Days With Grandma

Making mud paint is perfect if you are planning a "dirt day' or are looking for dirt activities for kids. Mud painting is also a fun messy art activity for kids of all ages.

With flowers beginning to bloom all around... here is a sweet simple craft you can do to preserve them and enjoy them for years to co...

Last fall during the first few weeks of using Oak Meadow's First Grade Curriculum, we pressed what very little flowers were left in our garden and have kept them tucked away in a book not really knowing what to do with them. Recently I came across the most beautiful tutorial found at Twig and Toadstool for pressed flower ornaments as well as a wonderful recipe for white clay (which I'll be using more of in the future) and despite being nowhere near Christmas, I needed to make these pretties…

With flowers beginning to bloom all around... here is a sweet simple craft you can do to preserve them and enjoy them for years to come! To create you will need: 1 cup baking soda 1/2 cup corn starch 3/4 cup of warm water rolling pin round cookie cutter or cup for cutting your clay circles pressed flowers mod podge (we used outdoor so we could hang it outdoors) paint brush fishing line embroidery hoop To begin Follow this tutorial to make the white clay. Cut out your clay with a cup or a…

New! Sand dough! So easy and fun to make and similar to our popular cloud dough recipe. This simple sand dough recipe uses just three ingredients, flour, play sand and oil for tonnes of hands-on fun for kids. Bonus, make your own sand dough sensory bin and explore geometric shapes for early learning. We love easy sensory play recipes! HOW TO MAKE SAND DOUGH FOR EASY SENSORY PLAY! MAKE A SAND DOUGH SENSORY BIN We love to whip up sensory recipes and experiment with new textures any day of the…

With Fourth of July right around the corner, get your home decor ready with this simple diy project. Decorate your home in the spirit of Independence Day with our red, white, and blue 4th of July decorations.It's easy to be patriotic with a simple, easy and kid friendly diy home decor project. diy | diy home decor | fourth of july| kid friendly | patriotic | America | rustic |

Well it’s that time of year when we’re all pretty much OVER WINTER. It’s only fun for so long… until it’s not fun. It’s just cold. I’m not usually one to complain about winter (especially when I’m snowboarding), but lately I keep catching myself daydreaming about balmy days… the girls…

Teachers from Atelier Dayhome shared this fun flower decorating activity that kids can do!Materials Needed for the Flower Decorating ActivityTo do this activity you just need the followingA pi

There’s a very cool image making the rounds on Pinterest, from a blog called Chalk In My Pocket. It’s made using watercolour paint, glue and salt, and involves squirting, painting and s…

Easy, yet effective Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids is painted with a spoon! adding fun and experimentation to kids exploring famous artists.

Over 40 of the BEST Rock Painting Ideas including animals, wall hangings, food, garden markers, decor, and amazing stone art!

Turn crumpled pieces of paper into colorful artwork in this fun art project for kids. This easy art activity is inspired by the children’s book, Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds! The colorful paper has such a cool texture when finished and can be used for making collages or writing notes! (This post contains affiliate links.) …

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We adore everything about spring time, especially watching our flowers and bulbs sprout out of the ground every year and begin growing. If you have toddlers

One of the best ways for kids to learn anything is through hands on sensory experiences. Here’s 4 hands on ways to use this simple printable to teach you kids.

These Rice Krispie treat bird nests are a fun and easy treat to make for kids for Easter.

Today I'm sharing another beautiful and easy paper plate craft. These paper plate birds are simply gorgeous. They are also a great art and craft project to make with kids of all ages! Paper Plate Bird Craft This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! I hosted a play date with 5 other children this past summer and wanted to give them a small art activity to do. The kids' ages ranged from 18 months - 4 years old, so the activity had to be simple to set up and easy for all…

Do your kids love ladybugs? When I was a kid every kind of bug gave me a fright except for ladybugs. I would squirm and be crazy about any kind of insect or bug landing

Celebrate the arrival of spring by using our butterfly template to make this beautiful butterfly craft.

Kids will get a kick out of these fruit & veggies caterpillar snacks! Perfect for a hands-on after school snack or a fun lunchbox idea.

My students use Q tips and paint to fill out the ten frames...

Crafts,Actvities and Worksheets for Preschool,Toddler and Kindergarten.Free printables and activity pages for free.Lots of worksheets and coloring pages..

