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[Story Time] Ethan is a little boy who can’t fall asleep without the ragged breathing and claw-scratching of his favorite monster, Gabe. But Gabe has left a note that he’s gone fishing, so Ethan knocks on his floor to summon a series of substitute ghoulies.

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Here is sensory bag that will encourage your child to use their finger muscles. Paint is optional, and you can use shampoo, conditioner or hair gel if you don’t have any shaving cream. Besides using your fingers, you can also use tools like cotton swabs to make designs on the bag. To make it more interesting, place a picture under the bag with the shaving cream and have your child push the cream out of the way so that they can see the picture thru the bag. The picture could be a photo, or hand drawn picture (ex. Little fish, hearts, flowers ect.)

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You can make this paper clay together with your child using only a few ingredients.

Using water, flour, salt and shredded paper or newspapers. Great for your child’s motor skills, environment friendly and you can use it just like you’d use play dough!

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How to make Paper Clay - Newspaper or Shredded Paper - Craft Basics

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Clark is a shark with zing, bang, and boom. Clark zooms into school, crashes through the classroom, and is rowdy at recess. Clark loves life – but when his enthusiasm is too much for his friends, Clark’s teacher, Mrs. Inkydink, helps him figure out a way to tone it down. Clark the Shark celebrates boisterous enthusiasm – and knowing when it’s time for indoor voices.

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Fun activities with tape. Perfect for building fine and gross motor skills.

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Check out these fun activities with tape! Perfect for building fine and gross motor skills!

Kids LOVE tape! There's something magical about the sticky stuff - you can pull it all off the roll when mom's not looking, you can use it to wrap gifts, and you can use it to fix or hang just about anything!

But tape can also be used for some great motor and coordination activities for kids. Therapists and teachers love this simple tool because a roll of tape is small, lightweight, cheap, and easy to store. Plus, it comes in all kinds of pretty colors and patterns to keep little ones interested and engaged!

Fun Activities With Tape

Grab a roll of masking tape, , or other colorful roll of tape and get started!

1 || Easy fine motor play

Little ones love to pick at and peel tape off of any surface. Stick several lengths of tape to the carpet or a table top and let them have at it! They can peel it off, stick it back down, make patterns, or create pictures. Great for building hand strength!

2 || Balance practice

Make a long line of tape on the floor to create a simple balance beam! Make a long path for kids to follow throughout the house - change it up by adding zig zags or other patterns for an extra balance and coordination challenge.

3 || Jumping fun!

Try this fun tape jumping game from Hands on : as we grow !

4 || Indoor games

Use tape to create a game of indoor hopscotch, ring around the posies, or tic tac toe on a rainy day.

5 || Fine motor unwrapping game

Wrap a long length of tape around a favorite action figure or toy and see if kids can "rescue" it by unwrapping and peeling off the tape - more fine motor fun!

6 || Feed the fish game

This is a fun way to use tape to promote all kinds of fine motor and gross motor skills.

7 || Cutting mazes

Use tape to create mazes for kids to cut on with scissors or try this fun vehicle cutting activity.

8 || Body part identification

Have kids follow directions to place a small piece of tape on different parts of their body - this is fun in a group or one-on-one.

9 || Pre-dressing practice

For kids who aren't quite ready to start working on dressing skills yet, try placing tape in hard-to-reach places on their bodies (e.g. feet, back, shoulders, elbows) so they can practice reaching to different parts of their bodies.

Skill Areas Addressed: Fine motor skills, grasp, strength, visual motor integration, gross motor skills, coordination, motor control, balance

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Fun Activities With Tape: Gross Motor and Fine Motor Fun!

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Check out these fun activities with tape! Perfect for building fine and gross motor skills! Kids LOVE tape! There's something magical about the sticky stuff - you can pull it all off the roll when mom's not looking, you can use it to wrap gifts, and you can use it to fix or hang just about anything!

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Late one night Nicholas sees a witch enter his bedroom and hears her say some magic words. When he wakes up the next morning, it doesn't take him long to realize something very strange is going on -- especially when he pulls at his whiskers!

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Give your child something to hammer like pasta, crackers or cornflakes. They will love the sensorial experience the crackling sound makes.

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How to turn your messy pantry into a crunchy box toddler activity.

