A great list of DIY and easily available building materials and construction items for kids! If you have kids or have played with kids, you know they love to build! Stacking items just seems to be second nature for many children — and stacking things high to see them fall 🙂 Blocks and LEGOs are …
Encourage Creativity
These STEM activities & science experiments paired with favorite kids movies are a great way to inspire learning! I know a lot of families (including ours!) enjoy watching some of the new kids movies that come to theaters or sharing old film favorites on family movie nights. Has your family seen any of these 12 …
Unique Valentine’s Day gift ideas for kids! If you have kids, come February 1st you’ll hear a lot of talk about ‘cool’ Valentine’s Day ideas (like these free printable Valentine Activity coupons for kids 😉 Those school parties are so exciting and the thought of getting cards from all of your friends gets kids going …
These beautiful & easy ideas are the perfect kids crafts for the Thanksgiving table! When I think back to holidays past, my favorite things for kids to do on Thanksgiving Day was helping to get the table ready for the meal! I always felt so grown up when my Mom would give us ‘special jobs’ …
Creative ideas on how to get rid of extra Halloween candy! I’m always amazed at how much candy we accumulate during the week of Halloween! I think my kids must look extra good in their costumes on some years because we end up with waaayyy more candy than I think we should have — and …
Welcome Summer! We are kicking off summer with a BANG! and bringing you TONS of ideas for summer fun (woohoo!). And since I can’t think of Summer without thinking about the beach, I wanted to pull together some creative ideas for playing, crafting and exploring seashells! 25 Seashell Crafts & Activities We’ve already hit …
Last week, we explored one of my favorite topics on the Discover & Explore linky — SCIENCE! I love introducing kid to science – the easy, everyday questions that lead to those amazing discussions when you can see those wheels turning as they come up with more questions about how & why. And here’s the …
Welcome back to our super Summer Science series!
We are collaborating with Inspiration Laboratories to share some great books and fun hands-on science activities each Wednesday during the summer — this week’s topic is Astronomy.
Grab your favorite sidewalk chalk and do some learning this summer! At the end of the school year, I always spend some time stocking up for Summer fun. I like to do a quick assessment of items that need to be added based on the kids’ developmental skills (do we need a bigger bike? are …
Do you know what I love about today’s activity?
It doesn’t require perfection or detail or really any focus. It’s very open-ended and so creative — plus down-right beautiful too!
It came about as a spur of the moment idea when we were making some Clay Pot Garden Markers for a guest post with The Educator’s Spin on It.