If you have an infant, you have probably used similar links to hang their toys off of a stroller, for example. BUT, they can also be used for preschoolers. These 3-year-olds sorted these links by color and shape, made patterns with them, and used a large “pocket cube” to work on their turn-taking skills while playing a game whose goal was to have them complete a pattern…
It’s possible that I’m late to the party and that everyone else knew this but me. But, in case you didn’t, pipe cleaner necklaces and bracelets are all the rage in my house right about now. 💎 For months I have given B every thickness of string I could find and have added tape to the tip to help her lace it through the hole (this method helps…
If you haven’t discovered water beads yet, welcome to my obsession. Up until this week, I had only bought the multicolored packs (some with fine motor tools included), but there’s a cloud and weather activity I want to do later this week that will require only blue beads (pictured here). I may have also purchased Halloween 🎃 👻 colored water beads for Saturday night’s sensory station. 🙈 But seriously, they…
A picture of an open mouth, white beads as teeth, a 🦷 toothbrush, and a pair if plastic tweezers…it really doesn’t get too much more simple. If you have a die laying around, you can roll it and have them remove or pull the corresponding number of teeth. We tried it with our 3-year-olds, but they’re just not there yet, and that’s ok. They still…
Young children (and sometimes their parents 🙋🏻♀️) are fascinated by the simplest things. So while asking them to use a white crayon to draw on white paper didn’t seem all to exciting, using watercolors to reveal the magic beneath was. We wrote their names, drew ghosts, pumpkins, hearts, suns, a dog, and pretty much anything their hearts desired. They couldn’t see any of it until they used the watercolors…
My 3rd grade art teacher, Mrs. Josie Pinkcombe, introduced me to Vincent van Gogh and Starry Night when I was just 8 or 9 years old, and I was instantly enamored. Decades later, this is still my favorite painting. I remember being in Amsterdam with my dad in my early 20s and insisting on seeing 2 sites: 1) The Anne Frank Museum and 2) The van Gogh museum. He may…