Crunchy Box for the win!

This toddler activity definitely let me clean my pantry, use the stale food I was about to throw away, and keep my sweet boy, Sam, entertained. Um, Hi Crunchy Box, you are amazing and I'm thinking of having a 3rd kid just to name it after you (kidding-ish).

Sometimes the best toddler activities are the ones that happen by accident.

Here's how Crunchy Box happened:

My pantry had hit a real low point and was about to cave in on me. I needed to do a massive over haul but didn't want to ditch my toddler with my phone (wink) so I could clean. I also didn't want to commit nap time / union break time to this endeavor so as you can see my back was against the wall. Also, judge me not. You know nap time is precious time sent from Heaven and not to be used for organizing a pantry.
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I pulled out one of our storage bins and started dumping in crunchy stale food that was headed for the trash: noodles, croutons, and a variety of cereal box end trails. I added in a few toddler hammers and let my toddler go at it.

This was amazing. He pounded and smashed and pulverized the entire time I cleaned the pantry in one heck of a toddler activity.

I even took a few whacks and let me tell you: it is very fun. I can see why he liked this activity so much. The noodles jumped if you hit them just right and the croutons could be ground into dust. It was loads of fun. My only regret was that I didn't have more crunchies to add to the bin. I shouldn't have tossed the months old box of crackers the day before...

I love nothing more than a toddler activity that my son can do independently, affords me a minute to get a chore done, but keeps us close and laughing together. Crunchy Box - see you again the next time the pantry gets that bad (so sometime next week).

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Crunchy Box for the win! This toddler activity definitely let me clean my pantry, use the stale food I was about to throw away, and keep my sweet boy, Sam, entertained. Um, Hi Crunchy Box, you are amazing and I'm thinking of having a 3rd kid just to name it after you (kidding-ish).

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You can do this simple activity that only requires 2 things: pasta and colander.
Pasta play keeps young children busy as well as working on their fine motor skills.

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If you are looking for easy play activity ideas for your baby, toddler or preschooler it doesn't get much simpler than playing with dried pasta and spaghetti. Pasta play keeps young children busy as well as working on their fine motor skills. Dried pasta activities make very little mess and they can be tidied away again quickly. This easy play idea is one of our go to activities if we have a spare 5 minutes to fill as it is so easy to prepare and tidy away.

We usually play with our pasta in our large tuff tray (

Dried pasta (including spaghetti)

Cups/ pots/ pans / spoons (whatever you have available)

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Playing with Pasta - Working on Fine Motor Skills

Posting spaghetti through a colendar is brilliant for toddlers fine motor and concentration skills. Daisy (21 months) will spend ages trying to post the spaghetti through the holes.

She loves seeing the pasta snap when she pushes it too far.

Even Harry (aged 4) likes to join in!

Threading cheerios on dried pasta is also a great activity for working on fine motor skills. Read more about the supplies you need and how we turn this pasta threading activity into a fun challenge.

Playing with Pasta - Imaginative Play

Dried pasta is also brilliant for developing children's imaginative play. Harry and Daisy love playing together making tea for their teddies. They mix the different types of dried pasta up in the pans and share it out amongst their teddies and dolls.

Harry is really imaginative and often makes all kinds of weird and wonderful recipes!

It is good to have a variety of pasta. Toddlers can explore and investigate the size and texture of the different pieces of pasta and preschoolers may enjoy sorting the pasta into containers by type.

After we have finished playing with our dried pasta we simply scoop it all up and store it in an old biscuit tin. We just throw it all in as it is, even if some bits are broken. This makes clean up really fast and easy and the children always find a use for all the little pieces of pasta next time we get the activity out.

Pasta Play - Rainbow Spaghetti Sensory Play

The easy pasta play activities for toddlers and preschoolers mentioned above all use dried pasta, which make them easy to set up and tidy away, but if you want your toddler or preschooler to have access to a new sensory experience why not make and play with rainbow spaghetti. Giving your child coloured spaghetti to play with will feel totally different to the dried pasta and can be lots of fun.

Here is our rainbow spaghetti recipe. Just follow our simple instructions on how to make colourted spaghetti and then give it to your toddler or preschooler to explore. It is a bit more messy and atkes a little longer to prepare than playing with dried pasta, but it's lots of fun!