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We read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which is just a fabulous book on so many levels. We've had so much fun already this week, with more to come! Check it out... First, I replaced our firefly lights, with fun colored butterflies. (I'm starting to think I need to find lights for every theme, because it's so much fun.) Yesterday we did the first read of the book, making predictions and discussing cause and effect. To further integrate science, I taught them a new song (below)…

Make these delicate and simple bird's nests with your kids using old magazines or catalogs, a bowl, and some glue. Gorgeous for Easter or Springtime.

Last week, we had a great time creating playdough bugs! I put out playdough (I had fun making spring colors!), pipe cleaners cut into segments, toothpicks, straws cut into segments, and googly eyes. The boys got right to work making bugs and caterpillars! This one is Gresham’s spider. He asked for a whole white pipe […]

Isn’t it funny how little ones are just curious about everything and totally don’t have that grossed out reaction that we have as adults? I have to admit bugs creep me out, so I was totally not excited for this week’s theme. I tried my best to contain my feelings about insects so Madelynn could […]

A simple counting song for kids to learn numbers and prepositions. Great for toddlers, preschool, kindergarten children and the EFL / ESL classroom. Download...

This butterfly collage art for kids will strengthen your preschooler's gross motor muscles by holding their arm up to a vertical surface.

Tot school this week is all about butterflies. It’s been a rainy few days over here, so I am thankful we had a week full of fun exploration to keep us busy indoors. Here were our plans for our butterfly theme: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite butterfly books for […]

The Hungry caterpillar Rap is a catchy song in celebration of the hungry caterpillar which works well with the life cycle of the butterfly theme.

Well, this activity reminded me of just how long it takes to develop plans for a week. It is now nearly 4:00 and I have been working on this all day. Now I did totally get into it, I have to admit but it's not easy to pull together connected activities even for little ones.…

As a grandparent taking care of toddlers not in their regular preschool programs, I decided I needed a more organized plan to make each day fun but still have some learning happening.

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This 2 ingredient super simple moon dough / moon sand recipe will definitely be a hit with your kids! Today I’m showing you how to make it using flour and baby oil to create a fun mixture that can best be described as a fun cross between play dough and sand! #moonsand #toddlers #toddleractivities

25 Amazing Spring Books for Kids, Themes, Unit Studies, Bunnies, Seeds, Toddler and Preschool books that your children will Love. Non-Fiction and Fiction

Weather Math and Literacy Centers are loaded with fun, hands on health themed activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts! Literacy skills covered are letter identification, beginning sounds, name writing, sight words, handwriting, rhyming, building vocabulary words, sight word...

3D Umbrella Craft for Kids to make! A fun and engaging Spring craft for kids, simply download the printable umbrella template to get started! @artycraftykids

Simple spring weather science experiment for kids! The Rain Cloud in a Jar activity is a fun way to teach weather and science concepts to both preschool and school aged kids.

This butterfly collage art for kids will strengthen your preschooler's gross motor muscles by holding their arm up to a vertical surface.

Winter weather calls for new and fun activities since we can’t always get outside when we want to like in the summertime. And we haven’t exactly gotten any snow this year, besides the 1/2 an inch on…

Summer Music Camp 2013 learned the scarf routine. They were performing for the "snobby queen." This will be published in a book/CD called More Listening Fu...

Tot school this week is all about butterflies. It’s been a rainy few days over here, so I am thankful we had a week full of fun exploration to keep us busy indoors. Here were our plans for our butterfly theme: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite butterfly books for […]

3D Printable Umbrella Spring Craft for Kids to make! An art and craft activity that invites kids' to explore shape, colour and printing techniques!

Work on fine motor and planning skills when you make a beautiful spring flower art collage with your child!

I was so in love with these painted paper flowers with coffee filter centers created by Bess and her students and found over at It's a...

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Liquid watercolor & recycled newspaper flower craft for kids! A simple fine motor craft for preschoolers! Fun recycled crafts kid can do for spring!

Blog about Easy and Fun Kid Art and Crafts Activities

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If you have "help" digging in your garden beds, or you're just looking for some great garden themed activities for children, here are 20 you'll love!

Sharing poetry with children is playful and fun. Plus it's a great learning activity leading to literacy skills and a strong language arts foundation.

In the Waldorf method, children learn to read their own writing before reading books. Try writing found poetry from their words and phrases.

Recipe and instructions to learn how to make a homemade birdseed bell using just a few easy ingredients and a flowerpot as a mold.

These magical Glass Stained Christmas Window Ornaments Kids Craft are perfect for the holidays. Christmas Ornaments Kids will love to make!