It has been a while since I had a themed week. And candy is a great theme you can use almost all year. I know that during Halloween and Valentines you see a lot more candy things. And I wanted to add something fun and extra to the learning this year that could also be…
We love switching up the crafts that we do. Any all my girls love model magic. They ask a lot to do crafts with it. I love giving them a change with doing them. Today we have a fun Model Magic apples that are great for working on fine motor skills. One of our all…
My girls just love to do painting activities. We certainly have loved painting with cookie cutters! They are fun and easy to use for many different ages. We have a winter theme at our house. Snowflakes have always been a great theme for us during the winter. Sometimes we get huge amounts of snow, and…
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…
I’m always looking for something fun and easy for my girls and me to make. And this wreath was a perfect post school craft for us to do. A lot of times we are just looking for simple and easy plus fun for all of us. If you saw our washi tape Christmas trees we…
Every year, we have done some types of Christmas crafts during the season. We have tons of fun making them and enjoy it. This year, we made some Washi tape Christmas Trees. It was a suggestion from my 11-year-old that we make a Christmas tree craft. She also said it might be fun to use…
We have been big into ocean crafts and activities the last month plus. We have just kept going with the activities. Today I have a great guest post over at Rainy Day Mum! She is doing a great summer book series. Click here to check about how to make a Dot Marker Rainbow Fish! This…
We have been working on shapes again. We love having different ways to work on shapes. The free shape lacing printables are to help out with that learning, plus get a little fine motor in as well. The shape lacing printable is an easy shape activity for Tot, preschool, and kindergarten. The Shape Lacing Printable…
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…
This summer we have had a rare treat to watch. We have had a spider that took up his home right outside out door. We watched him all summer. We saw the many different bugs and insects that he caught in his web. We learned he would rest and when he was on the hunt…
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…
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…
Seasonal sensory bins are always lots of fun. This St Patrick’s Day sensory bin is tons of fun to play in. You can see many of the themes from St. Patrick’s Day in it. It has a rice base that makes it easy and fun to play in. It is fun to explore different texture…
Snowflakes are a great theme for the winter. They come in all shapes and sizes. This sensory bin was tons of fun to explore and look at the different textures and weights of all items in the bin. This is also a great white themed sensory bin as well. We did a lot of fun…
Wreaths are one of the great Christmas decorations. This is a very simple and easy to make wreath. My girls love working with yarn for crafts. This is an easy craft that many different age groups can do together. Yarn is a great craft to work with. It adds fun texture to pictures and activities….
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…
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…
We are always looking for new ways to put sensory and counting together. This is a fun activity that provided fun sensory, fine motor and counting. We stamped numbers and counted pumpkins to match. This activity could easy be switched up for non-seasonal items in the sand. It is fun and easy to set up…
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…
With the 4th of July coming up we have started a few fun activities. Today’s activity is a star sensory bin. This is something that could be used at any time and would be great for a space theme as well. There are two different types of stars in the bin: Buttons and beads. Sensory…
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…
With Earth Day coming up we have been doing some fun tree fine motor activities. I thought I would post a few that my youngest did the other day. 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…
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…
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…
Christmas is a time full of sounds and smells. We thought it would be fun to explore a few different sounds. This was a fun sensory bin to put together and watch them explore. You never know what they will do with the bins! Plus there is a fill fine motor fun as well. There…
After doing the Gem Wreath the other day. My middle girl really wanted to do something with the gems. I put a simple pattern set together for her to finish. She loved it. What you need: green gem stones, red gem stones and paper so they show up. (This would also be fun on a…
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…