Try this fun, open-ended three-dimensional activity. Children will love experimenting with the various ways to use the materials.  To reinforce fine motor skills To promote hand-eye coordination To encourage cooperative play To encourage tactile exploration   Before You Start: You will need smooth and pliable air-dry clay, paper plates (or trays), various […]
 1 envelope unflavored gelatin cold water 1/2 cup cornstarch 4 tablespoons dishwashing liquid food coloring 4 to 6 wide mouth jars  Stir the gelatin into 1/3 cup cold water; set aside. Measure the cornstarch into a saucepan and stir in 2 1/2 cups cold water until dissolved. Bring the mixture to a simmer […]
Sidewalk Paint  Just combine 1/4 cup cornstarch, 1/4 cup water. and 6-8 drops of food coloring. Give them a bunch of paint brushes and turn them loose on the sidewalk. The paint dries to look just like a sidewalk chalk creation!
 Making an “All About Me” book can be a great way for children to enhance their self esteem, confidence and increase overall self awareness. The process of compiling our books was as much fun as pouring over the finished project. You can use almost anything to create an All About Me book. For ours, […]
For our stART project this week, we read The Eency Weency Spider and made bottle top spiders. My kids LOVE this book because it is musical and you can push a button and sing along as you read the book. It is about ten little spiders who creatively find ways to get up the waterspout. […]
 It’s like drawing with 3 mediums in one project.  Fill an ice -cube tray with Tempera paint. Insert a craft stick into each cube & freeze. When completely frozen, paint draws like chalk. As it softens, the effect is as a crayon, and then like paint. This demonstrates solids becoming liquids.
The family road trip can be a time for bonding, a time for learning about each other’s interests and points of view – a time to practically pull out every last hair on your head for every instance the words, “Are we there yet?” are uttered. A beloved tradition likely observed even back in the […]
This project is one that came to me after we were left with an overabundance of packing material from some Christmas deliveries. I hate to throw that stuff away when I know I can use it for something else. So here is our recycled snowman. Cut out the silhouette of a snowman from a piece […]
