Salt Dough and Nature Winter Wonderlands and Wreaths

December 11, 2016November 5, 2019 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Christmas, Holidays activity, arts, branches, Christmas, crafts, kids, nature, preschooler, salt dough, sensory, toddler, winter, wonderland, wreath 2 Comments

I just joked the other day about how when you are a crafter it seems as if friends and family are always giving you random materials to craft with. A lovely woman that works with my husband recently gave us a huge bin full of assorted potpourri. My daughter has been dying to get her […]

40+ Gingerbread Crafts, Activities and Recipes

November 21, 2016December 1, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Christmas, Holidays activities, arts, Christmas, crafts, dough, Food, gingerbread, house, kids, men, ornaments, painting, preschoolers, recipes, sensory, winter 2 Comments

I’m sure that I have mentioned it before, but I love gingerbread. It is one of my absolute favorite things about this time of year. I look forward to baking it, smelling it, eating it and my daughter and I have fun doing arts and crafts projects inspired by it. Here are some wonderful gingerbread inspired […]

Button In A Haystack Sensory Bin

September 19, 2016December 2, 2016 Pinparent Kid's activities activities, autumn, bins, buttons, colors, counting, fall, Halloween, hay, haystack, kids, play, preschooler, sensory 1 Comment

It has been Legomania in our house as of lately. My daughter is obsessed with building and has completed most of her instructional booklets. *This post contains affiliate links* It can be hard to find the pieces that you need while digging through a bucket of Legos.

Egg Slime

March 19, 2016April 6, 2016 Pinparent Kid's activities eggs, Food, kids, messy, play, preschooler, pretend, sensory, slime 4 Comments

Easter is only a week away. We have been shopping & preparing for the holiday. I have a ton of plastic Easter eggs lying around waiting to get filled. I should rephrase that, I had a ton of plastic Easter eggs. My daughter has been slowly depleting my supply & using them in her play […]

Oatmeal & Honey Play Dough

February 10, 2016September 25, 2016 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Play dough & clay construct, cut, dough, fine motor, kids, oatmeal, play, preschooler, sensory, texture 2 Comments

We recently moved into a house that was still under renovation. Most of our belongings were in storage for months while we waited for our home to be move in ready. While unpacking our kitchen, I noticed that a lot of our food was getting close to their expiration. I had open containers of flour […]

Colored Oats Fall Tree Craft

August 19, 2015February 3, 2017 Pinparent Arts and Crafts arts, autumn, colored, crafts, fall, grains, leaves, oats, quick, sensory, tree 6 Comments

I love the fall. It is my favorite season & there are so many reasons why, but the biggest of them all is the changing leaves. One of the advantages of living in New England is being able to take in the breathtaking autumn views. It is no surprise then that my favorite of all of […]

Play-Doh & Rice Sensory Play

June 7, 2015June 7, 2015 Pinparent Play dough & clay, Sensory Activities activities, art, crafts, kids, play, preschool, rice, sensory, toddler 2 Comments

This has been a tough few days. Our daughter sprained her wrist & hasn’t been able to do much. We have kept her calm & entertained with books, Highlights magazines & hours of marathon watching Stella & Sam & Play-Doh videos. We had far too much screen time this weekend & I needed to entertain […]

Fake Snot Experiment

April 24, 2015 Pinparent Learning Tools, Science Experiments experiments, gelatin, mucus, science, sensory, slime, snot 2 Comments

I have said this several times over the last few months, but I will say it again. It was a rough winter for us. Our whole house was sick more than we were healthy this past winter & unfortunately the spring has not been much kinder to us. There has been plenty of nose […]

Mining For Gemstones

July 7, 2014March 22, 2016 Pinparent Kid's activities activity, box, family, fun, gemstones, mining, outdoors, parenting, play, sand, sensory, toddler, treasure, two year old, water 16 Comments

*This post contains affiliate links* I can still remember the first time I made my daughter a sensory box. It was last year & it was just a large Rubbermaid storage bin filled with colored rice, rubber insects & some scoops & cups. Mai went crazy for it. I could not believe this simple idea could […]

Foam Play Food

May 18, 2014October 18, 2015 Pinparent Arts and Crafts, Kid's activities, Pretend Play activities, arts, cooking, crafts, foam, Food, kids, mixing, play, sensory, toddler, two year old, water play 9 Comments

Like many children my daughter’s age, she loves being mommy’s little helper. This past week she has been very eager to help me in the kitchen. I let her measure out ingredients and stir. She plays with the food scraps & measuring spoons & loves every minute of it. One of her favorite things to […]