Messy and Muddy Play Ideas for Toddlers, Preschooler, Elementary Kids...

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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Dramatic Play Flower Shop for Preschoolers

Jackie Currie — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:32:05 +0000

Hello Lovely!

The weather has FINALLY warmed up here, so I wanted to share a terrific backyard activity that will keep your little ones entertained and learning for ages.

Check out our pretend play flower shop!

It's super-easy to set up with some dollar store artificial flowers, and a few jars, containers and scoops.

You'll love what we've used for the "potting soil". It makes for such a wonderful sensory experience and it's much more interesting than dirt (although that will do just fine if that's what you'd like to use).

Check it out with the link below!

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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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Simple, 3-Ingredient Concoctions for Kids to Make

Jackie Currie — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:29:56 +0000

Do your kids love mixing concoctions? Oh boy! Do I ever have a whopper of a concoction collection for you! 35 of the best slime, goop, goo and play dough recipes that I could find! Science and sensory exploration never looked, felt or smelled so good! And best of all? All of these mixtures require 3...

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Sand Play Idea – DIY Sand Table For Kids Without a Sandbox

Jackie Currie — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:14:18 +0000

No doubt about it, kids love to play in a sandbox, but what do you do if you don’t have a sandbox in your yard, or if you live in an apartment? You create a DIY sand table! Sometimes it’s fun to take an activity that your child enjoys regularly, and present it 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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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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Painting with Shaving Cream: Outdoor Art for Kids

Jackie Currie — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 05:18:59 +0000

Painting with shaving cream is an amazing sensory play idea for indoors or out! Use it in the bath or take it outside to paint on the patio door like we did! We love playing with shaving cream! I always have a couple of cheap cans of Barbasol shaving foam set aside for play activities. We...

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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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