This beautiful book is a true celebration of nature featuring vibrant colors and bold graphics to help children connect to trees while learning about their life cycles.
STEAM Crafts
This Craft Stick Color Toss Sorting Game teaches young children primary colors, matching & association, as well as coordination & spatial awareness. It’s the perfect craft to teach basic skills to help young learners with their development.
This rainbow color sorting game is perfect for toddlers to learn their colors and practice hand and eye coordination skills to get them ready for preschool.
There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow Book Activities and Lesson Plans. Perfect way to introduce early critical thinking skills to young children, while keeping them interested in reading and arts and crafts.
In the children’s book Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, children see the loving relationship between a father and son hare. This book resonates with children because it reinforces the message of endless love between parent and child, a message that brings comfort to them during all of those day to day …
In the book The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano, we meet a small pumpkin who doesn’t look like the others in the field! While all of the other pumpkins grow round, Spookley grows square. This is an excellent book to enjoy with children to not only enjoy the fall season, but …
Next time you order pizza, turn your empty box into the coolest science experiment your kids have ever seen!
This fun craft is the perfect way to teach kids about recycling, ecology and taking care of animals.
Turn your phone into an old fashioned TV that is perfect for the kids!
If you’ve been to your local Target or other big box store recently, you may have seen the huge selection of chalk “spray paint.” It’s super fun for kids, but it’s not that great, and it is gone in seconds. Similarly, you may have bought those awesome looking Bunch o Balloons, that you can hook …
Indoor play is really important at times, as often the weather, illness or other issues can keep kids from being able to go outside to play. With that in mind, I always try to think of great ways to keep the kids happy when playing inside. Store-bought playsets are amazing and fun, but when you …
Buying manufactured playsets for your kids’ Hot Wheels or matchbox car collections can be a huge expense. And since kids rarely take care of their toys, it can be maddening to find missing pieces that make these expensive sets totally useless. It’s always so much easier, cheaper and more fun to make your own upcycled …
There are two things I know to be true about kids. Firstly, they make a ton of garbage! Secondly, no matter how many toys they have, they always want more! So when I can use some of the garbage to turn into a new toy, I consider that a HUGE win. That’s why I absolutely love …
It’s Groundhog Day! I don’t know about you, but for my kids, that means that they have just developed a new interest in weather patterns! My oldest son, Dexter, is seriously worried about what it means if the groundhog sees his shadow. Six more weeks of winter?? Or how about if he doesn’t see his …
Dream catchers have long fascinated me. I’ve been making them since I was a kid because I truly believe that they can help to “catch” bad dreams before they reach you. As someone who has suffered from night terrors my whole life, I would do pretty much anything to prevent them. Unfortunately, my sons …
When I was a kid, we used to save our popsicle sticks and use them to build towers, forts and even birdcages. Nowadays, though, you don’t have to eat eleventy-million popsicles. You can just buy craft sticks! And since there are literally thousands of activities to do with them, they are a GREAT way of …
If you’re looking for a fun way to keep your children occupied for a few hours, this two ingredient play dough is a cheap and simple craft that is perfect for young children.
Whether the weather is hot or cold outside, playing in the snow is always a good time. But if you can’t get the real thing or just don’t want to deal with the cold and wet, this simple two-ingredient “magic” snow is the perfect kids activity to keep children busy for an afternoon.