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Green Week Highlights & Some Ice and Water Play
You may have seen in a previous post that I’ve been focusing on a color of the week with our little Mr. C who is 20 months old. As we start out every color week, we go on a little scavenger hunt...
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Rainbow Color Drop Game for Babies and Toddlers
Ok, my latest obsessions… color activities, rainbow colors, using unfinished wood pieces to make homemade toys, & taking pictures of all of the above. I think C is getting his basic colors down...
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DIY Clothespin Color Matching for Toddlers
I told you I was obsessed with all things colored didn’t I? I guess I should have started a mini-series on color focused activities. Here’s another simple, quick & fun activity I threw together for...
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Mama May I
I am absolutely giddy about this latest find. I can’t stop looking through all the beautifully colored handmade wooden toys that make up the online shop Mama May I. The whole store is eye candy. I...
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Felt Book of Shapes
Lets make one thing clear. I never sew. I don’t own a sewing machine and my sewing kit well… lets just say I’m too embarrassed to take a picture of it. In fact, I think this is the first time in well...
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Counting Discs & Activities
Quite awhile ago I set out to make Mister C a matching game inspired by this post from one of my favorite blogs, Thrive 360 Living (more on that later). I had some felt number stickers lying around...
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Play Dough Apple Orchard
School is back in session and I am putting forth an honest effort to try to reorganize our days after a very lazy & lax summer. In doing so I have been trying to incorporate some kind of...
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An Apple a Day…Apple Cork Painting, Apple Sensory Bin & More
We have had apples on the brain around here. I knew that we’d be going to pick apples this past weekend so in preparation Mister C and I did a few apple activities throughout the week. We continued to...
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Potion Lab
Today you will find me writing over at Gummylump.com. This Potion Lab activity turned out to be one of our favorite activities and subsequent posts. I don’t want you to miss it! Mr. C had such a...
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Fall / Thanksgiving Memory Match Game
I don’t know about you, but we’ve spent the last few days trying to recover from Halloween and now the time change. I won’t complain though because it’s been mighty dark in the morning around here and...
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Simple Color Sorting from the Dollar Store
I have to say I am pretty excited about this one. (Not to mention these colorful little fake fruits were fun to photograph). I just think you can’t beat a two dollar color sorting activity. Which is...
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Using Hopscotch to Learn Numbers
C likes to move. I mean this kid is happiest when running, jumping, climbing or bouncing. I’ve tried numerous times to do various counting activities with him but to be honest he just doesn’t have all...
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DIY Shapes & Colors Matching and Memory Game
Quite some time ago I saw this Pattern Game from Thrive 360 Living and knew I wanted to make something like it for C. He was a little young at the time for patterning but was just getting into color...
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On Our Bookshelf
The weather is gorgeous here today and we are digging out all the summer stuff. Along with water tables and sandboxes my mind also turns to all the fun summer reading programs we have to look forward...
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What Will I Do if I Can’t Tie My Shoe? | Summer Book Exchange
Summer Reading. Those two things go hand in hand don’t they? That’s why when the Love Books Summer Book Exchange showed up on my radar I couldn’t help but want to participate. What is the Love Books...
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Fun and Learning with Mickey’s Magical Math World
Needless to say it’s busy around here and sometimes (and I’m just gonna be honest here), the only way to keep my no-longer-napping-somedays 3 year old sitting in one spot and quiet long enough for me...
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Glitter Water Blob Sensory Bags for Fun & Learning
Glitter, food coloring & water in a ziplock freezer bag. Pretty basic. (Affiliate links provided for your convenience. Full disclosure policy here) You know what? I debated about posting this...
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17 Books About Bugs Your Kids Need on Their Bookshelves
As I mentioned earlier this week we have been going completely buggy around these parts. It’s spring after all, and it seems like when springs finally springs, all those bugs start coming out of the...
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