Toddlers

Sensory Activity: Wheat Berries

Could your child spend hours sifting flour or scooping sand? Sensory activities like these can fully absorb the minds of young children as they test the limits of materials and build imaginary worlds through pouring, filling, and building. This sensory activity is so easy, it doesn’t require a lot of materials, and the process of exploring [...]

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Sensory Activity: Wet Paper

Does your toddler enjoy squishing play dough, scooping rice, or dumping buckets of sand? It’s widely recognized (read here and here) that sensory activities play a central role in infant and child brain development. This is one of those amazing activities that just “happened,” invented by a toddler who was curious about the combination of paper and [...]

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How to Watercolor Bunnies with Kids

Watercolor is a medium that can be as demanding and temperamental as those who choose to paint with it. But it is a colorful and exciting medium all the same – well suited to describing the many moods of the subject, as well as those of the artist wielding the brush. –Jean Burman Do your [...]

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Three Easy Tricks for Blown-Out Eggs

Could you use some tips on how to clean eggs, how to blow eggs, or Easter activities for kids? Hopefully, this will help you get started! Today I’m excited to share three little tricks for simplifying blown-out eggs. Messy fun, right? If you’re a traditionalist, you might want to stop reading here. Otherwise, read on… Trick [...]

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Make Your Own Egg Tempera Paint

It’s Day #2 of Egg Week. In case you’re just popping in, my talented friend Melissa over at The Chocolate Muffin Tree and I are posting unique egg-related activities or experiments each day this week. I’ve been interested in whipping up a batch of homemade egg tempera paint for a while, and being that it’s egg week and [...]

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Walking on Raw Eggs. Really.

It’s EGG WEEK on Tinkerlab and The Chocolate Muffin Tree. Melissa and I have come together to bring you a full week of egg activities and experiments that are easy enough to do today or good for bookmarking for a rainy spring day. When I saw this post about Walking on Eggs on Steve Spangler Science, I [...]

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Creative Ways to Spend a Sick Day

How do you get through sick days? With Spring just around the corner, I thought that maybe maybe maybe we would be the lucky ones who made it through winter without getting sick. Wishful thinking! My oldest came down with a fever the other day and we’ve been holed up at home, gathering our energy [...]

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Cooking with Toddlers Made Simple

After sharing some thoughts yesterday on how to invent a recipes with kids (by opening your kitchen up as a lab for experimentation), I thought it might help if I backed up a bit and shared a few tricks that have helped me set the stage for kitchen experimentation. Here are my top four tips on bringing [...]

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How to Entertain a Toddler with Pom-Poms and Bowls

My toddler loves and adores all little things. Especially those tiny little things that are on the do-not-give-to-little-kids-who-mouth-everything-that-comes-their-way lists. I guess it’s a casualty of being the second child to a 3.5 year old sibling, but I suppose the good news is that she’s building an understanding of what can and can’t go in the mouth. To [...]

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