Ideas on how to create with a preschooler
My three year old daughter loves coloring. It doesn’t matter if she uses crayons, pens, markers, dot markers, etc. she will color for hours. My 18 month old son also loves coloring supplies. BUT, he enjoys them a little too much with his teeth. When I heard about painting with ice, I thought it was […]
Painting With Ice: A Messy Craft That is Totally Worth It Read More »
H was a lot harder of a letter to come up with craft supplies for than I initially expected. My preschooler and I have already done animal themed alphabet crafts for A-G. To add a twist, we have been using craft supplies that start with the same letter. For our H is for horse craft,
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While I prepped this craft, my three year old daughter “read” to her stuffed elephant lovey named Lumpy. She has used glitter glue a lot, but has only used normal glitter once when we made window clings. When I was ready to get started, my daughter said she needed to finish Lumpy’s book first. Well,
G is for Giraffe Craft: Glitter, Glitter Glue, and Googly Eyes Read More »
After our E is for elephant craft, it was time to do an alphabet craft that was a little more recognizable. This foam F is for fish craft was simple to make into a recognizable letter and animal. It was also something my three year old daughter could help with. It was so simple in
F is for Fish Craft: Foam Sheets and Food Coloring Read More »
Yes, that is supposed to be an E shaped elephant. While, this E is for elephant craft didn’t turn out in the looks department, it was still a lot of fun. E is a hard letter to come up with crafts for. I found these cute egg carton elephants, but I couldn’t quite figure out
E is for Elephant Craft: Egg Meringue and Edible Paint Read More »
We just started reading the Magic Tree House books to my three year old daughter a chapter at a time. The first one got her interested in dinosaurs. So, I decided to do a dinosaur for our D craft. To stick with the D theme, we used duct tape to make the D shaped dinosaur
D is for Dinosaur Craft: Duct Tape and Dot Markers Read More »
What comes to mind when you think of crafts materials or mediums that start with C? Crayons, colored pencils, chalk, cardboard, or construction paper? What about chocolate chip cookies? Once again, I wanted us to make our alphabet craft out of something that starts with the same letter. I decided to skip right over all
My three year old daughter came over to me the other day and sang the entire alphabet. This might not sound that surprising, but it shocked me. I haven’t actually been working with her on learning the alphabet song. We have done one alphabet activity and she has several toys that sing the song. Somehow
A is for Alligator Craft: Apples and Acrylic Paint Read More »
Sometimes my daughter blows me away at how much she has learned doing crafts. Just a month or two ago we tried doing a very similar tissue paper panda craft. I had the idea of doing tissue paper texturing on a balloon. We didn’t get far before I realized there was no way I was
Preschool Panda Craft Using Tissue Paper and Glue Read More »
My three year old daughter gets a small amount of time with just me after her little brother goes down for his nap. This is her special time that she gets to do all the things that are harder to do while her brother is awake. A lot of the time she chooses to do
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