Category: 1.5-2 Years
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Handprint Apple Tree
Kids love to have paint on their hands. It’s a great sensory experience and the creation of their handprints is really limitless. I have several books full of ideas for making handprint art! Today we made an apple tree using only our hands (ok, arm too). Handprint Apple Tree Red, Brown and Green Paint Construction…
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Apple Prints
Today we cut open some apples and used them to paint! One of my fond memories from early elementary school was cutting an apple horizontally and seeing the “star”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you HAVE to do this. Apple Prints Apples Red, Yellow, Green Paint Paper Take 2 apples. Cut one…
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Clothespin Stegosaurus
We’ve been talking a lot about dinosaurs and the different types of dinosaurs. Landon is still instant that every dinosaur is a T-Rex. Today we made a stegosaurus. He still calls it a T-Rex. Oh well. I got the idea here. Gotta love pinterest! (Speaking of pinterest, if you like what’s here feel free to…
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Dinosaur Feet
We had a great time pretending we were a dinosaur with some really easy to make dinosaur feet. Dinosaur Feet Cardboard Ribbon Paint Cut out the shape of a dinosaur foot from cardboard. Punch holes on the left and right side of where your child’s foot will be next to the toes and a little…
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Lacing with a colander
Landon has been on a lacing kick lately since I pulled out my alphabet lacing for him. As I was making dinner and draining the pasta, I had an idea. I pulled out the other colander I have and the laces from the alphabet set and let him go to town. I’m sure you could…
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Simple Science: Baking Soda and Vinegar
Sometimes the most excitement can be found in the simple things. Todays Landon and I experimented with baking soda and vinegar. It’s very inexpensive and fun to watch the reaction take place. I sprinkled a light later of baking soda on the bottom of a plastic tub and put some vinegar in a bowl. Using…
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Bubble Snakes
One of the activities we did for Landon’s birthday party was bubble snakes. As I was typing the post about his party, I realized I never posted about making bubble snakes! How could I forget that! This is, quick, easy, free and fun! How can you go wrong with that! Bubble Snakes Empty water bottle…
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How to Make Colored Rice
Yesterday it was sooo hot I had to plan activities to do inside. Colored rice… it’s a neat sensory tub activity and the coloring process can be just as fun. I have some other things in mind for the rest of the week to do with this rice. Colored Rice Ziploc bag of rice (a…
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Fizzy Sidewalk Paint
Yesterday was a high of 105. So anything we were going to do outside HAD to be done before like 6am, since it was already 85 degrees by then. We didn’t make it out by 6, but pretty early in the morning. Quite a while ago {before blogging days} I had made some sidewalk paint…
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Oobleck
Another really fun and messy (and cheep) activity is oobleck. This is literally as simple as corn starch and water but it has an amazing property of behaving like both a solid and a liquid. If you try to punch or poke quickly through it, it acts like a solid, but slowly slide your hand into…