We hope that you have found a few fun and easy ideas to try with your toddler or preschooler. Put some pasta on the shopping list and have lots of fun with these easy pasta play ideas.

If you are looking for more ideas to help your toddler or preschooler work on fine motor skills why not try a few of the ideas suggested below:

Picking flowers and making a suncatcher
Water pistol painting
Painting on foil with Q-sticks
Pushing nature into playdough to make a small world
Use jumbo eyedroppers for colour mixing
Painting using nature
Making conker spiders

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Pasta Play - Easy activity ideas that work on fine motor skills

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If you are looking for easy play activity ideas for your baby, toddler or preschooler it doesn't get much simpler than playing with dried pasta and spaghetti. Pasta play keeps young children busy as well as working on their fine motor skills. Dried pasta activities make very little mess and they can be tidied away again quickly.

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Set up a pouring station (outside) and watch your toddler(s) have fun dumping water all over the place!

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There's nothing better than a pouring station. It's simple. It's easy. It's basically free and it's can keep a toddler entertained for so long.

Our water pouring station is one of my absolute favorite toddler activities and one of my toddler's (25 months old) favorites to do.
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Setting up a pouring station is quick and easy!

The brilliance of a pouring station is it's simplicity. This is one of the easiest toddler activities to set up.

Toddler activities don't need to be fancy.

They don't need expensive supplies or crazy long set ups.

They just need simple and engaging play - and this activity gives them exactly that.
RELATED: Does your toddler need some fun summer activities? Check these out!
You can set this up in SECONDS (no joke!)

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I started with my storage container to keep all the materials in one space. I love a defined learning zone and this does just that.

I grabbed various containers from around my house for my son (25 months old) to pour and dump from.

I chose to make some of the water colored - this is optional. Yes, it'll turn to brown by the end but it's fun in the beginning.

Why did I make this activity?

I set my toddler up a pouring station for two reasons.

1. He loves dumping water (shocker: he's a toddler).

2. He's going to need to learn to pour for himself someday so why not start this skill now?

Activities like this are called " life skills " activities - they teach real world skills that kids will need to use throughout their whole life.

Pouring is a life skill children must learn to do. Teaching them through a sensory bin is such a great low stakes way to learn... much safer than with a full carton of orange juice.

Yes, I do this activity inside the house too!

This activity isn't just for outdoors. You can definitely make an indoor pouring station.

I always put a towel under the bin to catch any errant pours.

I love watching this activity play out!

This was an absolute hoot to watch.

My son did pretty good with aiming but had absolutely no concept of capacity - which is great because that's one of the skills he's learning here.

Life skills

Capacity

Cause and effect

Hand eye coordination

Science (properties of liquids)

This activity is SO MUCH MORE than just pouring water.
What else is he learning?
Make a quick and easy pouring water station...

We give the Pouring Station two very excited thumbs up.

He played with this independently for about 20 minutes which felt like an eternity to me and kind of was.

Would your toddler love a pouring station?

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Pouring Station Activity for Toddlers - Busy Toddler

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There's nothing better than a pouring station. It's simple. It's easy. It's basically free and it's can keep a toddler entertained for so long. Our water pouring station is one of my absolute favorite toddler activities and one of my toddler's (25 months old) favorites to do.

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You can bring this idea into your bath! Throw in some whisks, ladles, spatulas, cups, etc. in the tub while your toddler(s) take a bath!

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THIS my friends is the definition of simplicity and fun!

Sometimes we tend to complicate things - and to be honest most of the time the best toys - the best learning - the MOST FUN is had with the kitchen cupboard and things we find outside!

I have spent many many hours creating activity for my two explorers - and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, and other times THEY ROCK!!!

Big container - I have a zillion of these things to store toys in!

Whisks

Dish Soap

Optional - food coloring

Optional scented oils - for this I used a summer melon essential oil

I used food coloring and scent because I was trying to be fancy - and yes, the water was yellow and the smell was nice, but next time I'd leave it out - it's not necessary - nice, but not necessary!! Whisking bubbles is enough!

After I had squirted in about a third of a cup dishwashing liquid - a biiiiig squirt, I filled the plastic container up with water.

You want to try and find a container that is wide, so the child can whisk well (and all over the place) - a small space or bucket will restrict this whisking frenzy!!

