Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

The easiest recipe for beautiful, food-safe rice to fill your little one’s sensory bin!

Backyard Birding 101

Backyard Birding 101

How to get started knowing and loving your local birds

Art Activities Made Easy

Art Activities Made Easy

Incredible resource for connecting fresh, inspiring art activities to famous artworks and artists. Don’t miss this one!

Read Aloud Book Recommendation: Elephant & Piggie Series

Read Aloud Book Recommendation: Elephant & Piggie Series

Gerald and Piggie are best friends, and they’re about to be best friends with your young reader, too!

Static Electricity — Some Very Attractive Activities!

Static Electricity — Some Very Attractive Activities!

Your littles will go bananas for these static electricity activities! Pure magic!

Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Recently, some friends of ours gave our kids a box of over 1000 stickers. As much as I enjoy scraping stickers off my hardwood floors, we decided to use them a bit more productively instead! Check out this fun and simple method for tracking and encouraging your preschooler’s progress!

Homemade Rope-Climbing Toy

Homemade Rope-Climbing Toy

Pull the string down, and watch the toy go up! Fun and simple mechanical toy you can build with materials you probably already have in your basement.

Reading 101: Sight Words

Reading 101: Sight Words

Today we’re sharing a wonderful resource for teaching reading! Even if you already have a curriculum, this site has a treasure trove of games and activities that will complement any program.

Big A, little a: Learning Letters for Toddlers

Big A, little a: Learning Letters for Toddlers

Learning letters with our squirmy worm two-year-old! Some strategies to try with an active little one.

Sensory Play: Ice & Water

Sensory Play: Ice & Water

It’s 30° outside, but at least twice a week, my four-year-old is requesting that we go to the pool.  These boys miss their summer water play! To substitute, we are using lots of indoor water activities, especially those involving temperature