I’ve been feeling bad about how much blog space my three year old Loopy has been getting compared to 13 month old Lumpy. Of course, art reflects life. Poor Lumpy either does what brother is up to, or has to sit out, most of the time. But low and behold, Loopy took an extra long […]
Six Ways to Use an Exercise Ball in Sensory Activities
Inside you’ll find: Super simple sensory activities that can be done with an exercise ball with no prep! Fun ways to use an exercise ball for sensory therapy! This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about how that works here. My little Loopy has Sensory Processing Disorder. His biggest […]
Car Wash Sensory Bin
We were bored. It was hot. I wanted the boys to do something together and outside. Went to my handing dandy pinterest board. Nothing jumped off the page at me. Decided to grab a bunch of vehicles. Goodness knows we have enough of those lying around! Then I grabbed a couple “washing utensils.” Then I […]
Finding Out It’s Sensory Processing Disorder
Update: Read to the end to see what I’ve learned in the decade since I published this. Your family can thrive with sensory processing too! “Sensory” is quite the buzz word in early education these days. Maybe you have heard of Sensory Processing Disorder. I used to think that all it involved was kids not […]
Letter Hopscotch
Time for another installment of “Serious” Fun Saturdays! Loopy has been very interested in “reading” books on his own. He knows almost all his letters and sounds, but Upper and Lowercase letters still mess him up. Loopy came up with this great game for learning about letters, using a common kitchen utensil. […]
Baby-safe Slime
This post may contain links that help support my family. If you’d like to know more, click here. Now that Lumpy is one, he wants to do EVERYTHING that Loopy does. Unfortunately, he still likes to mouth stuff so he doesn’t get to participate in some of our learning activities for safety reasons. When […]
Construction Themed Third Birthday
This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Learn more here. When Loopy turned three, I wanted an easy theme for decorations and play. The natural choice was construction trucks. Just stick your dirt cake in the back of a dump truck to make your boys drool even more! I decided to […]
Fire-Breathing Dragon Craft
This fun and simple craft idea came from “Here Come The Girls” Blog. I saw the image on Pinterest and just ran with it. This dragon craft goes with our unit on Knights and Castles. We also did a fun play castle here. All you need is a paper cup, streamers, and some googly eyes. (Also green […]
Cardboard Tabletop Play Castle
This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about that here. As part of our Knights and Castles Unit, I knew I wanted to build a castle that the boys could play with throughout the day. There were many lovely castles on pinterest that I used for inspiration (unfortunately none of […]
Cooking Kids: The Simplest Cookies On The Planet
We spent the month of March studying cooking and baking. This cookie recipe is another pinterest find. It’s perfect for getting young ones involved in the whole process. It’s insanely simple, cheap and rather yummy. All you need are TWO INGREDIENTS! (Though you can add yummy mix-ins) All you need are two bananas (the more […]