Summer Scented Play Dough Recipes

Celebrate summer with watermelon, lime, orange, and coconut scented homemade play dough!  Sensory play that suits the season is so much fun for young kids… Read More

How to Build Plesiosaurs with LEGO Bricks

Here’s a fun new LEGO® project – build a water dinosaur, or plesiosaur! Well, technically they aren’t actually dinosaurs – just very large marine reptiles… Read More

Build a Powerful Popsicle Stick Catapult

STEM challenge for kids – build a catapult out of popsicle sticks! Here’s a fun (and effective) catapult to build out of popsicle sticks, hot… Read More

Favorite STEM Toys for Creative Kids

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… Read More

Printable Dinosaur Coloring Pages for Kids

Dinosaur fans will love these printable coloring pages! There are three designs to print and color – a tyrannosaurus rex, a diplodocus, and a triceratops. Read More

Let’s Taco ’bout these awesome EASY play food tacos!

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… Read More

How to Build Puppies with LEGO Bricks

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… Read More

Watermelon Fine Motor Activities

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… Read More

Watermelon Printable Math Activities for Pre-K and Kindergarten

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. Read More

How to Make Scented Lemonade Slime

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… Read More