If you are homeschooling or have a toddler in tow, likely they are depending on you for some fun crafts and activities. Don’t worry, if you’re like me you don’t have to be a Pinterest crafting mom to do crafts with kids. Set a goal, like one day a week to do crafts. Then, get out the supplies and do a craft alongside your kids!
I find that a lot of complicated crafts and art projects just lead to the grown up having to do too much for the kid. My philosophy is that if they are not able to do most of the craft themselves, then try again when they get older.
Here you’ll find easy toddler crafts for the non crafty mom, homeschool preschool art ideas like this tape resist art, and sensory bin ideas like how to dye rice!
If you’ve got a toddler and are doing homeschool preschool (and even if you’re not but need daily ideas for learning and play), read my review of Busy Toddler’s Playing Preschool: 190 Days Of Hands On Activities! We love it.
This fall, our homeschool co-op hired an art teacher who introduced us to tape resist art. It was such an easy and mess free project that we went home and made more that week in our kindergarten homeschool! Tape resist art is entertaining for preschoolers to adults, and can be done on paper or canvas!… Read More Tape Resist Art Technique For Preschoolers
If you are looking for a colorful hands on sensory activity, here’s how to dye rice with rubbing alcohol, food coloring, and rice! This is not edible. Start to finish this took about 25 minutes for 5 colors, including drying in the sun. The nice thing about dying rice is that many of the ingredients… Read More How To Dye Rice With Rubbing Alcohol And Food Coloring
About 2 years ago, I wanted to buy burlap Christmas stockings. After seeing how much it was going to cost me to buy 5, I thought…this can’t be that hard…I’ll make my own. I’m not great with a sewing machine, and mending is about the extent of my talents there. So trust me when I… Read More How To Sew A Burlap Christmas Stocking For Beginners
This Christmas I decided to attempt making a DIY burlap advent calendar! Originally I was looking into buying a wooden advent calendar on Etsy, but I really didn’t want a big bulky one right now. My brother and I grew up opening one of those chocolate calendars, and honestly my kids would be just as… Read More Easy DIY Burlap Advent Calendar
If you have preschool aged kids that are learning prepositions, then you will love this treasure hunt preschool activity! It took us 5 minutes to make the clues, and my 3 and 4.5 year old had so much fun! The inspiration for this came because I wanted a fun way to practice finding things. See,… Read More Treasure Hunt Preschool Activity For Teaching Prepositions
This past week I did something I never thought I would be doing! My kids and I learned how to make a stop motion video using Goldfish crackers and toys we had around the house. It was actually way more fun than I thought it would be and I’ve always wondered how to do it!… Read More How to make a stop-motion video with kids using Goldfish crackers
We have had a few of the cute play kitchens over the years as well as this fun DIY outdoor play kitchen, and both got used a lot. In fact, this outdoor one probably got used more so because of all the things they could play with outside like rocks and water and grass. Everything… Read More DIY Outdoor Play Kitchen Made From Junk
We have survived 4 months of ice and snow with little kids inside! As a stay at home mom with a 2 and 3.5-year old, we have had to figure out some indoor activities for toddlers to help me (and them) not go crazy! We live in a two bedroom apartment so you can picture… Read More 24 Easy Indoor Activities for Toddlers