This is what it looked like after the water had been added!

Be careful not to go overboard with the hosepipe or tap - this already starts making some bubbles! Bubbles need to be made with hard work and whisking!!!

And belive me when I tell you - this is arm burning stuff!!

Great arm and hand strengthening activity! (great workout for you!!!)

Whisking and whisking and whisking eventually produces bubbles right up to the top!

See if you can do it!

I was not lying when I said simple!

I was also not exaggerating when I said FUN!!

My two whisked the container full of bubbles a few times!!

When it was full they dressed themselves in bubble pants and bubble hats and bubble just about everything!!!

Then they started making bubble soup...

and bubble cakes...

and bubble biscuits...

Two hours later they finally tired, they were shining clean!

We washed off the soap suds and made sure the dish soap was all gone!

Looking for activities to improve handwriting - this is a great one! Starting with strong core muscles and strong hands and arms is the way to begin!!! It is also just a ton of fun!!!!

Next we make meringues!!

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THIS my friends is the definition of simplicity and fun! Sometimes we tend to complicate things - and to be honest most of the time the best toys - the best learning - the MOST FUN is had with the kitchen cupboard and things we find outside!

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Here’s a wonderful link to many ways you can incorporate the spring season at home with your toddler(s).

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This month I decided to focus on Toddler Activities that we can make from things found in our home. Since Spring has almost arrived, and Earth Day is right around the corner, I figured it was the perfect time to use recyclable containers and DIY Spring Toddler Activities. These homemade activities are perfect for toddler Fine Motor fun.

Spring Toddler Activities

Spring is such a fun and exciting time for curious toddlers and preschoolers. So many things are changing with the seasons and there are so many different ways we can explore them with your toddlers.

DIY Spring Toddler Activities That Your Child Will Love

This fun DIY activity is easy to put together. Cut pipe cleaners in half (better for little hands) and use a clean creamer container.

Bells loves this easy to make activity. She can open and close the top by herself, and place the pipe cleaners in the hole. This activity works hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Excellent skills for toddlers to be working on.

Any canister with a lid will work for this. Just cut a circle in the top big enough for caps to fit through.

This fine motor activity is easy to make and perfect for babies and toddlers to place items into a hole. This is very similar to the Montessori Imbucare Box.

Spring Color Sort Egg Carton

Color the egg carton in a pattern, and then discuss what color pom poms you'll be using.

Bells worked on picking out the matching pom pom for each space. It's amazing how you can recycle so many things you use regularly. You can also use tongs for extra fine motor work.

Spring Activities for 2 Year Olds

Toss all of your play Jewelry onto a tray and see how your child plays with it. Bells loves playing with beads, so I thought it would be fun to get everything together in one pretty bin. You also might love this spring sensory play idea.
I hope this helps show you how you can turn things you have around the house into fabulous learning activities. You Are Also Going to Love:
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Simple, fun activities for kids, from newborn to five.

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Find out how you can help your child with their speech & language development. If you have any concerns, talk to your doctor or health visitor.

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We’re going to start this unit during the book week. You may read this to your child at home. They can learn about counting numbers, colors, days, fruits and other foods. There are various ways of extending this by doing arts and crafts.

If you don’t have the book at home, you can watch an animated story-telling version here: https://youtu.be/75NQK-Sm1YY

Any other book is fine too. Please try to read to your child everyday, regardless of the language, and sing songs.

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You can make play dough at home and make your child help out using this recipe.

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How to make the best ever, no-cook play dough recipe in just 4 minutes, that will lasts for 6 months! Voted the number one play dough recipe by teachers, parents and child-carers for many years in a row! I hope you'll love it too 🙂

I've been working with children for over 20 years and play dough is the fail safe way to engage and excite little hands and minds! It is a brilliant sensory and fine motor tool that is ridiculously easy to make and SO much better than any store bought versions.

By making it yourself you know exactly what has gone into it and can also customise it in so many ways, such as adding colour, sparkles and even natural flavours or essential oils. It has a proven therapeutic quality and has saved my parenting on more occasions than I can number! It is, quite simply, the best play material out there.

I hope you will love my easiest ever, no-cook play dough recipe!
The benefits of using play dough for young children are wonderful and the play possibilities are endless! You need: Method:
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Voila!

Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl

Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry ingredients

Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough

Add the glycerine (optional)

Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it's the perfect consistency!*

If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right

We use these Wilton Gel colours as they are much more vibrant and take only a tiny amount to colour the dough. We also use them in all our other sensory play activities to and they last for ever!

You can store this play dough in an air tight container for at least 6 months. If you live in a humid climate you might need to store it in the fridge and out of sunlight.

Here's our new video showing how EASY it is to make this play dough!!

Once you've made your play dough hop on over to this post where I explain the totally amazing benefits of play dough play! And recommend many items to start collecting to create a play dough tool kit. Here are some brilliant play dough tools we have and love to use alongside this recipe. These are totally worth adding to your play dough toolbox and will last for a very long time!
Wooden pattern rollers Wooden texture stampers Wooden spools for building with playdough Metal cookie cutters Toy animals Garlic Press Mini metal pots Paper Straws
I have listed the direct links to find the items in this image below:

Plus many more ideas in individual posts in my play dough archives!

How here are over 50+ ways to change this basic mix to create an amazing range of different play dough flavours and fun activities to go with them! Literacy, maths, imaginative play and role play to name just a few.

Click through to find your favourites and pin them for future use.

And here are 10 beautiful, natural play dough recipes for you to try too!

Enjoy!

Search the full Play Dough archives here

Looking for Salt Dough that can be played with then hardened into models to keep? Here is our Rainbow Glitter Salt Dough recipe

I hope you love this easy no-cook play dough recipe and will share it far and wide! Thanks for the hundreds upon hundreds of you that have already told me it's the best recipe you've ever used and will use it in your classrooms and homes ever more! 🙂

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We've been doing vegetable stamping in class and the kids really have fun doing it. You can try doing this at home too.

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Lately, they've been totally obsessed with the idea of vegetable stamping. They tried it once at summer camp when the weather was still warm and they've been talking about it ever since, so we've spent quite a bit of time lately making sure to look up as many different vegetable stamp projects as we can possibly find.

Just in case you think your kids would enjoy vegetable stamping just as much as ours do, if not more, here are 15 fantastic and super creative ideas for making it happen in different ways, thanks to the time we spent searching the Internet high and low!

1. Celery stamp rose cake

When we started talking about using vegetables as a stamp, we're certain your mind probably wandered to kindergarten classroom style crafts where you use the veggies to make an imprint on construction paper thanks to acrylic paints. There are, however, some more unique- and also more edible- projects out there that you'll probably get as much satisfaction out of as your kids, if not more! Just in case you all adore baking together, here's a way to combine that with your goal of doing more veggie stamping, thanks to The Cake Blog! They show you how to stamp a fondant covered cake with adorable roses by cutting a bundle of celery and strategically covering the newly exposed ends in edible paint.

2. Stamped apple basket from actual apples

Have your kids always been big fans of apples? Perhaps you're actually been looking for an artistic way to make them appreciates apples even more than they already do so they might eat them a little more readily or a little more often. In either case, we'd definitely suggest taking a look at how Premeditated Leftovers used actual apples to make a stamped painting and construction paper craft that looks like a basket of apples freshly collected from an orchard.

3. Magically appearing citrus prints

Are you completely sure your kids will enjoy making fruit and vegetable stamped prints with paint but they're also slightly older and you want to make sure the craft will really hold their interest, so you'd prefer to find an idea that has a little something extra? In that case, we'd definitely suggest taking a look at how Pink Stripey Socks did this halved lemon stamping idea using a technique that starts out invisible and allows the prints to show up magically before your eyes! Our kids enjoyed this technique for hours, making the stamped prints over and over again.

4. Carrot stamped bugs

Throughout the course of being parents, we've certainly learned that little kids love bugs. Even the ones who don't really want to touch or be near them because they actually find them a little bit scary usually enjoy watching them skitter or fly around. Our kids are no exception, so we were pretty pleased indeed to come across these fantastic bug shaped carrot stamping ideas featured on Artsy Momma! We love that they show you how to make different kinds, carefully cutting little notches in the surface of your carrot to change it up from bumblebees to lady bugs.

