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Lately, we have been loving doing activities on trays. We love how the tray keeps everything somewhat confined. I also like that it sets the activity we are doing apart from regular free play activities. When I worked at the local children’s museum, I used trays for almost every center or independent activity. I think […]
Brooks has been more interested in play dough lately and LOVES dinosaurs and volcanoes! He LOVES his Dinosaur escape game and it has really encouraged his love for dinosaurs and volcanoes even more! I decided to bring all of those things together with dinosaur play dough stampers with volcanoes, a dino track, tree, and letters! […]
Animal TracksThis is one of the easiest ways to add some extra fun to playdough. You can add any plastic toy animals to the table or tray. Little ones love squishing the playdough to make it flat and then stomping the animals through the dough. And of course, sound effects and pointing out each footprint […]
I really enjoy making the push and pull toys! Brooks is really loving things he can push around more and more! He LOVES trains and anything that goes so this was a fun addition to the other push/pull toys I have made! How perfect that I found this Thomas hat today when I was finishing […]
Brooks has been very interested in Finding Nemo, Fishing, Turtles, Whales, and Octopuses. I have been wanting to make him items for a sensory bin for a while and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make him a sea themed sensory bin! We made our own Kinetic Sand using the recipe from Hello […]
This Week on the Blog: Next Week on the Blog: Getting Through Sleep Regressions and a project from Jennie This Week’s Favorites: This week we are highlighting some recent activities that we have really enjoyed with the boys! We LOVE Patterson Farms, we went Strawberry picking there and it is GREAT for everyday playing too! […]
We LOVE getting out and exploring as a family! BJ and I have always enjoyed going to new places and exploring around where we live! Now that we’ve had Brooks it’s even more fun exploring and finding new places to go with him, seeing and experiencing it all through his eyes! Some of our favorites […]
This idea came about because Brooks LOVES the Tic Tac Toe spinners at the playgrounds that have them in their tot lots around us! I wanted to do a spin on the original and do something different than the Xs and Os, so I went with two of Brooks’ favorite things right now: dogs and […]
This week’s project was a custom order by one of our mom friends and I fell in love with it and decided we needed one for the picture wall that leads into our playroom! I have been wanting to add some handmade signs to our picture wall and this was PERFECT since it leads right […]
We love animals and Brooks has started showing an interest in chickens and ducks! He LOVES saying “bok bok” and duck. He has gotten where every time we pull in the driveway he says duck and we have to look to see if the ducks/geese are out. He carries the animals for his farm puzzle […]