Fall Sensory Bin-Prescooler

I love trying new sensory bins.  They are fun to set up and the kids usually enjoy them.  With fall in the air it was time for a fall sensory bin.

What I used: pumpkin spice sensory rice, little pumpkins and pine cones I got in a box together at Walmart.  I also got fabric leaves at Walmart and add those too.  Large bin to put it all in.  The one I used I got at The Dollar Tree.

What to do:   put it all togehter and set it out for the kids.  My son asked for a spoon, bowl, plate, and trucks:-)

I just loved the colors together and the smell was yummy too.

He was happy to have a new bin to play in.

He had fun scooping and pouring.  He also had fun playing with his trucks driving through the rice.  There are so many options for play with this one bin.  What would you and your family do?


Other post you may like: Fall sensory bin-toddler, 10 fall ideas kids love

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Dino egg soap- will have the kids begging to wash their hands

 I had the chance to work with Kiwi Crate on a few posts and this is my  favorite one.  Dino soap eggs with toy surprise.  My son loves this soap.  Not only can you wash your hands, but the kids can bathe in it as well. We had a lot of fun making this soap together. If you want to see how me made it follow the link above and it will take you to the post.  We hope you and the kids can have some soap fun too.

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Other post you may like:  Homemade soap in fun shapes, the color red bath, Dino bath for kids.

Fall crowns fit for a king or queen

What a fun idea I came across at danamadeit.com.  Fall crowns.  I just knew my boys would love them.  They love playing dress up just as much as any other kid.  What a fun way to spend a part of our day creating fun hats to play in.  We love it even more when daddy is home and he can get involved.

What I used: white cardstock, colored construction paper, glue, scissors, fabric leaves.

What we did: 

We took our white cardstock and glued the colored construction paper to it.  The cardstock makes the hat more stable.  We did this twice and glued those 2 sheets together.  Now it is long enough to fold over to fit child's head.

My husband cut the paper to make it look like a crown on the top.  He also had to cut some off the bottom to keep the crown from being to high on their heads.  Now we wrapped around my sons head to get a good fit before we glued it together.  Then we left the crown to dry.

Once dry it was time to glue on the fabric leaves.

We let my preschooler help a lot with his crown and he had a lot of fun with daddy making this.  For my toddler, daddy and I made his. My oldest just used Elmer's glue to put his leaves on but I used the hot glue gun on my toddlers and went back over my oldest sons crown in a few places with the hot glue gun as well.

 

Now we have fun fall crowns to play in!  As always, we hope you and your kids can have fun with this idea too.

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10 Halloween Ideas We Loved This Year

I love finding ways to have fun with my family during holidays.  We have made crafts, created fun activities, and eaten yummy treats throughout this month.  These are ways I make holiday memories with my boys this year.  We have one last thing to do for the holiday and that is trick or treat!!  I am really excited since this year both boys will get to enjoy it. I look forward to many more holidays to come.
Here are the Halloween ideas we carried out this year and enjoyed.  I hope you may find one for you and your family to enjoy too.

1.  Playdough Creatures and a Cookie( Also links to more fun ways to play with playdough for Halloween)

 

 

 2.  Halloween Sensory Food Play

 



 

3.  Cat Scissor Skill Craft 



 

4.  Mummy Treat Cups

 

5.  Halloween I spy/sensory bottles

 

 

 

 

6.   2 Easy Ways to Decorate Pumpkins with Young Kids

 

 

 

7. Super Easy Pumpkin Craft 

 

 

 

8.  Fun "candy bone" snack for kids

 

 

 

9.  Trick or Treat Sensory Noodle Play

 

 

 

 

 10.  Halloween Treat Bags(for class party)

 

 

Happy holidays to all.

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 Another Halloween post I did was from my 10 Things Kids Love series:  10 Halloween Ideas Kids Love


 

Halloween Treat Bags ( for class party)

I love making holiday treat bags for my son's class parties at school.  This year we did cute mummy treat cups for his teachers and I am doing simple yet fun treat bags for his class.

What I used:  orange and black plastic bags I got at walmart, and printable tag I got from link.

What I did:  I chose to fill the bags with fruit snacks and Halloween stampers I got at walmart.  I also added a few stickers I had from the dollar tree.  Print(I used cardstock paper) and cut out tags(I used scrapbook scissors).  I wrote "from: name" on back of tags.  Then I used twist ties to add tag to bag.  And that is it!  Cute and easy class treat bags.  The kids should love them.  My son is already trying to get to them.

