I know that I like having a fun collection of activities to do with different themes. One of our favorite themes if apples for the fall. I have put all my apple activities and printables in one place to make it easy for you to find them. It has a mix of no-prep printables, hands-on…
A great Torn Paper Olympic Torch Craft for kids to make. A super simple craft that you can do and learn about the Olympics and why they use a torch! Kids will enjoy tearing and gluing paper during this torn paper torch craft. And it is a lot like having your own torch for the…
Easy to find Zoo printables and activities you can do with kids during the summer. You will find math, reading, ABCs, Numbers, and more. All these zoo printables and activities make loads of learning fun for kids. Plus, this makes all the zoo activities easy to find. You are going to find zoo activities for…
Flowers have to be one of our favorite themes for Spring. And I know we have loved doing a lot of activities with it. We are always adding and doing more as we can. I know my girls love having fun with the activities. As more flower activities and printables are added to the blog…
Easter has so many great themes that you can do. Plus kids love the many things you can do with Easter eggs, bunny, and baby chicks. It is fun to have activities to do for it. You are going to find a mix of different Easter printables, Easter arts & crafts, Easter paintings, and Easter…
St. Patrick’s Day is a fun theme for March. I have a fun collection of St Patrick’s Day activities and St. Patrick’s Day printables on 3 Dinosaurs. There are so many themes that work for St. Patrick’s Day. You have leprechauns, rainbows, clovers, gold coins, and more. You are going to find a mix of…
Looking for Valentine’s activities? Then check out all of them on 3 Dinosaurs. There are a variety of printables and activities to pick from. You are going to find activities from Tot to 5th grade in them. There are so many different fun activities to do and try. You will see hands-on learning, sensory bin,…
One of our favorite Dr Seuss books to read is the Lorax. We have read it almost every year. We love the story and the truffula trees are so much fun. We have a simple and easy to make truffula tree art activity that kids of different ages can make. Torn paper makes a great…
Model magic happens to be one of my favorite crafts. You can have so much fun with it! We love making planets with it. This Model Magic Earth is great for an Earth Day Theme or a space theme! You can learn about the land and oceans plus have a little fine motor work at…
Earth Day is almost here and we are busy using up the arts and craft supplies at our house. We decide that we would not buy any new craft supplies during the months of March April and May. It is our part of the Earth Day. Today we have a Washi Tape Green Tree. I…
With the first look at Pluto this last week we had some fun learning about the planets. I thought it was a great time to do a project and make some of the planets for ourselves. We like doing craft projects with model magic. This was a great addition to our space week. We have…
We have been doing some small activities with space. Today we learned about galaxies. There are many different types of galaxies out there. They come in 5 different types. We had fun learning about them and doing this galaxy painting. The Galaxy Oil Pastel Painting is a great addition to the space activities on the…
Learning about stars and planets is always a lot of fun. It is fun to learn about space and the things that are out there. For the Poppins Book Nook, we did some study of the stars. There are many different starts and things we can learn about them. There so many different parts of…
Fall is almost here and then trees are starting to change. It is very fun time of year here in New England. I love looking at the trees and how different all the leaves are. For a fun project that we did this fun ribbon tree. We used some different colors of ribbon that had…
This whole week we have been learning about apples. This is one of the activities that we did with our Apple Theme. Apple is one of our favorite themes for the fall. You can always do something with them. So many activities are fun and easy to do. This apple tree is super easy to…
This is hands-on learning for Jack and the Beanstalk! Learning is always more fun when you add some hands-on with crafts and gross motor. For this months book we did Jack and the Beanstalk. I love the many different variety of this story, but the classic tales of it are just as fun. We learned…
Since we mailed off our package a few weeks ago the girls have been excited about this project! The Summer Book Exchange 2013 is here at 3 Dinosaurs. Our Box came from Feels Like Home. First we opened the box. We looked through each item and then read the letter with instructions. We looked through…
New this month is the Poppins Book Nook! It is a monthly book club with themes! I’m sorry I did not get it annouced before the first post! I’ll do better next month! This month’s theme is Knights, Princess and Castles! There are so many fun books for this theme. This month we read The…
Snowman are a great theme for winter. For the winter Wonderland Blog hop we picked a fun and easy snowman craft. We read the book Little Critter: Just a Snowman and made a paper roll snowman. What you need for this painting activity 2 paper rolls blue paper with snowman outline paint white & black…
For me Arts and Crafts for kids should not be hard to make! They should have fun with simple and easy directions. As they get older you can do complex but some times they enjoy simple things. Red Leaf Yellow Leaf – Yarn Tree This fall yarn trees is one of my most popular art…
This month we read Mossy by Jan Brett for the Virtual Book Club for Kids. Yes, I know she has a lot of Holiday books but I wanted to do one that was not holiday to show some of the different books she has! What you need: green construction paper, white paper, flower foam stickers,…
A fun menorah craft for kids to make for Hanukkah that has a great book that you can read as well. You can read the book and make this great craft. This is a great addition to the Hanukkah Crafts on the site. We have included links to some of the products and resources we…
A great fall theme is a corn. There are lots of different activities that you can do for it. We did this fun and simple to use craft and learned about corn. We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links…
There are so many great dinosaur books that you can read with kids. We load exploring and reading new dinosaur books when we can. We also like exploring new authors. So today we did a little of both a new dinosaur book and a new author (who quickly became a FAVORITE to read) for us…
We read Five Little Pumpkins and did a finger print Jack-O-Lantern. What we used: stamp pads and dot marker jack-o-lantern. First Amelia did the the green. Then she did the black. Last she did the orange. The Final Product. Check out all the Halloween activities on 3 Dinosaurs: Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
We read Peanuts: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The girls put the stickers in the book for the right places as we read the book. It was lots of fun! What we used to make the Finger Paint Pumpkins pumpkin template orange finger paint paper plate black crayon How we made the Finger Paint…
Today I’m guest posting over at Crayon Freckles! I did a craft that went with a books from last months books finds. It is The Sunflower Sword (Andersen Press Picture Books) by Mark Sperring and Miriam Latimer. So hope over to Crayon Freckles and check it out! Be sure and tell her hello while you…
What do you do when mom is not feeling good? Let the girls create their own space story. This is so easy to set up and do. We have so much fun doing activities like this. Everyone gets to feel like they were part of the creation! The set up is easy just roll out…
We made a Fall Window similar to the Spring Window. We talked about changes that happen in the fall. We looked at the Fall Word cards from the Fall Pack. What you need to make this craft blue construction paper 3 short and 3 long strips of brown construction paper green construction paper glue stick,…
An easy fall tree craft that any age can do. We did this fall yarn tree that any age can do. It has red, yellow, and orange colors of fall! One of our favorite parts of fall is the color of the leaves on the trees. They are super pretty to look at as they…