gets to 100, there is a big prize. It’s a great way for her to work hard towards a goal, concretely see her progress and it also indirectly helps her with her counting to 100. 🙌🏻

Making leaf 🍃 confetti 🎉 Use a hole 🕳 puncher, we chose a heart 💜 shaped one, and go to town on some leaves 🍁 Make sure the leaves are fresh and not dry or else the will just break.

Leaf 🍃 rubbings.... Super easy but the kids think it’s magic. It’s also a great way for them to study and really look 👀 at a leaf 🍂

Love these messy, chubby, little fingers. This is what childhood looks like 👀

Math while camping! Using rocks, or any other materials, is a great way for kids to concretely see the math problem.

Advertisements

Blog at WordPress.com.

%d bloggers like this:

%d bloggers like this: