Toddler activities Archive

Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt

This week on Play, Craft, and Learn with Dinosaurs we are focusing on Gross Motor Skills.  Gross Motor Skills work on the large muscles in the body.  Getting kids up moving around by crawling, walking, running… works to improve their gross motor skills.  Setting

Color and Shape Match Up Activity

I love sharing fun themed busy activities each month with you all.  It is a great reason for me to put something simple yet fun together for the kids.  And since it is a busy activity I get a few minutes to prep dinner

Edible Cream Cheese Playdough

Whoo, it is time for this month’s 12 months of sensory dough post!  This time we are sharing a new edible playdough recipe with you.  We have shared edible peanut butter playdough, edible frosting playdough, and Marshmallow Playdough-edible & fun before.  Today I have a new

Snowflake Number Jump Activity

My kids never sit still for long and jumping around is one of their favorite things to do. Since they like jumping so much I set them up with a simple snowflake number jump activity one afternoon.  This way they could work on learning

Kool-Aid Playdough Recipe

 Playdough is a favorite play activity at my house.  My oldest has had the chance to play with many different types of scented, colored, and edible playdoughs over the years.  Even now he still loves when I get the playdough out for the kids to play with.

Fine Motor Skill Heart Craft

We love simple torn paper or scissor skills crafts at my house.  With young kids tearing paper is a fun way to work on those tiny hand muscles.  Since my kids are different ages sometimes the older kids enjoy cutting up their paper for

Heart Alphabet Match Up Activity

It is time for a new busy activity for the month.  Almost once a month I will be sharing a busy activity for kids.  Today I have Heart Alphabet Match Up Activity to share with you.  With Valentine’s Day coming up an activity with

DIY Music Shaker Instrument

DIY Music Shaker Instruments are a lot of fun to make with the kids.  No matter what time of the year, a music shaker or noise maker is a great project to make with the kids.  New Year’s just happens to be around the

Edible Frosting Playdough

Can you believe we have made it to the end of the year!  Or almost, but for 12 Months of Sensory Dough this is the end of the year for us today. I have had a blast sharing new play recipes each month.  This

Taste Safe Finger Paint

All of my kids, as babies and toddlers, have loved to put things in their mouth and chew on almost everything.  With this in mind, when I do activities with all 3 of my kids, I have to try and find ways to be

Pumpkin Spice Kernels for Play

We love Fall inspired sensory play over here. Even more the fall scented sensory play activities.  I love the smell of apples and pumpkin spice.  I was searching for a simple sensory play activity for the kids that had a fall theme.  I ended

Gross Motor Action Cards

Gross motor skills are used in the large muscle groups such as the arms, legs, and, torso.  Gross motor activities are often a go to idea for my high energy kids.  We can work on improving their gross motor skills and burn off some

Fine Motor Skills Activities for Kids

Fine motor skills activities work on those tiny hand muscles in children.  These muscles are important for cutting, holding a pencil, buttoning a shirt…  So many ways we use our hand muscles each day.  There are so many fun ways to let us work