This ABC Board is an easy DIY for teaching and working with letter sounds. When B was younger we would lay this tri-fold project board on the floor and let him do his coloring and crafts on it. This would protect the floor and sometimes he had fun coloring directly on it. Now that he …

Use pom poms, glue, and cardstock to make a Pom Pom Caterpillar developing fine motor skills and creativity. There was a suggestion on my Activities with Pom Poms post to make a pom pom caterpillar. I thought this would be a perfect activity for more practice with glue. Another idea given to me was to …

This printable Number Race game is a fun way to work on number identification, counting, shape recognition, and one to one correspondence. How to Play: *Roll one die. *Put a sticker next to the number rolled (or stamp it, color it in, or x it out) *The first number to have all of its shapes …

An inexpensive activity that promotes the development of motor skills is to play and experiment with nuts and bolts. Get 3-5 bolts of various sizes, the corresponding washers, and the corresponding nuts. Let your child figure out which ones fit together and practice screwing on the nuts. I started with 3 of them for B. …

Muffin Tin Monday – Pancake Pumpkin Faces Today’s theme for Muffin Tin Monday is Fall Harvest/Halloween. I decided to whip up some blueberry pancakes to make “pumpkin faces”. Toppings for the faces: Candy corn, bananas, sprinkles, raisins, whip cream B’s Pumpkin Face My Pumpkin Face  Ok so they look pretty WIERD! Ha ha They really …

I would consider myself a step below beginner level in the world of sewing. Still, with this easy and simple tutorial, I was able to make a taggie square that my baby loved! I followed this tutorial to make a crinkly taggie square. A piece of plastic in the middle makes it sound crinkly.  I …

Here are a bunch of great Go Away Big Green Monster activities for your child based on the book by Ed Emberley, a favorite among children’s books. B is going through a phase of nighttime fears and issues with scary monsters, so I’m hoping that by reading the story and participating in some of these …

Crayon resist paintings are simple and fun to do. I remember doing this when I was younger. Draw a “secret message” with a white crayon and have your child paint over it with watercolors to see the message appear. This is a neat activity if you are working on letter of the day, shapes, introducing …

I read about this activity at Granola Mom 4 God. I love when I already have the materials and can try the activity right away! B was full of giggles and didn’t want to stop. So fun! Here’s what you do: *Stand up on a chair and drop a feather. (I had silk flowers on …

Muffin Tin Monday – Alphabet Soup “Alphabet Soup” – A is for apples, C is for cheese, P is for pickle, M is for milkshake (yogurt), B is for bagel, R is for raisins, B is for beans, C is for corn, H is for hotdog, Nn is for noodles, and P is for pudding …

Now that it is flu season, we are spending extra time washing our hands and I am annoying myself by constantly saying “Ok rub them together, now rinse, pay attention, rinse, ok now dry”. Once we started singing this Wash Your Hands Song, it became a fun experience instead of an annoying one.   Wash, wash, …

Feeling kind of silly dancing around your living room and sing songing the same rhymes like Where is Pumpkin over and over? Here are just a few of the many benefits of sharing songs and rhymes with your baby/child: Sharing songs and rhymes is an excellent way for parents to spend time with their children and …