5. Celery printed rainbow fish

Are you actually in a little bit of a hurry and looking to keep your kids amused with some vegetable stamping while you cook in a way that requires minimal amounts of cutting and shaping on your part? Then why not make your image with a vegetable that has a nice, unique natural shape to it? We think both you and your kids will adore the way Crafty Morning used lots of colours and the natural arcing shape of celery sticks to make the scales of a rainbow fish!

6. Printed oranges collage

Were you a pretty big fan of the idea of stamping citrus fruits onto paper because you've always loved the way a halved orange looks, but you're just not sure that your kids are ready for the bit of extra concentration the magical appearing stamps that we showed you made with lemons earlier? Then maybe you'd prefer to just do some simple paint and orange stamping instead! We love the way Pink Stripey Socks used different colours of paint to make multicoloured stamps and arranged each one to make a grid shaped collage.

7. Stamped onion snails

Did we really catch your attention when we started talking about veggie stamped ideas that use the natural shape of whatever vegetable you're using, but you can't help but wonder whether there's a veggie out there that would let you use its natural shape and its natural texture to get the visual you're looking for? In that case, we'd definitely suggest taking a look at how Fun Handprint Art made swirling, spiralled snail shells using onions. Add the little head, eyes, and tails and voila!

8. Potato stamped mice

Are you actually hoping to keep the concept as easy as possible for your little kids, so you're looking for something with a simple shape that they can turn into just about anything? Well, we'd definitely suggest using rounded, halved potatoes in that case and to get you started, here's a super cute tutorial from Glued to My Crafts that shows you how to turn the circular prints into adorable mice! We let our kids add ears, tails, whiskers, and features by finger painting.

9. Potato stamped pandas

Did we really catch your attention when we started talking about simple potato stamp prints because you like how easy they are so you'd prefer to stick to those and just find your kids all kinds of different cute designs to turn them into? In that case, we'd absolutely suggest giving these cute little rounded panda bears a try! Check out how I Heart Arts and Crafts made them happen in just a few simple steps.

10. Brussel sprouts stamped bunny craft

Just because you're intent on doing some easy veggie stamping with your kids doesn't mean you have to make the entire shape, or even just the base of the shape, out of the main stamp your veggie makes, especially if you're working with something very small. You can also use small veggies to give something you've made some texture! We love the way I Heart Crafty Things gave their cut-out construction paper bunny some fur by using Brussel sprouts cut in half.

11. Fruit stamped lunch bag

If you're going to do some fruit stamping, would you actually prefer to make something a little more permanent and usable than what you've seen so far? Well, just because you're doing it with your kids doesn't mean you can't create art that you'll actually use! We love the way Hello Wonderful immortalized the shapes of their fruits by stamping them onto a canvas tote bag and letting them dry, just to give the bag a little bit of personality. We've made these covered in all kinds of fruits!

12. Potato stamped ladybug cards

Just in case you're still thinking about just how versatile and simple a stamp a potato can make but you could use some more ideas to really stretch the idea, here's another one from Glued to My Crafts for your craft idea stockpile! They show you how to half the potato and then half it again to make a skinnier shape than the other tutorials have shown you so far. That shape will be your lady bug, and you can follow the rest of their instructions to make the jar, the branch, and the card!

13. Okra and string bean flowers

Just because they're our favourite kind to do, here's another tutorial that will let you use the natural shapes and textures of a vegetable to make some pretty images! Artsy Craftsy Mom guides you step by step through the process of using okra to make flowers and butterfly wings, while also using string beans to make the grass, flower stems, and butterfly bodies! Our kids loved how quick this art was to make, so they made plenty of them and covered the walls on a rainy day.

14. Cut carrot shaped stamps

Are carrots the only you have to work with right now but you know that your kids would really prefer to make stamped art in different shapes than just the little circles a cut carrot usually results in? In that case, we'd definitely suggest taking a look at how Essentials made careful, simple cuts in the sides of their carrot's cut surface to create a cute flowery shape, where the cuts look like petals.

15. Bell pepper shamrock stamps

Just in case you were a big fan of the rounded, almost petal-like looking shape of the okra idea we showed you earlier but you don't often buy okra because no one in your house ever really likes eating it, here's a larger idea that will get you almost the same effect! We love the way How Wee Learn created four leaf clover and shamrock shapes by cutting a bell pepper in half and dipping the surface of the edges in paint.

