Easter is around the corner, which means colorful plastics eggs are in stock at stores! Of course you can use them for Easter, but there are so many other ways to use these inexpensive plastic eggs besides just filling them up for Easter baskets. We've been playing some fun games with these and today I'm excited to share 12 games with you! 1. Shake and Roll Game For this game, just fill 5-10 plastic eggs with material from around the house. I used rice, beans, salt, pom poms, buttons, … [Read more...]
Letter Sound Matching Game
I love Target! Every time I'm there, I browse their dollar section. Last week, I found some adorable foam eggs! I grabbed a few packs and I'm so glad I did because they were sold out a few days later! When I snagged these eggs, I thought they would make a great alphabet letter matching game, but I realized we've done a lot of matching games (like this one) and my son is working more on beginning letter sounds. So, I created a letter sound matching game for my 4-year-old. For this game, I put … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Skills Colors Game {guest post}
I'm so excited to have Sarah from Little Bins for Little Hands here today to share a really neat game! She has an awesome blog all about really cool sensory activities and I am always in awe of her creativity! Thanks, Sarah, for sharing your idea with us! Fine Motor Skills Colors Game Fine motor skills, colors, numbers, counting and a little gross motor fun in one DIY game! Super Simple DIY Fine Motor Skills Game Set Up Fine Motor skills practice can be so much fun when you add legos, … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Keep Kids Busy in the Car
Riding in the car with little ones can be challenging, especially when you are taking a long trip! We went to the Omaha Zoo on Monday, which is only a two hour trip. To make the trip run smoother, I planned 5 activities to do with them in the car. I would say it was a success and they stayed busy in the car with hardly any whining or crying. 1. Create a race track. To make this, paint a track with black paint on a box lid. Then paint some yellow lines in the middle of the track. Give … [Read more...]
Color Matching Game
Today I'm sharing an easy activity for teaching colors. I was noticing the other day that my youngest (22 months) kept calling everything green. I know he's still young, but I thought I would just try an activity to introduce him to some colors. For this activity, I used a plastic tray (from The Dollar Tree), pom poms, 4 colored balls, paint swatches (from Menards). I taped the paint swatches down to each section. I knew my toddler would grab them and try to move them, so I was just being … [Read more...]
Alphabet Game with Water Balloons
My kids love playing games, especially with water. As I was thinking of ways for my preschooler practice alphabet letter sounds, I came up with this game. For this game, all you need is water balloons (or regular balloons), alphabet letters (from games like Scrabble or Bananagrams), and small objects. I used a dinosaur, horse, cow and marble. We just picked 4 letters for this game, but you could do more. To prepare for the game, put each object and letter in separate balloons. To do … [Read more...]
Bowling Game for Kids {Using Coffee Creamer Bottles!}
Glad you are here for day 3 of my series on upcycled crafts! Today I'm sharing how to upcycle a coffee creamer bottle into bowling pins. To get started, just take several old coffee creamer bottles and rinse them out. Then for fun, wrap colored tape around the bottle. I'm sure you could paint the bottles or wrap paper around it, too. I only had 3 empty bottles, but you could have as many as you'd like. I liked having 3 because it made this game simple for my little ones. I put a piece of … [Read more...]
Letter W & Alphabet Matching Game
Happy Monday! Our new letter of the week is 'W' and I've got some fun ideas to share with you! The weather is warming up, which means we'll be staying cool with water activities. My boys love water, so I thought centering W activities around water would be fun for them. To start out the week, we talked about what W sounds like. Then we opened our letter W alphabet box. I had him take out each item and tell me what they were. We listened for the /w/ sounds in each object. We also made our … [Read more...]
Fabric Matching Game
Good Morning! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We had a great weekend...nothing too exciting happened, but I love having a quiet weekend. I didn't feel the greatest, but my awesome husband took great care of me and helped out tremendously with the kids. He is the best and I feel so blessed! :) Today I'm sharing with you a fun Montessori-insprired sensory activity. It's a Fabric Matching Game and it is great for 2-5 year olds. Here's what you'll need: *box or basket *pairs of … [Read more...]
Alphabet Matching Game
My oldest is great at identifying his uppercase letters, but we haven't spent very much time learning lowercase letters. To help him with this, I came up with a game to match uppercase letters with lowercase letters. The added bonus is that it's fun (according to my 3 year old)! Here's what you need: *plastic jug *magnetic letters *cookie sheet *this Lowercase Letters PDF To set up, cut out a small square shape in the milk jug (on the back side). Then, put the magnetic letters in … [Read more...]