Kid Activities

This was the invitation to play that I had set up for the kids. A cardboard box with holes poked all over, and pipe cleaners. This was the end result 🙂 They all had so much fun creating a work of art with pope cleaners, all while working on their fine motor ... Read more

A fine motor water transfer activity as a part of our homeschool preschool honey bee unit

Teaching kindergartners how to cut - quick resources for teachers. Here are some bright ideas to teach how to cut for the students that need it in your classroom - be it with just a few students or as a whole group lesson. Along with teaching basics, often we need to teach students how to cut at the beginning of the school year. I highly recommend teaching how to use scissors and how to cut just as we teach other simple things like restroom procedures! It's a kindergarten teacher's secret…

Every weekend I try to make a plan of activities for the coming week to start on Monday. I start with the gauging what my child is interested in (using the "My Child This Week" sheet

The Scissor Chant is a finger-play that can be used in early childhood and preschool classes. It helps children rememebr the proper way to hold a scissor when learning to cut. This PDF file contains the words to the song and features Thistle Girl Designs graphics. Singing songs is a great way to hel...

Q-Tips and Straws Fine Motor Skills Activity - A great way to help little hands strengthen fine motor skills and work on colors at the same time.

This nuts and bolts activity board is perfect for working on fine motor skills for kids!The following post con

Check out part 1, part 2, and part 3 of our Montessori-inspired flower study! We are frugal flower pickers around here, so when I introduced this flower arranging lesson to Elise, I kind of expected her to go wild with the scissors in the garden. Instead, she sniped just a few of her favorite herbs - parsley and mint - for an edible bouquet. When I suggested she pick one of the "showier" flowers, she halfheartedly agreed, insisting that we leave the rest for the bees! If you feel like the…

5 Cutting Activities for Preschoolers

Sweet & Spicy Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders - one of the best things we ate last week. Only 4 simple ingredients - chicken, bacon, brown sugar and chili powder. They only take about 5 minutes to make and are ready to eat in under 30 minutes. Sweet and salty in one bite!

Fine Motor Fairy Wand Craft for Kids! A simple backyard craft for toddlers and preschoolers!

It’s FINALLY spring (and almost summer)!!! What better time to take advantage of a good nature walk?! Make the most of it with these little Nature Journals for kids! I have a confession. I…

Leaf Fish by Hazel Terry, via Flickr

Create nature art using items collected from your garden. This is a simple, fun, free process art activity which gets kids outside using their imaginations.

The Perfect Animal Habitat Activities for Preschool, STEM, Building animal habitats, Reggio Emilia Provocations, Sensory bins, Early Childhood Education

Drawing with chalk and nature

We decided on painting rocks. We went outside to hunt for some pretty fist-sized rocks that are smooth. Here are some wonderful and fun crafts for kids.

Nature Play & Learning for the Backyard | outdoor activities, games and STEM activities

Rainstick Craft and DIY toy for Kids! A recycled and naturally sourced DIY rainstick musical instrument that makes the gentle sound of rain when tipped from top to bottom, and, doubles as a sensory bottle that can help children focus and learn to self-regulate.

Spring has finally sprung and we have been spending many of our days outside enjoying the beautiful weather. We have also been taking our learning outside and finding unique ways to practice shapes. We have collected rocks for quite some time now and it came in handy the one morning at the start of shape week when it was super rainy. We were able to use our rock collection and some big chart paper and created this fun loose parts shape trace using rocks. Little Miss loved this and did it…

Alphabet Worksheets by Heidi Dickey | Teachers Pay Teachers

This month is Beatrix Potter's Birthday, July 28, 1866. Her stories have long been favorites in our home! We have a fun little collection of her stories that we adore and re-read often. Today I