Fun and easy kids Activities
Welcome to this week’s quick play idea. If you have made oobleck before then you know how much fun it is for the kids. If you haven’t then this post is for you and I’d like to say ” Cmon, your kids HAVE to mess around with this awesome substance atleast once” . Don’t be afraid, grab a drop cloth and head outdoors for some glorious messy goopy fun.…
Welcome to the third week of Quick Play Ideas. You can read about the previous weeks here and here. To reiterate “Quick Play Ideas” is about simple kids activity that can be set up in minutes notice. In fact I’m a little hesitant to even use the word “set-up” because there isn’t much involved and even if there is older kids can go about making their own setup..…
Did you know that we have a quick play ideas category here on the blog? Yeah, we have one and I have been ignoring it since we created it in the hopes of accumulating simple play ideas. I love having a stash of easy play ideas for those days when all things fail on the kids and parenting front. With that in mind, I have decided to share a basic kids activity idea every Friday with you all.…
Puppet play is a great tool to foster team play and creative thinking. Puppets are a child’s best play pal for all ages and this craft activity will show you how to create unique and simple finger puppets with unlimited possibilities.
Creating these fun finger puppets is as simple as CUT, STICK and CUT !
Cut out some fun pictures from old magazines, Glue them to a thick cardstock paper, Cut out the outline and punch out holes for the fingers.…
This summer getting the girls inside the house once we sent off daddy to work was such hard work! Such hard work that I stopped doing it. ( You know how old this draft of mine is)
One of those mornings, they concocted a mud soup. They had a “gigglishly” fun time.
Big A decided she is making soup and she needs veggies to add to her soup.…
Older one has been reading c-v-c words with ease now and during our bed time story book routine, she has been holding me off on a few short words so that she can read them. I love it!To encourage the curiosity and willingness to read we created the “READING BOX” Big A squeals with joy when she gets a word right – we are working on “ it is ok to make mistakes”
Reading Box sits on the multipurpose kids table ( art/writing/creating/Lego/play dough table) Big A knows that whenever she feels like it she can pick out words from the box and start reading them aloud.…