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Fun Fruit and Vegetable Stamping Projects to Try With Your Kids

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Lately, they've been totally obsessed with the idea of vegetable stamping. They tried it once at summer camp when the weather was still warm and they've been talking about it ever since, so we've spent quite a bit of time lately making sure to look up as many different vegetable stamp projects as we can possibly find.

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Here are some ideas to practice motor skills

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These are my top 10 indoor activities for kids that I've done when my kids were toddlers. Since its winter time, I've got to have a handful of these up my sleeve.

Indoor activities are great to have on hand for any age this time of year. But toddlers especially seem to get antsy and need some extra hands-on attention.

Every one of these activities is easy to do, easy to set up, and uses materials that you should already have on hand (they're all pretty common items). And if you don't have the items, I'm listing a bunch of other options you could do instead!

Do you have favorite indoor activities for toddlers?

My top 10 indoor activities for toddlers:

1. Get out the cardboard boxes and create! Let the imaginations flow. A box can be anything: a train, ramps for cars, an airplane, a house.

2. Tape up the doorway and throw some newspapers (or cotton balls!) at it to see if you can stick them. A great indoor activity for gross motor practice!

3. Shaving cream is a wonderful indoor sensory activity that toddlers love. Squirt some on a pan and just let them have fun. Add food coloring if you like. You might want to put them in an old shirt and maybe put a towel down, too. It does get messy (You can keep messy play clean too, I've got 10 ways!)

4. Bowl indoors! Grab one of the kids' balls. Set up a few items for pins. Lots of things will work for these, pop bottles, paper towel tube, or toilet paper works too!

5. Create a necklace, toddler style! Use a piece of string (a shoestring works well because of the hard end) and something to thread on it. Big beads would be great. But other items such as straws or large pasta noodles work too. This would be a great fine motor activity.

6. Dig a newspaper out of the recycling bin and have a ball throwing them! Add a target to the mix and practice counting too. All great gross motor practice.

7. Here's a sensory activity that's easy and clean! Squirt some hair gel (lotion would work too) into a baggy and zip it up! Add some odds and ends craft items to the mix too for added fun.

8. Tape a line on the floor in different ways (zig zag, curvy or straight) and have a toddler walk along it, trying to balance their best. Can they do it forward, how about walking backward? Another fantastic gross motor activity that can be done indoors.

9. Have your toddler poke pom poms through an opening in a small bottle, or cut a small hole in a container. Pom poms and other small items can be used for fine motor practice, but always be careful with small kids and watch them closely.

10. A play dough alternative (although its great, its fun to throw in something else sometimes) is cloud dough. The texture is awesome and the kids will love to explore it.

10 Best Indoor Activities for Toddlers
Need more easy indoor activities for your toddler?

If you're itching for more toddler activities, here's 50 of them to be inspired by. Many of these can be done indoors too!

Get The Toddler's Busy Book (affiliate link) for everyday activities.

Quiet time activities for preschoolers are great indoor activities for these kind of days too!

How do you like to keep your toddler busy indoors?

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Stuck Inside with Rain? 10 Indoor Toddler Activities to Still Have Fun!

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These are my top 10 indoor activities for kids that I've done when my kids were toddlers. Since its winter time, I've got to have a handful of these up my sleeve. Indoor activities are great to have on hand for any age this time of year.

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This is one of the songs that children loves to sing along everyday.

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The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round • Nursery Rhymes Song with Lyrics • Animated Kids Song

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This is a classic song that every child knows.

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Head Shoulders Knees & Toes (Speeding Up) | Nursery Rhyme | Super Simple Songs

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Another song that the children love to sing to.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider Lyric Video - Sing Along

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We sing this song for clean up

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Clean Up Song for Children - by ELF Learning

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You can sing this for snack time. It goes in the tune of "Wheels on the Bus"

Snack time
Goes down, down, down
And around, around, around
In my tummy, tummy, tummy
Makes my mind say, "yum, yum, yum"
Thank you for snack time
Itadakimasu!

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You can sing this for lunch time. The lyrics is below:

(We only sing the first part)
Obento obento, ureshii na
Otete mo kirei ni narimashita
Minna sorotte goaisatsu (*pam*)
Itadakimasu!

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おべんとう　歌詞入　唱歌