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Teach Kids How to Spread with a Knife with Blocks and Shaving Cream

Jackie Currie — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Hey Lovelies! I hope you're keeping cool!

I wanted to share one of my favourite activities for toddlers and preschoolers with you.

If you have little ones who are just itching to butter their own toast or make their own peanut butter sandwiches, this is such a fun way to teach them how to spread with a knife.

Take it outside and have some fun with it! They'll strengthen their fine motor skills and co-ordinaiton, hone their knife-spreading skills and get some sensory play and structure-building in as well!

Click the link below to check out the fun! xx

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How to Make a Kid’s Apron from Your Old Jeans

Jackie Currie — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:21:52 +0000

Today I'm sharing how to make a kid's apron out of an old pair of Jeans.

These aprons are easy to make and the BEST for crafting and messy play.

They make a great gift for a crafty child, and they're super for a home daycare or preschool classroom.

They're durable, stain-resistant and long-lasting, and best of all, they don't cost a thing to make!

Click the link below for the easy step-by-step tutorial!

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How to Make Oobleck for Sensory Play – an Easy 2 Ingredient Recipe

Jackie Currie — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:23:49 +0000

Is it a solid or a liquid? It's BOTH!

Have you made Oobleck with your kids yet?

You must! It's so simple to make and it's an absolutely fascinating substance to play with.

Squeeze it and it's a solid, let it go and it transforms into a liquid. It will keep your kids entertained and learning for ages, and all you need are two ingredients found right in your kitchen!

CLICK the link below for details!

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How to Make Goop with a Fun Nature Twist

Katie Joiner — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:51:09 +0000

Nature Goop puts a fun, outdoorsy twist on our traditional 2-ingredient Oobleck recipe. Kids can explore flowers and leaves from the garden while getting in a good dose of magical sensory play. It’s a wonderful simple science activity for toddlers and preschoolers, and all you need are two ingredients and your own backyard. The first time that...

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International Mud Day Activities for Preschoolers

Jackie Currie — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:36:59 +0000

International Mud Day is June 29th.

Here are 8 of our favourite mud-play activities to make the day a screaming success for your kids.

From car-washes to mud-slides to painting with mud, these fun and fabulous activities will make mud day one of your kids' favourite days of the year!

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The Funnest, Easiest Way to Clean your Art Table

Jackie Currie — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:07:20 +0000

This method for cleaning your art table will have your kids begging to help clean up! With a little shaving cream, cleaning the art table, becomes a fun sensory activity for kids. Every few months, here in my home daycare, our art table gets to the point where it’s so messy and caked with paint,...

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Frozen Clean Mud

Jackie Currie — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:59:43 +0000

Here’s another cool activity that Elsa and Anna fans will love! We’ve made an ooey-gooey, beautifully scented batch of Frozen Clean Mud! The kid will love this Disney inspired activity, and you’ll hard time keeping your hands out of it too! The hooligans are just crazy about the latest Disney Movie. They sing the Frozen...

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Painting Activities for Toddlers

Jackie Currie — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:38:46 +0000

Painting Activities for Toddlers: big art, painting without brushes, and some unplanned body-painting. There are all kinds of creative art techniques for kids under the age of two to experiment with. Little kids LOVE to paint. They love getting messy. They love a BIG, clean canvas, and kids love to express their creativity on. These were...

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Shaving Cream Art on a Mirror: Painting Clouds

Jackie Currie — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:30:04 +0000

Painting shaving cream clouds on a mirror is a beautiful way for kids to enjoy some sensory art and fun way to use a mirror for play and learning. Okay! I have another really cool shaving cream art activity for you, and it involves one of my new favourite items for play! A mirror! I’ve been...

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Sensory Art with Shaving Cream and Food Colouring

Jackie Currie — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:24:02 +0000

Kids will love this sensory art activity. All you need is shaving cream, food colouring and popsicle sticks. We enjoyed another wonderful art technique the other day, creating sensory art with shaving cream and food colouring. You may have seen our Giant Shaving Cream Magna-Doodle a couple of weeks ago when we covered our 6 dollar, thrift-shop table in...

