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Science Activity: Oil, Water, and Color Mixing

Here’s a quick and simple way to add a color-mixing element to a classic oil and water activity.

Fall Leaves: Easy Preschool Art Project

While walking home from our neighborhood playground, my boys discovered some brilliantly colored maple leaves and could not resist collecting them. At first, I attempted to press them in wax paper to preserve them, but I encountered three issues: The

Popsicle Stick Snowflakes: A Holiday Craft

I saw this Popsicle stick snowflake craft on Pinterest and immediately fell in love!Â My preschooler loves Popsicle stick crafts, and he has been itching to get ready for Christmas, so this was a perfect fit for a recent Saturday

Deck the Halls: Christmas Ornament for Your Littles

Start with a clear glass bauble, white craft paint, a clean pair of hands, and rolled-up sleeves. Honestly, when I’ve done this with my one-year-old, I just strip him down completely. (As a side note, you will want to buy these

Preschool at Home: Scissor Practice

You don’t need anything fancy to successfully guide your child through preschool development at home. My son has been really interested in scissor work lately, so we do a very simple activity in which I draw lines and shapes and

Homemade Finger Paint

We experimented with homemade finger paint this week using this simple recipe from Tinker Lab. Most of the recipes I came across used water and sugar. We don’t usually have white sugar in the house, so I tried this one

Preschool Science: The Walking Rainbow

To reinforce the color-mixing ideas we’d talked about previously, we tried another experiment with food-coloring and water. This demonstration relies on the tendency of liquids to reach equilibrium. When we connect the jars, the water will flow until it has