I am a firm believer that the types of toys we have in our homes greatly affects our kids’ creativity. The toy aisles at most big box stores are filled with total junk – brightly colored plastic toys with lights and sounds that break within a few days (or hours!) of purchasing them. Many toys…
Dinosaur fans will love these printable coloring pages! There are three designs to print and color – a tyrannosaurus rex, a diplodocus, and a triceratops. We’ve posted dragon coloring pages drawn by my second son (11 years old), and he drew these dinosaur pages as well! I simply traced his designs and smoothed out…
Are you planning your summer bucket list? After the hectic pace of the school year, summer is always the perfect time to create a change of pace and make some great family memories. Here’s a collection of classic must-try activities that will make this summer the best ever! Classic Summer Fun Nothing says summer…
Use craft felt and dried pinto beans to create your own taco dinner play food set! Janie and I have been loving the pretend play age and having fun making our own play food sets. Who needs store bought when you can create something together for so cheap? First we made a play food yarn…
Build some LEGO® puppies with their own doggy bed and food bowl! These are such adorable little puppies. You can swap out the bricks in the legs to make them either lying down or standing up. Janie asked to have the puppies after I finished the photos, and she has been playing with them ever…
Celebrate summer break with some awesome projects to build with LEGO® bricks! These ideas will be great for beginning builders, but I think big kids will enjoy them too. (I did!) Construct a lighthouse, a shark, a cactus garden, a beach scene, miniature airplanes, and an adorable little pirate ship. If you’ve followed this page…
Build an airplane out of a pool noodle and some simple craft supplies! This fun activity for kids combines fun with STEM learning as kids explore the best possible airplane design. There are two ways to approach this project. You can either copy our design, which we tested and which works. Or, let your kids…
Let’s do some Hot Wheels STEM projects! These simple science experiments feel like play, but kids will actually be exploring the physics concepts of velocity, momentum, and air resistance. There are two experiments in this post. I created recording sheets for both that include the full scientific method, and you can print them at the…
Who knew a watermelon could be so much fun? I don’t ever post activities on this blog that we did not truly enjoy, but my 4 and 6 year old’s especially loved these activities! Watermelon just feels like summer, doesn’t it? Here’s a collection of awesome hands-on watermelon activities that are fun and that will…
So we were trying to make scented watermelon slime today, which was a massive fail (I’ll explain more in a minute!). But in the process we made this awesome lemonade slime! It smells fabulous and it provides tons of stretchy, gooey fun! This was our first attempt at adding scents to slime. I know there…
Here are some fun hands-on math activities with a summer watermelon theme! Print watermelon number cards and a Roll It, Write It, Count It mat. Below, you’ll also find a recipe for some amazing watermelon scented play dough. Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the printable activities. First, I’ll tell you how…
Here’s a fun math activity that Star Wars fans will love! Solve the multiplication problems. Then look for the solution in the alphabet decoder box at the bottom of the page. Write the letter that matches the correct solution in the blanks. There are two funny riddles to solve on this page. Multiplication practice is…
