We have loved all the different washi tape crafts. The season change and as they do my girls ask if I have a new washi tape craft for them to do. We have done several over the last year and have been slowly using up my supply of washi tape. It has been fun to…
Looking for a fun Easter decorating activity then try this. It was a fun last minute idea that my girls wanted to do. We enjoy doing a lot of project with different materials. We have done a lot with Washi tape crafts and loved to create things with it. The Washi Tape Easter Eggs makes…
Space is one theme you can do at almost any time. There is always something you can do. It can be as simple as walking outside and looking at the moon and stars. My girls have been interested in stars for a long time. My husband put stars on their ceiling in their room, and…
Every now and then we do crafts that change things up. I always love the ideas that my girls come up with. Their suggestion was that we use washi tape for making snowflakes. This is a simple way to make snowflakes and work on fine motor at the same time. And these is a simple…
Every fall we are always doing some fun fall tree craft! It is one of our favorite activities. This year our washi tape fall tree activity was the idea of my 11-year-old. She picked out all the craft items for it, and we made it based on what you wanted us to do. Plus this…
I have been having fun getting rid of things in our house and my girls just wanted to have fun with the scrapbooking paper I bought and have never done anything with. I challenged them to come up with craft time with mom, that we could do after school. Their first craft is a torn…
This year we have been doing something different after school. We have done tons of activities, but a lot of them have been just simple challenges to try something new of different. Kids love to be challenged in fun ways. We have been using the Keva Plank Set. We normally do lots of building up…
Every month, we look forward to our Virtual Book Club Activities! October’s book is a fun one! Llama Llama Red Pajama has been a favorite at bedtime for a while. It is a great book for reminding kids that some times mom just get busy and will always be there. We made a fun pajama…
We loved making these torn paper fall trees. They are fun to make and everyone has a different idea just how their tree should look. Plus, you get a lot of great fine motor while you are working on the trees. One of our favorite fall books is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. We just love…
This months Contributor post at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom is about gross motor equipment I like to use during the summer. I have several ways that I use each of them in the post. Be sure to read it! There are always different wants to use things and be creative as well! The place I had…
I get asked for more Q-Tip printables a lot. I would love to have time to do nothing but make them! But that does not always happen. I thought I would show you a quick and easy way to make a Dot Marker page into the size for a q-tip. I did a post a…
Christmas trees are a great theme for this time of year. There are so many ways to decorate a Christmas tree. We did this fun q-tip painting activity to get some fun fine motor activities in. This is also and easy activity that the child can lead where they want to go with it. I…
We are on day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas Activities. I got lucky with 10 Lords a Leaping! I had so many ideas of what I would do. But for this I’m going back to my roots: gross motor. I love doing gross motor activities with my girls. I thought it would be…
Christmas is a great time to explore many different things. My girls love to do coloring activities. We have been working on some writing of Christmas words as well. There are many words to learn at Christmas time. It is fun to be able to learn all of them. These printables are a great way…
One of the great themes of Christmas is the Christmas lights. My girl love looking at the lights. This was a fun change in the activities with the lights. We have been working on colors and fine motor. This was a great way to combined the two activities. This makes such a great activity for…
Every month I love working on my gross motor post. They are something I love to work on. This months post at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom is about jumping with two feet. There are several activities in the post for you to do. What I like best about this post is that it is something that…
With Thanksgiving coming up we have been doing a few counting activities for it. We have doing lots of fun turkey activities. Today we did some fine motor and counting. This was fun and got her thinking. Turkeys are always a popular activity at this time. This ties in perfectly to that theme. This is…
We have been having fun exploring some fine motor activities with Halloween themed cookie cutters! This is tons of fun to explore the colors and how creative you kids can be exploring different combination of items to make the picture in the cookie cutter. This activity works in creative and fine motor at the same…
In the fall we love learning about leaves and doing activities with them. We are always doing some activities with them. This year we did a full 2 weeks on the study of leaves. As part of that we did these hands on activities and sensory bin. When we have a sensory bin I always…
How do you do dot marker printables is one of the top questions that I get. I thought I would show a few ways that we used the Dot Marker printables for the Fall Tree in the Fall Dot Marker Extras. The ways to use these fall tree dot marker printable pages is open ended….
I often get asked how do you use this printable? Well I use it any way that I can think of. I never let a printable be used just one way. We are once again using some of the early reader printables: the Dot Marker CVC Word Family Words. I have several different types of…
Each month I have a post an Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. This month’s post came about because my older girls were upset that they did not get fun prewriting pages anymore. So be sure to check it out! This is a math and science with a little fine motor all wrapped up it to one! I…
Each month I try and post something that would be fun for that season. I post a lot of gross motor during the fall, winter and spring because we are stuck inside a lot. For the summer I like to have a few different fine motor activities for the girls to do. This post is…
One of our favorite gross motor equipments at our house is that Parachute 6 Ft 8 with Handles. It is so much fun and easy to use in doors at our house. You can do so many fun things with it. I will tell you that the girls and I enjoy it! The place I…
Every now and then we do fun themes around the house. We have been doing some winter and snowflake themes. Right now we have been doing letter “S” activities. A few months ago I did a Letter “P” Activities. I thought it would be fun again to do something like that. Show you some activities…
Not all sensory bins have to be complex or have various themes to them. Some sensory bins can be used year round. One such bin is this wood bead sensory bin. This is simple and easy to put together. Plus you can add items to the bin or take away if you want. This is…
We had so much fun with the ABC Dot Fine Motor Activity that we decided to do it for the sight words! There are Preprimer, Primer, 1st and now 2nd Grade Dolch Dot Marker activities! Yes, I finally got around to adding more of the Sight Word Dot Marker. I have been so busy doing…
This year we are adding to our Christmas ornaments by making some of our own. The girls have been growing to love sewing activities. What you need: knit-cro-sheen white, needle and red, white & green tinsel pom poms of various sizes (got at AC Moore). We had a fun time working on this project. Not…
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission. I’m often asked what you do with dot marker pages. Here is just one example of how we used the Wreath Dot marker Page. This is…
Looking for a great fine motor skill and also teaches you writing your ABCs at the same time? Then you have to try this out. Recently we did the ABC Sensory Bin and I printed out the all the Upper Case ABCs Dot Markers on one paper for the activity. My middle girl asked if…