Hello, old friends! I know, I know it’s been a while. A long while. My only excuse is that in the last few months we moved into our new house, celebrated Halloween, my daughter’s 2nd birthday, Thanksgiving & Christmas. Factor into that getting our house unpacked and somewhat decorated and Christmas break from school and […]
Category: Creative Play
Fishing Game Supply List: 2 paper towel rolls, paper clips, glue, scissors, small fish, wrapping paper tube fishing pole Begin by cutting out your fish. You could use sticker or some from a coloring book. We used some from a flyer we had. Cut your paper towel rolls into 1 inch sections and glue your […]
Fishing Pole Supply List: 1 wrapping paper tube, ribbon, hole punch, magnet Use your hole punch to put 2 holes in the end of you wrapping paper tube. Tie the other end to a magnet. We used a magnetic dart from a game we had. An easy peasy fishing pole. Tomorrow I’m show you a […]
This was an activity we did last year at Cole’s birthday party. We had a Carnival Party and I used our sandbox as treasure hunt site. Treasure Hunt Supply List: toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaners, wrapping paper, small prizes Begin by stuffing your prizes into our toilet paper rolls. I used small bags of Legos […]
My daughter loves this particular Elmo video (see below) so we decided to make a toilet paper roll Elmo. I let her paint & color his body parts, while big brother painted the tp roll for us. While doing this activity I realized this is the first time she’s really painted with us. Not because […]
I have always been a big fan of the countdown chain. Basically you make an item for each day left until a major even (birthday, vacation, holiday) and then every morning a piece of the chain is taken away until there are none left. I used to do these all the time when I was […]
