Displaying Children's Work

Ikea has some great finds!

  

Here we used a wire curtain rode and a few "s" clips to display kids' work. 

 

 Now to add a great quote above the wire rod. I believe that I may use Pablo Picasso's "Every Child is an Artist" We'll see! :)

Homemade PlayDough

This is one of the best play dough recipes that I have found. It has a great texture. I have tried the "no bake" or no cook doughs and I think the doughs that require heat last longer in young hands. 

 

We had a blast making play dough this weekend! We chose to make orange and green for Halloween fun. 

It's a blast and EASY! If you have 5 minutes, you can make cheap, fun! 

1 cup flour

1/3 cup salt

2 teaspoons cream of tarter

1 cup water

1 Tablespoon vegetable oil

food coloring

 

Add flour, salt, and cream of tarter to a warm pan on the stove. Have your heat on medium low. Once mixed add the food coloring. It is easier to mix in at this point. Stir until mixture comes together in one large lump. 

 

Pour it out on to wax paper and let it cool. 

Painting with Toys

 

Cut sponges into pieces and allow kids to feel the different textures as well as what happens when they get to use different sides and textures to paint with. 

 

Try using scrubbing sponges as a paint brush. Kids will love seeing what happens to paint as it is dotted and smeared. 

 

We are using a small textured basketball to roll in paint and roll around the paper. It was great to talk about the bumps on the paper and then had fun washing the basketball off to use to slam dunk in our mini hoop. 

 

Try dipping cookie cutters in paint and making different sharps and stories. 

 

One of our favorite! Use a car or truck that you can run or race through paint and then "race" across the pages. Have fun with it!! 

Try This: 

Use animals to paint tracks across the page

Borrow some craft stamps and practice stamping

Cut an apple or potato in have and use as a homemade stamp

Baseball

Hand-Eye coordination is so important for kids.

 Allow your kids to practice various types of sports. Here we purchased a basic tee and bat for CP to practice. We demostarted to him out to set up the tee with the ball. It's now his job to put the ball on the tee.

 

We spent a bit of time showing him out to hit the ball of the tee instead of hitting the tee itself. This took time since he likes to do everything by himself. 

 

Now he does everything by himself and loves 'running' the bases in the background.