Bird Nest Weaving: A Pretend Play Prompt

Imaginative pretend play is not one of my strong points yet the other day something magical happened. I gave my preschooler a pretend play prompt to introduce our new homeschool preschool science unit of bird watching. We spent the afternoon weaving a birds' nest!

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Literacy Easter Basket Ideas

Looking for ways to include a few educational items in Easter baskets for kids?  Here is a list of our favorite literacy toys and materials!

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Spinning Straw Spellers

Make your own spinning straw spellers for word family work and fine motor practice! 

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Construction Truck Small World Play

If your kids love digging with construction vehicles, we have the perfect substitute for gravel, dirt, or rocks. The idea came about by accident but it led to the most wonderful construction truck small world play!

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Cupcake Liner Flower Craft: Fine Motor Art for Kids

In order to hurry spring along we created our own indoor cupcake liner flower garden using fine motor art techniques!

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Jello Ocean Sensory Exploration

Ocean animals live at different depths in salt water. We used animal figures, light, and gelatin to explore this science concept in a hands on sensory activity for kids.

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Spring Sensory Bin

Isn't this just one of the most colorful sensory bins you've ever seen? Any kid will want to play right away but some adults may not be able to resist either.

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St. Patrick's Day Literacy and Math on the Light Table

To add a festive St. Patrick's Day spin to our light table play I created some DIY transparent letter manipulatives for literacy that we called gold coins!  We also found some holiday themed ways to explore math, too!

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20 Ways Siblings Can Help with a New Baby

For this Fine Motor Fridays post, we highlight 20 ways a sibling can help with a new baby!

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Peeps Play Dough Recipe

When your littlest learners are still sometimes putting things in their mouths you might be worried about giving them sensory recipes to explore. That was certainly the cause in our house when we created our Nutella play dough. Excited to experiment with other edible dough recipes, we headed to the kitchen cabinets again and voila! We created a recipe for edible marshmallow Peeps play dough.

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Musical Water Experiments on the Light Table

Aren't these colors beautiful on the light table? They make music as well making it a multiple sensory experience that preschoolers will love!

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6 Rainbow Crafts & Activities for Kids

It's no secret that we love making rainbows at Still Playing School!  In fact, D is our rainbow baby!

Here is our collection of six fun and education rainbow activities to explore color with your child!

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Make Your Own Light Table Numbers

We are so excited to show you how we made our own transparent numbers for the light table!  My preschooler enjoys playing with these colorful numbers as we work on math concepts.

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Leprechaun Bait

When our Window Rainbow failed to immediately lure in a leprechaun we knew we needed to kick it up a notch!  We decided to mix our own leprechaun bait!

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Color Sorting on the Light Table

After we created a color wheel and experimented with color mixing with our new favorite light table material we gathered toys to do color sorting on the light table!  

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