Word Drawing Game
Do your kids like to draw? Do you ever play drawing games? If you’re looking for a fun drawing board game to play with non-readers, I’ll walk you through how we did this with Cranium. A little background The other…
Year 2012
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…
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…
Creative Challenge: Egg Carton
Do you enjoy repurposing and upcycling materials into new things? Do you try to instill your children with the ability to be resourceful and mindful of their footprint on the environment? Then here’s a challenge for you! Every two months I…
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…
Mining the Garage for Toys
Did you ever play with a Lite Brite? How about Star Wars Action figures? We dusted off some old favorites and have breathed new life into these throw-backs to my own childhood and beyond. Classic toys have a simplicity to them that can…