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The Kid's co-op#29

Here is this weeks Co-op! And a quick recap of what we have been up to.

* playdough creatures

*10 fall ideas kids love

*Pink snails craft

*introducing the studio by kiwi crate

*Fall sensory bin toddlers

*paint with water and colored ice

Also we had a fun guest post at JDaniel4's Mom: Taking time to play series

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Paint with Water and Colored Ice

This a great fall activity for our weather.  We are having some cool morings and evenings but our afternoons are warm.  That is when it is is a good time to get out water and ice.  We play with colored ice and water all the time but never together like this before.  Painting with both water and ice is a cheap way to entertain the kids and it is a fun sensory experiencs for them as well.  You can also add a little learning with the colored ice. You can go over colors as you play.  With the water we painted shapes and went over them.  The rest is just fun, fun, fun!  This was a hit at my house.

What you need:  colored ice cubes( fill ice trays with water and food coloring and freeze.  I leave these in my freezer at all times bc I never know when we are going to need them.), bucket of water, and paint brushes.

What to do:  put ice cubes in a bowl and set them out with the bucket or bowl of water and let the kids have fun.

Our play.

They couldn't wait to get their hand on the ice cubes.

My oldest painting with the ice.

 Our water shapes we made.  This is our circle.

As always we hope you and your kids can have some water and ice fun too.



More post you may like 10 Water Play Activities 

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Fall Sensory Bin-toddler

My toddler loves to make a mess!  So what better way to do that than give him a bucket full of fun stuff to scatter around the floor.  This sensory bin has a fall theme to it.  I did this by adding fabric leaves, yellow pom poms, and assorted fall colored pipe cleaners.  I also added a washed and dried peanut butter bottle.  This was for him to put his fun items down in if he wanted.  Once it was ready I sat it on the floor for him and brought him over to see it.

Toddler fun in a bucket.

As I thought, he went for the plastic jar first.  He loves these type of jars.  He was trying to get the lid off.  Sometimes he does and other times he gets mommy to do it.

Finally, he sat down to look through the whole bucket.  He is feeling the texture of the leaves.  He has never really played with leaves before so he wasn't sure what they were.



It didn't take long for him to turn the bucket upside down.  It actually took him longer than I thought to empty it on the floor.

His favorite part was adding the pom poms to the jar.  He did this over and over.  He put them in and dumped them out.   

I was so glad that he enjoyed his fall sensory bin.  I enjoyed watching him as he played.  We hope you and your kids can have some fall fun too. 

 

Please do come and visit us again. We would love to have you back:-)

All kids are different and only you can decide how you let your kids play. And with what materials you let them play with. My children are supervised when playing. Please keep this in mind with any post you read of mine!

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We linked up at the Sunday Showcase & Enchanted Thursdays Blog Hop

Introducing The Studio by Kiwi Crate

I am very happy to introduce The Studio by Kiwi Crate to you.  I have had the pleasure of working on the project that Kiwi Crate has been putting together.  Myself and other bloggers have been writing outstanding posts to fill The Studio with fabulous kid activities, crafts, recipes.... so you can have one great place to see them all.  It is now a great resource to find many things for you and the kids to do.   Lots of everyday fun and several Holiday ideas too!  Take a look at my activity page over at the Studio to keep up with the fun I share with them.  Do not forget to take a look at all the other brilliant ideas shared over there too.  I think you all will be very happy you took the time to look.  I can tell you I am very proud to be a part of this project.

Hope you can enjoy The Studio as much as I do.

Please do come and visit us again. We would love to have you back:-)

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Pink Snail Craft in Honor of Breast CA Awareness

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

 Having been in the medical field and watching close friends and co-workers deal with this in their families it hits home with me.  My close family has been affected by many types of other cancers(CA) but not breast.  I support the awareness of all cancers but for this month I wanted to share on breast cancer.

October has been set up as a month to spread the word on breast CA.  One important area is screening and I would like to share that with you.  Woman age 40yr should have yearly mammograms.  Women in their 20's & 30's should have a breast exam done by a doctor every 3yrs and women in their 40's every year.  Women can also perform self breast exams and know what is and isn't normal for their breasts.  If you ever have a question please see a doctor. American Cancer Society is a great resource for information.