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Shaving Cream “Magna Doodle” Activity

Jackie Currie — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 05:00:02 +0000

Create a giant shaving cream “Magna Doodle” for fun and learning with 2 simple items: a table-top and a can of shaving cream. My kids love playing with shaving cream. It’s such a great sensory substance. My daycare toddlers and preschoolers love it when we squirt it right onto a table top so they can create...

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Fairy Mud with Toilet Paper and Ivory Soap

Jackie Currie — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 05:36:41 +0000

Whip up a batch of “fairy mud” with a roll of toilet paper, a bar of soap, and some seashells, flower petals and glitter. It’s a fantastic sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers! We’ve done lots of fairy activities lately, and today, we’re busting out the glitter! Yes. I actually said the G-word. You’re probably...

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Decorating Mud Pies with Outdated Pantry Supplies

Jackie Currie — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:26:24 +0000

This wonderful mud kitchen activity requires only a bucket of mud, a few kitchen items and a handful of stale dated pantry items. Kids can make mud pies garnished with lentils, corn, oats and spices for a spectacular morning of mud play. If you’re looking for fun mud activities for kids to do for International...

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Marbleized Valentines Day Craft with Shaving Cream and Food Coloring

Jackie Currie — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:04:40 +0000

Kids can make these Marbleized Valentines using shaving cream and food colouring. It’s a fun, easy and fascinating art process that all ages will love! We love experimenting with easy but really cool painting techniques here in my daycare. As a result, we’ve discovered a lot of really creative ways to create art using basic household...

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Toddler Art Project – Smoosh Painting on an Old Canvas

Jackie Currie — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:45:23 +0000

What can you do with an old canvas or out-dated picture that you no longer want hanging in your home? Try smoosh painting – one of my favourite art techniques for kids to transform it into a new, one-of-a-kind piece of art! We love upcycling and repurposing things around here. Before I throw almost anything out, I...

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Ghost Mud Sensory Dough with Toilet Paper, Soap and Water

Jackie Currie — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:52:35 +0000

Ghost Mud (also known as Clean Mud) is the most fun you can have with a bar of Ivory soap and a roll of toilet paper. This incredible homemade sensory dough is easy to make and it’s a wonderful sensory activity preschoolers. Ghost mud smells fantastic, and it’s delightfully ooey and gooey when you squeeze it...

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Muddy Car Wash Activity for Kids

Jackie Currie — Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:36 +0000

Who’s ready for an awesome mud play idea? A muddy car wash is a terrific mud activity for preschoolers! Drive those cars through the mud, down the ramp, and “splash” into a bucket of soapy water! My toddlers and preschoolers are enjoying lots of water play activities and mud play now that the summer weather has arrived. Their favourite...

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Shaving Cream Car Wash For Car-lovin’ Kids!

Jackie Currie — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:58:58 +0000

This shaving cream car wash is a terrific activity for kids who love cars and trucks and who love messy play and love playing with cars. It’s a great sensory activity that will keep toddlers and preschoolers entertained for ages! It’s been absolutely gorgeous here this week! Hot and summer-like and it’s only March! We’ve been...

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Shaving Cream Sensory Play with Glitter

Jackie Currie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:46:05 +0000

Shaving cream sensory play with glitter and small toys – a wonderful messy play experience for toddlers and preschoolers. We were playing with shaving cream last week, and it was a big hit with the kids. Well, this week we were playing with shaving cream again and we’ve added glitter! and glitter, and we used a...

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Messy Play with Shaving Cream and Food Colouring

Jackie Currie — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:30:01 +0000

Playing with shaving cream and food colouring is a wonderful form of messy play for toddlers and preschoolers. This activity offers a wonderful sensory experience, and the opportunity for kids to get really messy without getting really dirty. We’re all about shaving cream activities this week! Shaving cream is such an amazing sensory substance, and you...

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How to Make a Mobile Mud Patch for Play in your Backyard

Jackie Currie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:12:19 +0000

Use a wheelbarrow to create a mobile mud patch for mud play in your backyard play space! It’s like a portable mud kitchen, and it will provide your kids with hours of good, old-fashioned muddy play! It’s a wonderful way to provide a temporary mud patch or mud kitchen in your backyard at home or preschool without...

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