These coffee filter butterflies are such a fun butterfly craft! Materials Needed: Coffee Filter Bags, pipe cleaners, droppers, ice cube tray, food coloring, and water. I could not find coffee filters so I used coffee filter bags and loved its natural butterfly shape. (I just cut the edges off.) To get the colors on each side of the butterfly to be equal you can fold your coffee filter bag in half and then drop some food ...
Our Trays: Letter B Theme
I added these Letter B Themed Tot Trays to our printable letter crafts and activities. Tot trays are amongst our favorite toddler activities and I love tying it to our weekly alphabet activities for kids. I love that my toddler enjoys using the trays and doesn't realize that she is working on her fine motor skills, visual perception and more! Our Letter B Tot Trays Please note that affiliate links may be used in this ...
Bugs Sensory Bin
This Toddler and Preschool Insect and Bugs Sensory Bin is a wonderful way for kids to explore insects. My toddler loved learning about ladybugs, butterflies and dragonflies. This would also be the perfect Spring Sensory Bin too! Read on to see the other Insects and Bugs Crafts that we did. RELATED: Insect Activities for Preschoolers Our theme this week was bugs so I set out a Bugs themed sensory bin for my kids. My ...
Our Trays 30 August 2011
Tot trays are a wonderful way to give your child intentional learning materials that is montessori inspired. Montessori uses a rug to create a work space for the child to use her learning materials. I agree with this. The tray also helps contain mess and allows the child to do their activity in an organised manner. I normally leave our Tot Trays on this shelf (which I prep the night before or often for a full week ahead.) My ...
Preschool – Letter E
These Letter E crafts and printable letter activities are a wonderful addition to your preschool letter of the week curriculum. I'm sure you are here because, like me, you want to find some letter e crafts for preschoolers. Letter of the week craft activities are so much of fun for toddlers and preschoolers alike! Printable Letter Crafts E is for Elephant: D started the week working on a fine motor color mixing activity from ...
7 Awesome Benefits of Finger Painting
Are you wondering what the benefits of finger painting for toddlers and preschool aged kids are? Or how about how finger painting helps with the child's development? There are so many wonderful benefits of finger painting for babies, toddlers and frankly any child of any age! Sure, its a messy art activity but did you know that there are so many  sensory experiences going on during this time?  The post also includes how to make ...
Our Trays August 15, 2011
Here are our trays for last week. Play dough E mat. Use the magnifying glass to match the small pictures to the big picture. I was disappointed in the magnifying glass that I used which did not actually magnify anything. I will revisit this activity again. D did manage perfectly even without the magnification though. Mama Jenn's color wheel. Placing marbles on the holes. These were A's trays. Carissa's Egg ...
Printable Letter D Crafts D is for Dinosaur
Are you looking for letter D crafts? This Printable D is for Dinosaur Letter Craft activity is great for toddlers and preschoolers. Not only are my printable letter crafts fun, but they also work those fine motor skills too! Add these printable letter crafts to your letter of the week preschool curriculum for more themed fun. Don't forget to grab the free letter D sample at the bottom of this post. We did printable ...
Dinosaur Sensory Bin
In this post, you’ll learn how to make some quick and easy dinosaur sensory bins. To make the easiest dinosaur sensory bin ever, use your leftover Plastic Easter Eggs to use as dinosaur eggs. I added in some Dinosaurs (We love Safari Ltd Toobs), a tree, and some "dinosaur eggs". My kids have LOVED playing with the different dinosaur sensory bins that I made for them. Dinosaur sensory Bin 1 I presented the bin to ...
August Tot Trays
I have been so inspired by the Tot Trays that I have seen online that I knew I wanted to start doing Tot Trays with A.I am so glad that I did. It gives her an activity to do but instead of me telling her when to do it she gets to do the activity when she feels like it. These were the trays that I set out for her at the beginning of the week.Top Row Left: Puzzles (2-4 piece puzzles)Top Row Right: Shapes Sorter.Bottom Left: ...