In honor of this month, I wanted to do a pink craft with my boys.  Yes, they are young and may not grasp the concept of cancer however I do not think they are too young to start learning to care for a cause and others.  I told my boys that women get sick sometimes and this month is a month we can support them by making a pink craft and sharing it with others. I kept it really simple.  Then we moved on to our craft. We have done this craft before but this time we just did it all pink.

 

PINK SNAIL CRAFT:

 

What you need:  paper plate, pink paper, glue, googly eyes, pink pipe cleaner.  Scissors for older kids.

 

 

What to do:  I took the pink paper and cut the body of the snail out for the boys.  For my preschooler he started cutting up his pieces of paper.  My toddler tore his pieces of paper up.  Both great motor skill builders for them.  When they had their paper into small pieces we then applied glue to the plate.  My preschooler can do this on his own but I helped my toddler.  We then added the paper pieces to the glue on the plate.  We then glued the body of the snail on to the plate.  Last we glued on the eye and pipe cleaner as an antena.

 

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We have also made pink peppermint playdough to sell at a church sale.  The money we make will be donated to the American Cancer Society. 

 

 

 

The American Cancer Society has a  page packed full of information on breast cancer and ways you can get involved and donate. If it is something you would be interested in please take a look.  My hope with this post is to help spread the word on  breast screenings.  Also show our support to the survivors of breast CA and the ones currently affected  by breast cancer ( you all amaze me).   We also would like to honor those that have gone before us and let them know they are not forgotten.

 

We linked up at tue tots. 

Please do come and visit us again. We would love to have you back:-)

All kids are different and only you can decide how you let your kids play. And with what materials you let them play with. My children are supervised when playing. Please keep this in mind with any post you read of mine!

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I am happy to be co-hosting the Go Pink Blog Hop with The Educators' Spin On It, Rainbows With in Reach,  Projects for Preschoolers,  Raising Figure Skaters, Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers,   Home Learning Journey, and Go Kid Yourself.   

We invite you to share your Pink Themed posts about how you are reaching out into your community or even into your ...own homes and playgroups to spread the word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 



10 Fall Ideas Kids Love

Fall is in the air. It has become one of my favorite times of the year. I love finding new ideas for me and my boys to try during the fall. For this reason I have done my next post in the series 10 Things Kids Love on fall ideas. I hope you can find some exciting ideas in this list. I know I did for me and the family.




1.  Fun and Easy Way to Paint Pumpkins!!  from In Lieu of Preschool is eye catching.  It makes me want to try it out.  What a brilliant way to decorate a pumpkin.

 

2.  Whats Inside My Pumpkin  from Boy Mama Teacher Mama is a terrific craft that also teaches the parts of a pumpkin.  Adding fun to learning is always a plus at my house.



3.  Gingersnaps and Apple Cider Tea Party  from The Pleasantest Thing is a great way to have fun and make lasting memories with the kids.  I think its time for me and the kids to have a tea party.



4.  Autumn Mobile  from Red Ted Art's is a beautiful craft/decoration for fall.  I would love to have one.  ( sorry no picture to share)

5.  Faux Tie Dye Fall Leaves from Mom to 2 Posh Little Divas is a colorful way to make leaves you can decorate with and have fun doing it.

6.  Pumpkin Spice and Orange Sensory Rice  from FSPDT(us) is a fun way to make scented and colored sensory rice for the kids to play in.  We just loved the smell and color of the rice.  And my boys love playing in it.



7.  Fall Tree Craft  from All Done Monkey!  Is one of the cutest and most colorful tree crafts I have seen.  I love how real it looks.

8.  Cute Little Clay Pumpkins from The Chocolate Muffin Tree is such a wonderful idea.  I would love to make these with my boys.

9.  Paper Plate Owl  from Projects for Preschoolers is such a fun way to make an owl.  I must admit I have a thing for owls and I could see me and the kids trying this adorable craft owl in the future.

10.  Fist (knuckle) Print Pumpkins  from Putti's World are just darling.   Would love to try this out with my kids.

 

 We love fall time at my house and these are all ideas my kids would or do love.  Can't wait to try some of the new ones out!  Hope you find one too.



More post from this series include: 10 Books Kids Love, 10 movies Kids Love, 10 Snacks/Treats Kids Love, 10 Halloween ideas Kids Love, 10 thanksgiving ideas kids love





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