This Bottle Cap Sorting activity is a great way to reuse caps while encouraging color recognition. Sorting is a beneficial cognitive development exercise because it requires a child to differentiate between colors and then group like colors together. …
With Valentines Day quickly approaching, I thought we would have some fun with number recognition and one-to-one correspondence! This was the perfect activity for reinforcing numbers for Little Brother (3) while also providing some much-needed fine motor practice writing with…
Yesterday I shared with you how we used our pieces of styrofoam for two activities. One was the Letter & Sight Word Pounding activity. The second activity was a bit more creative…we made golf tee and styrofoam paintings! The…
As I shared on my Facebook page, we are in the midst of a renovation project at our house converting our small, barely used office into a mudroom. I have been doing a lot of reorganizing over the last several…
Guest Post by Kathryn of Kids Games for Speech Therapy As parents, we know strong communication skills are one of the most important foundation skills that we give our kids. So much is riding on language in later…
Both of my boys are active (to say the least), but Little Brother is definitely my kinesthetic learner. He has to be moving and touching in order to learn…and a lot of times I don’t even know if he is…
This idea for Invisible Letters was an accident…I was trying to make some sight word stamps (by writing sight words backwards on large lids with a hot glue gun), but that was a complete and total fail. They didn’t work…
This Capital & Lowercase Letter Stamping  idea was inspired by two things I found (that I had forgotten about) as I was purging organizing after Christmas. Little Brother and I did this activity a while ago, but I am just…
Enjoy the snow this winter, inside and out, with these 7 Snowy Day Activities!  Puffy Snowflakes  Felt Snowman in a Bag Discovering Five Senses with Snow  Snow Ice Cream Snowy…
If you’re looking for another noise maker craft besides the one we shared last week, here is another idea for a New Year’s Eve Shaker! Even if you’re not staying up until midnight with your little ones, you can still…
Our Christmas festivities were wonderful, but now that they are over we get to look forward to a time of new beginnings, de-cluttering, and starting fresh! I am already convinced that 2013 is going to be great! Two awesome things…
I saw this adorable Handprint Christmas Tree Canvas a while back on Pinterest and have been wanting to try it. Rather than putting it on canvas, however, we decided to make ours a (flat) Christmas Card! It was super…
I was in charge of teaching our children’s church for two to six-year olds this last Sunday. I was scouring the internet for ideas and came across this adorable paper bag manger craft. Naturally, I had to put my own…
After doing the Pound-a-Sound activity with Big Brother, I knew I wanted to utilize our Pound-a-Peg toy to try and engage Little Brother in some learning as well. This is one of the most versatile toys we own…and has obviously gotten…
This simple reindeer craft can serve two purposes: Â Turn the brown bag upside down and make puppets or fill it with goodies to make a cute bag! Here’s what you’ll need: Â Brown paper bags, construction paper, glue, googly eyes and…
I recently saw these beautiful marbled leaves from Little Wonders’ Days. They were a little on the messy side but we had lots of fun making them together. After they were dry, we wrote something that each of us are…
This was a super-simple activity intended to help Little Brother learn his letters using his strongest area of development, gross motor development. Our Alphabet Balloon Touch game didn’t last long, but it was a great way to practice recognizing these…
Alphabet Crafts are a great way to reinforce letter names and sounds while also incorporating multiple domains of development. I have attempted a few alphabet crafts with Little Brother, starting with letter “a” (which ended up being somewhat of a…
