Inside: Rainy Day Kit Giveaway. Activities for kids 3-12. Science activities (i.e., dinosaur egg excavation), crafts (i.e., DIY birdhouse kit), fidget spinner, zoo activity book, giant dice, airplanes and gliders, bouncy ball, color scratch dinosaur bookmarks, bean bags, and more!!! Over the past decade, I’ve learned that when you have small kids, planning ahead…
Category: Play & Learn
30 Rainy Day Activities from Your Favorite Bloggers
Inside: a ridiculously long list of fun rainy day activities from your favorite bloggers: science experiments, crafts, art projects, recipes, energy busters, indoor learning ideas, and more. Scroll down to GIVEAWAY. When it comes to rainy days, every mom has a few go-to activities up her sleeve. But most of us are always on…
Kids’ Soap Lab (Chemistry 101)
Inside: Soap making is a fun and educational project for kids. All you need are a few inexpensive, easily accessible items, plus essential oils for fragrance and kitchen staples like cocoa and turmeric for color. I love to engage my kids in activities with a dual purpose: educate and entertain. If we do a bit…
6 Unexpected Ways Mud Play Benefits the Body and the Brain (+ Mud Activities)
Inside: Mud play fosters your child’s creativity, happiness, and health. Read on to find out the benefits of mud play + best mud play activities. Playing in the mud was a big part of my childhood. So, it might come as a surprise that when my first child touched mud with his hands for the…
Mud Sculptures: Old-Fashioned Fun with Nature
Inside: Childhood has changed, and activities like playing with mud don’t seem to make anyone’s summer bucket list these days. Get kids back outside for old-fashioned fun with nature and invite them to make sturdy mud sculptures. Mud holds many possibilities for exploration. It can be dug for treasure, turned into a mud cake,…
20 Ways to Play and Learn with Dragons
Inside: From dragon science to dragon art, there are many wonderful ways to play and learn with mighty dragons. Dragon-themed activities are fun any time of the year, but they are especially great on and around Dragon Day, January 16th. Legends about dragons date back to ancient times and can be found throughout…
10 Ways To Play and Learn with a Gingerbread Man
Inside: 10 fun ways to play and learn with a Gingerbread Man theme: cookies, books, art, Christmas tree ornament, science, sensory, and more. The month of December can be extremely busy with holiday parties, traveling, and preparations for Christmas. But don’t let all that business keep you from having fun with your children. Like…
Pirate Science - 20 ways to play and learn
Pirates offer many fascinating science topics – boat engineering, star navigation, cartography. We greatly enjoy looking closely at different aspects of pirates lives and doing related hands-on activities. As you can see from our pictures below we had a lot of fun. And you will too! Besides our own activities, I included the best science-related, pirate-themed activities…
